Modern 'Nail Art Illustration(in other words Nail Make-up)' was introduced to Korea more than 10 years ago and it has become ordinary affair to most korean women, while there are few studies in this field. Under these circumstances, this study was don...
Modern 'Nail Art Illustration(in other words Nail Make-up)' was introduced to Korea more than 10 years ago and it has become ordinary affair to most korean women, while there are few studies in this field. Under these circumstances, this study was done to search qualitative and sound developments of the nail art illustration in korea. To grasp the present situation of the korean women's nail art illustration in daily life, a questionnaire was made from March 1, 2005 to March 15, 2005, collecting 253 out of 300 survey sheets successfully. The results of analysis and conclusions are as follows ;
1. The nail art illustration of Korea is at the early stage of popularization. This fact implies that theoretical and scientific foundations be required to be positively offered for the qualitative development and sound adaptation of the modern nail art illustration in Korea.
2. Beauty, Cleanness and Getting rid of stress are the common perceptions and purposes of visiting nail art shop among korean women.
3. At present, Hand painting, Marbling and Rhine stone gems in the order of preference are the most popular nail art techniques. Meanwhile, their occupancy of the greater part of popularity showed that nail art techniques in korea have not yet been diversified. In the future, Air blush, Design sculpture and Rhine stone gems are the most preferred techniques, reflecting that desire to change the nail art techniques are very high, consequently necessitating positive developments and spreads of new techniques.
4. For the patterns of nail art illustration, flower and abstract are the most preferred ones, summing up their preferences ranging from 80.4% to 93.4% by age groups. This shows it is not too much to say that koreans have only two types of pattern and implies that patterns are neither diversified nor individualized so far.
5. For the colors of nail art illustration, pink is turned out to be typically preferred one. Meanwhile pink, beige, red and white in the order of preference rank high with a great portion in popularity, showing korean's narrow choices in nail colors.
6. For fashion items to harmonize with nail art illustration, color and design of dress are thought to be mostly considered, while the answer ' Anything will do' taking the second place.
Meanwhile, for the question 'if neither fashion nor TPO(time, place, opportunity or occasion) is considered, what will be the basis to choose daily nail art illustration?', the answer 'As their humor dictates' showed the highest frequency. This revealed that choice of daily nail art illustration is very irregular. It is, therefore, suggested that the whole domestic nail industry is to make every effort on the base of cosmetic color and figurative arts theories to guide ordinary women in their nail art illustration to the proper and sound direction.
A profound study - to enable ordinary women to make their choice properly - on the relations among nail art illustration, TPO and total fashion is proposed as future study direction.