Stamping Plate: QA28 aka Mustaches and Kisses

So this is the stamping plate with and without the protective sticker layer. This plate isn't lined so the edges are quite sharp so if you do purchase this be careful.

 

All of the images printed well, and are quite comical!

I had problems with the stamping above on one of the lip images but that was because I got some of my hair on the stamper. One of the moustache images didn't stamp well also but again that was down to my bad technique. You get 13 images which is great from one plate.

A couple of designs I did for Movember, I am sure in time I will have used some of the other images. Click here to see some of those.

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Nails: Black Matte French

I thought I had done these nails before but apparently I hadn't!

Base Polish: W7 - Black
Matte Polish: George - Matt Finish
French tip nail guides

33 Day Challenge: Using Most Owned Colour

Looking through my polish collection it was clear that the colour I have the most of is purple, I counted them and I have 40 bottles of various purple cremé. So that number doesn't include glitters, holographics and magnetics.

Sinful Colors - Verbena
Barry M - Indigo
W7 - Black
V Shaped Nail Guides
Fauxnad M57

Swatch: Stargazer - Purple Chrome 235

Another Stargazer chrome polish which is great for stamping with.

Colour: Purple (235)
Finish: Metallic
Opacity: One coater
Brush Type: Standard
How Much? 14ml

33 Day Nail Challenge: Geometric

Geometric was the prompt given for today's challenge, and these are the nails I came up with for this. Teal double stamped nails, I also used these for the base of my PCOS awareness nails:

Sinful Colors - Snow Me White
Barry M - Guava
W7 - Black
Bundle Monster 213
Bundle Monster 223

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

33 Day Nail Challenge: 3 Colour Gradient and Pattern

This would have looked so much better had the top coat not of smudged the stamping!

Base Polishes
Sally Hansen - Delphinium
Color Club - Pucci-licious
Ciaté - Cabaret 046

Stamping Polish: W7 - Black
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster - BM412

Nails: Remembrance Sunday

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

- McCrae

Models Own - Black / Red
Nails Inc - Bow Street
Nails Inc - Luminance Red Metallic
Nails Inc - Electric Teal

Sunday Stamping: Inspired By Water

Base Polish: Yes Love - L011
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Stamping Plate CH38
Stamping Polish: W7 - Black
Other Polishes Used: Color Club - Almost Famous, Maybelline - Cool Blue

White Acrylic Paint

33 Day Nail Challenge: Europe

"If euro replaces the pound
It's still likely to be shiny and round
Rich may switch the way they feel rich
but not the man who's alive
or the man who has drowned
Keeping pound only makes sense"

Root of All Evil - Beautiful South

Polish Used: OPI - Honk If You Love OPI
Thumb: Models Own - True Blue, ELF - Copper
Ring Finger: ELF - Machine Green
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Stamping Plate 54
Stamping Polish: Ebalay - Rose Gold 004

Swatch: Barry M - Indigo

In direct sunlight

Colour: Inky, a touch more purple than in photo, I'd describe it as a Cadbury shade. Somewhere between the two swatches
Finish: Cremé
Opacity: Two coats
Brush Type? Standard
How Much? 10ml