Blog : My Way Of Looking At LIfe

It`s been a long time since my last post. There`s a lot going on these days but its not just that, this weather is killing me. Its awful. I miss summer, sunshine. I dont even have a feeling that its June already with all these rainy, shi*y days. The weather really affects my mood and I am not really in the mood to do anything ( thank God that doesn't include going to the gym ) . I spend most of my
days watching Netflix and reading reviews and blogposts. 
So that is exactly how I found a blog that belongs to a  girl from Mostar / B&H, Zana Pehar.
It is called My Way of Looking at Life , link http://myperspective91.blogspot.de/. At the beginning I was thinking that I would not find it interesting, since it is a blog without pictures and make-up, but after I read one of her posts I simply had to read another one and another one till I finally read them all.
Zana writes about life in general and the situations which are happening all the time to all of us and she writes frankly from her own point of view.
At the moment I thought - Been There Done That, and I relate that sentence and that feeling to all of her posts, and i believe so do you.
She writes exactly how it is using the language that we all understand and that's why her posts are not boring and any one of them forces you to  think about your actions and at the end to laugh :).
She made my day indeed and not just mine but also my husband`s. He was going crazy these days because of my PMS and my bad mood.
Sometimes you just need a little reminder, like Zana`s post, to make your day look better and not just your day but also the day of the people which are closes to you.
Above you can find the link to Zana`s blog and below I will leave you links of three posts from her blog which I  find the most interesting .
Enjoy reading and make your day, and the day of your loved ones , a lot better :)
25 Years of my Life
Being mean Vs Being nice
Movies send a wrong message





Duuuugo nisam pisala. Obaveze me vecinom sputavaju ali ne mogu reci da su samo obaveze upitanju. Ovo vrijeme je jos gore. Fali mi sunce, ljeto . Nemam uopste osjecaj da je Juni. Strasan sam meteoropata I sve mi je nekako mrsko ( sreca pa se u to ne ubraja odlazak u fitnes ). Nekako mi je najlakse sjesti uz Netflix I laptop I tako provesti citav dan,gledajuci serije I citajuci recenzije,blogove ...
Bas u takvom raspolozenju sam naisla na blog koji pise djevojka iz Mostara ( BiH ) , Zana Pehar. http://myperspective91.blogspot.de/ link do njenog bloga My Way Of Looking At Life.
Mislila sam, u pocetku, blog bez slika, necu se mnogo zadrzati ovdje ali kada sam procitala jedan post povuklo me da procitam I drugi I treci I na kraju sve postove .
Zana na svoj nacin I iz svog ugla, iskreno , pise o zivotu opcenito I situacijama koje se desavaju, ne samo njoj nego I svim ljudima na svijetu.
Nasla sam se u opisanim situacijama million puta i sve to i sama dozivjela, kao i vecina drugih ljudi,
Ona opisuje zivotne situacije cistim jezikom, bez ukrasnog papira i masnice na kraju , nego bash onako kako i komuniciramo medjusobno, mi, obicni ljudi. Upravo zbog toga joj postovi nisu dosadni i monotoni i svaki od njih vas natjera da razmislite na kraju o sebi i svojim postupcima ali i da se nasmijete.
Tacno mi je popravila dan :) ali ne samo meni nego i mom muzu, koji je ovih , jadan , ovih dana mog PMS-a i loseg vremena ludio samom :D
Kako nam samo nekada malo treba, neki mali podsjetnik, kao sto je Zanin post, da promijenite dan i sebi i ljudima oko vas.
Iznad sam vam ostavila link Zaninog bloga a ovdje vam ostavljam i linkove tri posta koji su ostavili na mene najveci utisak.
25 years of my life
Being mean Vs Being nice
Movies send a wrong message
Uzivajte citajuci i popravite dan sebi ali i onima koje volite i koji vas vole :)

Balea Professional - SILBER GLANZ SHAMPOO

Well my Monday isn't so bad, because it is a holiday and I do not have to work, but when the weather is so bad, like today, you can not use ur free day in the best possible way. So this Monday I am spending most of the time watching NETFLIX and reading some of my favourites blogs - ad off course, all my Sunday-activities I have to do today - like washing my hair, doing my nails etc - u know what I am talking about- we all need a day in the week to do all those kind of things .

So, I finally decided to write a post about Balea Silver Shampoo.
My natural hair color is some sort of grey-brown and I usually go for highlights in two shades ( light and dark ) so it looks really natural even after a month or two. Anyway, I don't really like to dye my hair because I don't like when any other color but my natural is so close to my face or scalp- I do not know why and I can not explain that but I simply don't like it.
I don't have problem with a hair grow and with highlights it doesn't look so bad especially since all those techniques as balayage, ombre, sombre etc are IN.  

So today i don't have to explain to those freaks who are dying their hair every 15 days that i don't really have to do it and that i really like my hair like it is - not just one color and not the same color from top to the end.
And all of a sudden, all those freaks are now doing exactly the same thing, just becaouse a clever person decided to name those things and to pick one or two celebrities to promote these trends.
Finally their scalps got some time to relax from all those chemicals.
Thank you BALAYAGE, SOMBRE ...

