When in doubt, wear something (almost) black

Hi my friends!

The bunch of untried polishes on my desk is not going to be smaller by itself, so I decided to do something about it. Here is one of them, randomly chosen.
Hrpa neisprobanih lakića na mom stolu se neće smanjiti sama od sebe, pa sam odlučila poduzeti nešto po tom pitanju. Evo jednog, naslijepo odabranog.

I managed to catch the last sunbeams today . The punishment for that are those red hands . This is  L'oreal Resist & Shine Titanium #710, my first L'oreal polish. As you can see, it's metal gun grey with lots of really tiny shimmer, nothing unique, there's million polishes like this one out there... but I like this kind of shades . On pics are two coats, no topcoat. There was no problem with brush or drying. I hope it'll last at least a day or two. This polish is out of range now, L'oreal has switched to new bottles. 

Do you have any experience with L'oreal polishes?   

Uspjela sam uvatiti posljednje zrake sunca . Kazna za to su crvene ruke . Ovo je L'oreal Resist & Shine Titanium #710, moj prvi lakić ovog branda. Kao što vidite i same, radi se o metalnoj sivoj boji s tonom stvarno sitnog shimmera, ništa unikatno, vani ćete naći brdo ovakvih nijansi... ali ja ih volim . Na fotkama su dva sloja, bez nadlaka. Nisam imala problema ni s četkicom ni sa sušenjem, i nadam se da će potrajati bar dan do dva. Ovaj lakić više nećete naći, L'oreal je promijenio bočice svojih lakova.

Imate li vi kakvih iskustava s L'orealovim lakovima?

Till we meet again... love, Žana  

Last year's favorites

Hi my friends!

Sunday, after long, long walk seems like good time to do some recap of last year. Now, from the distance, I see that last year has been great for at least one thing - nail art. Really, I was pleased with so many of them... but favorite can be only one, if I must choose it would be the fire manicure . 

Nedjelja, nakon duge, duge šetnje, nije loše vrijeme za sažimanje prošlogodišnjeg posla. Sada mi se čini da je prošla godina bila super bar za jednu stvar - nail art. Iskreno, bila sam zadovoljna s brdom njih... ali favorit može biti samo jedan, onda neka to bude vatrena manikura .

I also enjoyed wearing dandelion, Rudolf, zip it manicure, view to earth, galaxy manicure, Christmas ornaments, Snowmen, air manicure, fingerprints, pillows, microbeads and glitter, rainbow... 

Ali isto tako sam uživala noseći maslačke, Rudolfa, zip it manikuru, pogled na zemlju, galaxy manikuru, božićne ukrase, snjegovića, zračnu manikuru, otiske prstiju, jastuke, mikroperlice i glitter, duge...

I could go on until I show you all of them, and trust me, these are not all I did last year, this is only my 'the best' choice. What can I say, I love to play with my nails . 

Mogla bih ovako dok vam ih ne pokažem sve, ali vjerujte mi, ovo nisu sve od prošle godine, ovo je samo izbor najboljih ili najdražih. Što da vam kažem, volim se igrati sa svojim noktićima .

As for polishes, I really tried to narrow it just on 10 polishes. Here they are, in no particular order.

Što se tiče lakova, stvarno sam se potrudila suziti izbor na samo 10 njih. Evo ih, bez nekog reda.

Essence 'bashful', Snow White le, the prettiest green of last year, enriched with gold shimmer

Essence 'bashful', Snow White le, najbolja zelena prošle godine, obogaćena zlatnim shimmerom

China Glaze 'aquadelic', Electropop collection, awesome, awesome and very vivid turquoise 

China Glaze 'aquadelic', Electropop kolekcija, predivna, predivna i jako živa tirkizna 

  

Ch Nail Fluorescent #20, the coolest pink I have, just screams 'I'm a Barbie girl'... awesome, and I'm even not a pink loving girl, trust me
Ch Nail Fluorescent #20, najluđa pink u mojoj zbirci, ova vrišti 'ja sam Barbika'... ma ludnica od laka, a ja čak nisam ni obožavateljica roze, vjerujte mi 

Ylin Magic Purple/Blue Sky Color Changing #7, I had so much fun with this polish, gotta love it 
Ylin Magic Purple/Blue Sky Color Changing #7, s ovim sam se lakom predobro zabavila, ne možete ga ne voljeti

