New Goodies

I decided to show you few goodies I got recently. :) I didn't polish my nails but I still got some really amazing nail polishes. <3

Before New Year OPI had lots of giveaways aon Twitter. You could win a set if you tweet them right answer first, questions were mostly about Muppets. I must say I didn't watch Muppets when I was younger so often that I'd know all those details they're asking... I think they weren't that popular here as in US I suppose. So I googled for an answer and I googled fast, because I wanted those minis obviously. :$ That's how I won this lovely gift I got yesterday. :e Very very Lucky Ivana. 8)

The Muppets Soundtrack

OPI minis Wocka Wocka!, Excuse Moi!, Designer... de Better!, Warm & Fozzie

I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with soundtrack CD. :i Would you like to have it? Let me know, I can give it away with few nail polish  but I don't want to give it away to someone who wouldn't care about just like... Khm... Me. :D

Next lovely pakage I got all the way from UK from lovely Esther at Fab Fingertips - check her blog, she is such a sweetheart. I got it months ago and I never took a great pic, just like now, but I wanted to share this with you. :) I'm still having them on my desk, that's why they're so dusty. :$

Star Gazer

133

307

She sent me Star Gazer's dupe for Orly Space Cadet - 307, which I wanted to try out and she kinldy added another similar duochrome I still need to try out. Thank you Esther so much! <3

I already showed you amaaaaazing swap package from Polish Amor ♥. <3 I got so many goodies on my B-day. :party

I won another giveaway from Christina at Pee Before Polish! :e  I told you it was my lucky month! :)

KIKO

241 Rasperry Red Multicolour

262 Violet Blue

270 Sparkle Touch Aqua Sequins

300 Pearly Malachite Green

342 Sea Green

Essence - Heart Chakra

H&M Summer Nails Purple, Pink, Metallic Blue, Yellow

Got lots of Kikos! :e I only had 2 and now I have 7! :P Yay! Thank you Cristina for sending me all this goodies! :k

Last but not least are these.... 

 

Golden Rose Graffiti Nail Art - 12, 09

Farmasi - 031

Bourjois - 18

Essence - Cotton Candy (TE Circus Circus)

OPI - Lucky Lucky Lavender

First 3 nail polishes were a B-day gift from Veri, she brought them from Bosnia and I was so amazed that they have Graffitis there. I saw them at Emerald Sparkled but I never thought I would have at least one of them, yay. :i Farmasi is a totally new brand to me but I loooove this shade of pink. <3 Thank you Veri so much, you know I love you. :k Bourjois is a lovely holographic glitter perfect for layering and it sparkles so much, I got it from another great friend for B-day. :h Of course I got only the pink one from Circus Circus, bit I also don't like square glitters. Lucky Lucky Lavender was a huge lemming of mine and I finally got it from Kleopatra at On the Color Side, thank you. :)

I think that's it. :e What would you like to see first? I don't know where to start and that's killing me. I'll start painting my nails slowly so expect pictures of my manicures soon! :)

Btw, I have to say a big THANK YOU to all who're reading my blog and became a follower of mine.

Few days ago I hit 1000!!!! :party

And I already have 1025 followers! Big thanks goest to all lovely ladies who sent me a guest posts, because I probably got them just because of you. :$ THANK YOU :k .

Huh, I didn't realize my post will be that long so I hope you made through here. :) Thanks for reading!

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

Essence Haul

As you probably already know, Essence will discontinue all Multi Dimension Polishes. I'm not happy about that because I'll definitely miss them so I just had to pick them while they're still available. Last week when I was in capital I went to Müller if there's a sale of all of these discontinued products but there was everything almost sold out. Of course, how it wouldn't be, if everything was sold for 0,99 €. :D I found 2 of them in Müller on sale and 2 of them in DM (but for a regular price).

Here's what I picked. :)

 Wanna Kiss?

Found my Love

Fall for me
Cool and the Gang

I picked blues just because I wanted to have a baby blue creme and because I love jellies, so I just had to have that royal blue jelly. :)

There's also some shades from Color & Go line, which'll be discontuined. I was in Müller twice and these babies were just waiting for me. :D First I picked just one for Abby, but when I found them there after few days, I took 2 more (read: all left). :D They're all for swaps, because they're way to green for me. :D It's just so funny because lots of shades were sold out but these babies not and I saw lots of bloggers are just loving this shade, because it's a greenish blue duochrome.

Out of my mind

I already showed you all the goodies I picked from TE Ballerina Backstage and 50's Girl Reloaded but I totally missed these.

 

 

 TE You Rock!

