Summerana - 1 Day and 12 Hours to go...

The Summerana.com Photoshop Overlays and Actions giveaway is almost over!!
You have, as of right now, 1 day and 12 hours to get last minute entries in...

The winner gets a choice of Nikon or Canon 85mm 1.8 lens!!
I am in love with all Summerana products! This giveaway is extremely generous. That's just the way the roll lol

So go now and gets your chances in!! Good luck to everyone and a HUGE thank you to Summerana!!!

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Thanks for reading,
Kayla

Ulta Mini Haul (and Special Offer)

I went to Ulta yesterday to look for some polish and they had an awesome sale going on. I took advantage of it lol
If you bought $19.50 worth of Ulta products, online or in-stores, you got a free purse full of makeup valued at around $80! The purses (picture of mine below) come in metallic pink, gold or black!
They all contain the same products.
To get mine, I bought 3 full size nail polishes and a body butter. The polishes were all $6 each and the body butter was $4. I got a $3 discount I had and taxes off. Making my total just under $16. I was a little more than excited!! :)

Now on the what I got and whats in the bag.
3 Polishes:
Snow white
Pinata-Yada-Yada
Blues Cruise
and
Fresh Lilac Moisture-Intense Body Butter with Shea Butter and Sweet Almond Oil
Which is amazing and smells so good. Not over powering at all.

The purse:
Sunkissed Blush/Bronzer Duo
Mini Ulta Nail Polish in Sunset Bronze
Glitter Eye Shadow Top Coat, Bronze Bombshell
Eye Shadow Quad- Sunrise, Toast, In The Buff, and Mink
Eye Shadow Quad- Naked, Grace, Organza, and Plum Noir
Eye Shadow Quad- Bone, Khaki, Sage, and Molten
3 Makeup Brushes- Blush, Sponge Tip and Eye Shadow
Super Stretch Fiber Mascara- Jet Black
Dual Ended Eye Liner- Deep Brown and Black
Brilliant Color Lip Gloss- Guava
Extreme Wear Eye Shadow Primer
And Ulta Lipstick- Feeling Peachy

I will post pictures and the direct link to the sale.
I am not doing this because Ulta or anyone else paid me to! I am just sharing my haul and how you can get the same deal!!
Thanks for reading!!

 http://www.ulta.com/ulta/browse/specialOfferDetail.jsp?promoId=0000120378

Missed post

So... It looks like the last post I made was only saved and not published. That was my bad. But then when I tried to publish it, it was deleted. I honestly don't think I did it but either way, it's gone.
So I will make another. I planned that post to be a follow up and my summer mani post and explain how I did one or two of those. I have since culled and saved my photos on my phone to my laptop and don't have the pictures or videos for those. And since I'm on my phone, we'll look at my recent mani instead :)
This was a simple purple jelly sandwich with glitter. Nothing to serious or complicated. It turned out good and I liked it. I want to get the rest of these glitters (you'll see in the picture) from wet n wild. My local store doesn't have them anymore, so I'm still looking.
I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails,  Rock Bottom. And Wet n Wild,  At Will Call!
Rock bottom is not a jelly. I just used it like one cause I don't have a purple jelly and that's what I wanted for this look. I hope you enjoy!
Thanks for reading!
Kayla

Summer nails

I like summer. Nor as much as fall and winter, or spring for that matter, but I love the colors that go with summer.
Bright and sometimes neon nails!!
I like bright colors. I don't wear them as much cause I don't tan. I'm not against tanning, I just can't. I burn... But when I tan, I just look really red - ish brown and kinda dirty lol
I have a creamy white with pink tint skin. It's not the best for tanning but I still like the summer sun. Recently though I have had some good luck with tanning my arms, but then it looks weird compared to the rest of my body lol
So on the nails...
Here is three nail designs I did for summer so far, with the help of my daughter!!
I hope you enjoy and on Monday I'm thinking of making a small tutorial on one of them!!
Thanks for reading!
-Kayla

Summerana - 25K Camera Lens Giveaway

The best (and pretty much only) Photoshop actions and templates come from Summerana! I absolutely love them and they are constantly on my wish list!! :)
They also have amazing prices for their amazing products!! Generous to a fault. I may sound in love, and truth be told... I am! :)

Now on to the deeds lol
Summerana is throwing a 25K fans on Facebook Lens giveaway to all their awesome friends.
The winner gets to chose between a Nikon or Canon 85mm 1.8 camera lens!!!!!
As I am writing this post, you have 14 days and numerous chances to win!!
I say, GET GOING!
And while you there, stop buy and browse their selection of actions and templates. You will most definitely find something to your liking.

Thanks and Congratulations to Summerana.com!!

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August Photo Challenge

I cannot believe that August is almost here!! WOW! Summer is coming to a close faster than I would have liked. 2 more months and fall slowly begins.
Don't get me wrong... I love fall and I cannot wait for it to start but I was hoping to get more done this summer.
This past two years has been so horrible. Just one thing after another. I don't want a dragging post of sadness, so I won't dive any further than this. I believe the loss in my family is at 7 or 8 right now, in just over a year! It's incredibly sad and dounting!
Moving on...
I wanted to start a photo challenge this year but was late and postponed it to next year. But I ran across a month to month challenge instead of the full year, like project 365, and decided a month every so often was good for this year. New year is about 5 months away and I can wait that long.
Here is the August 2014 Photo Challenge List:
(Cannot remember who first penned this challenge... Sorry)

1- Hat/Hair
2- Family
3- Water
4- Clean
5- Dirty
6- Black and White
7- Far away
8- Outdoors
9- Favorite Room
10- Entertainment
11- Where your Standing
12- Paper
13- Up Close
14- Tools
15- Colorful
16- Work
17- Animals
18- Funny
19- Stairs
20- Tiny
21- Texture
22- Huge
23- Building
24- Favorite Candy
25- Food
26- New
27- Words/Letters
28- A Corner
29- Sunshine
30- Quiet
31- Darkness

Have fun and if you know who first wrote this list, let me know down below!! I'd love to give credit to this awesome list! Thanks! Have a great weekend.

Flowers

I've really been into flowers on my nails!! All kinds but right now, those little flowers made up of dots. Super cute and easy!
I have tried many ways to do them, such as:
Bobby Pins
Sewing Pins
Pencil/Pen Tips
Toothpicks
and I even tried using a plastic fork with all but the two outside prongs off. I filed one down to make it bigger.
I use dotting tools as well but lost the one I had and wanted to experiment with other ways to make dots. I have now a new set but was still impressed with the "homemade" versions!
Back to the flowers...
I have been kind of obsessed with them and put them on my nails somehow in almost all designs!

In the previous posts, I did flowers in the jelly sandwich nails and and flowers for my 4th of July nails. As I said, I'm obsessed lol
Well here are some more of my flowers nails.
Just thought I'd show you and some of the colors I used!

The first are red nails with white and brown flowers and an accent nail on each hand of a brown base with red and white flowers.
The polishes I used were:
Sally Hansen - White On
Julep Little Lights - Jameson
SinfulColors - Nirvana
Julep - Freedom Top Coat

Looks really good on the sun!

The Second flower look was less Fall and more Summer!!

I wanted flowers but less than the look above. So I added one small flowers on all the nails in the corner and covered my accent nail with them.

The polishes I used were:

Sally Hansen - White On

Julep - Reagan

Julep - Flora

Sally Hansen Top Coat - Invincible

I'll show with and without the flowers, cause I loved them both ways! And the Julep colors!

 

Hope you liked them as much as I do! Lol

Have a great week!!!

Thanks for reading :)