Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blue. Show all posts

Wednesday, 9 September 2015

Essie Mezmerised with Bourjois accent nail

Hey everyone! How is it going? It seems it is going to be a beautiful Autumn here in Slovenia. Other than that my schedule has not found any sanity yet and I am starting to think about cloning being a really good and legit work, if that means that my consciousness will take it all to the mother source - me. That, or a crash course at Hogwarts to get a wand and start mutitasking wizard-mode. 


I am still playing with my Essies that L'Oreal Slovenia so nicely provided for me. Next was Mezmerised, I combined it with Bourjois Turquoise Block beauty. 






I absolutely adore the colour. Rich blue creme. And the turquoise colour of Bourjois fits so perfect with it. However, Mezmerised has less than good brush as its fault. I actually took a photo of both brushes, because, in theory, they are practically the same. Both a bit too wide for my nail, and both quite thick as well. But, the Bourjois bristles seem less yielding, and thus the brush is a lot more manageable, while Essie has such a soft brush it is very difficult to control it. I was really surprised by that, considering that Essie always had pretty good brushes.


Both colours were two coats, plus topcoat. They lasted forever on my nails, so no complaints there. I love the combo, I just wish the brush on Mezmerised would be better.


Did you have the same experience with the Essie brushes, is this a new thing?


Thank you for reading and commenting!

Friday, 17 April 2015

Catrice Luxury Lacquers ~ Sandhopper

Ok, honestly, people, the whole hype around sand finish never got to me, I just did not find that finish appealing. Typical of me that I am slowly discovering it now, with perhaps more affordable brands. I kind of like it, especially if it is glittery. I found Catrice Sandhopper in one of the "on sale" jars in Leclerc and it looked stunning in the bottle so I took it. Apparently it is from a limited edition called Sand'sation, I do not remember this one at all. :)





Sandhopper looks amazing on the nails too, I love how shiny, glittery metallic it is. The finish is very sharp comparing to other sandies I already tried, and it lasts really, really long time. I am very pleasantly surprised about that - I do not have top coat on and it is still on my nails after 6 days of wearing with only two minor chips. 

Oh, my pinky nail got really badly broken right before we went to a music festival in Germany, and at that point my nails were really long and I really didn't have time to file them down, so I used the Nail Crazy advice and tutorial with fast drying glue and it works like magic! Thanks, Žana, you saved my life that day, when I didn't have enough time to eat, let alone do my nails!

What else? Oh yes, this was three coats, you know me, better one coat extra than a visible nail line. ;) The brush is OK. Still not the old Catrice I remember, but it is ok. The polish dries really fast, and, as mentioned, has really good staying power. I might look for another one from this limited edition, Sandhopper was a good surprise!

Have you gotten anything from Sand'sation edition? Any sandies you would recommend?

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Tuesday, 29 July 2014

Royal & sea & turquoise blue trio

Heya everyone! How about new NOTD? Nail crazy said I should show my NOTDs more often and lately I actually feel like wearing more than one colour I've already shown, so with posting these I don't fear I am not boring you with my nails. :)

I think I am in my blue phase quite strongly lately. I constantly feel like wearing some sort of blue shade. For this I mixed up two colours and a glitter. I actually wanted to fling a duochrome topper in there as well, but I thought it would get too busy. Please excuse the state of my cuticles, I wasn't home when I took these and there is no dishwasher in my BF's cabin up north and that shows. :)





I combined them a bit differently on my right hand and I prefer this combination to the one on my left hand, hence the picture. Excuse the weird position of the hand, I am not used to taking photos with my left. :)

The royal blue is Revlon Royal, I think it has to be one of my most used nail polish, the colour is just sickening. It is a jelly and so it photographs a bit sheer even if it is not. 
The turquoise blue is Kiko 342 and it is in fact a true turquoise, not sky blue, like it is on my photos. Online swatches prove also it is a very nice dupe of O.P.I. Fly, if you really want a cheap but great substitute of that baby. 
On top is the utterly gorgeous Sea Blue glitter made by Esmaltes da Kelly (EDK) I got from lovely Eveline all the way from Brasil. I love how irregular the glitter is, and that it is dense enough I only need one coat to spread it evenly over the nail. Brush is awesome, a lot of brands could learn from this indie np maker. :)

And of course  I needed to put a matte TC on the Kiko combo. Apparently that's what I do with lately with at least 2 nails, my brain decided it is obligatory. 


What's on your nails today?


