Newspaper nails

Newspaper nails are more simple than you think and you will need just few things: a light nail polish base (grey, pink, white), strips of newspaper, alcohol and top coat.

Paint your nails with the light polish and let them dry completely.

                  

 Dip your nails in the alcohol for 10 seconds.

Put a strip of newspaper on the nail and press firmly for about 10 seconds.  Pull off the newspaper gently and you will see the newspaper ink has printed onto your nails.

To protect the design apply a top coat.



Cherry nails

  

This is what I used to create this cute design:

Start painting your nails with white polish

Then use a dotting tool or a tooth stick to create pairs of dots 

With a green polish draw Y shaped lines to connect the dots

Use again the dotting tool and the white polish and add little dots on the cherries to highlight them.

I used a sparkling top coat for extra shine. 

:-)

Crack nail polish

What is it exactly? While it actually looks more complicated than it really is, crack polish is a special top coat applied to your regular nail color that gives a “crackled” effect on the finish.

               

This is what I used: Pupa's nail art kit comes with a silver nail polish that I replaced with this nice pink.

Apply your nail color as usual. While skipping the top coat, allow your nails to completely dry so the crack polish doesn’t penetrate to the nail color and dissolve it. 

Apply a thin coat of crack polish, making sure not to go over the same section more than once.

The thinner you apply the crackle polish the more cracks you will have.

These are the instructions on the back of the box. They also recommended to apply a shine top coat  for a brilliant effect. 
               

Ombre Nails

1.  All you need are two polish colors

2. Start painting one color 

3. Fill in empty space with the other color

4. Wipe off the excess polish and start swirling where the polishes meet.

A' pois

My first project