Painting nails has become a very normal part of society today. But it might surprise you that the act of manicures and pedicures started around 3200 B.C.! In Babylonia, men used to wear nail polish made of kohl to show what class they were in. If a man was of a higher class he wore black nail polish but if he was low class he wore green. Nail polish started there and expanded tremendously. Over the years painting nails became more and more popular than it originally was in 3200 B.C. Although unlike the men in Babylonia, we paint our nails as more of a pastime and less as a signal of class. Today, nail polish now comes in an insane amount of colors and textures to choose from. There are even fake nails already painted and designed that you can put over your real nails. All in all, painting nails is enjoyable and creative, but sometimes it is really a challenge to remove the nail polish from your nails. It is also very time-consuming. So we wondered how we can shorten this time and make removing nail polish easier.
Our group concluded that the brand of nail polish could possibly affect how long it takes to fully remove the nail polish. We then developed an experiment to find out which nail polish brands are removed in the shortest amount of time. We also did a side experiment testing whether acetone or non-acetone nail polish remover removes nail polish the fastest.
In the first experiment that we did, we got three different brands of red nail polish, all displayed at different prices. We hypothesized that if the nail polish brand is more expensive, it will be harder to take off. We came to this conclusion because we figured that if the brand is more expensive, the quality of the nail polish would be better. Considering this, the better quality nail polish would stay on the nails longer and would be less prone to chipping therefore harder to remove. For our second experiment we hypothesized that if we