Happy thanksgiving to all my American girls out there! I had this great thanksgiving nail design idea swimming around in my head for days! My inspiration was the newspaper nails technique. My rendition was to cut out pics of favorite thanksgiving-type foods from the supermarket flyer and imprint them on my white nails. Too bad it was an epic fail! Lol! But the design is still kind of fun so I thought I’d share some pics anyway.
I scoured the Stop n Shop flyer to find and clip images of (from left to right) frenchs french fried onions, turkey, stove top stuffing, ocean spray cranberry sauce, and cool whip! Yummy!! Too bad all the words transpose backwards when using the newspaper nails technique! I knew they’d be backwards… but I thought the text would be dark enough and the logos would be recognizable enough to really stand out and look reminiscent of the foods in our thanksgiving shopping cart! Maybe the colored print from the flyers I used didn’t transfer as well as newspaper print does? I also had a hard time applying my Pure Ice polish. This greyish white polish called Super Star! happens to be the only bottle of Pure Ice that I own. Not sure if it’s just Super Star, or if all of their shades are like this… but the formula was not my fave. The consistency kinda reminded me of white-out and the skinny brush made application difficult and streaky.
Oh well! So my thanksgiving nail design fell a little flat, but i had a great holiday! Hope you all had a wonderful time with family and friends and that you didn’t have to go to work!
This is so nice! Always been tempted to try the newspaper technique, but never seen it with colour/brand logos. Has a retro quality. Love it
If this is a fail, then it’s a pretty beautiful fail! Also, I’ve nominated your lovely blog for a Liebster award, all the details are over at http://badmani.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/liebster-award-awesomeness/
thank you so much !
Ooooh love this design! I’ve never tried the newspaper technique but heard of it before. Was it difficult?
I just dip my nail in alcohol for 5 secs…then press the newspaper on for a fews secs. Easy peasy!
Thanks for the tip x
I love these! What a cool idea – I’d love to see this done with some kind of pop art Warhol-ish prints…
That would be awesome!
I’ve used old archie comics before- the betty and veronica heads looked really cute lol
Awww, these are so cute : D
I thought they went meant to blurry, they look vintage and awesome.
Thanks! I gotta come up with some cool thanksgiving designs for 2013 now!
Yes : D
I’ve been looking forward to thanksgiving manis!
I love the way these look but did you know you can actually put paper in your nails. You have to do acrylic with them but it’s really cool. You can email me if you want, pink21stars@yahoo.com