Speed of Light Blue

Let me in Pink

TE Nails in Style

Style me Love

Transfer Foil set in Style me Pretty

You rock! was available back in June and I wanted just the pink one. But when I found a half empty rack with a baby blue left and when I found out that this beauty is a dupe of Chanel Riva, I just bought it - it's waaay cheaper than Chanel, so you can't beat that. :D

Nails in Style was available in July with Backstage Ballerina so I picked the pink one (nothing new :P ) and pink set of foils. I still didn't try them, but I'm super excited about foils. They're really hard to get so when I found out that Essence'll release them, I just had to have them. :)

I think that's it. :angel 

Is there anything really a must from all the discontinued products? I hope I didn't miss anything because they already removed the polishes from their site and I only have a list with numbers, not names, so I don't know what to check more because the racks are always half empty. :D Let me know what did you pick from sales so I can check if I need them too. :)

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

Essence TE Ballerina Backstage Haul

I finally got everything I wanted from Essence's new trend edition Ballerina Backstage, which is currently available in DM but mostly everything is sold out, same for Nails in Style, but I'll talk more about haul from this TE another time. :)

Here's what I got. :)

Nail polish 

02 Wear Your Little Tutu

Blush Sufflé 

01 Prima Ballerina

Eye Soufflé 

01 Dance the Swan lake

02 Pes des Copper

03 Grand-plié in black

Like I already said in preview post I was most excited for eye soufflés and blush soufflé as for polishes. :) If you want to see really beautiful swatches this TE (polishes, eye soufflés and blush soufflé) take a look on Parokeets blog, Gejba made me buy Wear Your Little Tutu. :D I didn't like others neither I had money for more, but I can still see polishes on rack, just the black one is gone from the beggining. :D

This is the first time I's trying to make swatches of something else than nail polish and it's so hard. xo

 

From L to R:

03 Grand-Plié in black

01 Dance the Swan lake

02 Pes des Copper

I don't even know how to describe them. :$ I really like copperish one, it's shimmery and it's great for defining your lids, creamy white is the most opaque and black one is more on a sheer side, I had to apply more coats to achieve such a dark look.

More after a click... :)

OPI - Bubble Bath & Haul

After wearing that hot Fancy Fuchsia pink color I decided to pick something subtle and Bubble Bath just pumped out of my stash. :)

I love how these kind of colors looks on my short nails that why I'm sure I'll have this manicure as long as it stays on perfectlly or at least till Friday. :)

Color is so pretty, milky, very soft and light pink creme but opacity isn't its best thing. I added 5 coats, yes, five. :i I was patient because I really love these kind of colors and it dries quickly too but for sure I added 1 coat of Essie - Good To Go. :D

Sun

Daylight

Does anyone know similar shade but more opaque? :)

When I got Bubble Bath from Carolina I compared the bottle with OPI - Sweet Heart and they look quite similar but after seeing pictures, Sweet Heart is definetely more opaque and more towards pastel pink. :) I love both of them so it's totally worth to put 5 coats to get this look. :D

I bought some polishes today for myself because Essence Blossoms etc. finally hit our stores (DM). We had sould out Black&White collection since January there so I'm so happy they finally change it. And I bought Nova from Nina. Thanks! :h

Essence - Bloom-A-Loom

Essence - Forget-Me-Not

Zoya - Nova

They put this new collection today! and when I checked the store at 4PM it was mostly sold out! :( I wanted to buy that ring, liquid blush and more polishes for my swaps but I guess I's late. I hope I'll find more next week. And I'm still wondering why our DM still doesn't have anything from new stuff which Essence released in March... It'll be almost May here and still nothing! What are you waiting for? xo

I hope your Monday is better than mine, I'm going to eat something, watch new episode of Desperate Housewives and go earlier in bed... I still hate mornings, can't wait Friday. :i

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

Catherine Arley Haul

Look what I got! :L

670, 675, 804, 666

My mom said when she saw them: "Ivana?! Why do you need 4 same polishes? Wouldn't 1 be enough?" :D They're not so close like she thinks. :D I would love to have 2 more and I'd be done with them. :$

We ordered them at Beauty Cosmetic online shop. All bottles came in one piece, they secured them well, so if you want them - grab them asap. :)

I'm waiting for sun to start trying them! :L So many new polishes and I have just 2 hands, that's bad. xP

Xoxo,

Ivana :k

Haul

My "little sister" Veri brought me 3 new Golden Rose polishes, thank you honey, love you so much!

