Talk:Nail polish
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193.122.23.66 added a mention that blue is the most attractive polish colour for men. It's not clear if men find it most attractive on women or on themselves. Anyhow, I couldn't find any trace of a scientific report having found that blue is more attractive, and since I have serious doubts that such a report exists I have removed the mention. Please cite sources. --Valmi ✒ 19:34, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
"Strappy heels are greatly accentuated by polished toenails, and draw attention to one of the most beautiful parts of the female body:eat the feet." Purpose? Truthfulness? I don't see it, it's gone.
Removed "Nail polish was first invented in ancient China.", because: 1. Historical nail polish is already being dealt with in another paragraph. 2. Nobody knows for sure who invented the very first nail polish. We cannot simply say that China was the first just because our ealiest records come from China. --Neg 11:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Well, usually that is how we find out. We assume that it's the oldest until we find something else that's older. By that logic, nobody knows for sure who invented the first anything, because there could be an earlier person (or record) who invented it who we are not aware of. The snare 04:22, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Not a secondary sexual characteristic
I removed nail polish from this category; it's nonsense. Nothing applied to the body is a sexual characteristic, secondary or otherwise. Pastafarian Nights 20:45, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nonsense removed
I have stripped this article of much contentious speculation. I don't think we can really make assertions about men who wear nail polish carrying a "social stigma", for instance, and the previous version tied itself in all sorts of messy semiotic knots which generally confused the issue. There is absolutely no way you can say stuff like "Reddish and pinkish shades of nail polish represent femininity in most cultures and can make the wearer appear more sexually attractive", especially not without references.
The article makes it clear that nail polish is a product used mostly by women, and the examples of men who wear indicate that its use by men is countercultural without any need for judgmental speculation.
Moreover, I have removed waffle, such as "Sometimes people paint their nails a color that will match their clothes, but others tend to paint their nails to match what color they think represents their mood." Sure, and some will paint it to match the carpets, and some to match their car, and some because their name is Scarlett/Blanche/Primrose/whatever. Good grief, we really do not need a list of reasons that people might choose certain shades of nail polish, or this article will go on forever! -- TinaSparkle 19:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
