Newspaper nail art with alcohol prep pads (for all who have had newspaper stuck to your nails :-) )

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 Have you heard of any saying that goes "A person who gets it right the first time, never learns anything", If no, you heard it from me now.

Yes, long before I did try newspaper nail art when I was still new to nail art. It was one of my very first attempts after trying some of the more easy nail arts by Sveta Sanders :-), Yes, I was that naive to nail art, I started attempting her very famous drag marble nail art when I was just a novice entering into the world of nailartism.

I had no clue about the difficulties or the expertise hard work and focus that goes into these mind blowing nail arts. I thought it should be as easy as applying nail polish, Oh yes, now I have also learnt how to apply your nail enamel professionally :-).

So here I thought I should do a newspaper nail art again, now that I have my blog and Facebook page. So I sat there attempting and re-attempting this beautiful Idea of a nail art, only to find the ink would transfer lightly, the image was not clear or worse when you think you transferred the image beautifully, only to find later that the newspaper image had stuck to your nails , now that is not a bad Idea either, just cut the newspaper and stick to your nails.

But, I was not going to do that. I had to try no matter what. after all so many have had success with this, what am I doing wrong, I tried rubbing alcohol, water, tried applying varied degrees of pressure, press hard, then a little gentle, tried dipping nails in water or rubbing alcohol and removing immediately and then placing on my nail, then wait for certain seconds, tried them all. They would work once then it wouldn't for other fingers. I can leave it like it is, that imperfection was also looking beautiful. But, I was not the one to give up now, so I found a newspaper cutting that said "You Can". I pasted that right above my nail art desk for  motivation, then put my attempts to rest as I had a toddler who required more focus than this. So once he was asleep I tried again, Painted my nails white, the bottle almost empty now from my attempts.

 Suddenly out of the blue an Idea  struck me. Yes alcohol pads, little did I know then that it was the answer I was so diligently seeking. That, they were going to bring me the beautiful images, so I cut some newspaper aligned it on my nail, took out the alcohol prep pads and pressed, when I removed the pad and paper there was my Image more clearer than ever. Hurrah !!!!!

So yes, all that my curved nail bed required was alcohol soaked in a pad, Gosh! why didn't I think of it before. I love them so much now, what a relief alas to find a friend among foes, Yes my lovable alcohol pads, I love my nails so much now that I am typing this only with my right hand, so much I wanted to preserve my hand just to show to my husband when he comes home, my faithful audience and critic.

Hope someone like me out there found something informative today from this post :-)

Products Used:

• White polish NYN
• SQ Rapid dry topcoat
• Alcohol prep pads
• Newspaper