Golden Rose

Care + Strong - 182

Nail Art - 112

Nail Art - 113

First one is a perfect lilac pink, I'm wearing it now for 2 days and I just LOVE it (but it's so hard to capture its real color). I wanted silver and gold one from Nail Art collection, because I read that they are perfect for stamping. I didn't googled the numbers so I just said her to bring me silver and gold one. So she thought that they were right but they are glitters so they're not good for stamping - gold and one with a stunning holographic glitter. I'll definetely try to use silver one for a full manicure, I just need to empty one bottle and get a clean brush, because this has tiny brush for nail art. Notice to all slovenian bloggers and readers: Lakizanohte.si starts selling Golden Rose polishes! They're adding them today on their webpage.

112 has holographic shimmer

I recently got this stunning and beautiful holographic goddess.

OPI - DS Signature

Why has OPI discontinued this beauty? And Original, Fantasy, Divine, Glamour???? So bad, because now they're really hard to get and I'm sure a lot of us would love to have them, right? There is never enough of holos, especially if they're stunning like these.

Aaaand another holo, which I got from Elchy and I'm still waiting for this beauty.. But I wanted to include it here too and I'm sure you all know which one is that even without a picture. (Edit -18/2 - I added the picture)

China Glaze - DV8

I'll be showing my new Golden Rose lilac pink soon!

Xoxo,

Ivana

Today's Haul

Finally... DONE! I'm done just for two weeks but it feels so good!
I had exam today - it didn't go well but I still have some hopes to pass it. I'm still waiting for results of one exam I had on Tuesday... Hope I'll pass all of them! I already passed 2, best feeling ever!

So, I was so tired after exam but what is the best thing to make me happy? Yap, I went to Müller! I didn't have a lot of time, because I had to catch a train, but I bought some lovely things for me and for my swaps.

Look what I got for myself:

2 image plates

I finally found them. They were always sold out, when I went by, I guess we all want them. But it was my lucky day today.

2 Catrice Polishes - one jelly red and light pink with blue shimmer:

Catrice Bloody Mary to Go & Just Married

I bought this hand lotion yesterday and I love it! Thank you Blu for recommendation. I saw it already like 2 weeks ago, but the smell was so noooot for me so I didn't bought it. After seeing it at Polish Drop I decided to try it. I'll bought another bottle so I could have it at BF's too. I usually don't use any hand creams, just from time to time when I see it on my desk. Now my cuticles will be more beautiful and softer.

Balea Handlotion Shebutter and Vanille

Today I made curls with curling iron. I use straitghtener most of the time, so this was a change and I really like it how it turns out.

And about my color... I was dyeing my hair in black for 2 years and a few months ago I wanted my chocolate brown back. I didn't want to bleach my hair just to avoid any damage hair, so I dyed my hair a couple of time with chocolate brown. That's why my ends are darker, but in person it's not so obvious.

So, do you dye your hair? How do you curl your hair?

Now I'm going to take a nap and check your blogs and then is time for sleeeepiiing, I'm soooo tired!

Good Night,
Ivana

Nail Mail & Haul

I've almost started new post with hi girls, I'm lazy - again. I'm sure you already know that. I've been neglecting my blog lately because I always wake up late so I can't take daylight pictures of my manicures but I also don't change my manis so often as before.

I can't believe I forgot to mention a half year anniversary of my blog in December. I also promised a giveaway a while ago because of that but I still didn't pick anything and I have to finish my swaps first and then we'll be ready for a small giveaway.

A while ago I got another package from Colorful bottle with a lot of new goodies to try out. Let's start with pictures...

Konad image plates, which I have on my WL too - Now I'm sure I have to buy them all pretty soon!, because these patterns are just so beautiful!

M57

M65

M73

M74

A lot of new polishes to try out:

Alessandro LE Summer of Love - Hotty Pink

Wet n wild - Lavender Creme

Oriflame - Rally Racer

Oriflame - Break Dancer

Purple! PROnails

Orly - Calypso Breeze

Layla - #12

Sally Hansen - Hidden Treasure

She also send me a cute birthday gift. Thank you sweety for all nice things you've send me!

Catrice - Princess for a Day

I've recently bought new Essence polishes from Black&White TE.

Black Out

White Hype

I usally don't use any hand creams but I was reading about Essence Winter Edition Hand Protecting Balms a lot lately, so I bought 2, because I unexpectedly found last 2 in my local store (TUŠ).

White Tea & Grenadine

Chai Tea & Mandarine

They both smell delicious and what I really like about them that they don't leave an onily residue what I really can't stand on my hands!

And for the end - I got this cute refrigerator magnet with a sweet dedication from my friend Veri for birthday.... So cute!

It says: "If you want to realise your dreams, you have to wake up first."And I'm really good at sleeping.

As you can see I have many new polishes to try out... A bunch from swaps with Martje and Carolina, now also from Colorful Bottle,... It will take a while to try them all, but I really can't wait to stamp some manicures with those konad image plates.

Xoxo,
Ivana