Base Color: OPI Black Onyx
Stamping Color: Essie No Place Like Chrome
Stamping Plate: Winstona W119
And a photo of just the Black Onyx…
(photos taken with my iPhone and edited in Instagram)
* Winstonia plates were sent to me for review.
Hi all! Like I mentioned a bit ago, Winstonia sent me their 2013 stamping plates for review. I went through and videoed all of the plates so you can see the designs a bit better. I also included a review while I was flipping through the plates. Enjoy!
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Today I have a purpley-periwinkle polish called Fancy Pants from the China Glaze Avant Garden collection. I ended up stamping on top of it, but first here are the plain polish photos. It looks much more blue-ish in person. I love the subtle pink shimmer in it…
Then I did some stamping on it. :)
Base Color: China Glaze Fancy Pants
Stamping Color: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Presto Pink
Stamping Plate: Winstonia W111
* Winstonia plates were sent to me for review.
EDITED TO ADD: I forgot to mention that you can get 10% off your order at winstoniastore.com through April 30, 2013, by using the code DAILYSOMETHING. Thanks, Winstonia!
Winstonia sent me their stamping plates to review and they arrived yesterday. Couldn’t wait to try them out! I’ll have a more thorough review later after I’ve tried a few more designs out, but for now here’s some polish and stamping. As for a short review, I had no problems stamping this one design. I used a regular Konad scraper and stamper.
NOTE: The plates are available for purchase straight from Winstonia HERE, or they’re also available through Amazon HERE.
Base Color: A-England Avalon & Smitten Hocus Pocus
Stamping Color: Essie No Place Like Chrome
Stamping Plate: Winstonia W108
I think this almost looks like a Halloween nail design! LOL!
From start to finish… First, I painted two coats of A-England Avalon (it’s the perfect purple under the glitter polish I wanted to use)…
Then I added one coat of Smitten Hocus Pocus. I don’t want to run out of this glitter polish so that’s why I layered it over the A-England Avalon. The purples are perfectly matched. :)
For the stamping, I used Winstonia plate W108 and Essie No Place Like Chrome (silver) to stamp a “paint dripping” tip. There were a couple nails that I didn’t get the design on the complete tip of the nail, so I went over the tip with the silver polish.
Base Color: Nicole by OPI Show You Care
Stamping Color: Essie Nothing Else Metals (YES, the Essie metallic polishes stamp well)
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM-310
NOTE: I wore the purple polish by itself for a day and then added the stamping. So there’s a bit of tip wear visible in the photos. :)
My monthly Julep Maven box arrived a day ago and this beautiful raspberry shimmery color, Joan, was included. I wanted to try it out right away…
Base Color: Julep Joan
Stamping Color: China Glaze Emotion (sort of a hard polish to find since it came out years ago, but it does stamp beautifully)
Stamping Plate: Konad m57
*Inspired by this stamping manicure by The Nailasaurus, one my favorite nail blogs. :)
Sometimes right before I take off polish, I do a bit of stamping. I do this for the following reasons:
- It’s great for testing out different stamp designs. This design was hard to stamp because you had to get the placement just right.
- Testing out different top coats over stamping. Essie Good to Go and Sally Hansen Insta-Dri smear the stamping, while Seche Vite is perfect still.
- If I like how it turns out, I stretch the manicure a couple more days.
So, this is what I did tonight. Although, I’ll be taking it off soon…
Base Color: Nicole by OPI All Kendall-ed Up
Stamping Color: Konad White
Stamping Plate: Cheeky Plate A
Base Color: China Glaze Deviantly Daring from Bohemian Collection
Stamping Color: Konad Black Special Polish
Stamping Plate: Cheeky CH10
Top Coat: Seche Vite
I didn’t mean for this manicure to make me think of superheroes, but it was hard not to after seeing the final result. ;)
Base Color: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 240 Blue Streak
Stamping Color: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri 230 Silver Sweep
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM-305
Top Coat: Seche Vite
Base Color: A-England Saint George
Stamping Color: Sally Hansen Insta-Dri Mint Sprint
Stamping Plate: Bundle Monster BM-322
Top Coat: Seche Vite