So I visit my hairstylist two times a year. But after two or three months, the colour of highlights is changed , they don't look so fresh and a hair became a bit yellowish. In those cases i use silver shampoons. I had been using Schwarzkopf BC Silver Shampoon ( 10 €  250 ml) and Indola Silver Shampoon ( 9,75€   300 ml ) . Both of them are great.
But last time when I wanted to buy one of those I couldn't find any of them at the DM drugstore and i saw that Balea has its own product - called Balea Professional Silber Glanz Shampoo.
As you can see it costs only 1,35 €.

I normally like all Balea products because, as far as i am concerned , they have proved their quality even though their price is more than affordable. But i was a bit sceptical so, while standing next to the shelf with shampoons, i was trying to find any kind of review, about this product, online, but i couldn't find any.
I have decided to buy it and give it a try because i wasn't really in a mood for driving to the next drogerie.
As I have already mentioned, you get 250 ml for 1,35€ , which is more than great .
Its packaging is very good and you can put it in your bag and travel withouth any worries of getting demaged or even worse ...
Silver Shampoo contains blue-violets pigments, which compensate for the slight yellow tinge. ( A blue-violet colour is complementary to the yellow colour ) . It is silicone free.
So I can say that i am very satisfied with the results after using this shampoo for a while. It really reduces this yellow tinge. I am also very pleased with the price of this product- you simply have to be. But i thing that my hair is not really so silky after using this shampoo so i always apply some sort of remedy like hair mask or coconut oil, after . ( now i use AUSSIE - 3 MinutesMiracle for damaged hair )  and this MIRACLE deserves a special post.

So i wash my hair with normal shampoo ( Syoss for dry and damaged hair ) , then i wash my hair with Balea Silver Shampoo - i apply it on a wet hair and leave it for 2-3 minutes then i rinse it completely and apply hair mask.
Goodbye yellow tinge - hello blondie :)
PS. see pictures below




Dobar vam Ponedjeljak  !
Meni I nije los jer je neradni dan, ali uz lose vrijeme, koje je sada vise nego depresivno, I ne moze se iskoristiti na najbolji nacin. Ja ovaj Ponedjeljak provodim uz NETFLIX, blog - laptop I naravno sve aktivnosti sa Nedjelje sam pomjerila na Ponedjeljak, kao sto je pranje kose I sve uz to sto ide ( maske za lice, njega kose , lakiranje noktiju itd, znate vec da jedno vuce drugo I da uvijek imamo sta uraditi na sebi ) .
Tako sam se konacno nakanila da napisem recenziju Balea Silver sampona.
Inace mi je kosa neke sivkasto-svijetlosmedje boje I najcesce se odlucujem na pramenove u dvije nijanse ( svijetli I tamni ) da bi to sto prirodnije izgledalo kada pocne izrastati. Inace ne volim da se farbam jer ne volim kada mi je tjeme ofarbano. Ne svidja mi se ni jedna boja osim moje prirodne skroz uz tjeme, ne znam sto I ne mogu vam to objasniti. Zato se najcesce I odlucujem na pramenove.
Izrast mi ne smeta, iz istog razloga, I na pramenovima se ne primjeti toliko, pogotovo od kako su IN svi ovi tzv ombre, sombre, balayage itd fazoni. Ja presretna :D

IN postalo bash ono sto godinama volim a na sta se vecina zena jezilo- aaaa vidi joj izrasta - glavna sramota, kao da su mi rogovi poceli rasti. Ali sve te ne-daj-boze-izrasta kompleksasice sad odjednom furaju te neke pramenove od pola glave itd- sad odjednom to vise I nije tako lose heh... Vazno je bilo jedino da to postane neko ime, neki fazon, pa da  one odmore svoje napaceno tjeme koje je do sada svakih 15 ( aman 20 u najgorem slucaju ) dana trpilo hemikalije.

Eh tako ja sad samo dva puta godisnje svoju kosicu patim . Nakon tri mjeseca boja pramenova se vec malo promijeni, ispere, malo postane zuckasta. U tim slucajevima sam koristila silver sampone. Do prosle god sam koristila Schwarzkopf BC Silver Shampoon ( 10 € 250  ml )  I Indola Silver Shampoon ( 9,75 € 300 ml )  . Oba su bila odlicna .
Medjutim, desilo mi se da sam oba potrosila I da u DM drogeriji nisam mogla naci ni jedan od njih a nije mi se dalo taj dan traziti dalje, pa sam ugledala da I Balea ima svoj Balea Professional Silber Glanz Shampoo. Kao sto mozete vidjeti 250 ml kosta 1,35€.
Inace volim Balea proizvode jer su million puta, sto se mene tice, dokazali da su I pored niskih cijena dosta kvalitetni proizvodi; I da , sto se njih tice, ne vrijedi ona - koliko para , toliko muzike.
Bila sam malo skepticna pa sam lutajuci po dm-u uletila na internet trazeci bilo kakvu recenziju ili misljenje o tom samponu, ali ga nisam nasla.
Odlucila sam kupiti ga I probati, jer stvarno mi se nije dalo dalje traziti a ostale drogerije mi nisu bash pred zgradom, kao sto je slucaj sam DM-om.
Sto se tice samog sampona, vec sam pomenula da dobijete 250 ml za 1,35 € sto je odlicno.
Pakovanje je dovoljno cvrsto, tao da ga mozete lahko nositi I prilikom putovanja , nije mi se jos desilo da se otvori ili da se bilo sta osteti.
Pored toga sto je protiv zutila , takodjer obecava I sjaj kose kao I smanjenje elektriciteta .
Jos su dodatno naveli da je bez silikona. Kada se istisne iz tube, sadrzaj je ljubicast kao I kod vecine silver sampona.

