| Summary: | 碩士 === 樹德科技大學 === 應用設計研究所 === 92 === The nail painting is an important part of the total image and styling design. This study investigated the recommendation and development of nail art in Taiwan. It was found that the nail art is introduced to Taiwan by Americans around ten years ago. The fashion trend is following the step of Japan recently. The culture of nail art has become an enssential element of fashion design in Taiwan now.
This study is started from the investigationof the history and development of nail paints. The history can be traced back to around B.C. 2800 The dye most extensively used by eastern women to color nail is garden balsam (Impatiens balsaminal). The nail painting and finger painting in western emerged around B.C. 6000 when Egyptians coloring their nail red with Henna. Morden nail enamel appears in 1930s, and started to add colour pigment into nail enamel in 1920s.
The origination of nail art starts at 1940s in Hollywood. The stars already know the importance of the consistence between nail and the whole image Nail painting became professional store from an item of beauty service store is about 30 years ago in America and 15 years ago in japan.
This study investigated undergraduate students’ colour preference of nail enamels in second step. Seventy-two subjects participated the experiment. Half of them are male and the other half are female. All of them are undergraduate students in design related departments. The samples are made of 132 nail enamels producted by LCN (Hong Kong) Ltd. They were painted on round nail plate and put on skin colour paper. The experiment was carried on under sufficient north window light. The subjects were required to choose their favorite colours.
The results show that there is significant difference between different genders. The most favorite three colours of female students are 5RP 8/2、7.5 RP5/6 and 10RP 9/2. The first 5 colours all are reddish, and all have middle or high lightness. The first 10 colours have Munsell Value not less than 5, and many of them has opalescent glitter. Seven of ten of the female students’ least favorite colours are yellowish. Most of them are dull colours with middle lightness. The most favorite three colours of male students are 10YR8/4, 10B3/6 and 2.5R7/N. Their least favorite five colours all are redish, and four of ten least favorite colours are yellowish, and most of those ten colours are dull.
The techniques used to elongate and repair nail were investigated in next stage. It was found that the methods of extending nail include three kinds: crystal nail、graft nail and phototherapy nail. The repairing technology includes weaving method andnaturally extended repairing method.
To investigate the species and applied methods of artificial nails, a large collection of nails was accumulated including nails with various textures, stuffs of nail decoration and colour patterns. They were classified to 16 species and were studies carefully. Their features and application were specificated. Except that, 8 kinds of nail painting techniques were concluded including water dyeing, push dye to draw the line, hand painting, inlay, spurt, powder engrave and sponge monotype. All techniques were practiced to study how to apply in nail design and the steps were described in detail .
In final stage this study create five sets of art nails. The results of colour preference investigation were applied with different stuffs and techniques to display the achievements of this study.
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