Purple Collaboration With Brownimalist

Hi lovelies!

It's been ages since the last collaboration and this time Valentina from Brownimalist blog asked if any Slovenian bloggers would do a Rainbow collaboration with her.

So I jumped right in and I choose a purple color. And here are my purple picks with short reviews and you can read Valentina's post here.

AVON Gel Finish nail polish in Purpulicious and Lavander Sky

First of all I apologize for not having these swatches, but there will be a full review on them soon!

I have 5 polishes from this collection and they are all the same quality. They are mostly opaque in 1 coat, but I always use 2 coats and a base coat. I never use top coat since, these are gel finish and they are shiny as hell! 

Essence Blending Brush

There is never too many blending brushes and this one is my #1. It is soft, blends the eyeshadows well, it's easy to clean and it's super cute!

Essence wake up, spring! TE eyeliner in 01 happy first day of spring

The most colorful eyeliners that we can usually get here is dark blue, dark green and dark purple, so this Essence Trend Edition was very welcomed. It's in a pastel lavender color, it's opaque enough for me, glides nicely on my eyelids, but they are drying a bit too slow, so some always ends up on top of my lid. It does not last long, but I fix it with eyeshadow and it's great.

BarryM Fine Glitter Dust in Violet Star

These glitters are a few years old, since I first discovered Ličila.si online shop. They are very fine purple glitters. I use them for mixing into gel for my nails, for eye shadow, as regular glitter for nails. On my eyes, I sometimes use a wet brush to apply it, since it is more opaque than.

Essence Merry Berry TE eyeshadow in 02 the masked ball

This eyeshadow is so unique to me, I don't have anything similar in my collection. In the pan it looks dark, smoky purple, but when swatched it is a purply taupe shade.

Darling Girl  DuoChrome Blush in Purple Haze

I got this blush with some other pieces from Sara-Passing Fancy. And I can't thank her enough! At first I was a bit scared to use it, but when it's blended it's look so pretty on the cheeks. The packaging is small, so it's not the easiest to dip your brush in, but since it's so pigmented that's a good thing!

Wet'n'wild Matte Lipstick in Ravin' Raisin

These are just perfect matte lipsticks in a stick form, I much prefer matte liquid lipsticks, but this one is perfect for on the go. It is very matt, the only down side is that your lips must be super smooth otherwise it will look terrible.

Essence good girl bad girl TE lipstick in 01 it wasan't me

Not your everyday purple, but I wear it at night sometimes when I go out and I need really dark lips, it is my darkest color in my collection. It is a bit tricky to get an even color, but it's worth it.

Essence Merry Berry TE lipstick in 01 let's the berry-tales begin

It's a plumy creamy shade, that is also a bit harder to get an even color, but it is so pretty.

AVON Indulgence lipstick in Spring Lilac

Indulgence range was super hyped last summer when it was launched. They are a gel formula lipsticks, almost as a super pigmented lip balm. They are moisturizing and still have an amazing color pay off.

Golden Rose Dream Lips Lipliner in 520

This collection of lip liners is close to Catrice Ultimate Stag lip liners range, as far as texture goes. You have to sharpen it but the color is so beautiful, a bit smoky plum purple.

Milani Amore Matte Lip Cream in 27 Fascination

A full review is comming next week! So I won't tell you much here, but they are awesome! 

Essence longlasting lipliner in 07 plum cake

The full review of all 10 colors is also in the making. These are my favorite lipliners, the price is so low and the quality is really high. Plum Cake is my favorite shade of all.

Balea Pflegecreme Best Wishes

This cream is so cheap, I think it is under 2€. It can be used on your face, lips and hands. I keep it on my nightstand and I use it at night. The best thing is that it smells similar to Lancome La Vie Est Belle perfume.

Essence apfelbäckchen TE blush in 02 sweet purpleline

Isn't the packaging and the design just the cutest? It smells like vanilla and it's a really nice shade, but I mostly use the lightest part as a highlighter.

Victoria's Secret Fragrance Mist in Love Spell

I use it as a perfume and it's so super sweet, smells like cherry blossom and peach. The peach is the most noticable and it last quite a while on me.

CD Deo Pump Spray  in Lotus scent

I got this deodorant at the Bloggers conference and I am in love with the scent it is not the best deodorant that I've tried but it's right behind my Garnier Active one. The only downside is the glass bottle, that is not travel friendly.

AVON Planet Spa Thailand losut flower deep pore cleansing face mask

All of you who know me, knows that I looooove face masks. This one is purple when you first apply it but it become white when it's dry. It makes my skin really soft and cleans my pores well.

