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The current eco-friendly cosmetics market is developing rapidly. However, nail product still contain chemically toxic ingredients, thereby doing harm to a person's health. Accordingly, this researcher aims to seek for safe and harmless natural dye stuffs available for dyeing nails, not the chemically-compounded nail enamel products, and to examine whether dyeing of using it is available for nails. First of all, Sappan Wood(Caesalpinia sappan. L), Turmeric(Curcuma longa Linné), Gardenia(Gardenia jasminoides Ellisf.), and Wormwood(Artemisia princeps Nakai), which are excellent vegetable dye stuffs in the dyeing property of animal fibers such as silk fabrics and wool are selected by considering protein ingredient in nail. The vegetable dye stuffs in the dried medicinal-ingredient status was heated in the distilled water, was extracted dye bath, was reheated to be concentrated. This obtained concentrate was used for dyeing. As for a dyeing condition, it saw the dyeing status by passage of time(30 minutes, 60 minutes, 90 minutes) by dyeing after non-mordanting and pre-mordanting. As a result of dyeing nail by using vegetable dye stuffs through experiment of this study, a change in color difference was shown in both the nail before dyeing and the nail after dyeing.