Teenage Nikolina reportedly gave modeling in Milan a brief try before returning home and enrolling in design studies at the University of Zagreb's Faculty of Architecture.
[1] The Svilan-created Glamour Cafe featured co-hosts Pišek and Nina Skorup doing bits and interviews with plenty of gossip, innuendo, and overt sexuality.
[3][4] Young Pišek's sudden prominence in Croatia led to an offer of a pictorial for the Croatian edition of Playboy that she accepted, appearing in the magazine's July 2003 issue.
Further cementing her local star status was her fall 2007 participation as contestant on the second season of Ples sa zvijezdama, Croatian version of Strictly Come Dancing, airing on HRT.
[8] Arguably her biggest break came in late September 2008, almost simultaneously to her network switch, when she was announced as one of the four hosts of Operacija Trijumf (local Star Academy version for the five Balkan countries that used to be a part of Yugoslavia) alongside Milan Kalinić [sr], Ana Mihajlovski, and Maca Marinković.
Among those are co-hosting the 2009 Pjesma Mediterana festival in Budva with Ognjen Amidžić [sr] during early June 2009 and being slated to appear in a recurring acting role in a Serbian sitcom.
In fall 2010, she was cast in a recurring role on the Croatian daily soap opera Najbolje godine: from November 2010 until June 2011, Pišek ended up appearing in 89 episodes of the show.
Though announced and officially billed as a duet between Kovačević and Pišek, her heavily autotuned singing part is quite small and she mostly appears as eye candy in the video.
Throughout late summer and early fall 2011, the news of her transfer to RTV Pink and relocation to Serbia received a lot of play in different media outlets throughout the Balkans.
[10][11][12] The show she was eventually attached to on Pink was a newly-launched weekly late-night programme meant to compete with a more established Veče sa Ivanom Ivanovićem, which was going into its third season on the rival 1Prva network.