Okay, so I found this cool nail stamping kit online. It’s funny how I went so long without doing my nails because I thought polish didn’t look good on short nails. Then I bought a bottle of gold polish last fall and haven’t looked back since! Anyway, this kit is fun. It’s for stamping designs on your nails. I bought the stamps on Amazon (linkie) I had to laugh because even though I am an Amazon Prime member and got free shipping, this item was not expedited shipping. We joked that it was coming on the slow boat from China. Well, turns out it was the slow boat from Hong Kong for real LOL! It took a couple weeks to get the stamps.
The kit is basically the plates of designs. There are something like 120 designs all together!
Separately, I bought the stamping tool and scraper.
You can cut up an old gift card or expired credit card to use as a scraper, too, but the stamper is really the tool that you have to have. It has the large pad (pink) and the smaller green pad (for smaller designs).
First, have your base color done and dry to the touch before doing the stamping. Do *not* use any quick dry top coat or your stamps will slide around (lesson learned).
You do have to move quickly with the plates, so practice on a piece of paper at first. First you paint some polish over the design, the put the scraper at an angle and pull to remove any polish not embedded in the stamp design.
The pick up the stamper tool and roll it across the design with some pressure, picking up the polish:
Then quickly roll the stamp over the top of your nail. Obviously I am demoing this without the polish as my nails were already done. This is just the technique.
It dries pretty much instantaneously. Now, you will get some of the design transfer on your skin rolling the stamper, but just use a Q-tip with polish remover to clean that up.
Clear top coat and you are ready to go! For best results, use cream polishes for the stamp. Sheer and sparkly polishes don’t show the stamp very well, save those for the base coat.
Here we are working hard on our nails Saturday night:
Everyone brought the polishes they had, so we had a ton! Note to self. Get extra stampers. We all had to share the one!
Some design samples:
My mom brought a bunch of her rings for us to put on and be all fancy (she is a jewelry hound).
The nails!
This is so much fun!
On Sunday I was all ready for riding to bagel breakfast in style!
With the top coat, this lasts for days. We did nails on Saturday night and Tuesday night mine still look just like this.
Way cute Lori! I have never seen this before but I love how it looks. You all did such a nice job on your nails.
sooo cute! I have been eyeballing a stamper kit recently. Good to know that it is so easy.
Wow! I haven’t read a post since July 7. I had to get all caught up. Love all the bike riding and the pics of the lovely treats you have.
Happy Belated Birthday to John! The cake looked scrumptious!
Love all the flower pics and the pretty butterflies. Still not a lot here and I finally saw a Monarch last weekend.
Pixie is as adorable as ever and I must say your house is really, really cute. You made it so homey with your beautiful garden!
CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OK, I have to admit that I doubt I would have the patience for this & then I would probably screw them up in the gym but oh so cute!!!!!!!!
That looks like so much fun! And the nails look awesome. I find it’s the little simple things like this that make me feel so much better, haha.
What fun! I’ll have to try this.
Molly
How fun to try something new like that, especially with the ladies in your family!
also getting caught up! Loved the before & after of your house & garden!! Like you, I am also a total sucker for before-and-afters of all types, from house renos to body renos 🙂
very cute nails!
I love how you enjoy doing fun things with your family. Your nieces must think they have the coolest aunt ever!
Actually, I think they find me rather boring LOL!
Cool! Love it. I never have the patience to polish my finger nails but everytime I see someone who did it, makes me want to do it too but I never do. And that repeats and repeats 🙂
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we would love this.
So cute and how much fun to make it a girls night! My niece Gracie, who always asks me to do her nails when I see her, would love this. Must look into it.
I’m beyond impressed!!! I used to wear fake nails all the time because I’m too lazy to do anything to my nails. Now they are just a mess but I don’t think I could achieve that look if I spent all day!!
Super cute!!
That is so cool. I wish I could do my nails like that but I’m so brutal on my hands it’s not worth it. Also, I can’t sit still long enough to do it. 🙁
Your nails look really nice.
SO CUTE!!! I had no idea there was such a thing as a nail stamp!!
I never heard of this! YOUR nails look cute. I suspect mine would be a disaster. 🙂
Jewelry hound, huh? Well….you’re right! Guess there are worse things I could be. I had a great time with all my girls on Saturday.
Oh, you’ve really gotten into that nail thing. It looks pretty easy the way you do it. I have always had short and soft nails. But I’m also pretty lazy about my nails so maybe I can’t blame my nails for them being not very impressive… 🙂
You can now have a different nail design for 120 consecutive days! 🙂
What fun!!!