Depend 310, one my first Depend polishes, great finish and color, one-coater if you're careful 
Depend 310, jedan od mojih prvih Dependića, predivan finiš i boja, jedan sloj ako ste pažljive

Golden Rose Graffiti #12, glittery crackle, no photo can show how awesome this baby looks live
Golden Rose Graffiti #12, svjetlucavi pucarak, nijedna fotka ne može dočarati kako ova beba izgleda uživo

Catrice 'steel my soul', on the bottle says 'brushed metal effect', perfection in a bottle
Catrice 'steel my soul', kažu 'efekt brušenog metala', ma savršenstvo u bočici

Catrice 'Who Are Blue', Female collection, gorgeous color, I fell in love instantly 
Catrice 'Who Are Blue', Female kolekcija, prekrasna boja, ljubav na prvi pogled

Catrice 'Poison Me, Poison You!', not from this year but I got it this year, that's why it's here 
Catrice 'Poison Me, Poison You!', nije prošlogodišnje izdanje ali tek sam ga se onda dočepala, zato je tu

Essence colour 3 'boys are back in town', smokey purple with touch of grey, gotta love this beauty
Essence colour 3 'boys are back in town', zadimljena ljubičasta s trunkom sive, ovu ljepotu morate voljeti

I'll draw line here, 10 is enough... although I have a bunch awesome looking polishes from last year I haven't even tried, I know, I know, I'm ashamed... maybe they'll found its place in this year's favorites post.    
Ovdje ću povući crtu, 10 ih je sasvim dovoljno... iako imam i brdo krasotana koje nisam niti probala, ma znam, sram me iti reći... možda će oni naći svoje mjesto među ovogodišnjim favoritima.

I must not forget about favorite base and topcoat, here they are:
Ne smijem preskočiti ni omiljenu bazu i nadlak, evo ih:

Eveline 8in 1, oh, this baby really do wonders for your nails, now I even don't remember how the splitting nails look like... and Essence 'better than gel nails top sealer' is the best one you can found in Croatian's drugstores, it's not any worst than Seche or Poshe. 
Eveline 8u 1, ova bočica zbilja čuda čini za vaše nokte, sad se već niti sjetiti ne mogu kako izgledaju razlistani nokti... a Essence 'better than gel nails nadlak' je najbolji koji ćete naći u hrvatskim drogerijama i nije ništa gori od Seche ili Poshe nadlaka. 

While I'm still here, I'll show you my best hand cream and cuticle oil:

Kad sam već tu, evo i moje najbolje kreme za ruke i ulja za zanoktice:

Marigold's balsam for my extremely dried hands, and castor oil which is the best thing I found for my cuticles. I can't even imagine my life without these two thingies.
Nevenov balzam za moje izuzetno suhe ruke i ricinusovo ulje koje je najbolja stvar koju sam uspjela pronaći za zanoktice. Ne mogu ni zamisliti život bez ove dvije stvarčice.

I always say, I'm not a beauty blogger, I just love to paint my nails... but maybe you'll be interested for my beauty products of the year? Tell me, I don't want to bother you if you're not interested in it. 
Sebe ne smatram beauty blogerom, samo sam cura koja voli lakirati nokte... ali možda biste bili zainteresirani za moj izbor najboljih proizvoda iz ove kategorije? Recite mi, ne želim zamarat ni sebe ni vas ako vas to ne zanima.

Till we meet again... love, Žana 

Only when I dream...

Hi my friends!

Sometimes my dreams looks like this:
Koji put moji snovi i ovako izgledaju:

Then I woke up, and reality is more this way:
Onda se probudim, i dočeka me ovakva stvarnost:

Lol, in this case the reality is so much cuter .
Haha, u ovom je slučaju zbilja puno slađa . 

As bonus photo, I give you today's sunset over Kaštela, Croatia, Mediterranean, Europe, planet Earth, Milky Way galaxy, deep space...

A kao bonus, evo jedne fotke večerašnjeg zalaska sunca nad Kaštelima, u Hrvatskoj, na Sredozemlju, u Europi, na planetu Zemlji, u galaksiji Mliječni Put, negdje u svemiru...