Thank you for reading and commenting!

Sunday, 20 July 2014

NOTD of three colours

Heya everyone! How are you doing? It is hot here, a proper summer. I'm not the one for the hot weather, but I guess most people love it. The coffee shop where I'm right now has an amazing ice cream, pure fruit, water based ice cream, it is just heavenly. :) 

Today I'm back with a NOTD. I do not normally post them, but I played with different colours yesterday and I loved the way this turned out. 





And one without the lace, so you can see the colour more properly.



So yeah, I picked three colours I thought might look good together. Zoya Zuza is on most of my nails, on my middle fingernail Deborah Milano Pret-a-porter Stardust and on my index finger a The New Black mint shade I got at the blog event a week or so ago. On the mint shade I put the Born Pretty Store water decal (I showed them already in a few manis, here's the first post) and then mattefied it with Essence matte top coat. It is getting quite lumpy, sadness! Anyway. I love how it turned out! :) It's on my nails now, hopefully it lasts. :)


What's on your nails today?

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Sunday, 6 July 2014

Blue matte with flower accent nail

Hey everyone! It's hot in Ljubljana! Hope you're reading this somewhere in a nice shade with a big bowl of ice cream. :) I'm going to show you a quick mani I did some days ago. I love this Deborah Milano matte nail polish. It's number 10, and I cannot find it anywhere anymore, so I'm guessing it was discontinued back when they were on sale? I don't know, nor can I figure out why Deborah Milano decided to discontinue its matte line right before the comeback of matte finish. :) Oh well! I combined it with a water decal I got from Born Pretty Store for reviewing purposes, for some reason I thought they will look good together, but I didn't like it much in the end.



The water decals are called Chic Flower Nail Art Water Decals Transfer Stickers Splendid Water Decals Sticker (item ID 14474). Say that really fast three times, I dare you! Basically it is a whole sheet of a flower pattern, you get four different ones to choose from. And then you can shape it however you wish, I decided to try and do a whole nail with it, but I think it would look better with a smaller pattern. ATM they are on sale for only 1,59$. Not my favourite water decals from Born Pretty Store, I think they have toooons of much much better ones. 

This is how the whole sheet looks like:

Deborah Milano Sense Tech needs only two coats for full opacity and is utterly gorgeous and lasts really long for a matte-no-top-coat mani! Love it! If you can find it anywhere, I do recommend you grab it. :)


If you are shopping at Born Pretty Store, do not forget about my 10% discount code. And remember, free worldwide shipping! :)



Do you have any suggestions for these types of water decals, your favourite shape to cut it into? Do you know about any place where we can still get Deborah Milano Sense Tech?

Thank you for reading and commenting!

*Product sent for reviewing purposes, you can read my disclosure here.

Wednesday, 9 April 2014

Orly ~ Macabre Masquerade

Heya folks! This Orly was on my nails until two hours ago, when I finally shortened my nails and changed the colour. ATM I have Sea Spray (China Glaze) and Depend 170 combined but I've shown both so many times on the blog, I shan't do it again. 

Macabre Masquerade name for my personal taste screams dark red colour. Far from the deep blue with colourful glitter, but this is what we got!






Macabre Masquerade is a part of Orly 2013 Holiday Collection called Secret Society. I got a set of minis as a gift from my flatmate, but of course they are available in full sized bottle as well. Macabre Masquerade is rather sheer, due to the glitter, I suppose, I have 4 coats on my nails on the photos, but you can see my nails are pretty long here. I actually thought I will like this colour more than I did in the end. It is not a bad shade though. Maybe if the colourful glitter was only silver? I dunno.


Did you get any of the shades from Secret Society collection?


Thank you for reading and commenting!

Thursday, 23 January 2014

Matte winter frost lace mani

Whoa, would you believe the stupidity of the title? I have no idea how to name this mani. :) In the last few days I fell in love with Inspired by Winter posts Taya is posting (I'm trying to recreate this today for a night out, j'adore!) and while I was trying to watch an incredibly stupid movie about going to the north pole, the screen being all white and frosty, I wanted to occupy myself with something cool and the idea of winter helped to create this mani. 

I used the water decals I've already shown you and I must say, I prefer water decals over nail stickers, they are so easy to use and they last on the nails for days. Other than that, Deborah Milano was already a matte, I put matte TC over the decal, and I mattefied the gorgeous Misa Grey Matters, one of my favourite shades ever. Why I do not have more Misa in my stash, I will never know, their polish is amazing. 