Kako se bori protiv zutila svijetle kose , ja sam 100 % zadovoljna. Cijenom I kolicinom sam takodjer zadovoljna. Da mi nesto posebno daje sjaj kosi, ne bih rekla  I imam neki osjecaj da mi je kosa poslije njega malo kruca nego inace. Zato koristim obavezno neku masku poslije djelovanja sampona. Mada mislim da je to I od puno kamenca u vodi.

Eh ovako ja to fino - operem kosu normalnim samponom ( jedno ili dva samponiranja,  zavisno od toga koiko je kosa prljava) , u mom slucaju je to Syoss ( za suhu I ostecenu kosu ) , zatim Balea sampon koji umasiram u mokru kosu I ostavim da djeluje 2-3 minute, onda temeljno isperem I nanesem masku za kosu ( sada je to AUSSIE - 3 Minute Miracle - za ostecenu kosu ) . Inace ovo cudo AUSSIE  zasluzuje samo odvojenu recenziju pa necu da detaljisem .

Sve u svemu, za smijesnu cijenu odlican sampon koji vrlo rado preporucujem. Plavuse drage uzivajte u lijepoj, plavoj kosi bez zutih momenata :)

• odlicna cijena - great price
• ne ostavlja plavo-ljubicasti ton na kosi - it doesn't leave purple-blue tinge in your hair
• ne morate koristiti rukavice, ne ostavlja boju na kozi - you don't have to use gloves, doesn't stay on your skin
• izvrsni rezultati nakon prvog koristenja - great results after the first use
• cvrsto pakovanje - good packaging

L`Oreal Gel Inteza Eyeliner - 01 Pure Black

I was so happy after reading so many good reviews about the L'Oréal Gel Inteza Eyeliner so it was understandable that I have to buy it. My eyes are overly sensitive and they tear up almost every day when it is not cloudy. I am becoming very frustrated about it.
Most days I simply can not apply eyeliner and sometimes I would do just that. Simple make up without any eyeshadows, only eyeliner, but in my case, its only possible during cloudy days or at night. I am especially annoyed by the fact that I can not apply eyeliner when there are some special occasions to go to like weddings or sth like that. Sometimes make up without eyeliner is simply not complete.
I know that most of you know what am I talking about :) Sometimes we just need that perfect winged eyeliner to feel untouchable :)
I had tried so many different brand eyeliners, most of them were those pen-shaped eyeliners, and they were all waterproof. I guess none of them were tearproof :D I don't really get what does this WATERPROOF means - you can watch the clouds while its raining or you can survive the ice bucket challenge with your eyeliner on point ?

So, I was really happy this time because I thought that I can finally apply eyeliner without previously watching weather forecast and running home like Cinderella when the rays of the sun appear.
It costs 10,99€ . For this price you get also a little brush for applying the eyeliner. L'Oréal promises very intensive black color, easy applying, no smudges and off course they promise that this gel eyeliner is waterproof.
When it comes to applying I have to admit that it is very easy and simple. At first I thought that it wouldn't be so easy with this brush they are recommending because of its shape but I was wrong and I am glad. You can apply it very fast and you can apply it thin or not so thin if you like.

I am also satisfied with the colour and pigmentation. Its very black and it dries matt.

Now the bad part :( aaaaaaaaaaa I am disappointed. I would cry but I can not because my eyeliner wont handle it :D So this eyeliner cant see eye to eye with my tears, its definitely everything but waterproof. And the worst part is yet to come- it smudges sooooo bad. Even when my eyes were completely dry after just an hour or so, it was a mess. I had to check up on it every few minutes and to clean my eyelids.
As a closure I really don't know what to write, I would recommend it perhaps to those who don't have sensitive eyes but I cant even that because it smudges all over the lids and its certainly not waterproof.
So, here I am again without eyeliner until October :(




Sva sretna, nakon citanja recenzija, poletila sam da ga kupim I probam. Inace imam jako osjetljive oci koje mnogo suze ne samo kada je suncano nego I kada je nekako "svijetlo" bez sunca .Hmm nije bash da mogu opisati kakvi su t dani bez sunca a koji su svijetli hahaha uglavnom suze mi oci I dodje mi da vristim zbog toga, najblaze receno.

