Fancy finger nails are all the rage these days (just check Pinterest for tons of creative nail ideas). Here’s a fun fingernail art idea to do with your Sunday paper once you’re done clipping all your coupons. Megan at razberriez shared how in a great tutorial. [how to make newspaper nails]
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8 Comments
Angela
Just a fun tip, this also works for comics! I’ve done it before and it was fun having Garfield and Archie on my fingers! ;]
Jennifer
done this and it is so fun! you can use the pictures, too – I only tried the black&white ones, I wouldn’t think colors would work.
Jennifer
I retract what I said about colors! Angela, that is a good idea, I’m going to try the comics next time.
Heather,
I just want to take a moment to thank you for sharing this with your readers. I was very happy at how it turned out, and thank you for featuring it.
Get outta here with these awesome nails! I’m going to try this next time I have to photograph my hands in a craft tutorial….good excus eto spice up a manicure!
wow!!!!my friend told me all about that but i dont want alot of words on my nail i probably would get some polish and paint my nails then get the first letter of my name off a newspaper and just put it on there and then get some fingernail polish and and make designs all around it!!!!I think it would be pretty if it worked out right!!!Also there is this thing called marble nails and it is even better well thats my opinion!!!Try looking it up on google and go to images and look at the pics some are so pretty!!!
8 Comments
Angela
Just a fun tip, this also works for comics! I’ve done it before and it was fun having Garfield and Archie on my fingers! ;]
Jennifer
done this and it is so fun! you can use the pictures, too – I only tried the black&white ones, I wouldn’t think colors would work.
Jennifer
I retract what I said about colors! Angela, that is a good idea, I’m going to try the comics next time.
Megan
Heather,
I just want to take a moment to thank you for sharing this with your readers. I was very happy at how it turned out, and thank you for featuring it.
-Megan
Peaches
Get outta here with these awesome nails! I’m going to try this next time I have to photograph my hands in a craft tutorial….good excus eto spice up a manicure!
Nicole Willson
Here’s the newspaper nails article from wikiHow with step by step pictures:
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Newspaper-Nails
It was featured on June 30 and may have been the inspiration for the tutorial mentioned in this post.
Tori
I just saw a similar tutorial on youtube… There must be something in the air!
Anywho, I love that you’ve added nail tutorials. Nail art FTW! :)
Ashley
wow!!!!my friend told me all about that but i dont want alot of words on my nail i probably would get some polish and paint my nails then get the first letter of my name off a newspaper and just put it on there and then get some fingernail polish and and make designs all around it!!!!I think it would be pretty if it worked out right!!!Also there is this thing called marble nails and it is even better well thats my opinion!!!Try looking it up on google and go to images and look at the pics some are so pretty!!!