Topic Tuesday: Favourite Stamping Tools

My go to stamper is a XL Squishy Jelly one, picks up the image and gets in on to my nails easily even with my strong C curved nails.

I use a grabber tool with a cotton ball to clean off my plates without melting my polish off.

Stamping polishes I like at the moment is Beauty Big Bang 002 and MoYou Special Nail Polish in White which are opaque and stamp well.

Finally because of the jelly stamper I use a lint roller to clean it off as acetone would melt the material.

  

Nails: Pink Tartan

With Autumn officially just around the corner I was inspired to do some autumnal nails. These are pink tartan / plaid ones;

Berry Base Polish | Barry M - Rhubarb

Light Pink Stamping Polish | Barry M - Pink Lemonade

Purple Accent Polish | MoYou - Grey Skies

Stamping Plate | Beauty Big Bang 05

Clear XL Jelly Stamper

Liner Nail Art Brush

  

26 Great Nail Art Ideas: Metallic and One Colour

Polishes Used:
Nude | Leighton Denny - Leading Lady
Metallic | Models Own - Chrome Blue
Stamping Polish: MoYou - Special Nail Polish - Persian Turquoise
Stamping Plate: MoYou 128

Dotting Tools
XXL Squishy Stamper

Review: XXL Squishy Stamper

I like to stamp my nails, its relatively easy and can look really effective. When my nails are short they are easy to stamp, but when they get longer it is more difficult and I end up missing the top corners. My nails have quite a strong C curve. This makes stamping more difficult, also I press down quite hard when I stamp which can be damaging to my natural nail.

So this is where the XL Squishy stamper comes in, it is larger than a normal stamper and it is very squishy which means it lets the image easily go around the C curve of my nails and it is gentle enough to stamp the length of my nails without breaking them.

When I first got my squishy XL stamper I thought it was a waste of money as I couldn't get it to pick up any images. I found that swiping some pure acetone over it removed the layer of substance which was causing me problems, other than this one time I don't recommend using acetone on it as it will degrade the surface. The stickiness of the stamper also means it likes to attract lint stamping this on a lint roller cleans it.

The squishy stamper end constantly falls out of the plastic holder, I jammed it in there with a tissue and that also really helped it to stay in and work properly.

  

You can stretch images to fit longer nails with this stamper too.

These nails are the result of the first time working with the stamper once it is cleaned with the acetone;

Barry M - Passion Fruit

W7 - Black

Bundle Monster 314

Not my best stamping but I am sure I can improve.

I got my XXL stamper from eBay for £1.52 inc P&P