Showing posts with label Gradient. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gradient. Show all posts

Thursday, 26 June 2014

Smitten By Pinks?

Hello!! I'm here and I'm going to pretend I've not been away for sometime. Haha! Wow, look at the time fly! Many things has happened, and among the "new" is my growing Pink Stuffs. Just for clarity sake, I don't and never have hated pink. I simply don't prefer them on me. Looking back, I don't have many pink memories. I do however, remember a few. I vividly remember picking out a pair of shoe with pink shoelaces during one of my pre-school days. I remembered I loved a pink hairband which I wore it almost every time, especially on occasions -- until I carelessly left it at a playground *sigh*. Trust me, I was sad for a period of time. At the age of 12, I spotted a pink three quartered sleeved turtle neck shirt and fell in love. It was probably the only pink shirt I had that I'll say I looked good in it every time I wore it. Hahaha! But since then, I haven't been able to identify much with pink hues. 

To date, I have only two pink clothes in my closet. A tank top which so far, I've only wore once. And a saturated dark pink cardigan which I love and wear it when I need a pop of colour to my outfit. Recently, I've been adding more pinks, a few pink nail polishes and a pink luggage bag. *Sigh* The luggage bag, I was deceived under warm lighting. Tricked to think it has more yellow hue. When I saw the bag under natural daylight I felt a pang of regret. Comforted myself that at least it was a bargain (got it at half price). And at least I'll know that it is my bag when I have to collect it. (Let's do a quick survey, would you buy a pink luggage bag?) Looking at the bag now under natural artificial light, its not that bad. It's still a bold pink, fortunately, do lean on the warmer side and I'm actually liking it more and more. Lols! So I guess things didn't turn out that bad after all.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Bubbles And A Turtle

Heyaass! I was going to post another floral mani today...but... Do you all know about Nailpolis? They have a few events organised and in each event members took part of, he/she gets a limited edition badge. Erm, if you play games... yeah.. it feels like playing games and earning titles, etc etc. Except, you won't receive a special power or additional stats when you get them :P (or maybe you do, who knows you might unlock new skills for trying out new mani ideas, hahahaha!) Don't get me wrong though. I like this idea. I think its such a fun concept and its one of the points that separates Nailpolis from other (nail) media platform. 

Bubbles and A Turtle lacqueerisa.blogspot.com

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Paint Me Red

Hello! It's the 7th day of Chinese New Year, Happy Birthday Everyone! ;) And I couldn't be happier that I have another CNY appropriate nail art to show you. Today's nail art is inspired by an ang pau (red packet) I received during one of my visitations. The ang pau had a really adorable picture of boy/girl with just the right amount of gold and redness on them! :) My brother got one with the boy picture while my sister and I got the girl, for obvious reason. Lols! 

Lacqueerisa: Paint Me Red

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Inspired by Crabtree & Evelyn

Beautiful Wednesday, yes? :) Today's nail art is inspired by Crabtree & Evelyn's beautiful packaging. If you've been reading the past few posts, you would have read that I had intentions to attempt nail arts inspired by them. This, however, was not the intended attempt. But Crabtree & Evelyn, Malaysia recently held this "Take a Picture" contest. Where participants have to take a photo of three single products in the most creative way. There will be 10 winners who get to win the 3 products they featured in their photo. 

Lacqueerisa: Inspired by Crabtree & Evelyn

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Guest Post Feature: Lackaffen!

Happy Morning!! I am very happy to be able to feature my fellow friends of Lackaffen, whom you may recall, have given me the wonderful opportunity to guest post for them few weeks back. And nothing pleases me more than to have them here this morning! :) 

Dear readers of Lacqueerisa, 

We're so excited to present our very first guest post! Thank you so much Lacqueerisa for giving us this opportunity! ♥ 
We are five ladies from the German nail polish blog called, 'Lackaffen'. It's sort of a word play. 'Lackaffen' is actually an insult, meaning something like 'dumbass', haha. That's not what we consider ourselves of course! ;) 
If you translate it word by word it's (nail) polish (=Lack) and monkey (=Affe). We considered this a good name as we all love nail polish... and monkeys are cute and funny. 
So... enough talking now. Here are some designs we made for our guest entry today. Hope you enjoy!

And by the way: Sorry in advance for mistakes in our writing. English is not our native language, but we tried our best! 

Saturday, 13 October 2012

Gradients On A Beautiful Cloudy Morning

Hello Readers! Sorry for the lack of updates. Was on a few days holiday and I've just finally found time to post this gradient nails I did on my short holiday. The colours are inspired by the colours of the outfit I put together--unfortunately, I didn't have much time to photograph, I didn't take any pictures of my outfit though (ah, pity). And on one of the days during my holiday, we went to the beach. Its been quite sometime since I last been to one. It was early and the weather was so good. Not too hot, not even cold. Just nice. And while I was busying myself photographing the beautiful scenery by the beach, I took the chance to photograph the gradient nails. 

NOTD - Cloudy Beach Gradient
NOTD - Cloudy Beach Gradient
NOTD - Cloudy Beach Gradient

Woops, miss a little bit of clean ups there. Hopefully, the excuse that these were done under low lighting is acceptable :P And here's a quick view of the beach :


Ahahah, I couldn't resist putting up a picture of the waves 'crawling' onto the shore. Such a cute sight! I really had a great time at the beach there. Played Frisbee for the first time! But of course, nothing like the real game. Just a simple beginner's sort of play. It was really simple, but fun! It was a really beautiful morning we were early, and had the beach all to ourselves! Nothing's better than having a whole huge space to run about freely X) 

And that concludes my post for today. Hope you readers have enjoy the simple gradient NOTD. Can't believe weekend is already here! Have a great weekend!

