I have long been a bit nail polish obsessed, and therefore aware of the huge nail art community online. There are literally hundreds of YouTube videos, tutorials, pinterest boards and nail blogs out there! I love browsing the blogs for nail art inspiration and decided recently to invest in some new nail art goodies to play around with. I have been aware of nail art stamping plates for a while but had yet to buy any myself, so I picked up this inexpensive one from etsy to try out the technique!
Nail art stamping plates are thin metal plates with designs etched into them (presumably by a laser). You fill these designs with nail polish, pick up the image on a little silicone stamper tool, and then stamp the designs onto your nails. It sounds more complicated than it is, it is just a bit hard to explain. I'll point you towards this YouTube video to get a better idea of the process.
This was my first time experimenting with doing a complete manicure with this new-to-me technique. I chose to buy this plate in particular because of the little leaves and berries design, so I decided to create my first stamping mani using that pattern.
Since it is seriously fall now, even the weather here has been grey, cold and rainy this week, I decided to go for a darker nail. I used a black polish (Wet n' Wild black creme) for my base color and a green duo-chrome polish for the design (Topshop Hidden Treasure).
Here is my new stamping plate, the design I used for this mani is second from the right in the second row down.
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| Paint on your stamping color |
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| Scrape over the blob to distribute the polish and squeegee off excess |
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| So far I like using an old gift card (or in this case an old sim card thingy) to scrape as it doesn't scratch the pate |
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| pick up the design |
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| Now it is on your stamper! Stamp it onto your nail before the polish dries! |
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| Clean off the stamp between each nail, I binder clipped the cotton ball so I wouldn't ruin my nails |
Before you know it, pretty patterned nails! So far I am loving this technique, I now have a long wishlist of plates I want to add to my nail art tool kit! Though the nail art trend at large is definitely winding down, I am still having a lot of fun decorating my finger tips. Would any of you ever try stamped nail art?
That looks much easier than I would have imagined! And I love that pattern! :)
ReplyDeleteIt really isn't too hard once you get the hang of it, I practiced for a bit just stamping a piece of computer paper to get the technique down. It's really quite fun and there are hundreds of different stamping plates out there with all kinds of motifs!
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