Winter Solstice Nails

Week 3 of December’s Nail Art Ideas Linkup is WINTER SOLSTICE.  December 21st is the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere (that date is also the summer solstice for the southern hemisphere).  The sun is the lowest in the sky during the winter solstice and it’s also the one day of the year with the least sunlight.  I was googling images for the solstice for some nailspiration and most of the images had the moon in them.  Which is kind of weird considering the solstice is all about the sun’s position, but hey, I’m a cancer moonchild so I’m happy to do another lunar design.  I wanted to incorporate the moon and some blue wintery colors.  Here’s what I came up with…

I used Nailuminium’s tutorial for inspiration.  Check it out here: CANDY TRIP TUTORIAL by NAILUMINIUM.  Her candy trip swirl nails are amazing!!!!  I’ve been wanting to try them out for a while now!  I should’ve stuck to her tutorial and made all my nails swirly, but I got a little too creative and made some different patterns.  Like my weird ring finger which does not look as cool as my swirly pointer finger!  Oh well!

I like this kinda nail art since it doesn’t require any special planning or concentration.  Sure, it took a long time, but I didn’t burn through any brain cells in the process…. I just kept painting swirl upon swirl until the nails were filled with designs! Lookit, even my right hand came out great!! ↓

I used nail polish for this design.  I never really use acrylics, but they would work fine too (Nailuminium used acrylics in her tutorial).  I started with a good base coat and two coats of OPI Alpine Snow.  Then I painted my swirls with a nail art brush and a few different colors.  I used a silver, a dark blue, a light blue and a mint green.

As for my moons, the craters look cool I think! The moons was painted with Zoya Dove and I made craters by making a big dark dot, then a smaller lighter dot inside.  They’re kinda cute- I might have to try some more moon nails!

So what do you think?  Did this spark your creativity to come up with a WINTER SOLSTICE design too???  Here’s the inlink for our #NAILLINKUP if you’d like to join!

N.A.I.L. December Theme 3 – Winter Solstice

December N.A.I.L. Linkup Announcement

December!  That festive time of year when you’ll be shopping for gifts, attending holiday parties and celebrating New Years.  Better paint those nails nice- you’ll be a social butterfly, whether you like it or not!  The holidays have that effect on us, don’t they?

Brijits Digits, Craftynail and Eeeek! Nail Polish! are bringing you 5 great ideas for nail art this December as part of Nail Art Ideas Linkup.  Join in with us and you’ll be sporting the most festive of nails!  Let’s see what’s on the plate for December…

Theme 1- SNOWFLAKES

Theme 2- SHOPPING

Theme 3- WINTER SOLSTICE

Theme 4- FESTIVE FRENCH MANI

Theme 5- NEW YEAR

Feel free to share one of our December N.A.I.L. graphics on your page.  We made two different widgets this month so you can choose your favorite!

As far as nail challenges go, you’ll enjoy the N.A.I.L. Linkup since it’s fun and flexible.  No big commitment!

• Do one of the weekly themes, or do them all- it’s up to you!
• The dates for each week are only suggestions- you can post your nails whenever you want in December.
• The nail art ideas/themes are open to interpretation.  You can create whatever kind of design you want!  Stamps, stickers, acrylics- they’re all game!
• We encourage all nail enthusiasts to join in whether you have a blog, FB, IG, Tumblr, etc…
• Don’t forget to enter the URL to your nails via the inlinkz below.

N.A.I.L. December Theme 1 – Snowflakes

N.A.I.L. December Theme 2 – Shopping

N.A.I.L. December Theme 3 – Winter Solstice

N.A.I.L. December Theme 4 – Festive French Manis

N.A.I.L. December Theme 5 – New Year

Any questions about NAIL ART IDEAS LINKUP?  Contact us or read more about N.A.I.L. on our blog links below.  See you in December!

signed,

Brijit from Brijits Digits

Jacqui from Craftynail

Jemma from Eeeek! Nail Polish! 

November N.A.I.L. Challenge

Need some inspiration for your next nail art?  Brijit’s Digits, Craftynail and Eeeek! Nail Polish!  got you covered!  Here are the themes for our November N.A.I.L. challenge called Nail Art Ideas Linkup….

• The dates are just ‘suggested’ dates.  Submit your manicure whenever you want in November.
• You don’t need to do all four themes if you don’t want to.  No pressure!
• The nail art ideas/themes are open to interpretation.  So do whatever floats your boat!
• We encourage all nail lovers to join in whether you have a blog, FB, IG, Tumblr, etc…
• If you’re a hashtagger you can use #NAILLINKUP on social media sites.
• Feel free to copy our widget and share it!  The N.A.I.L. graphic is square this month, did you notice?  🙂
• Post pics of your November N.A.I.L. manicures to your corner of the internet and then enter your URLs via the inlinkz below.

Solar Eclipse :

Movember Moustaches :

Animals & Pets :

Feathers :

December tries to steal the limelight with all the festive holiday manicures… but we refuse to let November sit on the sidelines!  Let’s get creative with our November nails!  The Movember Moustaches theme will be especially fun.  If you’ve never heard of Movember here’s a quick explanation from wikipedia:  Movember is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of prostate cancer and other male cancer and associated charities.  Afterall, who doesn’t love muchos moustachios!?!  And the natural place to put a moustache is on your nails, no?

Any questions about NAIL ART IDEAS LINKUP?  Contact us or read more about N.A.I.L. on our blog links below.  See you in November!

signed,

Brijit from Brijits Digits

Jacqui from Craftynail

Jemma from Eeeek! Nail Polish! 

September 2013 Nail Art Ideas Linkup

Have you heard about our nail art challenge*?  Brijit’s Digits, Eeeek! Nail Polish! and I are hosting a monthly challenge* called Nail Art Ideas Linkup!

Why is there an asterisk by the word challenge?? Even though Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL) sounds like a regular ol’ nail art challenge…. it’s actually more of a way for us to share our nail art!  So Brijit, Jemma and I prefer to call it a Linkup. 😀  We’ve got four nail art ideas (themes) per month… so you’ll never run out of inspiration for your next manicure design!  It’ll be fun to share our NAIL pics with eachother each week so join in whenever you’d like!  It’s not a challenge per se, so you don’t have to do each week if you don’t want to.  Plus, after each weeks’ links close up- you can cast 3 votes for your favorite NAIL Genius Of The Week!

Each theme will have links open for one week.  Example- Theme 1 is Back to School.  So you can post your ‘school mani’ anytime between Sept 2 and Sept 8 by accessing the inlinkz on my Nail Art Ideas Linkup Reference Page on the menu of my blog.  Your submissions will need to be a URL from your blog, Instagram, Facebook account, etc.  All we ask is that you post a unique design that you created with the Linkup in mind.  And if you happen to win NAIL Genius Of The Week we’ll create a cool little brag badge for you!

Here are the dates & themes for September 2013……

Theme 1- BACK TO SCHOOL: Sept 2 – Sept 8

Theme 2- SPORTS: Sept 9 – Sept 15

Theme 3- GAMES & APPS: Sept 16 – Sept 22

Theme 4- ASTROLOGY: Sept 23 – Sept 29

Are you ready for some September nail art inspiration?  Do you think you’ll join in?  Drop a comment!