Nail Art
The latest type of body art to hit the beauty salons and catwalks, nail art includes any form of decorative art applied to fingernails and toenails. It includes nail polish, UV gel, hybrid coatings like Shellac, processes like water marbling and stencilling, as well as artificial extensions. Although a reflection of developments in the beauty and pharmaceutical industries, nail art dates as far back as Ancient Babylonia, around 3200 BCE. For other hypermodern art forms, see: Contemporary Art Movements (from 1970).