My matte TC is the Essence one, I think it is already discontinued and I hate that, because it is perfect and I already spent more than half of it. The rest I already described. It was actually a very easy mani to make, because both Deborah Milano and Misa are great, opaque in two coats (DM might need only one, actually), water decal sticks to the nail in no time (I needed to cut half of it for my short nails, still, I love the way they look), and you put your matte TC on et voila!


What is on your nails today?

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

H&M ~ Moonlight

Heya people! As promised, swatches of the nail polish I purchased here in Blava. First I shall post Moonlight, because I am wearing it ATM. I am not particularly happy with the way pictures turned out, because I couldn't capture the amazing shimmer it has, but I do not think my camera is capable of doing that anyway. 

 You can kind of see the blue and green particles of the shimmer on my ring finger here. :)


Natural light. 


So Moonlight has this amazing mixture of blue and green shimmer, I love it, it looks amazing on the nails. The blue prevails most of the time, but every once in a while the green pops out too, and looks amazing. The brush is good as well, but the colour is sheer. Most bloggers layer it, and after trying to wear it alone, I can see why. It needs 4 coats for complete coverage. Too much. Next time I will layer it as well. Anyway. Gorgeous colour. :) 


Do you have Moonlight? Any H&M colours you think are a must and I should get it? :)

Thank you for reading, have a nice day!

Saturday, 5 October 2013

MeMeMe Drama Eyes look and review

Hey everyone! This post will be mostly in Slovene, because a Slovene online shop Mojadrogerija.si sent me products for a review. I will do a recap of my opinion on the MeMeMe Eyeshadow quad at the very end of the post, so if you are interested in it, scroll down. I am also posting my very first pictures of my eyelook. Even though I adore eyeshadows and use them every day and like bold eye make up looks, I do not think I have the skills for taking photos of it nor a camera that could handle the details. So I practised and practised and as I learn, hopefully, the pictures will get better (and I'll get a new camera eventually). ;)
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Živjo! Tokratna ocena bo kar v slovenščini, saj mi je izdelke v oceno poslala slovenska spletna trgovina. Gotovo jo poznate, Mojadrogerija.si, jaz sem jo pogosto obiskala zaradi moje dolge WL Sleek paletk, ki jih trgovina prodaja. ;) Tokrat me je Anja kontaktirala s super idejo sodelovanja in pridružila sem se skupinici ocenjevalk izdelkov. Paket je izredno hitro prišel, kar sem štela v velik plus predvsem zaradi izredno omejenega časa v Ljubljani, tako da sem ga že odnesla v oceno sem v Bratislavo. Takole so bile videti dobrote v paketku:


In takole je videti današnja zvezda ocene: MeMeME Eye Inspire Baked Eyeshadow, četvorček št. 1, ki se imenuje Drama Eyes.  Embalaža je simpatična, preprosta, a ne cenena. V plus ji štejem, da se dobro zapira, vendar ni treba polomiti nohtov, da bi jo odprla. 



Eye Inspire Baked Eyeshadow četvorčki so na voljo v Moji drogeriji v petih odtenkih, izbrala sem si modro kombinacijo, ker sem zadnje čase precej obsedena z modrimi odtenki in senčili in ker je modra senčka v paleti zgledala perfektno. MeMeMe senčil še nisem preizkusila (slišim pa vsakič Agenta Smitha v glavi, ko pomislim nanje. Se še kdo spomni prizora iz Matrice? :)), tako da sem sploh hotela stesitrati kvaliteto. Takole so videti swatchi na roki, na podlagi  za senčila in črnem kremnem senčilu. 

 Za prikaz res čudovitega shimmerja senčil.

S tem swatchem sploh nisem zadovoljna, vendar je najboljši, kar sem jih slikala. Swatch na sami spletni strani je VELIKO boljši in točen!
 
Na črni podlagi senčila dobijo metalik finiš in sploh modra in srebrna res zasijeta. 

Ker sem hotela intenzivno modro, sem look ustvarila na črni podlagi, za prvega sem uporabila vsa senčila iz četvorčka. Z njimi lahko ustvariš res inteziven moder smokey eyes in moder odtenek je res čudovit. Moje fotografije ga rahlo sperejo, prav tako se slabše vidi srebrna v kotičkih očesa in na spodnji liniji trepalnic, vendar je tam.



Modro senčilo sem uporabila na celi veki, v pregib dala črnomodro bleščičasto senčilo in v zunanji V del črno senčilo. Srebrna je v kotičkih očesa in na spodnji liniji trepalnic. 

