Today I have a stamper from Born Pretty Store that I was sent to review. You may have seen similar stampers on some other blogs recently, as I've seen them pop up in a few other places too. They're a little different from your Konad style stamper, and here's why!
There's no plate, scraper and stamper here, it's literally just the rubber stamper with the images on it. I chose this plate because it has full nail designs, and I do love me a full nail design.
So the way you use these is obviously a little different from stamping plates. You paint the polish on to the design (as normal), then use a toothpick or similar to gently swipe off some of the excess - you really don't need to be too neat at this point. Next, to remove the rest of the excess gently stamp on to some paper. My top tip is this - stamp it on to paper as many times as you need to to get rid of ALL the unwanted polish. I was a bit worried at first that if I did it too many times I'd start losing polish from the design, or that it would all dry and it would transfer! But it was fine :) So stamp away. Finally, just stamp it on to your nail! I used a rolling motion like I would with Konad.
The first thing I noticed when I unpacked the stamper was the size of the images. They are really small. I was so disappointed! There was absolutely no way they were covering my full nail (except my little finger, but that is weirdly teeny), so I didn't even try.
So below I have two nail art designs that I did with this stamper, using it just over part of the nail.
For this look I used Barry M Black, Star Gazer 232 and a Konad stamping polish. I fully intended to stamp the star design, but it was like 10:30pm and apparently I forgot that's what I meant to do, and ended up with zebras instead.
It took me a few attempts to get these so that I was happy with them. I realised at this point I wasn't going to get nice clean lines with these, so I decided to embrace the messiness and go for this messy 4th July manicure!
Here I used Barry M Matt White and Nails Inc Southwark, and Konad stamping polishes again. You can see some of the stars came out really well as I got a bit more practice. My little finger though...they're more blobs than stars. You can also see on my ring and thumb nails that because of the shape of the stamper, it's really hard to get right up to the cuticle.
So, my final verdict?
Hmm...I'm really not sure actually. I really don't think you'd be able to get the same kind of crisp lines that you can with stamping plates (well, that you can if you're better at stamping than me!), but I did find it a lot easier to use than plates. The fact that you just stamp away on paper until you've got rid of all the excess is so much less faff that the scraper, and I felt like I didn't have to work so quickly.
So, I'd probably buy one again over a stamping plate, but not full nail designs because, well...they don't cover your full nail! I'm eyeing up A25...
You can see this product here. They're $2.99 (£1.98) each, with free shipping worldwide. And don't forget! If you decide to buy a stamper or anything else (anything at all!) from Born Pretty Store, you can use the code LKL91 for 10% off.
PS. Happy 4th of July to all my American readers :)
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