Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 211, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1911 — Fingernail Photography. [ARTICLE]

Fingernail Photography.

“Would you like your sweetheart’s portrait placed on your fingernails?” Is a unusual query at most of the swell Berlin manicurists just now. The new fad grew out of a whim of a pretty cousin of the kaiser who had an enameled portrait of her fiance worked on the nail of her little finger. The portrait was a gem of art in Its way and cost >9O. The manicurists, took up the idea, and now, for a small fee of 20 marks —about >5 —you can have anyone’s photograph placed on your fingernail. The main skill of the manicurist consists in rendering the photograph watertight; which is done by coating it over with a shellac-like which is burned upon the nail. This is the only painful element of the strange process. Quite a number of society dames have taken to the idea and everywhere you go you see fingernail photography. Mothers have pictures of their favorite and prettiest children placed on their fingernails; young men and maidens display their sweethearts tti the same fashion, and the fad has spread marvelously since it was first introduced. A portrait on a fingernail will last with careful handling, about four months without renewal.