Guest Post: Newsprint Nail Art by Chica es Artistica

Today I have a neat Guest Poster for you. Maggie from Chica es Artistica volunteered to help out while I’m stuck with incredibly limited internet service. So, without further delay, here she is:

Hi! I’m Maggie from Chica es Artistica . I’m so excited to be here at While He Was Napping!
Around Tumblr, I saw a post about how to paint your nails and have text on them. It looked pretty simple and cute. I just had to try it out. Since my nails were already beautifully done, I looked to my sick little sister and noticed her itty bitty chewed up nails were looking rather plain. Hmmm. Cheer her up and test out this idea? Sounds like a plan to me.

Photo Courtesy of http://www.passionnailart.com

Here’s how to get these babies:
1. Paint your nails in a desired color. The lighter the shade, the darker the words will show up on them.
2. Dip your nails into alcohol. It suggested vodka but all we had were alcohol swabs so I just used those.
3. Press a small piece of newspaper onto the nail and leave it there for a few seconds, applying some pressure.
4. Peel off slowly and be amazed. Mostly.

This doesn’t work all the time. Since we used the swabs, it didn’t get the nail as wet so we didn’t have as high of a success rate.

The writing is pretty hard to see in the pictures but you can still tell we didn’t get too many words on them. In the picture I saw, they had a lot of print on them. I was lucky if I got one or two words. This is definitely a repeat but with lighter polish, actual alcohol, and bigger nails.

Thanks so much for having me!

-Maggie

Thanks for sharing, Maggie. That is pretty cool and definitely not something I would have thought to do.

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