How to make a newspaper manicure

Beautiful and well -groomed hands are a business card of every representative of the fair sex. Nail decoration has long become a separate art that can become a highlight in any female image conceived in advance.

To date, there are a huge number of various ideas for manicure and its additional decor. Some of them are quite difficult to repeat yourself, since, for example, to portray a beautiful pattern with both hands is not so simple. This procedure requires not only dexterity and technology, but quite a lot of time and patience.

The “newspaper” nail covering has become popular recently due to its versatility, because this style goes well with any everyday way. Even with more official clothing, nails with such a coating can be beaten using an additional combination of decor elements. The most important advantage can be safely considered the absolute originality of the pattern, which will emphasize your personality.

The pluses of newspaper manicure

The advantages of such a nail art made him one of the most trendy to date:

• The choice of color palette can be selected for every taste, clothes and mood.
• Additional decoration is not limited to one area of \u200b\u200buse of materials and style.
• The availability of materials allows you to do almost all the means for standard manicure.
• Each nail can be arranged in an original and excellent from the rest.
• The simplicity of the technique of execution allows you to make it both in the cabin and independently at home.
• The procedure does not require a long waste of time, special skills and decoration skills.
• The universal style is suitable for nails of any shape and length.
• The uniqueness of the pattern and the ability to experiment with various options.

How to make a newspaper manicure yourself?

Both in a professional salon and at home, such a nail art can be performed in several different ways. The final desired result is generally not different. The main material is a newspaper font, and the rest depend on what basic coating is on your nails.

What is needed for a newspaper manicure?

For such an original manicure, you need to prepare:

• newspaper or magazine;
• varnish fixer;
• varnish of white color or any other neutral light shade as a basic base;
• tweezers;
• pipette;
• alcohol, vodka or cologne;
• means or acetone for removing varnish.

Step -by -step newspaper manicure at home

Although the newspaper nail art is suitable for a manicure of absolutely any length, it looks best on the nails of an oval or rectangular shape than on pointed ones. In advance (in a couple of hours), put your nails in order and perform a standard hygienic unrefined manicure. Remove the old coating, steam the nails in a salt bath, apply a softening skin with a product and carefully remove the cuticle and burrs.

You will need to make a standard manicure:

• orange wand;
• paper napkins or paper towel;
• cotton wheels or cotton wool;
• kusachki;
• scissors;
• nail file;
• cleaner or essential oil.

Newspaper manicure without alcohol

After completing preliminary procedures, you can start making a newspaper decor:

1. Cut the newspaper, a magazine or other printed publication for ten rounded rectangles in the size of each nail.
2. Cover the nail with colorless varnish and, not allowing it to completely dry, attach a newspaper rectangle, slightly moistened with water.
3. Squeeze and allow to completely dry. During crush, do not move the newspaper rectangle so that the most clear pattern of the text is obtained.
4. When the newspaper rectangle dries, cover the newspaper imprint with colorless varnish.
5. Repeat all manipulations with the other nine fingers.

Gel-varnish newspaper manicure

Pre -prepare the nails, making a hygienic unreasonable manicure:

1. Painting your nails with light varnish as a base and let it dry in order to move to the main stage of the decor.
2. Cut the printed publication for ten rounded rectangles in size slightly larger than the nail itself.
3. Smell a little newspaper rectangle with alcohol and attach to the nail for 30 seconds.
4. Press and let dry. During crush, do not move the newspaper rectangle so that the most clear imprint of the text is obtained.
5. Separate the paper and wait until the imprint dries.
6. Apply the varnish fixer over the newspaper print to finally fix it on the nails.
7. Dry the nails well under the ultraviolet lamp.

Types of manicure "newspaper print"

If you attach a little imagination and experiment, you can get several options for this design:

1. Classic version using color basic varnish:

• color matte varnish is applied to the nail;
• the base is dried for 10-15 minutes;
• a piece of newspaper saturated with alcohol is applied to the nail;
• press and wait until the alcohol evaporates;
• carefully remove the newspaper, let the print to dry on the nail;
• cover the nail with the fixer. 

