Pinterest 1: Newspaper nails

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Passion Nail Art

Here we are! Day one!

For my first pin of the week I decided to try out these newsprint nails. Here's how you do it if you want to try!

Step one: Paint your nails in a coat or two of your color of choice. I went with Sally Hanson's Insta-Dri Blue-Away.

Step 2: Get your rubbing alcohol and small pieces of newspaper. I don't know about you but I read the paper first so I knew what I was using. I wasn't too keen on having an obituary on my nails.

Step 3: Dip your finger into the alcohol (I really hope the repetition of this word doesn't get ads for booze popping up after this post) and then place the newspaper on your fingernail. And yes, my bottle was full and I was lazy so I stuck it right in there. You should probably pour it into a cup if your bottle isn't new :)

When I did this I used moderate pressure and held it for several seconds. It was hard to gauge how long to leave the newspaper on though. On some nails hardly any ink transferred and on other nails the paper itself tore off on my nail. On the light nails I redid the alcohol/newspaper process and it looked better the second time around. On the nails where the paper stuck a clear topcoat helped make it translucent.

I used a clear coat on all the nails and I think it looked good that way. Be careful when you do that though because if you run the brush over the print more than once, it will start to smear.

None of them turned out as well as the original picture. Maybe because I used a darker polish? Or a lighter newspaper? I'm not sure.

I think this would look kinda cool if you used white polish and transferred the comics. How cute would a little snoopy be!?

Here's the skinny on this: It was pretty easy to do in spite of my few mistakes. People definitely noticed my nails (yay! :-) ) and I like the way it looks too. Would I do it a lot? No, but I'll probably do it again.

If you completed a goal for today and want to share, let me know! If you want to put a link to your blog in the comments I will continually update this post with a picture of what you did and a link to your blog. (clearly I don't know how to do linky parties, oh well)

If you didn't get to it today, that's cool, it is Monday after all.

See you tomorrow!