I’m totally fascinated with beauty advertising, so loved looking through these vintage adverts for nail polish brands circa the 1930’s – 1950’s. It’s so amazing how most of the colours in the ads are red – possibly a sign of femininity and being a woman? Today we are more likely to see much more colour in nail polish adverts.
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- The trend of this 1930’s manicure, where the half moon and tip it either kept clear or painted a contrasted colour has come back round and is pretty popular with today’s fashion nails! (Cutex)
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- 1930’s nail trend
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- Late 1930’s nail advert
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- 1940’s Christian Dior Nail Ad (Dior)
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- 1950’s nail advert (Dura Gloss)
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- 1940’s nail advert (Revlon)
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- 1990’s nail advert (Maybeline)
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- 1980’s nail ad, the colours have come out here (Natural Wonder)
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- 2012, a more modern nail advert (Revlon)
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- 2011 nail ad (Nicki Minal and OPI)
Loladoes 
I think the 1980’s ad is the best!!