Tuesday, Dec 13th, 2011
Beauty How To | Newspaper Print Nails
Extra, extra read all about it! These nails are creative and definite reading material. It beats paying salon prices to paint words or pictures on your nails. Plus, you can choose content from your favorite article, work of writing, or even a comic book strip! Here’s how you do it
Materials:
- 1 Small glass
- Rubbing alcohol or vodka
- 10 Strips of newspaper (big enough to cover each nail)
- Any light colored nail polish (whites and pastels work best)
- Clear top coat polish
Process:
- Polish your nails with your desired coats and let dry
- Pour some rubbing alcohol/vodka in the small glass
- Dip your (dried) nail in the rubbing alcohol/vodka (make sure you wet whole nail)
- Place and press a strip of the newspaper on your nail and hold firmly but careful for 30 seconds. (do NOT Move the strip around)
- Remove strip and repeat on each nail or a select few nails if desired
- Finally, polish your nails with a good clear top coat to seal the deal.
Let us know how your newspaper nails turned out!
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i want to do this!
me too!!!
this looks so fun im about to do it when i feel like it but this looks super fun
Turned out really cool
when did you do it
aahhhhhh soooooo cooool. this is the best thing EVER!!!!!!! i am going to do this every time i paint my nails know joke.
I LOVE THIS ! hHhahah my friend kept it as a secret to mee but now i know! hahah !
glad to share the secret
THIS IS SO COOL!!!
i spelled my name on my nails wit newspaper cut outs!”
so cool1!!!!
Yea super duper cooL! i DID totally Spell my crew’s NAME! i showed to the they were like WHOA THNAX!
This ROCKS!
I tried this and I assume it takes some practice, but when I put on the topcoat, all of the type smeared on my fingers
how can I avoid this??
try allowing some dry time before applying the topcoat.
hope that helps!
i cant wait to do this!!!!!!!, i hope it works for me!!!!!!!!
I guess you forget to let all the layers dry.
Wait for each layer at least 15 mintues
I hope it will help you
mine did that too for a few of my nails..so when i put on the topcoat make sure you nails are dry and then very lightly put on the topcoat kinda dab it on you nails
It looks realy cool with lime green. or Glass Slipper Saly Hansen nail polish. My nails smeared a bit as well
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Whats rubbing alcohol and where can i get some ?
Rubbing alcohol is a first aide product. It can be found in the first aid aisle in any drug store or grocery store.
Walmart or any drug store.. Almost anywhere.. Hope that helped!
the newsbarely show any
these were SO hard, and turned out okay, but that was my fault haha
awesome! definitey need to have a bottle of rubbing alcohol.. tried it with alcohol swabs i had… way harder, still works but i think it’d work better with a bowl of it.. they look good though!
I love doing my nails like this, it’s especially cool when you get newspaper from a different country that doesnt use the english alphabet, i use hindi and it looks really cool
It Dosent wor at all
it didnt work for me…
it turned out okay. my undercoat color smeared a little and the black print isnt really defined.
What color nail polish did you use i really like the color
Do you have to use newspaper or can it be something else?
awesome!! r u sure its for 30 seconds dont u just peel it off within a second? cuz it doesn’t work tht way….
Just long enough to wet the nail. It’s just a quick dip.
How long do you dip your nail in the rubbing alcohol?
will the rubbing alchohol make the polish come off?
Hey I love that nail color! What is it called?
Going to do it in few minutes, and I hope, that it works!
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Okay, I don’t have rubbing alcohol. Does peroxide work?
um it does not really though i tried using it but u have to press really hard and sometimes it like peels off some nail polish and sometime the newspaper ink smudges..it works but they will be kinda messy
Hey can you do this with something other than vodka or rubbing alcohol?
You can use bicardi
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It does work… but you don’t need to stick your finger in Alcohol forever just 13 seconds or so. When apply printed bold letter paper or newspaper, apply onto the finger with FULL force without moving the paper. It will come out but not 100% visible. Just to let you know. And regular printer paper works too.
