30 Nov 2017

Quotes of NOVEMBER 2017 // Dada's diary

Hey there. 
Here I am with another bunch of quotes. Writing these articles is my new form of therapy. This is exactly what I need, just to sit, go through all the wisdom on my Pinterest account and be able to write a bit more about it. Everybody understand quotes differently and I am so glad I have the opportunity to explain my thoughts. So, what do we have here this month?

  • If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then Autumn would be the magic hour. - Victoria Erickson
It is 9 o'clock in the evening, I am drinking my tea, listening to "evening acoustic" playlist on my Spotify, feeling cosy under a huge soft blanket and wrapped in my bathrobe (yeah, already in my pyjamas) and thinking about the last leaves falling down from the tree the near park. Isn't this scene beautiful, magical? The word COSY represent autumn to me. A lot of people say that Autumn is their favourite season of the year and I understand why. If I did not love summer that much, I would have Autumn as the best season as well. And even I am not going to change which month of the year is my favourite, I have to admit one - Autumn is the most magical. A lot of important moments in my life happened during Autumn, so that must mean something. So let's enjoy the flavoured or non-flavoured coffee, last fresh apples, big hoodies and sweaters, cold mornings, early nights, warm blankets, and then Christmas will come... the most wonderful time of the year. I cannot wait.





What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of the next thing you need to do.

I am afraid, I am scared. As any human being you point your inner finger on. It is normal to be scared of doing the things we are not sure about. We call it a risk. And often, too often we will never do it just because the feeling which takes our breaths and makes us to be stressed. I have had this feeling for hundreds times. And to be honest with you - I listened the inner scared voice of myself during too many situations. On the other hand, more and more often, I refuse to listen to it. What do you think happens after I do as I really feel? Do you think I could lose everything? I could lose myself, people around me, money, reputation or anything you can even think of. Well, let me get this straight - I won, I had never lost when I believed in myself. I got much more than I had expected to get so before opening the door. I learnt so many things I would not have learnt without risking it. I might have lost something but believe me, it could not be that important if I was able to let it go. And I will tell you - I am about to risk again. This is going to be a huge risk and I am so scared that my hands are shaking while I am writing this which is approving me I have to do it.


























A real woman, has curves, is skinny, has muscles, is whatever she wants to be.
The truth has been spoken. Do you look different than for example... me or the girl from the next door? Or does the model in a magazine look way too perfect and gorgeous and that makes you unhappy with your own body? Simply stop with that. Now. You are different, because your mum was different than mine, because your body needs different care, because you live different life, because you are unique. You might be shaking your head in a disagreement. But you should not shake you head and disagree with me in this. You are unique, I can repeat it for you at any possible moment. Nothing matters but you. You ought to finally admit what you do for your body and also with your body and how you feel in your body is just about you and you cannot share it with anybody. So the point I am talking about is to finally star feel as a woman, as a unique human being who can do anything. Who can be whatever she wants. 

  • I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love, and a little drunk. - Atticus
This sounds so good, doesn't it? I would wish this kind of death for me. I have no idea where I will go however I could predict that I will probably end up downstairs (it might be a bit hot there) with friends of mine. OK, let's be serious. I try to do "good" every day because I want to be a good person. But what I understand under a good person, does not have to have the same meaning for somebody else. And as I do good, I also do bad. For example - I swear sometimes (which is horrible and I am working on it), I lie often (nobody actually believes me because I am horrible in lying), I eat sweets and I feel horrible after that (and there is no reason to be mad at myself, I do not eat sweets on everyday base). I can be lazy and procrastinate for the half of the day. I drink. Not a lot but once/twice per week I have a beer, two glasses of a wine or whatever. I do not get drunk, I exactly know when I should stop. I am addicted to coffee. I care about my financial status, about my social status and about my mental status. But not in a way which heaven would accept. So, Do I cheat? I think that I mainly I cheat myself. My personal opinion is that no matter where we will go (after we die), we will end it up as we always wanted and we will be OK with continuing forward. I just want to be proud of my life in the end.

