Vic and Her Nails: September 2013

Monday, September 30, 2013

Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 DC Day 4 - Tribal

33 DC #crumpetsnailtarts Day 4 - Tribal

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 30: Inspired by a Tutorial

#31DC2013 Day 30: Inspired by a Tutorial

This mani was inspired by Will Paint Nails for Food's Art Deco Stained Glass Nails Tutorial

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 29: Inspired by the Supernatural

#31DC2013 Day 29: Inspired by The Supernatural

And surpriseee! Her eyes are glowing!!

I barely know that capturing glow-in-the-dark is soooo darn hard!

That's it! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you guys ~~are frightened~~ enjoyed it :D

*achoooo
God bless you

Saturday, September 28, 2013

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 28: Inspired by a Flag

#31DC2013 Day 28: Inspired by a Flag

I'm proud to be Indonesian!

Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 DC Day 3 - Tape Mani

33 DC #crumpetsnailtarts Day 3 - Tape Mani

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 27: Inspired by Artwork

#31DC2013 Day 27: Inspired by Artwork

September Tri Polish Challenge Day 4

TPC Day 4

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 26: Inspired by a Pattern

#31DC2013 Day 26: Inspired by a Pattern

I'm Indonesian! So I choose you, Batik!

September N.A.I.L. - Theme 4: Astrology

September N.A.I.L - Theme 4: Astrology

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 25: Inspired by Fashion

#31DC2013 Day 25: Inspired by Fashion

Source: http://www.misswhitesmith.com/2013/09/new-york-fashion-week-2013-monique.html

Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 DC Day 2 - Most Used Color Polish

33 DC #crumpetsnailtarts Day 2 - Most Used Color Polish

Blog Your Heart Out Award!

Hello everyone!

So the sweet Vicky from Vicky Loves Nails has been nominated me for the Blog Your Heart Out Award. Wow!! Thanks a lot for your kindness, Vicky! It really made my cheeks turned pink *hug*

Straight to the questions!

1. What/who encouraged you to start blogging?

It's not really a "what" or a "who" because before I started my blog I already love reading a lot of nail blogs and drown myself in a bunch of gorgeous manicures. Until one day I started to think why not start my own nail blog? So here I am now, really glad with that little step I took :D

What so funny about my second Liebster Award is I was nominated by someone who got the same nomination with me on my first Liebster Award. Ummm did you get it? Sorry, bad english of mine. So here's the case. Divya from Nails Jazzed Up, who nominated me on my first Liebster Award, also nominated Jaclyn from Aisuru Nails. And after that Jaclyn nominated me! Lol isn't that interesting? How lucky I am!

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 24: Inspired by a Book

#31DC2013 Day 24: Inspired by a Book

Inspired by Sherlock Holmes - A Study In Scarlet

September Tri Polish Challenge Day 3

TPC Day 3

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

#31DC2013 Day 23: Inspired by a Movie

Inspired by The Lorax

Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 DC Day 1 - Dots

Hello everyone!

Today is the first day of Crumpet's Nail Tarts 33 Day Challenge by Debbie Crumpet (Yaaaay another challenge!!)

Well, let's just start!

33 DC #crumpetsnailtarts Day 1 - Dots

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 22: Inspired by a Song

#31DC2013 Day 22: Inspired by a Song

Inspired by: I Won't Give Up - Jason Mraz

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 21: Inspired by a Color

#31DC2013 Day 21: Inspired by a Color

To be honest with you, I don't even understand what "Inspired by a Color" means. Should I make a mani with only one color or what?

So I decided to make a mani with one color.. okay, not really one color, but an ombre of pink (still just pink!)

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 20: Water Marble

#31DC2013 Day 20: Water Marble

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 19: Galaxies

#31DC2013 Day 19: Galaxies

September Tri Polish Challenge Day 2

TPC Day 2

That's it! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed it :D

*achooo

God bless you

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

My First Liebster Award!!

I've been nominated!! Yaaaay I'm really excited in writting this post as it's my very first award! Actually I've been nominated by two sweet ladies, Divya from Nails Jazzed Up and Jaclyn from Aisuru Nails (BIG thanks for both of you!) but I decided to split it up into two posts. I really want to answer all of their fun questions but I don't want to bore you with such a long and full of words post. So today I'll respond to Divya's as she nominated me first. Don't worry Jaclyn, I'll post my respond to your award soon :D

Here's the rules of Liebster Award (copied from Divya's post):
1. You must link back to the blogger who nominated you.
2. Answer the 11 questions given to you by the blogger who nominated you.
3. Nominate 11 other bloggers with less than 200 followers.
4. Go to the blogs you nominated and notify them of your nomination.
5. Give your nominees 11 questions to answer.