AVON Planet Spa Sleep Serenity Pillow Mist

Since primary school I had problems to fall a sleep at night. And the only thing that is helping me is a bath with lavender scent, so shower gels, bubble baths, baby oil with lavender scent. But I like to take showers in the morning and baths at night, but I am not in the mood for soaking every single night and I also like to switch the scents of my bath products.So this pillow mist is a real life saver. I spray it onto my pillows once a week and the scent will stay for almost the whole week. It smells of lavender and chamomile, but the chamomile is a bit stronger. The scent calms me and I connect lavender scents with sleeping so it helps a lot!

This is it, I have a lot more of purple products, but I decided just on some favorites. What are your favorite purple products? Don't forget to check Valentina's post!

Have a lovely day! 

Ajda*

When Bloggers go to Heaven (Shopping trip to Ljubljana)

Hello lovelies :D

Note to self, when you go shopping with girls, do it on a sunny day without high heels! Or you can do all those things if you want, honestly it does not ruin the experience if you are with the right people :) 

A while ago me and my fellow beauty bloggers Ana & Jasna decided to go shopping in Ljubljana. Our plan was to visit the Golden Rose store and Smile Concept Store, but I think that deep down inside we all knew that we will visit much more and buy much more than we wanted. Such are the dark ways of shopping.

FIRST STOP: LUSH

Me and Ana meet before Jasna came to Ljubljana in fact, Ana was waiting for me for about half an hour and when we met she already had some bags in her hands. The shopping spirit is definetly strong with this one :D. We had some time before Jasna came, so we decided to spend it the only reasonable way we know, going to  Lush. I think this was my second trip to Lush. I love the store and their products, but for some reason I just can not find the time to go there. We were the only costumers there so the saleswomen devoted all of her time to us. We smelled different bathbombs, tried out different soaps, she sprayed on us million different perfumes and at one point, one saleswoman washed our hands with different body soaps while another talked about ideas, concepts and origins of different soaps. Before we said our farewells  we were also invited on a face treatment xD there is no denying, that we were spoiled like royalty in the store.

SECOND STOP: GOLDEN ROSE

We finally met with Jasna  and decided to go to the Golden Rose store in BTC. We took the bus, which we ofcourse regreted, but there was no other way for us to get there. At the store we definetly took our time, looking at all the different colours, swatching different lipsticks and just enjoying in the big piles of make up. I decided to get two lipsticks and a matte top coat, items that I had on my wish list since I first went to the store. 

After our little Golden Rose adventure we needed to find some shoes for Jasna, you see, she went shopping in high heels, not a good idea xD After a long search we finally found shoes that suited her nicely.

THIRD STOP: YANKEE CANDLE

This is where 'We did not plan this, but f*ck it' phase started. When Jasna saw the little Yankee stand she just went like: 'Jap girly, we are stopping here...'. I think it is needless to say that we smelled every little candle that we could. I found their waxes really interesting, and I am definetly getting some in the near future, but for now I settled with a tiny candle in the Black Coconut smell. Is it black and smells delicious? Count me in ;)

 FOURTH STOP: SMILE CONCEPT STORE

Lastly we went to the Smile Concept Store, definetly the cutest store in Ljubljana. This is where we finally started to photograph stuff (honestly, I wanted to photograph some Lush produsts, but damn was I buisy!). Before going into the store I did not really know what to expect. My biggest question was, what exactly are they selling? Cute stuff to make your home feel happy and cozy :) My personal favourites are mugs, notebooks and lunch boxes. I took a lot of photos there, so why not let the photos tell the story? :)

After many tries it was finally payback time. Ana tried to photograph me a lot and I ofcourse returned the favour ;)

LAST STOP: YES WE ARE KINDA EXHAUSTED AND WE NEED COFFEE

We finished our shopping trip with a well deserved coffee in Cacao, a lovely cafe right by Ljubljanica. Honestly, we all needed that, because we were visibly exsausted from all the shopping and walking. We were on our feet for a bigger part of the day (To give you some perspective, I was in Ljubljana from 10 am to around 6 pm, most of that time was spend walking...) 

Thank you girls for such a wonderful day, we definetly need to do that again in the near future ;)

Dear readers, please do not forget to check posts on Beautysaur and Jessie Fairytale  and read about their experience on this shopping trip ;)

What stores do you like to visit the most? 

