Target plan

The beauty of nail art.

Ubuhle bezinzipho.

My target plain is to make contemporary jewellery inspired by the beauty of nail art. My aim is to make jewellery for women, but my big target is to design for women who don't like artificial nails. As was going through research I noticed that Muslim women are not allowed to have nail polish or artificial nails because when they have to pray they have to put their make first which is god. Some jobs position does not allow workers to have nails; Chefs, Nurse, Boilermaker and Doctors are not allowed to have extension nails.

My plan is to use all different nail shapes and used them to create jewellery form; rings, bangles, necklace, earrings and pendant. At the beginning of the year, my plan was to make fingernail rings but I noticed that  I'm limiting my self. I decided to use nails petal to create jewellery my form. If you look at (fig1) below it a par of earrings where I used a stiletto nail shapes as the main shape. I used a round punch to create texture on the copper plate then I twisted the plate so that I achieve a 3D shape. My aim is to use the actual nail shape and change it to jewellery.

Fig1-Copper earrings.

   

Fig2- Ring with nail petal.

Mixed Materials paragraph

"During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, French was leading makers of imitation pearls which were fashionable"

The jewellery from the 18th and 19th centuries was more valued because of their beauty, designers were using precious and semiprecious stone. In the picture below you can see they used pearls only to create a Triangular snood and it was easy to find pearls in old centuries.

Triangular snood

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/65981 

 In 20th centuries people are not focusing on buying expensive jewellery they buying what they can afford at the time because pearls are expensive as they are hard to find.