Well, let's start!

Again, I'd like to thank Divya from Nails Jazzed Up for nominating me. Thanks a lot, dear! Your email about this award really made me jumping around my room! Here's my answers to your questions.

1. What made you start blogging?
I love doing my nails since around a year before I started blogging and I did it so often. It always was a big dilemma when I wanted to paint a new design on my nails but too sad to scrapped off my old design because nobody actually has seen them (or cared). Until one day I found out that nail blogs exist! So I thought it will be really great to be able to paint my nails everyday and share them on my blog.

2. What's your favourite nail treatment?
I haven't found my favourite yet actually because I haven't tried many nail treatment products. So far Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Strengthener works really well for me. It really makes my nails stronger!

3. What's your favourite nail polish brand?
Ouuch it's a hard one! Because it's "brand", not "brands". But I think my favourite brand is OPI. And Sally Hansen. And.. Wait, that's "brands"! Okay, I'll take OPI.

4. What/ who inspired to do nail art?
First time I started to love nail art was when I accidentally watched one of the water marble tutorials by Simple Little Pleasures and I thought it was really cool. I mean, how did she do that?! That kind of nail art does exist? And then that video drowned me in this pretty obsession.

5. What do you want to do in future?
Umm, being a nail artist and having my own nail salon. But I also want to be an animator because I'm studying Visual Communication Design about animation right now and I'm enjoying it. Maybe I'll do both :p LOL

6. What is your favourite top coat and base coat?
I haven't tried many base and top coats. So far for base coat I've tried Revlon Professional Grow 10, OPI Natural Nail Base Coat, Sally Hansen Hard As Nails Hardener, and Etude House Help My Finger - Milk Strong. I'd say the Sally Hansen one is my favourite right now for the base coat. For top coat, I only have tried Revlon Professional Grow 10 (I used it as base and top coat), and Revlon Super Top Speed 60 Second. Both of them are not my favourite! Well, I didn't regret buying them but they're just not good enough to be labeled as my favourite.

7. What will you like to tell those who are new to this blogging world or who are going to start a blog.
Just keep swimming! No, really, keep posting! The more regular, the better. Even if your folower number grows slowly, don't be discouraged. And keep learning! Learn how to take a good care of your nails (nails are your asset in nail blogging), how to take a good picture, how to organize your blog well, etc. I still need to learn a lot too.

8. What's your favourite color?
For fashion, I love dark and neutral colors, especially black and white. But when it comes to nail polish, bright color is my weak spot! All hail mint!!

9. Which nail art technique you find the easiest and toughest?
I'd say the toughest technique for me is the water spotted technique. Yup, not the water marbling. Water marbling is really hard but I find that water spotted is even harder for me. I just haven't found the right spray yet that works well to create that pretty effect. My attempt on water spotted always turns into a mess. And the easiest? Nothing is easy for me.

10. Which is your favourite TV show?
I don't really watch TV :P

11. Which country will you like to visit?
A lot!! I really really REALLY would love to visit France, Spain, Japan, UK, US, Netherlands, aaargh there're too many countries I really want to visit! I love traveling!

I'd love to nominate:
1. Jacqui from Craftynail
2. Jessica from Be Happy and Buy Polish
3. Brijit from Brijits Digits
4. Emma from Cambridge Nails
5. Christina from The Bubbly Brunette
6. Stef from Fairly Charming
7. Katherine from Procrastinails
8. Hetal from My Life in Turquoise
9. Xin Yu and Bethanie from Lacquered by Bluevanilla
10. Kiki from Kiki Coroline's Blog
11. Colorful Cupcake Cat

Here's my questions!
1. Who or what drowned you in nail blogging?
2. If you had to choose between neon or pastel to be used for the whole year, what will you choose?
3. What's your most used nail art technique?
4. What was the very first nail polish you bought?
5. If you were prohibited to buy more nail polishes and only have one last chance to buy one bottle of nail polish (I know it's hard but yes, just one!), what would it be?
6. Big city with tall buildings and high-tech life, or small village with farms and green forest? (And both of them have same nail art stores and internet connection LOL)
7. What's your I-can't-resist-even-when-I'm-full food or snack?
8. If you had a time machine to travel to the past and future, what year would you like to be in?
9. A movie or series?
10. If you could have one superpower, what would you choose?
11. If you're an ice cream, what kind of ice cream are you?

Wow, I really can't wait to see their response!

That's it guys! Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it :D
Have a great day everyone!

*achooo
God bless you

31 Day Challenge 2013 - Day 18: Half Moons

#31DC2013 Day 18: Half Moons

Instead of layered them with a regular polish, I used jelly polish in nude color to show the glitter underneath. I really love how the effect turned out!