Despite 50 years of the most violent scrubbing, religion still coats China with an ancient varnish.
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The fact that she's a labor of love gives her a warm glow that no varnish could produce.
But atoms from the original paint were also found in the varnish, which may therefore be left in place.
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The original painting, which currently hangs at the Louvre in Paris, is obscured by several layers of old, cracked varnish.
For his part, the President helped to refurbish a Washington, DC elementary school, applying some varnish to a classroom bookshelf.
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He painted directly onto this surface, often in acrylics, sometimes brushing on a layer of darkening varnish before the paint cured.
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The Varnish is open every night from 7 pm to 2 am and has live music on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights.
He said he had learned to distil ingredients for explosives from products such as nail varnish remover that are sold at pharmacies.
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It seems a layer of varnish added later to protect the work is in fact turning the yellow to a greyish-orange colour.
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The air was thick and yellow, as if the varnish manufacturer on the next block had slathered his product across the sky.
Sian was told to sit in the anchor's seat and did so, wearing a borrowed (man's) jacket, no make-up and blue nail-varnish!
Glenys Pearl has just spilled a bottle of purple nail varnish all over the bed and Johnny has been screaming for his lunch.
The CWC would affect U.S. firms that make dyes and pigments, insecticides, pharmaceuticals, ceramics, nylon, paint and varnish, electronics, textiles, and soap and detergent.
Today, under a fresh coat of varnish, the words are gone.
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An officer noticed a worker at Dewhurst Butchers in Stratford, east London, wearing nail varnish and a jewelled ring - both of which can be health hazards.
Customers download an app that allows them scan displays to virtually try various nail varnish colors, share it with friends, and have their photo taken with Kelly.
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Pendleton also competes in three events, riding in the two-woman, two-lap team sprint alongside BMX ace Reade for Sky Track Cycling against Britain's Becky James and Jess Varnish.
Much of the book, which dates from the 10th century AD, was rendered illegible in the late 19th century by misguided academics who used shellac to varnish it.
Moreover iron, which gives the planet its characteristic hue, would naturally cling to the varnish, protecting interior organisms from the harmful effects of intense ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
The painting, which was not thought to be important and in a bad condition, was covered in layers of dirt and varnish and was not on display at the Bowes Museum.
This year, however, The Varnish garnered a big win for Los Angeles, which has been building its reputation from serving the vodka Red Bulls popular on Sunset Strip to a cocktail-serious destination.
The separate elements are so perfectly joined together that the Riva looks as if it might have been carved out of a single tree, the grain of the cedar lustrous under gleaming varnish.
That same year, Dr. Bour was rooting around the Paris museum specimens and came across a two-foot-long specimen smelling faintly of the varnish that once had been used to polish it for display.
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The purpose was to determine not only what was in the samples in terms of atoms and molecules, but also the precise structures in the interface layer between the original paint and the varnish.
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Tests carried out in 2004 on the boards of this room dating back to the 1830s revealed the original surface beneath grime, discolored varnish and the repainting done by maintenance staff over fifty years ago.
With a string of victories to his name, the 18-year-old Thai transvestite had shown his taunters that you can have a fondness for lipstick and nail varnish and still survive in the brutal wor ld of kickboxing.
The varnish on the cupboards looked richer.
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The Varnish, brainchild of LA nightlife impresario Cedd Moses and renowned bartenders Eric Alperin and Sasha Petraske, both from Little Branch in New York, has been the go-to spot for cocktail enthusiasts, foodies and off-duty bartenders since it opened in 2009.
Whether the rock varnish is rich in manganese, and whether nature or past or present life created it, are questions that could be tackled by two U.S. rovers and one European lander that are scheduled to reach the red planet in 2003 and 2004.
To test this idea, Dr Hebets turned to her make-up bag and brought out two shades of nail varnish (NailSlicks, midnight metal and bronze ice, as her paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences quite properly describes in its materials and methods section, in case any other researcher wishes to replicate the experiment).
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