Nail polishes used : 
  • Etude House - BL501
  • Nails Topshop - Country Bumpkin
  • BeauKiss(BK) - #12 


Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Mint Jeans Pocket

Hello all~ So I've finally got my pictures taken, edited and now, they are ready to be shown!! So today's NOTD is inspired by a really beautiful mint jeans shorts I saw on etsy. I was anxious actually, unsure if I could really carry out the idea that spring to my head when I saw the shorts. Its nothing too complicated though, just wanted to create pocket jeans look on my nails (which would somewhat be dashed border/framed nails?). And.... I'm satisfied with the results! Nah, I REALLY LOVE THIS! :D I think its great to wear this nail look on days when you want nail art on your nails but don't want them 'loud'. 

NOTD: Faded Mint Jeans Pocket Inspired
NOTD: Faded Mint Jeans Pocket Inspired
NOTD: Faded Mint Jeans Pocket Inspired
NOTD: Faded Mint Jeans Pocket Inspired
NOTD: Faded Mint Jeans Pocket Inspired

And here's a quick look at the inspiration (too bad its sold, it wasn't when I saw it about two days ago?) :
Neat eh? Image does not belong to me, click to go to etsy seller.

And here are the nail polishes used and the faithful toothpick :


17 - Chaperone
The Face Shop - GR501
Skin Food Nail Vita - BR609
Bloop - (name unknown) Its a shimmery white with subtle pink undertones.

By the way, is there any matte top coat that you know of that has a big brush? I find it hard to give a smooth application of matte top coat on my thumb's nail. =/

Friday, 14 September 2012

Into the Tropical

Good Morning! Today's NOTD was kinda impromptu. Well, I only knew what colours I wanted to use and I know I want to blend them together in gradient form - which is what I went on doing. But after I've done my gradients I felt like it needed something more but lack of inspiration on what would be best on this nails, I debated between drawing simple kid-like swirls and dotting. Finally decided that I'd use my stamping plate which have been sitting around unused for all this time. I stamped on a palm tree looking leaves from Konad Stamping Plate M83 with The Face Shop WH002. And the nails ended up looking a lot like summer nails. Haha!

Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails
Tropical Nails

So there you have it! A simple stamping NOTD. I must add that despite the simplicity of the stamp, I do love the outcome. I thought it felt very joyful and lively. Totally brightens up my day! Hope these are able to brighten up your day too the way they did mine :)


Nail polishes used:
  • Beau Kiss (BK) - 02
  • Etude House (Matte) - 06
  • Etude House - COR202
  • The Face Shop - WH002
  • The Face Shop - BL602

Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Just A Little Grey

Good Morning everyone! Its a cloudy morning here so I'm feeling a little grey. Nah, not in the bad way, but those quiet wonderful mornings sort of grey feeling. Unfortunately, it isn't as chilly as I hoped. Its still hot, despite the clouds and I'm sweating right after bath. Yeap, crazy weather. Alright, back to topic. Just simple grey gradient nails to share. The colours are inspired by a clock I saw in etsy.

Just A Little Grey
I have to show you the thumb. I love how the gradient turn out here ♥

Saturday, 25 August 2012

Oh Basketballs!

Hello dearies! I've just came back from celebrating my brother's birthday. And so I thought I should do basketball themed nails (since both of us likes basketball :D - although I have no talent in it) in conjunction to celebrating this wonderful day. Also, a chance to try out the black stripper I just bought recently!

NOTD - Basketball Nails

Friday, 10 August 2012

Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 10 - Gradients!

Woohoo!! I am super excited for today's challenge since its regarding a new found love; gradients! I thought I'd do something challenging today like err overlaying gradients and such but I totally change my mind after seeing a Dip Dyed cardigan on FLIP AND STYLE.

*image does not belong to me. Please click to source.

Lovely isn't it? I would totally love to own that cardigan/sweater. I am so captivated by it I had to get that translated (or literally) onto my nails. I haven't quite get the hang of sponging gradients so the nails didn't quite turn out the way I had wanted them too. And without further ado, yet another simple-tastic gradient manicure! 


NOTD - Dipping Purple
NOTD - Dipping Purple
NOTD - Dipping Purple
NOTD - Dipping Purple
NOTD - Dipping Purple

Despite not turning out the way I intended it, I still love how these turned out! For this manicure I've used Elianto's Thistle which is a light pink, The Face Shop's PP402; the bright fuchsia and for the dark purple, I used BeauKiss's #09. To finish this manicure off, I've added Skin Food Nail Vita Crystal Pearl Top Coat which created very subtle glitter that I think goes perfectly well with this manicure. So there you go! My manicure for today's challenge. Hope you will like it as much as I do. Oh, today's Friday! How time flies! Have you planned what to do for the weekends? I think I will explore more with gradients for awhile. I'm hooked! :P

Thursday, 9 August 2012

Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 9 - Red

Hurray for me! What a miracle! The skins seems to have somehow returned to normal. So here I am posting up for Day 9, themed Red! I don't usually wear reds, especially Red on its own. There are so many I know of who have the capability to pull red off so well; just not me. So for today's challenge I've decided to go with gradient red. I know tomorrow's gradient, but I just couldn't wait any longer. I've been aching to do gradients ever since I got the sponges. Haha! They were worth it and I love how simple it is to get an interesting look with gradients.

NOTD - Red Gradients
NOTD - Red Gradients
NOTD - Red Gradients
NOTD - Red Gradients
NOTD - Red Gradients

That's about it for today's post. Don't forget to check out the other girls' attempt for today's challenge! Tomorrow will be Gradient. You can still join in the challenge if you want. For more information about the challenge click here.

Nail polishes used :
  • Bloop (again there's no name) - Golden Pink Shimmer with Subtle Purple hue.
  • Revlon - Blackberry