Eh na sve te takve dane, kojih je vecina, ja ne mogu da nosim eyeliner ili vam ga - tus :) . Milion puta bih samo tus stavila bez sjene ili bilo cega, ali to nije moguce. Najvise mi je krivo kada su neke posebne prilike, vjencanja I slicno. Nekako bez tusa mi nije to -to !
Ko zna, razumjet ce :D
Probala sam dosta nekih eyelinera, doduse vecina je bila u obliku olovke, koji su kao vodootporni ali nijedan nije suzootporan :D Ne znam sta I'm znaci to VODOOTPORAN - da li to znaci da kada pada kisa mogu da gledam u nebo bez da se tus razmaze I koja budala bi jos gledala u nebo kada kisa pada; ili da cu prezivjeti ice bucket challenge sa tusem na ocima ??? Ne kontam na sta misle uopste ako ne na suze , grrrr.

Tako sam ovaj put bila presretna I opet se ponadala da ce ovo cudo od gel eyelinera da mi promijeni "pogled" na suncane I "svijetle" dane.

Cijena je 10,99€ . U kutiji , koju sam bacila drugi dan od ljutnje, dodje I cetkica za nanosenje kao I eyeliner u staklenoj kutijici.
Pored toga sto obecava postojanost, jako crnu boju, lagano nanosenje cetkicom koja dodje u pakovanju, isto tako obecava I vodootpornost I nerazmazivost.

Sto se tice nanosenja, vrlo lahko sam ga nanijela cetkicom koja je dosla u pakovanju I bila sam prezadovoljna time kako ga je lahko nanijeti iako mi cetkica nije imala obecavajuci oblik. Medjutim, vrlo lahko je iscrtati I dosta tanku I preciznu liniju kao I deblju I naglasenu.

Bojom sam isto tako vrlo zadovoljna. Intenzivno crna koja se susi mat.

Eh sad ono lose :( aaaaaaa razocarana sam. Plakala bih ali ne smijem, razmazat ce mi se tus :D . Ne samo da nije izdrzao moje suze, nego cak I ostalih dana kada sam ga nanosila a kada mi oci nisu suzile, uzasno se preslikava . Katastrofa !!! Morala sam svakih par minuta da provjeravam na ogledalu I brisem kapke. Kontala sam da je to mozda sto nisam imala sjenu na ocima, ali svakako sam imala pripremljene kapke I setovane puderom u prahu.

Na kraju ne znam sta da kazem, da nije tog preslikavanja, preporucila bih ga svakome ko nema problema sa osjetljivim ocima I ko nema namjeru gledati u nebo dok pada kisa :D ( nije vodootporan ) a ovako , ne mogu da ga preporucim nikome . Tako ja ostadoh bez tusa sve do Oktobra :( sto se dana tice.

Ko posjeduje koga u industriji ljepote ? / Who owns what in the Beauty Industry ?

So, today I have a topic that is really intriguing and which I have just recently heard about. I haven't been really thinking about all those big corporation in the beauty industry that are so famous. They were, for me , just corporations that exist on their own, without any connections to any other names or brands. But, actually, it isn't really like this in real world.

Recently, I have been discovering more and more dupe products which are exactly the same as the high-end products or almost the same ( including same ingredients ) . That's why I have been researching these days and I was surprised by what I have discovered. As much as I wish that this discovery does not affect my choice in choosing the right products, I really think that this is sth that you can not just leave behind and not to think about it. So I will really take this into consideration during my shopping and I will think about whether I want to pay sth a lot more just because it has a label or to buy almost the same product for just the  third part of the amount which you need to spend for the labeled one.

So, just like everything else in this world, the beauty industry follows the exact same pattern - small companies are very often changing their owners and they end up under the wing of the big , famous companies.

So did you know that Loreal owns Lancôme, La Roche Posay , Maybelline etc ?

Estee Lauder owns MAC, Bobbi Brown, Clinique etc.

It is completely understandable that the big companies also want to save money so sometimes they use exactly the same products for high-end and low-end products. As the final touch they just add some different scents, colours, texture...different packaging and , OFF COURSE , different price.

Please, do not get me wrong, they use , for sure, ingredients which are better in quality for high-end products ( ex. better pigmentation etc ) , but in the end these products are supposed to do the same thing and are produced by the same company. That is why we have so many good dupes.

And if there is possibility to save some money sometimes, then why not :)

But I think that it is sth that makes us human, like a curse or sth so we are willing to pay more money just to feed our ego. According to that and to our opinion that 50 € foundation is better than any 10 € foundation just because it is more expensive or has the famous name - the companies are creating the prices. So its just all in our heads - our humanity.

Its all psychological.

So, if you want to save some money, think about this when you go shopping.

Here below is the list of the big companies and the small companies they own.

