OPI Mariah Carey Liquid Sand Mini Pack

Few days ago I got a cute package from a Slovenian online store. They surprised me with a mini pack of OPI Mariah Carey's liquid sand collection. I'm seeing this trend everywhere at the moment and I couldn't wait to test them out. Since I got a mini pack and didn't want to just swatch them, I decided to go with skittles. :P I added 2 coats of each and I was surprised with a gritty effect but I just love it! :L It truly looks like a sand on your nails, perfect! Which one is your fave?

V sredo me je v dobro voljo spravil paketek iz spletne trgovine Za Piko na i. :i Dobila sem priložnost preizkusiti mini set OPI lakov iz kolekcije Mariah Carey. V paketu je bil tudi OPI koledar, ki sem se ga res razveselila in že krasi  mojo sobo. :L 

Liquid sand tekstura je nekaj novega pri OPI-ju in seveda vseh drugih znamkah, ki sledijo tem trendu. V kolekciji Mariah Carey so štirje taki odtenki. Ker nimam 10 rok, kjer bi lahko preizkusila vse lake naenkrat, sem se odločila za skittlse in tako ubila 4 muhe na en mah. :P

Stay the Night - The impossible - Can't let go - Get your number

Posušijo se v strukturiran mat finiš, kar jih naredi posebne - kot pesek na nohtih. :L

Z nanosom nisem imela nobenih težav. Po prvem sloju so sicer malo bolj prozorni ampak z debelejšim drugim slojem sem dosegla popolno prekrivnost. Izognila sem se nadlaku, ker bi potem izničila ta mat efekt, ampak tudi to bom morala poskusiti v naslednjih dneh. :L Naj omenim še, da so v živo še lepši, saj mi nikakor ni uspelo ujeti bleščečih drobcev, ki so v živo zelo opazni. :$

Hecno - včasih me je ta grobi občutek pri nekaterih glitter lakih zelo motil, zato sem vedno dodala najmanj 2 sloja nadlaka. :D  Ampak po pliš nohtih, ki jih obožujem, sem vzljubila tudi ta efekt. :$

Več OPI lakov, ki jih lahko kupite na Za piko na i, lahko najdete tukaj.

Kateri je vaš najljubši?

P. S.: Huh, napisati objavo v slovenščini je bilo težje kot sem pričakovala. :$ 

Thanks for reading!

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

*Products in this post were sent to me by Za piko na i! For more information read my disclosure policy!

Inspired by: Norman Ambrose Spring/Summer 2012 Nails

Lately I'm so lazy with my nails so I wear same manicure for a week or before it's totally unwearable. :P

I had this picture saved on my laptop and when I got some things from Born Pretty Store for review I knew I'll have to try it out. Here's a picture.... :i

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CND Colour in Flashpoint iced with 24K Gold Leaf as a french tip made by nail artist Candice Manacchio for CND.

My nails for sure aren't oval as these so I made a regular french tips with a gold foil because I obviously don't own real gold leaf. :P Here's what I came up with.. :i

Not really super close because my nails are squared but I like it! First I didn't want to use a coral red because I don't like corals and I thought I don't have corals in my stash but then I remembered I got one from Nina months ago so I decided to get close as I can. :)

I got a set of gold and silver gold nail art foil. You get 6 retainers of gold and 6 of silver foil. Foil is really thin so you have to be careful if you want to apply it in one piece but I needed smaller pieces so I took my tweezers to tear it apart without getting it on my fingers.

First I applied two coats of Perfect nail polish in #233, which is a coral creme. When the second layer was still tacky I placed pieces of foil on my tips with tweezers. When I was done, I sealed the foil with topcoat. 

Daylight

Perfect - #233 / 2 coats

Gold Nail Art Foil

Beauty Secrets TC Fast Finish Polish Dryer

I love how sparkly it looks on sun like I dipped my nails in a gold.

Sun - blurry

So what do you think? Yay or nay? :) I definitely need to try this with pink! If you don't like foil, you can always try french tip with a gold glitter.

I saw top coats with gold pieces inside, I'm quite sure you can mix this foil with a clear top coat and made your own golden top coat. Or you just randomly place pieces of foil.  .i Has anyone tried this yet?

Don't forget to use code J10X31 to get 10% off on your order if you're planning to order on Born Pretty Store . ;)

An extra photo I just published on Instagram, trying to pose like the models did. :P

Xoxo,
Ivana :k

*Some of the products in this post were sent to me by Born Pretty Store! For more information read my disclosure policy!

Essence - Wild Thing + BM

I have short nails! I filed them down while I was watching Survivor Srbija and I didn't pay attention how much I already filed them down. Crazy me!

I'll remove it immediately, because I really don't like this combination but I tried to capture this 2 pictures with flash to show you something.

I picked Essence - Wild Thing, I think Essence doesn't sell it anymore. It's a coral red creme nail polish. I really like how it looks in the bottle, but I don't like how corals look on me, they don't match to my skintone.

For stamping I used BM20 and Essence Stamp me White nail polish. Here is base color too orange.

Pictures are bad because everyday I wake up so late and it's already a night outside so I can't took any pictures on daylight. I hope I'll wake up earlier tommorow and I'll show you my new mani.

Happy weekend!
Ivana

Orly - Pixy Stix

Another Orly nail polish from Sweet collection, Pixy Stix. I would describe it as creme coral pink. I really like it, because it's really a special color (Ohhh, I always say that, I guess every color is a special color for me ).

Application was great, I add 2 coats and 1 coat Seche Vite. Today was sunny day, I love it when sun came out, I miss summer!

Sun

Shadow

Do you like it? Which one is your favorite from Sweet collection? I really can't decide, but I love this one and Lollipop so much! I still hope I'll get my hands on Cotton Candy and I'll have all I wanted from this beautiful spring collection!

Have a nice weekend!

Ivana

Catrice - Meet me at Coral Island

As I already said, I was on vacation last week - I went with my momther and aunt to Zagreb with train and then with bus to aunt's place. Here are some pictures from Zagreb when we were walking to bus station.

When we were walking home, I saw a Kozmo store - and Kozmo sells Catrice. I was so happy, because I was able to buy myself some new polishes I had on my WL. So I bought 4 Catrice polishes. I was picking last coins for them.

From L to R
Let's Mauve!
Lucky in Lilac
Princess for a day
Meet me at Coral Island

First polish I tried was Meet Me atcoral Island - a creme coral polish. I add 2 coats for perfect opacity.

All compliments to this polish. Brush is perfect!!! Application is great, it dries so quick, I was finished in less than 15 minutes. No bubbles and high shining without top coat, amazing!

Shadow

Sun

Do you own any Catrice polishes? I'm sure you do, but if you don't - you have to have them!!! I'm so happy that Catrice is now sold also in Slovenia.

Love,
Ivana