The first time I did this theme I knew I wanted to have a different family shield on each pointed nail, this was just too hard to paint so tiny and so neat. So I have made decals using water slide decal paper that I printed with my photocopier using this image.
If you want to try to make your own decals, make sure to get the correct paper to suit your photocopier. There are two types of paper clear (imagine printing on a clear sheet) and white (like printing on a white sheet of paper). I printed these decals on the white sheet, as there was some white in the design. You also need to seal it if you are using an inkjet printer, I used clear nail polish. I tested what happens if you don’t, the ink just runs off the image when it touches the water. Sealing is not necessary for laser printers so I am told. You also need to re-size the images using some kind of editing software, I just used the software that came with my printer (HP). To test the image was the correct size for my nail I did quite a few draft copies on normal paper, I really did not want to waste any precious decal paper!
I applied each one to a long pointy fake nail, I wish I could have long nails and my current job, but they just don’t go together. The decals are easy to move around when they are wet, once they were in place I pressed them down with a clean dry make-up sponge, which smooths out nearly all the wrinkles, some very tiny ones did remain. When they were dry I hid the edges with nail polish and finally added top coat to smooth it all out.
Thanks for looking, soon I’ll have some Steampunk nails and maybe some more punk too.
Epic : D
The bomb!
Thanks 🙂
Beautiful as always!
Thank you 🙂
these look amazing! your post makes me want to try creating my own decals!
Thank you, I am glad to have inspired you, its easy and fun! 🙂
This is such a neat idea to print your own decals! Your nails look amazing 🙂
I also wanted to let you know I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award – I don’t know if you’ve heard of this or are interested in it, but if you want you can read about it in my blogpost 🙂 You definitely don’t have to participate if you don’t want to though, but I just wanted to let you know because I love your nail art! 🙂
Thank you very much I will accept the award, I have received a couple but always seem so busy or slack to do anything about them. So I will have to change that 🙂
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