Surprise, surprise :)

                Eh danas malo intrigantnija tema o kojoj sam, tek nedavno, malo vise saznala. Nikada nisam isla toliko u dubinu da razmisljam o "tajkunima" ili "silama" u industiji ljepote ( misim na pojedine marke) . Medjutim  nedavno sam primjetila da postoji sve vise jeftnijih proizvoda koji su vjerne kopije nekih skupih proizvoda. Pored toga sto npr isto isgledaju nakon nanosenja, desi se da imaju cak I isti sastav. Zbog toga sam malo istrazivala I ni sama nisam mogla vjerovati sta sam sve nasla :) . Koliko god zeljela da ovo na mene ne ostavi neki jak utisak, mislim da cu ipak, prilikom narednih kupovina, uzeti u obzir sve ovo I razmisliti da li za neki proizvod izdvojiti vecu sumu novca ili za "isti" takav proizvod , naravno drugog naziva, dati mozda samo trecinu od cijene prvobitnog.

      Eh kao  sve ostalo, industrija ljepote funkcionise na takav nacin da pojedine manje kompanije veoma brzo mijenjaju vlasnike I na kraju zavrse u rukama neke vece, poznate kompanije .
Da li ste znali da npr Loreal posjeduje Lancôme, La Roche Posay, Maybelline ... ?
Estee Lauder tako isto posjeduje MAC, Bobbi Brown, Clinique itd...

Tako je , isto , potpuno normalno da I velike kompanije, kao I male, zele ustediti nekada pare pa koriste iste proizvode za skupe ali I za jeftine produkte. Na kraju dodaju samo razlicite mirise, teksturu, boju I na kraju ih upakuju u razlicite ambalaze, sa razlicitim nazivom I NARAVNO cijenom .
Zbog toga nekada imamo savrsene kopije.

Nemojte me krivo shvatiti, naravno da u skuplje proizvode nekada stavljaju mnogo kvalitetnije sastojke ( npr sjene vise pigmentirane ili slicne stvari ) , ali na kraju krajeva ako im je zadaca ista, ne vidim zasto ne bi ustedili NEKADA novac, ako je to moguce. Medjutim, u nama ljudima je to nesto sto je kao "prokletstvo" ili hranjenje ega, te mi svojom spremnoscu da placamo takve proizvode za koje smatramo da zbog imena moraju jednostavno skuplji biti - sto nam ne garantuje 100 % kvalitet - cinimo kompanijama uslugu I podrzavamo njihove cijene. Znaci cijena proizilazi iz cinjenice da I sami ocekujemo da platimo vise za neki poznatiji, " kvalitetniji" , luksuzniji brend. Svi vjerovatno vjerujemo da ce nam neki puder od 60 km I skuplji bolje izgledati na licu, bolje prekriti nedostatke, uciniti kozu savrsenijom nego neki od 5 do 10 km. Sve je to psiholoska igra.

Tako , ako zelite, kada slj put krenete kupiti neki skup proizvod, uporedite sastojke sa nekim njihovim dr proizvodom iz "sestrinske kompanije ".

Ovdje cu vam napisati ( ono sto sam nasla ) listu kompanija I onoga sto posjeduju :

• L`OREAL :

Biotherm
Cacharel
Clarisonic
Diesel
EM Michelle Phan
Essie
Garnier
Giorgio Armani
Helena Rubinstein
Innéov
Kérastase
Kiehl’s
L’Oréal Paris
L’Oréal Professionnel
La Roche-Posay
Lancôme
Matrix
Maybelline New York
Ralph Lauren
Softsheen-Carson
Shu Uemura
SkinCeuticals
The Body Shop
Urban Decay
Vichy Laboratoires
Victor & Rolf
Yves Saint Laurent Beaute

•  ESTEE LAUDER :

Aveda
Bobbi Brown
Clinique
Donna Karan
Estee Lauder
Good Skin Labs
MAC
Michael Kors
Prescriptives
Rodin Olio Lusso
Smashbox Cosmetics
Tom Ford Beauty
Tommy Hilfiger
Tory Burch

• SHISEIDO :

Bare Minerals
Majolica Majorca
Nars
Shiseido

• REVLON :

Almay
CND
Revlon
Sinful Colors
Ultima 2

• PROCTER AND GAMBLE ( P&G)

Aussie
Boss Black & Orange Fragrance + Skincare
Braun
Covergirl
Dolce & Gabbana
Gillette
Gucci Fragrances
Head and Shoulders
Lacoste Fragrances
Max Factor
Olay
Pantene
Venus

Hugo

• LVMH

Benefit
Dior
Fendi
Fresh
Givenchy
Guerlain
Kenzo
Make up for ever
Nude
Sephora

My Concealers

My best friend at the moment, from the moment  I  open my eyes ( these days its 6:30 ), is concealer.I am really not that brave to go out with enormous puffiness under my eyes. Concealer simply hide the fact that you have not really had 8h sleep last night ( or not even 6), until 2 pm when you can not stop yawning - in that case drink double espresso :) .
So my winning combination for early morning is big cup of black Turkish - Bosnian coffee and a concealer .