Pictures from: www.pinterest.com

19 Nov 2017

Autumn tutorial with eye colour palette by Mary Kay // Dada's beauty

Hi make-up lovers.
It has been ages since I put any make-up product on my skin. I did not have a lot of reasons to use and wear make-up during summer time. I do not know how about you but does make-up disturb you while wearing it in hot weather? Because it disturbs me quite a lot.
Firstly because it lawyer of make-up on my skin melts as the day goes on. I have a bit more oily skin in summer time so nothing (even eye mascara) stay on properly for longer than an hour.
The next thing is - my skin cannot breathe which is not the greatest. My skin needs to be breathable in hot weather otherwise I have more acne than I normally do.
And the third reason - I spent almost whole summer travelling, constantly doing something and I did not have any time left (or I did not want to have) for doing my make-up every day.
The situation has changed. I will work soon (hopefully, which me luck please, please), I will meet important people and I would like to look representative. So, I am going back to do my make-up, probably for 4-5 times per week. But, as you will see in this tutorial, I do not plan to wear a lot of make-up. I found out (well, I knew this information however did not practice it) that the less make-up you use, the less people can see it and the more you look naturally beautiful. And that is exactly how I want to present my skin in public. Just to look fresh, clean and natural.
OK, let's finally go through the tutorial :-D
Before I started taking photos for the tutorial, I had put the basic stuff on my face (Stuff like - the make-up base, foundation, concealer, powder, blush, bronzer and I did my eyebrows). I did not take any photo of it because I do the same things every time which you probably do as well.  Or if not, you can have a look in one of my older tutorials like this one : http://dadalajf.blogspot.cz/2016/12/my-christmas-party-look-tutorial.html
As this tutorial was supposed to be easy and quickly done, I had started with the lightest shade in the Mary Kay's eye colour palette. I put it in my inner eye, from the top to the bottom. I made sure I had enough product on my brush and I shook the product slightly off my brush. This trick prevents you a bit from getting dusty under eye area which usually happens if you use powdery eye shadows.
After I had use the lightest eye shadow to optically open up my eyes, I used really nice autumn looking pink/violet eye shadow. This one was designed in a cold tone which is perfect for green eyes like I own. Well, almost green since they are changing to blue sometimes. I have no idea why. Don't you know why by the way? But back to the tutorial. So I put this gorgeous eye shadow all over my eye lid and  I gave it a good blend. Again, I wanted my eyes in natural vibes. 
And the the last time I needed this eye colour palette was when I used the darkest shade contained within the palette. I softly blended it in the first half of my eye lid, but just in the eye lashes area. And the second time I applied the eye shadow was to the outer corner of my eye to finish the final look.
And I finished my whole make-up by using the eye mascara. Actually I will need a new eye mascara soon since this one is almost empty. Do you have any recommendations which eye mascara works good for you?
And I did not forget  to take a care about my lips. I used very similar colour as the one I used for the eyes. I really enjoy to wear colours in a cold tone during this season of the year. What about you?

Have a look on the final photos and let me know if you liked my make-up because I am planning to wear it for a few times during this winter <3

13 Nov 2017

Breakfast with Mary Kay & new products review // Dada's beauty

When I received the invitation for a breakfast with Mary Kay which took place one day before my leaving to Cyprus, I was thinking if I should go. To be honest, this was already the second invitation and I felt stupid to refused it again. The first one happened while I was in England, so I was not able to come. I said to myself that I would manage it somehow and accept it. 
Firstly, I came there a bit late thanks to a traffic jam in Bratislava (our capital). And the second thing was - I did not know anybody. Let's be honest, I am not famous or popular, this blog is my personal diary and I do not make any money with it. And girls which were there were much more professional, they are successful (I googled some of them) and they knew each other. I thought they would start talking to me, they could have seen I was completely new there. Nothing like that happened. So I had started to smile at them, maybe they would have smiled back. Well, I did not find that out since nobody looked at me. I went for a toilet for a two minutes and I made a perfect plan how to make some friends there. When I came back, the company's presentation had started and so my plan failed :-D 

The presentation was done really nicely, it was about launching new products and two girls tried their famous face masks during the meeting. I did not try, I wanted firstly but one girl was pregnant and she said that she would not be able to come again soon so I left it for her and did not say anything. Oh, did I mention that she was really beautiful? <3

The breakfast was a challenge for me. As a vegetarian, almost vegan (I write almost because I still eat milk or eggs sometimes, but not often and I am trying to avoid them as much as I can) I was not sure what I could eat. It was a bit awkward to ask them what is without meat so I tried to figure it out by myself. I was successful, I found some pepper spread which was sooo nice but they did not have a lot left. And the second thing I was sure was without meat was an omelette so I took that one. And fruit, I love fruit <3
I am sure they would advise me which meal was for "rabbits" (I call myself like that it sounds to me better than the vegetarian) but people usually react in ways I do not enjoy so I try avoiding people saying that I am the vegetarian. 