Thank you for reading :)

Have a nice day ;)

Tjaša :D

Pink October: Top 7 Pink Beauty Products

Hello lovelies :D

Today I have for you a collaboration post. Lovely Gejba from Parokeets beauty blog had an awesome idea and most of slovenian bloggers agreed to participate. The idea is simple: we all write a post on the same day that has something to do with pink! I think that by now most of you know that October is breast cancer awareness month, which is associated with pink and that is why we are doing a pink collaboration. Breast cancer is a serious disease that affects more and more women each year, so do not forget to check yourself regularly! 

 I was deciding what to write about, for the longest time, until I settled for this post. Honestly, I wanted to do some make up and nail art, but I realized that I have no pink nailpolishes and I have no time to photograph a make up look (when I do have time the light is terrible...). So without further ado, here are top 7 pink beauty products that stole my heart. 

L'OCCITANE EN PROVENCE DELIGHTFUL ROSE HAND CREAM

Honestly, I always knew that L'occitane hand creams are awesome, but I never owned one. There is no perticular reason, I guess they were not on my priority list. Nonetheless I was really happy when I recieved this gem on the Beautifull Bloggers MeetUp at the start of this month. Finally I can see what the fuss is about. While rose is not my favourite scent I still like it,because it is not overpowering. The cream is on a thicker side, but it still soaks into my hands nicely and it leaves them soft and smooth. A definite must have for winter months!

WET'N'WILD PETAL PUSHER EYESHADOW PALETTE

Ironically, the shade I am going to talk about here did not appeal to me at first. I am not somebody that likes pink, that means I also do not wear a lot of pink and when I saw this colour in person my first reaction was: NOPE! This is not going anywhere near my eyes! Oh how wrong I was... I decided to test the eyeshadow anyway and I am soo happy I did. It turned out this is my favourite eyeshadow from the palette. It is a highly metallic light pink that makes dark eyes pop like no other. Whenever I want to do a simple make up, or do not know what to wear on my eyes, I grab this eyeshadow and combine it with a matte brown in the crease. I can not imagine my make up life without this colour <3

SLEEK MAKEUP BLUSH - 846 MIRRORED PINK

Sadly this is a limited edition blush, but Sleek does have some blushes in their permanent range that are similar (I happen to own some). I chose this one because it is the most pink of the bunch and it also happens to be my favorite pink blush of all time. Lately I have been using it a lot, because it gives a really nice pink flush to the cheeks with a bit of shimmer. You want a healthy looking skin? Apply Mirrored Pink and BAM! You just became the prettiest girl on the block.

I <3 MAKEUP - I <3 OBSESSION PALETTE - PURE CULT

I like to wear colours, but pink is (ironicaly) out of my comfort zone. Not bright pinks, I like those, but soft, innocent pinks, they are too much for me. Well I do step out of my comfort zone sometimes with a bit of help from this palette. A few of the eyeshadows are duds, but the whole top row is really nice and I use it for my everyday looks more and more.

ESSENCE I <3 EXTREME CRAZY VOLUME MASCARA

My go to mascara. Do I need to say more? Well it is true that I do not like the brush a lot, since it is big and I poke myself into the eye with it on a regular basis, but other than that I like what this mascara does to my lashes. They are not velouptuous as all hell after I use this mascara, but it does give me as much volume and lenght I need. Considering I wear glasses most of the time I do not want my lashes to touch the glasses constantly, which does happen with other mascaras... and it annoys me to no end. As a fun fact: this mascara was long time the only pink item in my make up collection.

REAL TECHNIQUES - BLUSH BRUSH

This might be the most loved brush in my brush collection. I just love the fact how versitile it is. Yes it is called a 'blush brush', but a brush with only one purpose is boring. I like to use it for contour, bronzer, powder, highlighter or blush... so basically all the face powder products. The unique (in my collection) egg shape baffles me to this day. It is simply genious! 

SLEEK MAKEUP BLUSH BY 3 - 363 PUMPKIN - SQUASH

Well the whole blush palette is one of my favorites, because of it's versitility, but since we are talking about pink... Squash! Honestly, when somebody says squash I do not think about pink, or at least I did not until I tried out this blush. While it looks scary in the pan it is one of the best pink blushes ever. Tiny shimmer that runs trough it just seals the deal for me, since I love slightly shimmery blushes. I would love to talk a little bit about the formula, but I think that by now everybody and their grandma knows how great Sleek blushes are. If you do not know the heavenly gift that are Sleek blushes then you must be living on another planet.

Thank you for reading. Do not forget to read posts from other bloggers, they did a really great job creating pink inspired posts!

