Green Glitter Christmas Nails

Posted in Challenge, Christmas, Glitter, Holiday, Island Girl Hawaii, Studs by Craftynail

I wanted to squeeze in another holiday mani before Christmas day arrives. Ready or not, it’s right around the corner!

I got this cute green glitter polish in an ABC Store in Las Vegas earlier this month. It’s called Island Volcano by Island Girl Hawaii and it’s a perfect polish for a Christmas mani! I also grabbed a few other items from this brand and I love that I own Hawaiian nail products now! Especially the beautiful bottle of cuticle oil with dried flowers floating in it. I’ll have to show you sometime!

Here’s what I’m wearing…

♥ Essence Peel Off Base Coat – 1 coat

♥ Funky Fingers in Limelight – 2 coats

♥ Island Girl Hawaii in Island Volcano – 2 coats

♥ no-name brand red studs – I like that they look like tiny maraschino cherries 🙂

♥ Seche Vite topcoat

I’d also like to add this manicure to the INSPIRED BY CHRISTMAS COLOURS inlinkz for #ChristmasWithFLP which is a cute December Nail Challenge that I found out about on Lekker Lacquer’s blog. There’s a lot of fun themes for this Christmas Challenge… check it out here!

19Dec2013

Winter Solstice Nails

Posted in Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL), Nails by Craftynail

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

16Dec2013

Shopping Nails for #NAILLINKUP

Posted in Christmas, decals, MoYou, Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL), Nails, Stamping, Studs by Craftynail

It’s week two of the December N.A.I.L. Linkup and the theme is shopping. If you’re like me, the word shopping in December means a mad scramble to finish your holiday shopping list! Luckily, I got most of my shopping done on friday. The only time I ever really visit Kohl’s is Christmastime… and what amazing deals they have! Then they give you Kohls CASH which is icing on the cake! I got gifts for everyone on my list and now I’ve even got gifts on my nails! Let’s take a look at my shopping nails for #NAILLINKUP…..

The wrapping paper and bows came out great! They’re actually decals that I made. I’ve shown you how to make decals here, but I’ve never tried it with stamping before. So basically, I stamped the gifts onto a plastic baggie using my MoYou Festive 03 plate. Then I painted on top of the gift stamps with green/gold/blue and then I topcoated it. Once it was dry (overnight) I peeled it off the baggie, flipped it over, et voila! A pretty little painted present! I got the idea from Indian Ocean Polish’s blog. Everytime I login to pinterest I go ga-ga over her decals so I just had to try them out! Here’s her tutorial- you should check it out!

I’m also happy to wear red again. I’m loving red more and more lately! Shown here is Sally Hansen Xtreme Wear in Cherry Red. I’m really impressed with it’s formula!

Be sure to check out the other girls’ designs for the Linkup- see the blue guy below! If you’d like to join in, here’s more info on the linkup…

N.A.I.L. December Theme 2 – Shopping

1Dec2013

December N.A.I.L. Linkup Announcement

Posted in Holiday, Nail Art, Nail Art Ideas Linkup (NAIL), Nails by Craftynail

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…

NAIL LINKUP Dec2013

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