2. With the use of the Ombre technology - transitions of one color to another from different types of boundaries:

• contrast-two contrasting colors are used, for example, black-white, red pink;
• the transition from one color to another, barely determined by the appearance.

3. Application of a newspaper print in the style of "French". It is necessary to apply a piece of a newspaper or magazine not on the entire surface, but only on the tip of the nail. 
4. Newspaper "IMICATION OF CHARACH". Badly on the nails of a schoolgirl or a student will look. Instead of the font, you can print the examination formulas, which must be printed on thin paper, and it is better to choose a font for a smaller. They can also be applied manually with a needle or toothpick.              
5. As a print, you can use the world cards (geographical) or a photo of idols.
6. Extravagant design resembling charred paper.
7. A breakdown newspaper print. In this style, the newspaper breaks into small pieces and is also randomly applied. The imprint is uneven, into a spread, under different inclination. The numbers and letters seem to be applied to one another, different sizes.
8. With cash signs, for example, with dollar. Due to the fact that the dollar bill is executed from thick paper, and fragments of the bill are disposed of, then the fastener must be applied in several layers. The nails will be denser because of this. This manicure can be supplemented with glitter or sparkles. 
9. Nanous newspaper manicure. Its essence is that the newspaper is wetted not in alcohol, but in water. And most importantly, the newspaper is not removed from the nail, and the fixer is applied directly to the newspaper dried on the nail. In this case, the nail is dense, and the manicure is long -term.
10. Black and white newspaper manicure on the contrary. This means that the base of the nail will be black and the letters will be white. It is necessary to find white text on the black field or print white text on black paper.
11. A newspaper manicure can be carried out both on each nail and through one. Even if four nails are painted the same, and one will be with a newspaper print, the whole design will look very extravagant.
12. You can print one letter on each nail, as a result, having received a single word.

Ideas and advice for newspaper manicure with photo

It may happen that on the first attempt, a newspaper manicure will not look perfect, as it seemed to itself. In the process of correction and further mastering the technique of applying a newspaper print, new exclusive tricks will appear. The main advantage is that improvised means for training are not expensive and soon it will be possible to treat the thin newspaper quite masterly.

Additional tricks and recommendations of inveterate masters will help in mastering the new Neil Design:

1. If suddenly a newspaper piece of a piece moved. It is better to try to prevent this. It is necessary to take cotton wool or a cotton pad, moisten it with alcohol or vodka, erase the pattern in full or partially. After stripping, apply a new drawing or supplement the one that was.
2. If you place a piece of newspaper on the nail diagonally, then the font is a little larger, and the pattern itself on the nail will turn out to be quite original.
3. According to the rules of the newspaper manicure, the final drying of the varnish is recommended before imprinting the newspaper pattern. Professional masters of manicure business are advised to wait a few hours with the application of the fastener.
4. Some masters use clippings from colorful magazines. Small photographs brilliantly depict the unusual newspaper printing in various performance. The main highlight of such a manicure will be that an individual imprint is depicted on each nail. There are no repetitions, since the shreds of the magazine differ from each other and the information on them is different.
5. To give the newspaper manicure some gorgevity, you can add an application with rhinestones or stones. You can additionally handle the flower composition manually or add the modeling.
6. You can display your deepest feelings for your loved one on the nails. In the statement “I love you” ten signs, respectively, the number of fingers on the hands. You can print the letters yourself on thin paper, or can be cut from different newspaper or magazine texts in the letter. It will turn out very beautifully and original. This will be a big surprise for a person dear to the heart.
7. Ombre:

• pour two selected colors on the even surface;
• using a cotton wool, mix the boundaries of two varnishes;
• dip a piece of the sponge into this mixture and transferred to the nail;
• excess varnish from the skin around the nail remove with liquid to relieve varnish;
• make a newspaper imprint, give a dry;
• cover the nail with a varnish fixer.

Video lesson in the execution of newspaper manicure

A good example of the implementation of the popular technique of Neil-art with a printed print: