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Our monthly nail challenge called Nail Art Ideas Linkup has some really fun themes for January, one of which is an all-time fave of mine- NEWSPAPER NAILS! If you haven’t tried newspaper nails YOU NEED TO! It’s one of those classic at-home nail art techniques for beginners. It’s cute, crafty and relatively easy and people will be left wondering how you did that on your nails. I first heard of this technique from cutepolish who did this great youtube video here . But I also put together a pictorial tutorial for you. Pictorial tutorial? Say that five times fast! Here are the simple steps to do your own newspaper nails-
Paint your nails with white or light grey nail polish.
Wait for your white nails to dry then start out by dipping one of your nails in rubbing alcohol for ten seconds. Submerging your nail in alcohol softens the white nail enamel and makes the newspaper ink stick to your nail. The rubbing alcohol I use is affordable no-name brand from Walmart and the container says “70% Isopropyl Rubbing Alcohol”.
Next, while your white nail is wet with alcohol, apply a small piece of newspaper to your nail and press down for ten seconds so the ink can stick to the white polish. You may find it helpful to have your newspaper clippings ready to go before you start this step. For the nails in my tutorial I used little clippings from the classified section.
Gently peel the newspaper off your nail. The ink should be imprinted on your nail! Finish with a glossy topcoat. Or a matte topper would look nice too.
Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Here’s some photos of my finished newspaper nails….
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Lindsay (nailthataccent) says: January 21, 2015 at 8:25 am Awesome! Love the pictorial 🙂 I still have to do mine but I will 🙂 Reply Craftynail says: January 21, 2015 at 8:30 am my nails didn’t take long at all ! Reply
Awesome! Love the pictorial 🙂 I still have to do mine but I will 🙂
Craftynail says: January 21, 2015 at 8:30 am my nails didn’t take long at all ! Reply
my nails didn’t take long at all !
Lisa N. says: January 21, 2015 at 11:30 am Great tutorial on how to achieve newspaper nails! I usually dip the newspaper clipping in the rubbing alcohol first and then apply it to the nails. Reply
Great tutorial on how to achieve newspaper nails! I usually dip the newspaper clipping in the rubbing alcohol first and then apply it to the nails.
Robin says: January 21, 2015 at 12:24 pm Love them!! I reaaallly want to try this out for a while now, but I always forget to get some alcohol lol. Reply Craftynail says: January 22, 2015 at 10:15 am i guess other types of alcohol work too 😀 Reply
Love them!! I reaaallly want to try this out for a while now, but I always forget to get some alcohol lol.
Craftynail says: January 22, 2015 at 10:15 am i guess other types of alcohol work too 😀 Reply
i guess other types of alcohol work too 😀
Monica@theRiteofAging says: January 21, 2015 at 12:30 pm Awesome tutorial!! I’m excited to try this! Reply
Awesome tutorial!! I’m excited to try this!
emiliamueller says: January 21, 2015 at 2:30 pm Love it! Really awesome. 🙂 Reply
Love it! Really awesome. 🙂
julia says: January 21, 2015 at 3:38 pm wow I like this manicure! Your nails look so stunning 🙂 xx Reply
wow I like this manicure! Your nails look so stunning 🙂
Jessica W. says: January 21, 2015 at 8:35 pm Awesome tutorial. I was just talking about this kind of mani with a friend today! Reply
Awesome tutorial. I was just talking about this kind of mani with a friend today!
Arathael says: January 21, 2015 at 9:31 pm So cool I have to try this! Reply
So cool I have to try this!
LittleMonsterx14 says: January 22, 2015 at 7:30 am I wanted to try this out YEARS ago when it was popular, but I was worried that it was out of style now. I need to get off my butt and finally try it…I just need to get my hands on a news paper 😛 Reply
I wanted to try this out YEARS ago when it was popular, but I was worried that it was out of style now. I need to get off my butt and finally try it…I just need to get my hands on a news paper 😛
missgiven says: January 22, 2015 at 9:18 am Does it have to be white polish? Reply Craftynail says: January 22, 2015 at 10:24 am Nope, you could do any light or pastel color. Light beige or grey would be cool. I’ve seen light pink before too Reply nlamb says: April 17, 2015 at 11:33 pm I love it is so cool Reply
Does it have to be white polish?
Craftynail says: January 22, 2015 at 10:24 am Nope, you could do any light or pastel color. Light beige or grey would be cool. I’ve seen light pink before too Reply nlamb says: April 17, 2015 at 11:33 pm I love it is so cool Reply
Nope, you could do any light or pastel color. Light beige or grey would be cool. I’ve seen light pink before too
nlamb says: April 17, 2015 at 11:33 pm I love it is so cool Reply
I love it is so cool
Catherine Dream says: January 22, 2015 at 4:54 pm I loooove pictorials. This way actually seems really appealing – dipping the nail in the alcohol not soaking the newspaper. I’ve always wanted to try newspaper nails, maybe I will now 🙂 I’ll probably use vodka though. Reply
I loooove pictorials.
This way actually seems really appealing – dipping the nail in the alcohol not soaking the newspaper. I’ve always wanted to try newspaper nails, maybe I will now 🙂
I’ll probably use vodka though.
eleobel says: January 25, 2015 at 7:44 pm They look great! Love the pictorial tutorial! I bought a lil thing of rubbing alcohol to try this but it didn’t work – you’ve inspired me to give it a go again 🙂 Reply
They look great! Love the pictorial tutorial! I bought a lil thing of rubbing alcohol to try this but it didn’t work – you’ve inspired me to give it a go again 🙂
Sandra Lewrey says: January 26, 2015 at 11:22 pm These are so great – very well done. It would be awesome, though, to find a bit of newspaper with something really stupid written on it and have that plastered across your nails! Reply
These are so great – very well done. It would be awesome, though, to find a bit of newspaper with something really stupid written on it and have that plastered across your nails!
Keri says: January 27, 2015 at 7:21 pm These are so fun! 😀 Haven’t tried them yet. Reply
These are so fun! 😀 Haven’t tried them yet.
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