Till we meet again... love, Žana

p.s. if you need any additional clarifications, ask freely
p.s. ukoliko vam trebaju dodatna pojašnjenja, slobodno pitajte 

New Year's Firework

Hi my friends!

Let me begin with good wishes for all of us... hope this year will be better to you than the last one, may the good mood, health and happiness be yours company all the time! For me personally, last year was one of the worst ever so I really wanted it to end. So, happy New Year to all of us !
On New Year's Eve I made a manicure. I thought the firework would be appropriate.
Dopustite mi da započnem sa dobrim željama za sve nas... nadam se da će ova godina prema svima nama biti bolja od prethodne, a neka vam dobro raspoloženje, zdravlje i sreća budu vjerni pratitelji sve vrijeme! Za mene osobno, prošla godina je bila jedna od najgorih, pa sam zbilja jedva čekala da završi. Sretna nam Nova !
Za Silvestrovo sam si napravila manikuru, mislila sam da bi vatromet baš odgovarao.

I'm only sorry that I finished with this silver glitter instead of an ordinary topcoat, but what's done it's done. The base is Essence 'jacob's protection' from Breaking Dawn, Twilight edition. I got it for my birthday from my sis . That was almost two months ago, I'm ashamed I haven't wear this beauty earlier . I saw some bad reviews for this polish, but I must say that for me it's great polish. I love this kind of shades, it's black with tons of blue shimmer, which is of course more visible on light, I had no problem with this wide brush, the polish covers perfectly in two coats, even the drying time is not bad at all. I just love it!
No wonder I applied it once again, after this manicure. This is it, two coats, no topcoat, outside, but no sun.
Mislim da sam mogla preskočiti srebrne šljokice na kraju, ali sad je gotovo. Za bazu sam upotrijebila Essenceov 'jacob's protection' iz Breaking Dawn, Twilight kolekcije. Dobila sam ga za rođendan od moje sekice . To je bilo pred skoro dva mjeseca i baš me sram što ovog ljepotana nisam prošetala i ranije . Vidjela sam da je bilo prilično loših recenzija ovog lakića, ali moram reći da to kod mene nije slučaj. Inaće volim ovakve nijanse, radi se o crnoj boji punoj plavičastog shimmera, koji je naravno vidljiviji na svjetlu, nemam problema ni sa širokom četkicom, lak je super pokrivan u dva sloja, čak ni vrijeme sušenja nije bilo strašno. Ma obožavam ga!
Nije ni čudo da sam ga nalakirala i nakon ove manikure, da još malo uživam u njemu. Na fotkama su dva sloja, bez nadlaka, vani, doduše bez sunca.

Isn't it gorgeous !?
Oh, before I go, I want to thank you for all your lovely comments and wishes, you guys really made so many of my days . The only way I can repay you is a giveaway, this time it's really a modest one, hope you can appreciate it anyway.
Zar nije predivan !?
I prije no što odem, htjela sam vam svima zahvaliti na krasnim komentarima i lijepim željama, nemate pojma koliko ste mi dana uljepšali . Jedini način na koji vam se mogu odužiti je neko darivanje, ovaj put je eto skromno, ali nadam se da će zadovoljiti barem neke od vas.

I want this to stay quite, so only the ones who really read this blog can participate, so, don't tell anyone on facebook or twitter, don't blog about it... just enter if you like the prize .  The polishes are brand new, never opened, bought by me. And yes, it's international!
The rules are simple:
1. leave your name
2. leave your email address
3. you don't need to follow my blog, but if you do, let me know under which name you do
This giveaway will be open for two weeks, and Mr. Random will choose the winner.
Neka ovo ostane tiho, željela bih da sudjeluju oni koji zbilja prate ovaj blog... stoga ne morate reći nikom na face-u, ne twitajte o njemu, ne blogajte... samo se priključite ako vam se sviđa nagrada . Lakići su novi, nisu otvarani (bar ne s moje strane) i kupljeni mojim novcem. I da, međunarodno je!
Pravila su jednostavna!
1. ostavite ime
2. ostavite email adresu
3. ne morate pratiti blog, ali ako ga pratite, recite mi po kojim imenom
Darivanje će biti otvoreno dva tjedna, nakon kojih će Gospon Random izabrati pobjednika/cu. 

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Till we meet again... love, Žana