 Warriors once painted their nails to prepare for battle. Now that's fierce. Your bright nails go all the way back to 4000 BC, when Babylonian warriors used green coal on their nails to intimidate their enemies. It's time to sprinkle a little substance into our beauty routines. By learning the roots of your favorite trends, who history's earliest trendsetters were, and how to rock the looks they inspired. Sheep mass! Before it's over, you'll be asking, can I borrow that? Here are the highlights of manicure history in under 90 seconds. As with many trends, we first got to give props to ancient Egypt for realizing how empowering a little nail color can be. Cleopatra and Queen Nefertiti would stain their nails with henna, and the redder the nail, the better, because they believed the bolder hues signified more power as a queen. We can thank the Chinese Ming dynasty of the 15th century for the first nail polish manicure. They would nix ingredients like beeswax, egg whites, gelatin, and vegetable dyes to create varnishes ranging from dark red to black. Things got interesting in the U.S. during the roaring 20s when the auto industry was taking off. The beauty world took a cue from car paint, and shiny, enamel-based polish was born. Revlon became the first established nail polish brand in 1932. But one of the greatest contributions was actually made by a dentist named Fred Slack, who broke his fingernail at work. He used dental acrylic to make a fake replacement nail that looked so real, he and his brother Tom went on to patent acrylic nails. We didn't see the extent of what the manicure could be until the more is more attitude of the 80s, when nail art caught on in the U.S. And someone who wore the look better than anyone in the public eye was Florence Griffith Joiner. Flojo may have been known as the fastest woman alive, but her nails legacy deserves attention too. Today, nails are next level. We're experimenting with colors, prints, textures, and jewels giving manicures a new life. I'm here with the extraordinary nail artist, Sabella. I have seen your work. I mean, you can do anything. How do you draw something so small on a nail? A lot of practice and a lot of zoning out. That's why I have your guys' finger in my face, like for such a long time, to see all the tiny details. Your work is amazing. Thank you. And I already have my nails done. So I figured how could we add some spice and add some bling to the nails? These are just like almost like jewel arrangements, like as if it's jewelry from like earrings or necklaces or something like that. Wow. I love it because it's a built-in accessory for your nails. You really want to make it secure. So I'm actually going to roughen up the top part of your nail a little bit. So when we put the nail glue on, it's going to be really secure and not fall off. Then we're going to cleanse it. So I'm just going to get some alcohol. I'm just cleanse the surface. To make the alcohol dry, I always like my little hand fan. It just makes the whole vibe extend. This is so luxurious. Okay, so what kind of glue is this? So this glue, it's like a really awesome gel adhesion like superglue technically. I love using it because it makes the big stones last a really long time. So it's really good. Did you say superglue? Is this the hidden secret? Is it really common to use superglue? In this case, like a lot of nail techs they use superglue, nail resin. They use a specific gel. But in my personal experience with these big stones, the superglue really makes it work. It's really topical. So when you're taking it off, there's just different ways to just file around it and pop it off really easily. But it's secure enough that it'll hold these big stones. So that's the best part. I'm going to go in and I'm just going to put a little dab of glue on the center right here. Okay, I'm going to get the stone and put it right here. So how did you get started doing nail art? It's funny because I was an art major back in the day and I loved making paintings and stuff, but I couldn't support myself just making paintings. I went to Cosmo School and I was really good at manicures and painting my whole life. I figured like, oh my gosh, why don't I just like paint tiny things on nails all the time? I love that. So much fun. So I'm just putting a little bit of glue on the corners right here just to make it super sticky to get my little brush and dab it into the glue. Then I'm going to put it down and you only have a few seconds to really move it so you sort of have to be swift. Since I filed the nail before to put our big stone on, it's a little rough so it looks really matte, but that's why I put this called protein bond and it basically helps the top coat that we're going to put on top bond to it. So I'm just going to brush around the stones. All right, so the top coat that we're using, it's called Synergy Gel Gloss from Young Nails and I love this top coat because it's stain free. So no matter what with hair color, with turmeric, with anything that you're using that tends to really stain the nail, it's not going to stain at all. Wait, this is a big deal for me. Yeah, I am brown. I am a South Asian gal. Everything I eat has turmeric in it. It's so bomb. And then my nails look so bad because we eat with our hands. So whenever I eat, my right hand will always look stained and then my left hand will look gorgeous. So you're telling me that this would not stain my nails? Game changer. So I'm just going to get my little intricate brush and first I like to do a little coat and just put the gel around the stones just to really sort of hug the stones down. And you don't want to put the gel on top of the stones because with the faceted edges, if you put the gel on top of it, it's just going to look like a globe afterwards. It's not going to look like a faceted stone anymore. Yeah, I don't want that. And I want the shine. Yeah. All right, so can I look? Yeah, of course, then. Wow. Okay, beautiful, extraordinary. So now that we're done, we're going to cure this for a full two minutes. Then it's all finished. Let it bake. It's like a microwave. I am telling you, perfect. So what's my final step? Your final step, I always love to moisturize. I always love to do a massage too. But this cuticle oil is amazing. I put different flowers in it. Look. So I feel so much more confident now that my nails are done. Do you feel like your clients feel more confident after they get their nails done? Yes, definitely. Like it really makes a difference because I always like to say, no matter what's going on in your life, if your nails are on point, your whole life's on point. Yes, you are a true artist. What is your favorite type of nail art? And if you could have Sabella do your nails, what would you want her to create on your nails? Leave us a comment down below.