{"id":4,"date":"2006-05-17T12:16:16","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T17:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/4-10-sparkling-nail-polish-facts"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:45:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:45:32","slug":"10-sparkling-nail-polish-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/4-10-sparkling-nail-polish-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Sparkling Nail Polish Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Nail Polish\" alt=\"Nail Polish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/nailpolish.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>\u00a2 The most expensive nail polish in the world is made out of platinum, the introductory bottle is also made out of this cool metal and it is valued at $55,000. Limited edition bottles are valued at $250.00<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 One of the common chemicals found in nail polish is dibutyl phthalate. The European Union has banned this chemical. Manufactures are removing this chemical and reformulating the polish.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 An unopened bottle of nail polish is reported to have a shelf life of 1 year.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00a2 Nail polish remover is one product that has the longest shelf life &#8211; it never expires.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Tiny platelets of aluminum, copper, gold, zinc and other metals gives nail polish the reflective metallic pigments.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 The color of nail polish falls into two categories: pigment and colorant. Pigment relates to an organic and inorganic molecule that is untouched by its vehicle. Colorant is a broader category it includes anything that imparts color to an underlying layer of material.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Pearlescent nail polishes are typically composed of thin, translucent platelets coated with metal oxides.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Sizes of the platelets used gives different visual effects. Large mica platelets give off larger sparkles, while finer and smaller platelets attain a silky or frosted look.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Nail polish was used as a tool to identify leaf fossils in the Pacific Northwest.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Painted nails were not always culturally accepted in some regions of the U.S. in the 1950&#8217;s, bright colored polishes such as red were considered promiscuous and all nail polish must be removed on Sundays before religious worship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a2 The most expensive nail polish in the world is made out of platinum, the introductory bottle is also made out of this cool metal and it is valued at $55,000. Limited edition bottles are valued at $250.00 \u00a2 One of the common chemicals found in nail polish is dibutyl phthalate. The European Union has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":542,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}