Tuesday Stamping #67

Hi lovelies,

Double post day 🙂

If you have read any of these before I suggest you skip everything and just go straight to the photo’s.  If you’re new to the blog or haven’t seen these yet then I suggest you go take a look at Tuesday Stamping #1.  I explain most of it there but will I also give a brief run down in this post.  So if you’ve read it,  scroll over the first bit of text 😉

Basically, this is how I am going to do it.  I am going to be stamping over black and white. White will be the lightest colour you ever wear and black the darkest.  What better way to see how a polish works over dark and light colours.  Now, obviously, not many will actually want to stamp OVER black but it will be a good way to find out if a polish will show up over dark colours.  If it shows up on black you can be pretty certain it will show up over everything.  That does mean that if it is noticeable but not very, it will probably work much better over say a purple or a blue.  I will try to address this with each polish I show you as well.

I will also be using the same plate for all the stamping to make sure there will be continuity.  I chose a stamp that had some images with thin lines, with bigger spaces, with some detail etc.  That way you can see if a polish will stamp crisp lines when they are thin or if it will smudge when the image has bigger spaces.  I decided to go with Pueen11. I will be using the 4 full nail images on this plate.

I will show you 4 of my ordinary polishes with every post.  If you want to see more or less per post please let me know.  I will use 4 random polishes each time until I have worked through all the polishes I have (excluding glitters of course) and I will show you everything, whether it stamped well or not.  I will also be showing you my first attempts at all of them.  Sometimes it happens that you move the stamper a little bit when you stamp onto the nail.  Or you waited just a second too long and the whole image doesn’t transfer.  Or you press too hard and get the shadow stamping.  Usually if this happens I would remove it and stamp again.  It also happens that a polish looks so promising and after you’ve stamped you think, ah this could look better if I tried it once or twice more.  I will not be doing any of that.  What I stamp first try is what you get.  I just feel that you can get a better result if you keep trying but the mark of a good stamping polish is how well it works straight off the bat.

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I have 4 light green polishes for you today and they all really surprised me.  See, I told you I would get back to one colour family 😉

China Glaze – Re-fresh mint

This is a very light green and even though it shows up really well on the black it is almost too light for the white.  It gets quite washed out.  It also loses a bit of the green on the black but it still looks really good.  It stamps pretty well so I think either subtle stamping for this one or on a darker green perhaps?

Essence – Hello spring

This one is also really light so doesn’t show up as well on the white but as with re-fresh mint, I am surprised about how it looks on the black.  Doesn’t stamp too badly at all.

OPI – Gargantuan green grape (matte) 

This one stamped really really well and shows up ok on the black and better than the others so far on the white.  This one actually looked much better before topcoat.  Not too bad

Color Club – Twiggie

Shut the front door. If you can excuse the mistake on my ring finger this one stamped really well.  It looks good on the white (even though a bit washed out on the photo in the brighter lights) and looks great on the black.

All of these surprised me in some way, especially over the black.  I do think Twiggie is my favourite though but I also like the subtleness of Re-fresh mint.    What do you think?  Do you want to see any of them stamped over a specific colour? Do you have an idea for a stamped design you would like me to do?  Do you have any suggestions for changes or additions you would prefer on these posts?   I would love to hear from you.  Or if you want to choose the next 4 polishes let me know.

Thanks for reading,