These days I have been using four concealers :

• Maybelline Jade - Instant Anti-Age Effect - 03 Fair
• Maybelline Fit Me - Concealer - 15
• NYX HD Concealer - CW 02
• Loreal Indefectible Sculpt - Contouring Palette - 01 Light ( highlighting part, which isn't really a highlighter, you can read more at the post about ( Loreal Indefectible Sculpt Palette )

At pictures below you can see all four of them and you can also notice that they are all different in shades but I find them good anyway for my  skin tone.

Maybelline Jade Instant Anti Age Effect

You can find this concealer at the drugstore in two shades : Ivory 01 and Sand 03. According to their names you would probably say that the first one is for cold skin tone and the second one is for warm skin tone, but I have cold skin tone but I am using the shade Sand 03. I am either  that bad at choosing the right shade or their names are not really suitable for their shades.

So here is what this concealer is promising and doing in the reality :

• erase dark circles, puffiness and fine lines instantly - so I am completely satisfied with all of the above
• easy applying and blending with micro applicator - so I am not really using this applicator to blend it, it looks really more natural when I blend it with a beauty blender ( real techniques )
• active formula with Haloxyl reduces the look of puffiness
• you can but you do not have to set it with a powder, it doesn't get into the fine lines and it doesn't get cakey during the day. you can use it for any other parts of the face which you want to highlight . At the moment the only negative thing is that it is available only in two shades ( in Europe )
• price 9,90 €

Maybelline Fit Me Concealer

There are 4 shades available at the drugstore 10 Light, 15 Fair , 20 Sand and 25 Medium what isn't so bad but there are more shades available in the US, so perhaps they will be available here soon. It is supposed to make the skin look fresh, breathable and natural  but I can say that it is a bit heavier on the skin compering it to the previous one ( Maybelline Jade Anti Age Concealer ) .

• this concealer is oil free
• it reduces under eye puffiness - that I can confirm
• it comes with little applicator which makes the applying easier and they suggest that you use your fingers to blend it- I apply it with applicator then blend it a bit with fingers and then with a beauty blender so the skin looks really smooth
• BUT this concealer you simply have to set with a powder because it quickly gets into all fine lines that you were and weren't aware of :) and it becomes cakey after a while so please set it :)
• price 6,99 €

NYX HD Photogenic Concealer Wand

This concealer is a bit different because it is also available in other shades like green ( to reduce the appearance of redness ) , lavender ( for sallow skin ) , yellow ( for under-eye darkness ) but there are also normal shades available. For the best effect you are supposed to combine these shades but you can also use only one shade - i use only one and it works perfectly for me.

• it covers under eye circles and puffiness and it does it pretty well
• its texture is very light and it creates medium to heavy coverage - but you do not feel the heaviness on your skin
• it doesn't get into your fine lines and it doesn't get cakey or obvious
• HD Photogenic is supposed to mean that it behaves very good during recording or taking a photos which I didn't test but anyway I am very pleased with the look of my skin even at the end of the day
• price 6,99 €

Loreal Indefectible Sculpt Contouring Palette -

You could already read a post about this palette and a review at my blog - link Loreal Indefectible Sculpt. So I usually use that light part of the palette as a concealer because even though it has a creamy texture at the beginning, after applying it on your skin it becomes powdery and its very light and smooth.

So in this post you could read about my experiences with the four drugstore concealers which are very popular among the bloggers and vloggers.

Enjoy the spring without under-eye puffiness  and dark circles. Stay beautiful and happy :*

  Trenutno moj najbolji prijatelj, od momenta kada se probudim ( sto je relativno rano 6:30 ) , je concealer. Ne vjerujem da bih se usudila izaci tako nenaspavana, sa podocnjacima do poda, bez njega. Jednostavno sakrije cinjenicu da niste spavali ni 6, a kamo li 8 h prethodnu noc sve do momenta kada nekad oko 13h pocnete zijevati :D to je vec nesto drugo. 
Velika solja crne kafe I concealer su mi top jutarnja kombinacija.

Trenutno koristim cetiri concealera :

• Maybelline Jade - Instant Anti-Age Effekt - 03 Fair nijansa
• Maybelline Fit Me - Concealer - 15 nijansa
• NYX HD Concealer - CW 02 nijansa
• Loreal Indefectible Sculpt - Contouring Palette - 01 Light ( dio za highlight, koji zapravo nije kao highlighter sto mozete procitati u postu Loreal Indefectible Sculpt Palette )

Na slikama mozete vidjeti da su sve cetiri razlicite nijanse ( redoslijed je isti na prvoj I na drugoj slici ) . Iako su razlicite nijanse, meni sve odgovaraju .

Maybelline Jade - Instant Anti-Age Effekt

U prodaji se moze naci u dvije nijanse Ivori 01 I Sand 03. Prema nazivima reklo bi se da Prva nijansa odgovara hladnom podtonu a druga toplom. Za sebe bih prije rekla da sam hladni podton ali eto odgovara mi I ova druga nijansa.

