Golden Rose decorative cosmetics has been around for a long time. This Turkish brand with budget friendly prices and high quality products stands right next to other cosmetics companies and for a while it’s been available in Croatia.
I’ve been using Golden Rose products for a long time and I have only nice things to say about this brand.
I’d like to show you 2 nail polishes which completely got my love and which I recommend to you.

Paris Nail Lacquer in 54

My favorite shade is 54. I recieved it as a gift at the market in Zemun. :D
It’s a rich purple color which is taking care for your nails and it looks stunning at the same time. It looks high quality and well, it really is. You need only one coat to get opaque shade since it’s highly pigmented, but I like to apply 2 coats because I love it! Brush is perfect, at least to me. It has satisfying hair length and density. This color lasts on my days for a few days, in all conditions. I have it longer than a year now and it’s still the same – didn’t get thicker or anything like that.
These nail polishes come in 80+ colors so I’m sure everyone can find something for them.

Care+Strong lak za nokte

Pearly white shade which has that necessary elegancy. I believe all of us have a shade like this one or something similar. I chose this color because it’s elegant, always popular among all generations. Somehow it’s timeless…
As the name suggests, it has a special formula which improves lasting power, color and nails. It dries quickly.
I wore it many times and it really works like that. :) I used to wear it as protection on my nails against any issues I had and it worked too.
Care+Strong nail polishes come in 78 shades with pearl, metallic, shimmery finishes – something for everyone!

How do you like these shades? Will you try them or perhaps you already have?

Misha

Note: this post was written by Misha M.

Upcoming Fall is bringing, beside refreshment, many trendy and playful colors which will definitely make blue days better.
Essence is launching (has launched) 28 new colour&go nail polishes and I’m sure that everyone will manage to find something for themself! 

Why do I like colour&go nail polishes?
Because they have intense and playful colors. Sometimes you need only one coat to get full color, cause of the thicker formula. They’re good in terms of wuality and long lasting too.
Price – only $2.20 (Muller dugstore). You can get them for less than $2 when there are sales.
I chose three shades this time: 43 where is the party?, 55 let’s get lost and 38 choose me!

Where is the party? (43)

When I laid my eyes on this shade, I knew it has to be mine! I just loved that undefined duochrome color with tiny shimmer. It looks like purple, green and grey colors got united! It reminds me of spilled gas, the way it gleams on the road. :)
In natural daylight shimmery purple is more visible, while in artifical daylight that dusty greens shade with grey is more obvious. The color is really amazing and is applied easily with great brush. You need only one coat, but to get the full effect 2 coats are perfect.

Let’s get lost! (55)

Gorgeous blue color. It’s well pigmented so it’s necessary to apply only one coat to achive desired effect. It quite well lasting – around two days, considering you’re doing all that housework from washing dishes to something more complicated.

Choose me! (38)

Gorgeous turquoise-blueish-greenish color enriched with golden, green and silver shimmer. It reminds me of the sea and Christmas at the same time. It looks quite a lot like OPI catch me in your net and Nails.Inc in fitzroy square. It’s easily applied, the brush is the way it’s suposed to be – not too soft, not too firm and you do need to apply 2 coats to get opaque color. Dries quickly and it’s quite lasting on my nails.

Misha

My perfect grey shade of nail polish! 
I purchased it recently, when my local drugstore BIPA had 30% sale on makeup so I grabbed another So Laque! nail polish since their retail price is a bit high (almost $10!).

I applied 2 coats here and that’s what it takes to get that nice, opaque color on nails. I love the brush too – not too big, nor too small. Just as it should be.

Oh yes, this will be my to-go shade for this Fall! And I have to admit – I can’t wait for this Summer to be over! I’m so tired of this hot weather! It’s just too damn hot out there! How about you?

My last two photos aren’t really perfect, don’t know what happened here but didn’t have time to shoot them again. And I’d say that this shade is a tiny bit darker than it is on my swatches :)

Vesna

Remember this collection? This is one of my favorite fall nail polish collections this year but I did pick only two shades – Urban-Night and Trendsetter – because lately I’ve been all over nail polishes and have to figure out how to stop buying more of them! But the thing is – I can’t resist once I see some pretty colors! :D

I wanted to get Concrete Catwalk myself but glad I didn’t because the other day at my local drugstore BIPA I got a beautiful Bourjois So Laque! nail polish in  37 Bleu asphalte. But you’ll still get to see swatches of Concrete Catwalk since my friend got it. :)

I think all these 4 shades are perfect fall shades. All besides Trendsetter have cream finish (my favorite finish) while Trendsetter has this shimmer in it.

Urban-Night is definitely my favorite color and I can’t believe I don’t have any similar shade already! Perfect pure purple shade. I think this will be on my nails for the most of this Fall!

Trendsetter is an interesting shade, something I probably wouldn’t have picked myself if I didn’t see it when another friend of mine got it so I figured I must have it since I don’t own any similar shade at all! I think it will look great!

