Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 12 & 13

Hello!!

How have Monday been for you? We are just two days away from finishing Makeup Savvy's 15 Days Nail Challenge! How time zooms by! I'll be squeezing two nail challenges in this one post. So bear with me while you go through the longggg looooonnnng post. :)

Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 11 - Metallic

Its Day 11 and themed Metallic. I can't help but imagine all those rich colours of medieval times clothes. All those vibrant and vivid colours. Just gorgeous. I've seen many other nail artist tackling wonderful triangle blocks (forgive me I'm not sure what its called) but have yet to do one myself. And today's theme seem just perfect for this nail art.

I decided to take the challenge and go freehand. And of course I used my left hand (haha!) I can get better control that way :P I love how they turned out, especially the colours. They matched so well together.

They really reminded me a lot of Bunting Flags. Mostly due to their triangular shapes, which I guess, contributed to the medieval-ness of it. A little wonky here and there but overall, I love them!

Nail Polishes used :

• Skin Food Pedicure Sparkle - #10
• Elianto Sparkling Diva - Mahogany
• Skin Food Pedicure Sparkle - #08
• Essence Colour & Go - 38 Choose Me! (used this to overlay Skin Food Pedicure Sparkle #08 for a more uniform look)

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.

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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! 

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

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.

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

The Liebster Award: Discover New Blogs!

First and foremost, I want to thank The Nail Artiste for the honour of awarding me with Liebster award! I was thrilled and grateful to have receive the Liebster Award, which is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers.

Terms:
1) The recipient must post 11 fun facts about themselves
2) The recipient must also answer 11 questions created by the award giver
3) The recipient must give the award to 11 new bloggers with less than 200 followers and post 11 questions for them to answer
4) These 11 bloggers must be told they have been given the award
5) They will in turn pass the award on to 11 new bloggers of their choice (no tagging back the award giver)

11 Random Facts About Lacqueerisa:
1) When it comes to writing, painting and eating I'm left handed. Right handed when it comes to doing all the other stuffs.
2) I love looking and drooling over gorgeous papers.
3) I'm a coffee addict!
4) As much as I love colours, I do play favourtism among them.
5) I love and appreciate well baked chocolate chip cookies.
6) I enjoy running. Especially when feeling the cool  breeze hitting against the skin.
7) I love casual and presentable styles.
8) I'm a chinese who don't really enjoy rice. I prefer noodles and pastas.
9) I only enter beauty stores to look at nail polishes and nothing more.
10) I love watching Criminal minds, Bones, NCIS or any other detective sort of shows/movies/dramas.
11) I've recently wore eyeglasses (thanks to long hours in front of computer) but it fits me so well, no one seem to remember I used to not wear them.. (haha!)


Questions from dear The Nail Artiste :
1) When and why did you start blogging?
I started blogging on 21st June 2012 because I see the need of a proper place for me to spill and share of the love of nail art and nail polish and I hope to meet new people who shares similar interests. It's always great and inspiring to see ideas from artists all over.

2) How many bottles of polish do you own? 
Less than 100 at the moment (its growing though...)

3) What color do you have the most of in your collection?
I'm not sure, either blues or teals 

4) What is your first memory of nail polish?
First thoughts, when I saw my cousin wearing a gorgeous red one I wanted to try it out but was denied of nail polishes then. So I secretly paint my nails with all the colour markers I can find at home.  

5) What do your friends/family think of your hobby? 
My friends don't really know I'm quite into nail polish. My family members loves teasing me about my nail polish collections. But its all good. 

6) What are your hobbies other than blogging?
Thinking of new designs, crafting a little here and there, thinking of ways I may thrift (clothes are so overpriced these days...), going out for coffee breaks and window shopping.

7) What's your favorite nail polish color?
I've thought through this for awhile, I honestly thought I'd answer blue or teal but decided that the favourite is Skin Food Nail Vite BR609. I think its such a great shade to wear on everyday basis and suitable for most occasions.

8) What would be your dream polish?
I have no idea at the moment. Something unique?

9) What is something you love, but everyone else hates?
While I don't think everyone else hates it, they probably can't eat it everyday and anytime the way I can. Noodles.

10) What trends do you love?
Casuals. 

11) What trends do you hate? 
Not sure. Anything that's aesthetically unpleasing to me. lol.

A big thank you to all of you who read through my randomness up to this point. :)

Here are 11 up and coming bloggers I'm passing this along to:
1) Try My Hand
2) Jamegackie
3) The Painted Pony
4) One Nail To Rule Them All
5) Criminal Nails
6) Muffin Nails
7) Aztec Mess
8) the nail polish challenge
9) Glitter Tips
10) Cuti-CLUE-les
11) Nailed Daily

I can't think of better questions, therefore I'm giving the same questions for you too :D
1) When and why did you start blogging?
2) How many bottles of polish do you own?
3) What color do you have the most of in your collection?
4) What is your first memory of nail polish?
5) What do your friends/family think of your hobby?
6) What are your hobbies other than blogging?
7) What's your favorite nail polish color?
8) What would be your dream polish?
9) What is something you love, but everyone else hates?
10) What trends do you love?
11) What trends do you hate?

Thank you so much for taking your time to read through all these.

Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 8 - Leopard

I didn't plan to do today's challenge. Mainly because I had recently changed my nail polish remover to a harsher one and my skin's been suffering from the harshness. They were pealing after yesterday's post. And pealing bad... I thought of posting up the picture to show you how bad it became, but decided against it. It looked like I was shedding palm skin...lol. Pealed off the few excess (that were peal-able) and spam on hand creams to hydrate it. It's better now as compared to this morning. Which is why I've decided to do today's challenge (or yesterday, since its already past midnight in Malaysia, oops!)

So, for today's leopard nails, I wanted to attempt a faded look which I guess, kinda failed. Haha! They ended up looking more like neon nails instead. I'd be needing a little more trials and errors to get better ones next time. Not for the time being, because I don't think my hands can take any more acetone. And with the haze over here is really not helping =/

Anyway, leopard nails!

These are my first attempt at leopard. I sponged (yeap, finally bought some sponges) my whole way through, thinking that might do the trick for the faded look. Perhaps they need a little more alterations. Honestly, if it's not for this nail challenge, I'd probably not attempt leopards at all - they don't suit my personality. They're fun doing though! And I'm glad I gave it a try anyway :)

If the conditions of my hands do improve tomorrow, I'd be more than happy to continue with the challenge. However, if they don't.. I'm giving them at least a day rest before touching acetone again.

Nail polishes used:

• Elianto - Turquoise
• BeauKiss - #09
• Etude House (Matte) - #06
• Skin Food Nail Vita - BW704
• Inglot Matte Top Coat

Makeup Savvy Nail Challenge Day 7 - Neon

So today's Neon nails. I confess, I'm not quite a fan of neon because they look pretty bad against my skin tone. How I envy those who can pull of any colours. Anyway, I do own a few which are considerably bright colours. After searching through my stash I gathered the selected few and begin brainstorming for designs that could work. I finally settled with this : 

So, what do you think? They aren't the usual bright neon, but are what I'd call dark neon. I'm quite satisfied with the results. I hope you'd like them as well. 

Nail Polishes Used :

• rubi - Blue Suede Shoes
• Etude House - COR202
• Etude House - GR605
• Revlon - Pretty in Papaya