I really want to try this except im not sure which colour i should do for the basecoat???????? any ideas???
This did not work for me at all, and I followed the directions exactly and read all of the comments. The print came out less than 5% visible. I’m wondering if the brand of nail polish I’m using has to do with this.
I found thaat placing the paper, then pouring the alcohol slowly over, makes the paper adhere where you want it, and thoroughly soaks it at the same time. You only need a capful of rubbing alcohol ore less than half a shot of vodka/rum.
When applying the clear coat be sure just to dab the 1st coat on and then you can go back and redo it.
My polish keeps getting pulled off but I Promise it’s dried!!! D:
Same thing happened to me! I think it happens if you hold it on more than 30 seconds or press way too hard for too long, cause when I actually timed the 30 seconds it worked perfectly.
it looks great i used a light purple as a base coat ……Its better to use vodka instead of achol and i didnt do a top coat to avoid smearing it stayed on perfectly!!!! <3
do you have to use rubbing alcohol or can you use something else?
Work really well with mine took no time at all and you can really see the letters…of course their backwards but….:D
do you use a base cost or no
lovely idea! had to try it and it was super easy and looks really cute!
I mean I luv this idea so much
that looks soooooo kool i cant wait 2 try it
Every time I take the newspaper off it takes the color off too. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong…
make sure the newspaper stays wet, if you let it get dry while you’re pressing it to your nail, the polish will stick to it. (:
Love this idea excited to try it!
it came out gr8!! thanks alot!!
Hey, I am just wondering how you get the newspaper print to turn out so great. I have tried rubbing alcohol and i cannot seem to press hard enough on the bottom and sides of my nails and then it looks like one line of good words and the rest of the nail is barely visible ink. I am just wondering how you press down on the paper to make it go onto your nails so well, or what do you do to make it turn out so clear. I have a very very light grey color on my nails and I used rubbing alcohol. I cannot seem to get it to show up so well. Please let me know I would appreciate the help
Thanks.
Does it with magazines?
thanks so much for posting this! my nails look so cool!
Looks soooo cool, and wine works really well too guys!
Try nail varnish remover instead of vodka or rubbing alcohol
I didn’t have rubbing alchol or vodaka, so I used gin and I found that it works just as well. All of my friends love It and I haven’t told them how to do it, and now at school it’s ‘my’ look and if anybody else does it, everybody asks them why have you ‘copied’ daisy. I love this design so much, as it’s really unique, I do it all the time now, and just changed the coloured underneath it!
with a yellow undercoat this is AMAZING
Beautiful… love it… I love newspaper
this is the best tip everrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So unique! I did mine with vodka and they came out amazing =] =] Thank you so much!
do you need the clear coat on top?
or will it work just as well with out it?
Tried, nail polish is totally dry (like for an hour or so) we didn’t have rubbing alcohol only medicinal, worked great the first time but moved the nailpolish so I tried again and now it’s not coming out….
This is so cool! I like it!
it didnt work at all for me. when i let my nails dry it didnt work. when i left my nails wet it didnt work either. i even tried different ways of putting the newspaper and alcohol on and i even tried different articles like some from magazines, some from newspapers, and some i print out myself
My nails came out wonderfullll<3 Thank you~!
I have newspaper writing and pictures from the travel section on my nails now
its so easy if you just get the newspaper wet and put it on your nail. that way when you take the paper off you dont get left over paper residue! and be careful with the top coat, does smudge little! but turned out really cute<3
Mine will not work even though I followed the directions exactly. I am kind of getting frustrated.
It didn’t work for me! Any tips?
OMG, i love it..!
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Worked well but think I need more practice!
After some practice i got it it came out smooth and straight you must use rubbing alcohol. I tried vodka and rubbing alcohol works the best!