Eh sta sve obecava I sta sve ispunjava :

• prekrivanje nateknutih i tamnih podocnjaka kao i sitnih bora  - moze se reci da je ovu zadacu odradio korektno i da sam zadovoljna
• lahko nanosenje aplikatorom koji se nalazi na vrhu - iskreno ja ga tako nanesem ali mnogo ljepse izgleda kada ga izblendam beauty blenderom nego kada koristim taj isti aplikator u obliku spuzvice za blendanje
• goji bobice i Haloxyl bi trebali da budu dobitna kombinacija kod smanjenja oteknutih podocnjaka
• moze a i ne mora se setovati, ne uvlaci se toliko u bore i linije, vrlo je dugotrajan, moze se koristiti i za ostale dijelove na licu koje zelite posvijetliti. Trenutno mu je mana sto je u prodaji samo u 2 nijanse ali sam vidjela da u USA vec ima veci izbor nijansi tako da :) pun pogodak.
• Cijena 9,90 €

Maybelline Fit Me - Concealer

U prodaji trenutno u cetiri nijanse 10 Light, 15 Fair , 20 Sand , 25 Medium sto je prilicno dovoljno mada i u ovom slucaju, u USA ima vise nijansi, tako da ce vjerovatno nakon nekog vremena i ovdje biti u prodaji.

• ovaj concealer je bez ulja, sto je dobro, pogotovo za osobe sa masnom kozom iako dio ispod ociju nije najmasniji dio na licu ali svejedno nisam neko ko zeli nesto masno na tako osjetljivom dijelu lica
• prekrije podocnjake i smanji natecenost istih - time sam zadovoljna
• mali aplikator na vrhu omogucava lakse nanosenje, preporucuju da se blenda prstima ali ja naravno blendam kao i prethodni, beauty blenderom
• ovaj se, za razliku od prethodnog, MORA setovati jer brzo postane "kejki" i uvuce se u sve moguce i nemoguce linije i bore koje imate pa i nemate :D takav dojam ostavlja ako ga ne setujete
• cijena 6.99 €

NYX HD Concealer

Ovaj je malo specificniji jer ga mozete naci i u drugim nijansama kao sto je zuta ( za prekrivanje tamnih podocnjaka ) , zelena ( za prekrivanje crvenila ) ali i najobicnije nijanse. Za najboji efekat trebalo bi kombinovati ako imate sve te simptome a moze se koristiti i samo jedna nijansa.

• prekriva natecene i tamne podocnjake veoma dobro
• ima vrlo laganu teksturu i dobru prekrivnu moc - srednja do potpuna
• takodjer ima mali aplikator koji olaksava nanosenje a zatim ga ja blendam blenderom
• ne uvlaci se u fine linije i pore i ne postaje " Cakey "
• HD bi trebalo da znaci da je vrlo dobar prilikom snimanja i slikanja sto jos nisam provjerila ali sam svejedno zadovoljna kako izgleda na kozi i na kraju dana
• cijena 6,99 €

Loreal Indefectible Sculpt Contouring Palette -

O njoj sam vec napisala recenziju tako da ako vas zanima mozete procitati na linku Loreal Indefectible Sculpt. Uglavnom, rado koristim i taj svijetli dio palate kao concealer jer i pored toga sto je kremast, kako sam vec napisala, nakon par minuta poprima oblik pudera i vrlo je lagan na licu.

Eto drage moje cetiri razlicita drogerijska concealera po pristupacnim cijenama, koji jako dobro obavljaju svoju funkciju i jako su popularni medju blogericama i youtuberkama :) - kakve sve rijeci necemo upotrijebiti, mislim da se ljudi kojima je eng. maternji jeze na ovakve izraze i da I'm nista ne bude tacno kada naidju na nesto ovakvo :D . Ko im je kriv sto nemaju padeze  : P .

Uzivajte u proljecu bez podocnjaka :*

GIVEAWAY TIME / Vrijeme darivanja

Posto sam se dvoumila oko pisanja bloga I posto sam sada jako zadovoljna sto sam pocela sa pisanjem, svoje zadovoljstvo zelim da , na neki nacin, podijelim I sa vama .

Zato sam pripremila malo darivanje :)

At first I was having second thoughts about blog writing but today I am glad I did it.
I want to share my satisfaction  with you in some way, so I have prepared  a small giveaway for you .



Osvojiti mozete - You can win :


1. Real Techniques Beauty Blender

2. P2 Peel Off Base Coat ( post  Nail Art trick )

3. Manhattan X-Treme Last Lipliner ( nude )

4. Trend It Up Ultra Matte Lipstick ( 020 )

5. Catrice Nail Polish Neoprene Effect

6. P2 Perfect Look Lip Liner ( 010 Nude )

You are supposed to do next :

1. Follow my facebook profile Life At Its Best

2. Share this post as public post on your Facebook Profile 

3. Follow my Instagram ( life.at_its_best.blog )

4. Share the photo on your Instagram Profile and  tag me

Its a WORLDWIDE GIVEAWAY so good luck !

Winner will be announced on 30th April.

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1. Pratiti me na mom Facebook profilu 

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Sretnu dobitnicu cu objaviti 30. Aprila :)

Darivanje je internacionalno tako da mogu ucestvovati svi .