Each of us received a bag with some new products for trying and later I got an e-mail with an opportunity to choose a few more products. 
And that is going to be a main purpose of this post. I have already tried products I got from Mary Kay and if you interested how I liked them, keep reading. 

EAU DE PERFUMES. In the beginning our cooperation, I had no idea that Mary Kay innovates perfumes. And not just that. They do not have only perfumes suitable for ladies, they also have perfumes which are great for gentlemen. And how are they? 

Let's start with a perfume which I chose for Mario. 
HIGH INTENSITY Eau de perfume was designed especially for gentlemen. To start with, I had a real complication to choose the best one, which would suit to Mario. He has his personal style of clothing and the same rule he likes to apply when it comes to fragrances. 
The perfume water I got for him belongs to the family of amber oriental fragrances. He has been using one fragrance full of Amber and when I read that the fragrance should be in sweet tones, I knew this one would be suitable for him.
And I was right. The perfume water smells so good on his skin, they make a perfect combination. Mario is also happy with it, even he says it is something different than he used to use in the past. Well, that is the point of life... is it full of changes :-)
You can find it here: HIGH INTENSITY.
LIVE FEARLESSLY is my second fragrance from Mary Kay. Before I had a summery toilet water EAU SO CUTE, which is one of my favourite ones. 
You can check it here: EAU SO CUTE.
My new fragrance is gorgeous, it is difficult to describe it. But I am really going to try. It represents a woman to me. A woman, lady which is unique, knows her positives and uses them to succeed, is smiling but you see her as something more, she is strong, she would fight for her dreams, would go through anything and she would still have her chin up. She dresses as a lady all the time, she walks as a queen, her behaviour is like a princess has. She is a woman, beautiful woman. 
Live Fearlessly is a perfume water, stays on my skin up to 4-5 hours. The bottle is nice, the design of it is posh that I love it. 
You can find it here: LIVE FEARLESSLY.
"Mary Kay Ash believed that any woman could be intrepid. When everybody kept saying her she could not  make it, she showed them she could. This perfume has been inspired by live story of Mary Kay Ash and celebrates characteristics of a brave woman, as Lynsey Dyer is as well." -www.marykay.sk 
Lynsey Dyer is a face of the perfume Live Fearlessly and here is the video which will warm your heart. Ladies, watch this, believe me, you need it. Each of us <3
HAND CREAMS LITTLE GIFTS from limited edition have been shocking for me. 
There are two different fragrances:
  • Vanilla berry (violet colour)
  • Vanilla mint (green colour)
I use hand creams all the time as you probably know so far about me. My hands become cold quite often and those conditions dries them a lot. Can you even imagine how happy I was when the package contained also hand creams came? 
You can find them here: VANILLA BERRY & VANILLA MINT.
About the effect:
Nicely spreadable and absorbable what I appreciate the most. I do not enjoy that greasy feeling on my hands. The creams moisturises for a while, I have to admit. I wash my hands, I do everything with my hands so after an hour or two, I need another line of it. There is one feeling which is completely new for me. My hands feel so soft and silky, I have never experienced this with any hand cream. 
I cannot decide which fragrance I enjoy more. Mario likes the Vanilla berry flavour but the Vanilla mint fragrance is also beautiful. I will probably use them at the same time :-)
The conclusion is clear - the best hand creams I have ever had for sure <3

NAIL LACQUER from limited Autumn/Winter 2017 edition I have already tried, could not resist. 
The colour I got is Rosé Blush 105979 and I see nude, purple-brown colour, perfect for winter time, nothing too shiny but something memorable. The thing I like a lot about this nail lacquer is that I can wear it with almost any type of clothes because the colour looks nice anytime. 
The drying time: 
- that is the worst nightmare for the waiting time. Why cannot they come with a nail lacquer which would be dry immediately? This nail lacquer was drying pretty quickly I must say, I almost did not have any time to destroy it. It takes about 5 minutes for the first layer to dry and about 10-12 for the second layer. I mean, completely dry that you can continue with your life :-)
You can find it here: NAIL LACQUER.

