stamps on nails? what is this sorcery?!

It's April in Vancouver, but the temperatures are lower than what we had in February! Shall I be blaming this on Global Warming?! In addition to the colder temperatures, it has been raining day in and day out! (Well I guess we need the rain since there wasn't much snow over the winter, so don't want to be risking a drought). But on the bright side, I've been making use of the light & dark green polka dot rainboots. I know I probably look semi ridiculous in them, but I stick my tongue out to all the haters when I get to stomp through a puddle and you have to walk around it! Muhahaha.

Oh yea, I bought stocks recently, it's my first time buying stocks and I'm so freaked out, yet so excited at the same time! I hope my stocks continue to rise!!!

Anyways, I was planning to blog about the Konad nail stamping plates that I got last year, but my procrastination has not left since I graduated (and I think it never will, lol). 

So, nail stamping is where metal plates have inscribed designs and you paint the design with the nail polish colour of choice, transfer the design onto a rubber stamp and then proceed to stamp it onto your nails. 

The two pictures are of two different stamps that I have used. 

And the "tools" (besides nail polish) that I have used to achieve this? 

Clockwise from left: scraper, stamper, Konad design m32, Konad design m60

I love nail stamping because it allows me to have so many different looks on my nails with only a small number of polishes in my collection. But it did take me a couple of tries to get the hang of using the stamps, and which I'm sure others have had/will have the same experience as me. There are several reasons I say this, first of all it's because once you transfer the design from the plate to the stamper, you only have about 5 seconds to stamp it on your nail before it dries. Secondly, you need to roll the stamp. Since your nails have a slight curvature to them, you can't just press the stamper down head on, you need to roooolllll, and that is quite hard when you are using your non-dominant hand to stamp onto your dominant hand. I had so much trouble my first couple of times until I adapted by coming up with a way that worked for me; keeping the stamper stationary and rolling my finger. Finally, it can become quite messy because the instructions do say to clean the plate after every application, so you need to constantly wipe the plate with nail polish remover after stamping each finger, and then that risks removing the polish from your nails! But after a couple of times, I have figured that you do not need to clean it after every application; I have managed to stretch it to after each hand. So that's why I say that you need to a couple of tries before you can become fast and efficient at using the plates, and trust me I'm not there yet :p (it's because I don't have too much patience for waiting polish to dry, so I haven't been able to practice much yet).


I will end this post with a new polish colour that I feel in love with recently.

 Rimmel in Camouflage

Actually, I think I will end posts with a random unrelated picture from now on. 

  So pretty. 

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