Pigmentacija modre, srebrne in črnomodre bleščičaste senčke me je navdušila, saj je res odlična. Nobenega truda ni treba vložiti v nanos in celo fall out je minimalen. Edino črna četrtinka četvorčka je slabše pigmentirana v primerjavi z ostalimi tremi. Ni najslabše pigmentirana črna, kar sem jih v življenju preizkusila, vendar gotovo tudi ne najbolje. Sama jo bom uporabljala takrat ko ne bom želela intenzivne črne oz. ko bom hotela manj kontrasta med črno in modro barvo. Sicer pa imam v zbirki precej črnih, ki so super pigmentirane, tako da za tole gotovo ne bom jokala, zame je bilo veliko pomembneje da sta modra in srebrna dobro pigmentirani in četvorček ni razočaral.

Potem sem dodala še malce svetlo modre. Na moder del vek sem dodala svetlo modro bleščičasto senčilo, vendar se precej slabo vidi na slikah. Na spodnjo linijo trepalnic pa sem nanesla turkizno moder eyeliner. 



MeMeMe četvorček je krasna prva izkušnja s to znamko, modro senčilo je odlično pigmentirano, prav tako srebrno (ta sem si najbolj želela), hkrati pa se zelo lahko nanašata. Črno senčilo v četvorčku je slabše pigmentirano, za posebno intenzivno črn look ne bo, bo pa super za nežnejši črn nanos, ki ga npr. Lisa Eldridge svetuje predvsem tistim z majhnimi očmi. :) Tako da dobite izredno kvaliteten izdelek, s štirimi zelo kompatibilnimi senčili za zgolj 7,87€, saj so trenutno MeMeMe četvorčki v akciji! To v bistvu pomeni, da stane en odtenek v četvorčku manj kot dva evra, kar je več kot odlična cena.

Ste že preizkusili kakšne MeMeMe izdelke? Lahko kaj priporočite? 

Hvala za ogled in komentarje! :) 

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 So, in case you are interested in my opinion on the eyeshadow: I love this quad! The eyeshadows are nicely pigmented, only the black one could be better, I always want really true deep black from my black eyeshadow, this one is more suitable for softer black looks or for those with smaller eyes. Nevertheless, I wanted the blue and the silver most in this quad and they do not disappoint! If you are searching for a perfect dark blue smokey eyes set, I suggest you try the MeMeMe one. :)

*Product sent for reviewing purposes, you can read my disclosure here.

Saturday, 27 July 2013

Kiko 266 and a comparison with Catrice

Hey my darlings! How are you? I put this Kiko 266 on yesterday and realised I probably never even posted a comparison I did ... well, probably a year or two ago with Catrice Blue My Mind. I did show you 266 before but the photos are not so good, so let's look at it again. It is a gorgeous shimmery blue, I cannot get sick of these type of blues.




This was two coats, very easy application, Kiko has great brushes. And now for the old comparison, Kiko 266 vs. Catrice Blue My Mind.




My gosh, look at my nails! I can't remember the last time I had them this long. Blue My Mind is a discontinued beauty Catrice made in the first wave of their polishes, and both brush and formula were amazing. The colours are very close, Kiko is a tad bit lighter.

Which is your favourite Kiko shade and which one is the winner for you in the comparison?

BTW; this made my day:
 

Thank you for reading and commenting!

Monday, 8 July 2013

A holographic duo

Hello my dear people! How are you doing? I finished my exams around two weeks ago, started enjoying my vacation while searching for a summer job (very bad timing for that in Slovenia) and enjoyed three days of blissful peace surrounded by mountains this weekend. It was neat! Today I am already back at the computer, this time searching for a room in Bratislava! I am going on a student exchange program there, yay! So if any of Slovak readers are still sticking to this blog of mine, and can help me with any information about renting a room, I will be most grateful! My email is up there in the contacts! 
I love Slovakia, I visited it a couple of years ago and fell in love with it. It will be my first time in Bratislava and I can hardly wait for it! :) 

But to the nails of this post ... lately I have grown fond of what I call duo manicure. Because it is composed of two different colours. I'm a very shrewd mammal, aye. Seriously though, I like the combo. I will show you both hands. Plus, I love how OPI DS Glamour looks with Jade Holografico Hypnose! Cool colours!





Are you wearing holographic polish now more often, thanks to the sunny days?

Thank you for reading!