BLENDING SPONGE is recognised for all of you I assume. I bought one blending sponge in England this spring and  I have not used it by today and now I have the second one. That is a message I needed. I should start using them. 
The sponge is soft for touch, a bit hard when is dry but do not worry about that, you have to wet it firstly. The make up application is really easy and comfortable. I like that the sponge is in a black colour. It will scream on me when the washing time will come. 
You can find it here: BLENDING SPONGE.

EYE COLOUR PALETTE also comes from a limited edition Autumn/Winter 2017.
I used to have one problem. I missed an eye colour palette in nude and pinkish shades. I wanted to buy, I was hoping to spend some money for an Urban Decay eye colour palette Naked 3. Well, I have not bought it and that was a good thing. I finally own a palette with pink shades and with my other palettes I do not need UD anymore. For now :-D
I got ROSÉ NUDES 105973 shade. Do not mind the box a lot, when you buy it, you will get a nice box as you can see in the pictures on Mary Kay's website :-)
The pigmentation is unbelievable. Really. I am so happy because without a good pigmentation you cannot use pink shades properly and  I do not enjoy "layering" eye shades. 
The texture is also interesting. I am thinking how I should describe it... not wet, not dry. I have it. Creamy. Yes, that is the right description. Even the light one is creamy and they are non-dusty. 
Amazing, looking forward to using it all winter time. 
You can find it here: EYE COLOUR PALETTE.

I was not using make up through all summer time, I had it just twice (my birthday and the time I was in Prague). But I am starting to miss my cosmetic table so there is a big possibility you will see a tutorial with new decorative cosmetics. 


Mary Kay, thank you again. Your products are almost breath-taking and I am glad I have the opportunity to try and then present your products <3

8 Nov 2017

And then, I moved to Prague // Dada's diary

The 6th of November 2017 was not just a regular day. If you worked, had a rest at home, had a walk with your friends, had a date with your lover or you simply just passed that day - in that case the day was a regular one for you. But, I did something different.

I moved to Prague. To Prague, the capital of Czech republic. How did it come? When did I decide for it? What is the purpose of doing this?
The change. I needed to change my life. Yes, I have changed my life for a few times. Yes, I went through a lot of different situations and maybe you even think I should finally stay somewhere. But I cannot. The adventure, the travelling, the feeling of trying new things and discover new places is too strong. My whole body, mind and heart love the feeling of living. The real feeling of living, not just surviving.

I came here alone. Yes, Mario is not here. Believe me, this reality breaks my heart every time I think of him. I had to let him go and he had to let me go. His journey goes to the right and mine goes to the left. After hours and hours of talking, arguing and thinking, we made a decision which takes us higher. We have to grow. Both of us. I have to be more independent, that is the aim I want to reach while I am staying here. I want to work on my career, life. I would love to become a bit more myself.
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This is the truth for me. This quote says it perfectly. I have to walk this way alone. I have to over-come my fears. I hopefully will become a better, stronger and more experienced version of my present myself.

Why Prague?
I love it. I fell in love with Prague a long time ago. I have enjoyed every visit I made there. I have adored building and the architecture of the city. I have wanted to come here. That´s it.

What will I do here?
I will live. I will work. I will discover. I will meet friends. I will make friends. I will be happy. I will... actually I will not. I have already been doing this. Today is the first day of a huge chapter in my life, today is the first day of my staying in Prague.

Prague 10 or VRŠOVICE.
That is my new address. That is the place which  I chose to live in. I live in a beautiful typical Prague apartment house.
I live with my friend Tomáš. He has his room, I have mine and we share a bathroom and a kitchen.
But let me tell you something about the apartment...
The door to our apartment is huge and beautiful. It is so massive and I feel so safe because of that huge, strong door.
The kitchen is small but cozy, it has everything I need and I feel really good there, it just too cute of not to feel wonderful there.
My bedroom. First of all, the room is enormous. Even with all of my stuff is still spacious, full of light from a big window and warm for me. Do not worry, you will see it here in the next post. :-)
Honestly, that was not everything. Some stuff I did not put in the photo :-D
The first night in my new room with something classical - Anna Karenina <3 
The door <3