Nails with Francesinha

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Officially, it all started with the Polish businessman and beautician Max Factor, darling of movie stars in the early 20th century.

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In 1927, he created a pink cream, Society Nail Tint, to be used on the nails and a whitish liquid, Society Nail White, to be used only on the tips.

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But the person responsible for the name “french manicure” (translated to francesinha in Portuguese) was another Hollywood makeup artist, the American Jeff Pink.

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In the 1970s, a film director asked for a neutral nail polish that would match all the actresses' clothes in the movies.

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And so he came up with the idea of white nail polish on the tip of the pink or beige nail. A while later he started selling kits with these enamel tones under the name francesinha under his Orly brand.

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He says that the idea for the name came after being invited to apply the technique in the Paris fashion shows, but legend has it that the inspiration for the style

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The white tip was the way they found to hide the dirt from their nails, since the hygiene conditions at the time were very precarious.

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For a while in France, nails styled in this way were even a way of differentiating the bourgeois from the courtesan.

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