An InLinkz Link-up

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :D

Top 5 Summer Make Up Products // Collaboration

Hello lovelies :)

Summer is in full swing here. How do I know? Well, for starters, it is freaking hot! Like abnormally, nonbeliveably hot. To combat the heat wave we did a collaboration with Manca from Invisibly Perfect. Each of us picked top 5 products from three different categories: make up, body and hair. Since I do not even have 5 hair or body products (honestly I doubt that I have 5 body&hair products alltogether), I picked the make up category. Here are 5 products that I loved soo far and scream summer to me (the nice 'mojito in the shade under a huge tree' summer, not the 'unbeliveably hot almost unbearable' summer).

SLEEK I - DIVINE EYESHADOW PALETTE - SUNSET

I was not sure at first, if I would like this palette, but sure enough the pretty mix of colours proved me otherwise. This nice mix of colour and neutralish hues with a black thrown into it is just perfect for summer. All the colours are nicely pigmented and shimmery (except for the black). They blend nicely and stay put quite a long time on the lids.

ESSENCE SOO GLOW! CREAM TO POWDER HIGHLIGHTER (10 LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE)

I looooooove this highlight (shocker right?). I use it for mixing with my current liquid foundation (Nude Illusion by Catrice). That way my skin can appear luminous even after a ton of setting powder was put onto it (I neet that setting powder as the fish needs water).

WET'N'WILD MEGA LAST MATTE LIPSTICK - 903C JUST PEACHY

A lovely really light peachy shade that really is matte and survives fairly long on the lips. It is really opaque, but it does not suit me as such, so I apply it sheered out.

ZOYA SATIN PROFESSIONAL LACQUER - LEAH

I am becoming more and more obsessed with Zoya nailpolishes, especially their satin formula. Matte without looking chalky, creamy texture and opaqueness packaged in a pretty bottle. That said, Leah is a really pretty neutral/nude shade that is just perfect no matter the season :)

MILANI BAKED BLUSH - 05 LUMINOSO

This blush was the love on first sight. The shine it gives to the cheeks is just the most radiant, natural and beautifull I have seen soo far. It is beautifully pigmented, applies nicelly and can be sheered out for a really nice and natural, healthy skin effect.

And here is the make up I created using these products :D

What are your top 5 Summer make up products?

You can see Ajda's post here and Manca's here.

Thank you for reading :)

Have a nice day :)

Tjaša :D

Top 5 Summer Hair Products // Collaboration

Hi lovelies,

i've been melting for the past few weeks since it's  sooooo hot and i hate heat, so you can imagine my suffering xD

So since we need to survive the summer time we (me, Tjaša and Manca) decided to do collaboration  about our top 5 hair, body and makeup products for summer.

So here are my top 5 summer hair products :D

 DRY SHAMPOO

I am trying not to wash my hair too much and i do it once a week, Because i ''trained'' my hair not to be washed that frequent, they don't get oily as fast as they did before. So after 3 days my roots get a bit oily and i use a dry shampoo on them and i am good for 2 days. 

I am using the Balea Trend It Up one, since it's cheap, smells lovely and you can get it in every DM :D

  TEXTURIZING SPRAY

Who doesn't like beach  waves? I always loved the waves i got at vecation, when my hair dried after i got out of the sea. Since i haven't been on vacation and i want thos ewaves at home sometimes i use texturizing sprays. This one is from Schwarzkopf got2b Beach Girl Mermaid Look Texturizing Salt Spray. It smells lovely, doesn't make my hair heavy or sticky and i love the packaging.

  LEAVE IN TREATMENT

During the year i am always using Uniq One leave in treatment in the original scent, but when spring/summer hits i switch for the coconut scent. It's just the best scent and if you know me jsut a little bit, then you know how much i love coconut. It makes my hair soft, easy to comb, protects my color, prevents split ends, protects from the heat and many more good things. I would really recomend it.:)

  SILICON DROPS

I need silicon drops simply becaus eof my frizziness. When i dry my hair they get so freaking frizzy that i need some help. And those drops are miracle in a bottle. The frizzines is gone and it leavs my hair soft and shiny.

 HAIR OIL

Probably you already heard about argan and other oils for your hair and how amazing they are. They really help with split ends, really dry hair, frizziness and they also smell amazing,

I switch between Schwarzkopf got2v Ol-la-la Argan Oil and Moroccanoil Light. I like both of them, but i love the got2b better because of the pump and the scent is divine.

So those are my top 5 summer hair products! Please tell me yours, i would like to know. :)

Here are the links to Tjaša's and Manca's post.

Have an awesome day and don't melt, oh well some people are worth melting for :P

Ajda*