No More trips to the Nail Salon and now i dont have to pay for my kids i do them myself and they love it. Thank You olivecocomag.com
Sincerly
Asia
I did it with lavender nail polish and a spanish dictionary and it turned out great!
So creative & fresh, love it! <3
Is it possble to do this with a magazine???
no ive tried magazines, for some reason, im guessing the glossy print, it just wont transfer, I wish it would tho
This is soo cool…works beautifully!!!!!!!!
Love this! I just finished doing it and my nails look great! Thanks!
I tried it with almond extract IT DID NOT WORK!!! please tell me why
Because it has no alcohol in it..
Mine didnt workkk
this , is so cool i wish i can really make this when im go home today im going to try . i just dont want to make a mess im in school and and i think this is going to br my science projesct but not the same thing thou (:
It worked really well with gin
thank you, this has allowed me to prove a point to my english teacher :L
This was so easy, and it turned out great! Thanks!
mine didn’t work
I used rubbing alcohol and printed some pictures i wanted on it….is it possible for the paper to be too thick?
the paper can’t be too thick
omg this works i did it it was so cool, i used green print on top of red polish for christmas colors! If your naikls smudge, then use a toothpick for touch-ups, or use nail polish remover to get it off your skin and no the paper cannot be too thick.
Mine sucks all the nail polish started to come off with the paper.
I love this! They turned out really good, but the one thing that came out bad was the ink’s visibility. Is there anyway that you can get the newspaper ink to be darker?
call the newspaper, explain your nail delima, I’m sure they’d understand.
Didn’t work /:
Does it come of??
Fantasticcc!! was watching videos on youtube on how to do this and it was no good but here its brill
! easy steps!! xx
i am going to spell out awkward ransom notes on each of my nails…”if i don’t have my money by 5pm this nail’s gettin clipped…and filed!”
I tried it twice now & the newspaper keeps sticking to my nails with the print. Maybe I need to get the paper wet too, as someone suggested. Then, when I try to scrape off the paper, the letters get rubbed off or smeared, so it doesn’t turn out right. I guess I’ll just have to keep trying different things. :/
I first tried this with rubbing alcohol and the letters were barely visible. Following the advice on another website, I tried almond extract instead and it worked great! Get a cotton pad wet with the extract, stick the paper to the pad, then hold the paper and pad on the nail for about 20 seconds. If you go too long, the words from the opposite side of the paper will transfer as well.
where can you buy some from?
I also just wrote on regular paper what i wanted on each nail and it worked PERFECT! So if you want something on your nails thats not in the paper make sure you just draw it on paper!(: I lost my cousin and i wanted to do something creative with his name.. so i drew the letters out on paper and put them on my nais.(:
i love this
I loved this i just did it. I used vodka because i didnt have any rubbing alchohol and it worked great. The first few i did smeered a tiny but after that it looked great. I LOVE THIS TECHNEQUE!!!!!!!
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umm this didn”t work at all for me and my friends it works a lot better if you dip the strip of newspaper first then put it on your nail and not for a long time just about ten seconds!
DID NOT WORK…
it worked really well!!!! <3
Can you do this with acrylic nails? Does the rubbing alcohol effect the acrylic?
This did not work. i tried and tried but the words were not transferring. Help!!!!
i used a neon pink for base. Does that work?
OH NO! i just took off on strip of newpaper and nothing works!
My friend did it on me – looks AWESOME!! I used a gay-blue as the base. Very cool!
Love the vodka thing. Haha. XD
i love my it came out good thanks
Mine came out pretty well. A few nails are hard to see, and one smudged the nailpolish, but the rest are great! Can’t wait to show them off.
Ive done this several times, and i’ve found that it works much better if you dip the strip of newspaper into the alcohol for a couple seconds, then place on nail and hold firm.
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LOVE THIS! super easy! I didn’t put a top coat on because it always makes the nail polish chip off faster. I love this look! But be careful not to hold the newspaper on you finger more than 30 sec. or it doesn’t work.
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