Concrete Catwalk is a lovely grey shade, but Bourjois is prettier to me and I’ll post swatch of it soon. The main difference is – Bourjois have more blue in it than Concrete Catwalk does.

Westside Warrior is a true green warrior shade (army green). It’s very pretty dusty green color. Love it! I’m sorry now that I didn’t get it but I’ll try to borrow it from my friend from time to time, haha :D

Okay, enough talking, let’s get to swatches!

All photos were taken in natural daylight, the last one was taken in direct sunlight which is obvious I think. All nail polishes were swatched in the same order as mentioned on my 1st photo. I used 2 coats for each color.

How do you like these shades? Did you get any from this collection?

Vesna

After I did spend more then I intended with 50′s GIRLS Reloaded collection, I’m going back to my rule ‘one item per LE collection’ so I got only this nail polish from Ballerina Backstage collection. I have to say I really like the packaging of this whole collection – it’s really good in terms of quality, better then the packagin of their products in regular range.

Nail polishes from this collection contain 10 ml, unlike nail polishes from 50′s GIRLS Realoded collection which contain 15 ml.

05 Grand-Plie In Black is basically a pure black shade with orange smaller/finer particles in it. It takes two coats to achieve opaque color on nails and it does apply nicely. Those orange particles come out much more when the nail polish is completely dry. I don’t know how long-lasting is it, we’ll see, but it won’t probably matter cause I believe this collection will be sold out.

Here’s another photo of the bottle where you can see those orane particles:

Here’s my swatch on nail wheel, will take a photo of how it looks on my nails.

My swatch isn’t really the best one, but here you can see how it looks on nails!

Did you get anything from this collection? Did you even like it? :)

Vesna

I have to admit that I am so thrilled with all three shades I got!  Such a great surprise! The brush is a bit thin (reminds me of OPI nail polish brush), but it’s also angled which might seem unusual but it is great for smooth application! And I love it because I manage to come so close to my cuticles but I don’t mess everything up so there’s no cleaning later! Also, the cap is thin at the top which makes it easy to hold it when applying nail polish. And beside all that – the formula is perfect and super-fast-drying! I don’t know if fast drying has anything to do with me having acrylic nails, but after 30 second it’s completely dry!

Okay, enough with raving :D let’s show you how this beauty looks like on my nails! And yeah, I won’t be testing if it holds on my nails for 10 days without chipping since I really don’t have time for that, but if it holds three whole day – I’ll be happy! :D

This shade is berry-like, you will need one thicker layer for opaque color and full coverage. And as I already said – application is flawless and it dried super fast.

(natural indoor light)

(natural light, flash)

How do you like this shade? Have you grabbed any of these new Bourjois nail polishes? Which shade did you get? :)

Vesna

Since I LOVE purple color, of course I have this shade as well. :D Okay, I have few similar shades, but they’re not exactly the same so I had to get this one too. :D

I purchased this nail polish long time ago, few months probably and never used until the other day when I was looking at my nail polishes and I thought how I must use *this* gorgeous shade! It’s really hard to capture it right since it has a strong blue base so mostly it looks blue in the photos, though it isn’t blue but on the above photo you can get the idea how it looks in the natural light and the photo below it’s how it looks in the shade.

Tekstura The formula is fine, but it would be a bit helpful if it was just tiny bit thicker. You need 2 thicker coats to get opaque shade. And it’s a shame it isn’t really shown in my photos, but it has this gorgeous fuchsia shimmer which looks just OMG in the sunlight! So, if you’re into cool purple shades – this is THE color for you! :)

Cijena Price? Way too cheap – just $2.50. I don’t think it can get any cheaper than that! :D

How do you like this shade? Do you even wear such shades? :)

natural light (shade)

Vesna

My friend also compared them in person and she agrees with me that there is some difference between them and the most important one is that Channelesque is perfect for those with yellow undertone, while Below Deck suits perfectly those with pink undertone. :)

Channelesque (left), Below Deck (right)

Vesna

I haven’t tried them properly so I’m showing you just a quick swatch fro you to see these colors, though I think you’ve probably already seen them, but it would be a shame not to show them again :D

These nail wheelers aren’t that smooth so the colors looks a bit rough but when applied on nails they do look nice and smooth so don’t let this confuse you. :)

All 3 shades are special and I can’t decide which one to use 1st! :D Which shade is your favorite one? :)

Vesna

This nail polish is a part of Diamonds Are A Girl’s Collection and it’s been available for some time now, but I think it still perhaps is somewhere (Muller, dm). :)

It’s a hard to capture shade, almost impossible to make it look like something. :D Under indoor light it looks like it’s almost black, but on natural light you can see how actually beautiful it is – purple with lots of silver shimmer! I think this silver shimmer is what makes it to look so dark and why it looks so dull while instead it’s gorgeous – in the sunlight! :D

Application was flawless, I love the formula and it dries really quickly. However, this nail polish has only 7 ml which means the bottle is short and so is the brush so I had some issues of how to hold that cap in my hand. It retails for approx. $5 (€3,40). :)

Vesna