Puno srece !

Nail Art Tip

I believe that most of you are going to the nail salons and that there is a professional nail artist who takes care of your nails. But I also hope that there are still those who take care of their own nails and who do their own nail art too. Sometimes I belong to the first group and sometimes I am a part of the second group, depends on how I feel or on how stubborn at the moment I am ( I can be very stubborn ( stupid ) and do things which most people do, not because I need it but because I am curious ) .

I have strong and healthy natural nails and they grow very fast till the point where my mum looks at me with disapprovingly and many  housewives too :) . But now, somehow, I can understand what it is like not to be able to do some things with such a long nails, things which are not related to households ( ex. I can not write so fast because I can not hold my pen properly, I can not go to the fitness studio without breaking some of my nails and it feels like I broke my finger not just my nail ) .
Even though I have such a strong nails, sometimes I go to the nail salon to get new nails :) or at least to put some gel on mine .

For a few years now ( and I am very proud of that fact ) , I haven't been going to the nail salons so I do my own manicure, nail art etc. I had always had some problems with the smudges around the nails ( on my skin ) when I do some nail art like marble nails or gradient nails. It is really difficult to clen that area after doing some of these nail arts. I saw at the most youtube tutorials that girls are using some sort of glue or whatever to prevent nail polish to get on your skin. I had been researching and I found out that it is some kind of glue ( Elmers ) which you can buy at the USA ( off course ) .
But I didn't give up and few months ago I found at the DM PEEL OFF BASE COAT from P2. ( 1,95 € ) - I think essence peel off base coat will do as well.
First I had been using it for what it actually is made, to make it easier to remove the nail polish which is hard to remove like glitter or sth like that. And accidentally I applied a bit on my skin too but I didn't want to remove it immediately, I left it for later . By the time I was done, I wanted to remove the  base coat from my skin, I found out that it is actually pretty simple to remove it, you just peel it off from your skin, just like you do it when you apply it on your nails.
OMG I was thrilled. If it is so easy to remove it from your skin and when it has such a nice brush for applying why not try to use it to protect my skin when I am doing nail art.
That's exactly what I had done and what I have been doing since then.
I was so happy and now I enjoy doing my nail art.


Vjerujem da je sada vecina onih kojima se o noktima brine neko ko je profesionalac u nekom salonu, medjutim , nadam se da ima I onih koji sami brinu o svojim noktima I koji ih sami lakiraju. Ja sam nekada  jednoj a nekada u drugoj skupini :) zavisi od raspolozenja ili od opet one moje "prokletosti", koju sam spominjala u postu o nadogradnji trepavica .

Imam prirodno cvrste nokte I vrlo lahko narastu I do one duzine kada me mama poprijeko gleda ili cak I neka domacica :) ( da se ne lazemo, vecina njih ) . Mada, sada nekako I ja mijenjam misljenje, jer mnogo stvari ne mogu raditi sa predugim noktima koje nisu vezane za domacintsvo (npr ne mogu pisati brzo jer ne mogu normalno drzati olovku, ne mogu trenirati u fitnesu jer redovno zakacim za nesto I imam osjecaj da polomim pola prsta a ne pola nokta itd ) . Eh, prokletinja, I pored dobrih noktiju, nekada nadogradi nokte :) cisto da se osjetim dijelom vecine . ( kakav razlog )

Vec par godina, da se pohvalim , ne nadogradjujem nokte I ne geliram ih, pa se tako sama zabavljam lakiranjem, nail artom itd. Uvijek sam kod nail arta imala problema sa ciscenjem laka sa koze nakon lakiranja ( marble nails, ombre nails , gradient nails ) . Vecinom sam gledala na youtube tutorijalima I instagramu da oni koriste neko sredstvo koje namazu oko nokta a poslije samo odlijepe. Malo sam istrazivala I nasal da je to neko Elmers ljepilo, koje naravno kod nas nema kupiti ( USA ) .
Medjutim nisam htjela tako lahko odustati I prije par mjeseci sam u dm-u naisla na P2 PEEL OFF BASE COAT 1,95 € ( mislim da moze I essence ).
Prva namjena mu je trebala biti za ono za sto I jeste stvoren, da lakse skinem neka cuda s noktiju kada nanesem a da ne izgrebem povrsinu nokta, kao sto su oni cirkoni, lakovi sa krupnim sljokicama itd. Medjutim, jednom prilikom mi je malo cetkica skrenula s nokta na kozu I ostavila sam na kozi, kontajuci da cu skinuti kada sve zavrsim. Dok sam zavrsila sve ostalo, taj sloj se osusio I samo sam ga odlijepila od koze ( bash peel off ) .

Lampica se odmah upalila ! Kada se tako fino odlijepi sa koze a ima I finu cetkicu za nanosenje zasto ga ne isprobati kod nail arta za zastitu koze oko nokta. Eh da ste samo mogli vidjeti tu srecu. Kakvo otkrice :) Niko sretniji od mene . Sada sa uzitkom radim nail art I sve ostalo :).