GALS Fairy Stamping Plates

Today I have the second of the GALS stamping plate sets to show you, the Fairy set (which features plates GA26-GA50), as with the previous set the Fairy set is available on Amazon from Cheeky's shop there. I have taken individual photos of each plate to show the images but first a quick reminder of the boxes for the sets (they're slightly beat up from transit but all the plates arrived in good condition).

Here are the pictures of the plates:

As you can see there are a great selection of images, I particularly love the full nail designs, I can't wait to try  more of them out.  I've already used a couple of the plates in my final Christmas themed manicure of this year, which you can see here.  They stamped beautifully and all the images were perfectly crisp.  

The one minor issue I would mention about these plates is that they are slightly smaller than some other plates I have so they didn't cover the full length of my nails when they were long.  On shorter nails they would be absolutely fine but ladies with longer nails might want to bear the slightly smaller size of these images.

The only thing left to do was to stick them into my plate holder, which you can see more info on here.

GALS Princess Stamping Plates.

Today I have the first of two new sets of GALS stamping plates to show you, the Princess set (which features plates GA1-GA25) both are are available on Amazon from Cheeky's shop there.  As far as I can tell they ship from China as mine took a long time to arrive, they also arrived a bit beat up as you can see from the boxes below.

However, inside the slightly bashed boxes the plates were in fine condition.  I've taken individual pictures of each plate to show off the designs, here is the Princess set:

As you can see there are a great selection of images, I particularly love the full nail designs, I can't wait to try  more of them out.  I've already used a couple of the plates in my final Christmas themed manicure of this year, which you can see here.  They stamped beautifully and all the images were perfectly crisp.  

The one minor issue I would mention about these plates is that they are slightly smaller than some other plates I have so they didn't cover the full length of my nails when they were long.  On shorter nails they would be absolutely fine but ladies with longer nails might want to bear the slightly smaller size of these images.

The only thing left to do was to stick them into my plate holder, which you can see more info on here.

Essence - Irreplaceable

A quick post today with a few pictures of Irreplaceable by Essence.  I have been horribly lax with painting my nails over the festive season and this was just a quick polish I threw on to tide me over the in-between time during Christmas and New Year.  It's a lovely sparkly nude colour and made a nice simple change from all the festive manicures I've had on recently.

A final Christmas themed manicure.

A final festive themed manicure, this time using a variety of my new GALS Princess and Fairy stamping plates, more on them in the new year!  Now on to the manicure, a quick word of warning though, these were taken after a long day of working in the kitchen so they are not in perfect condition, apologies!

You can see how nicely the new plates stamp, more nice on them very soon!

Unseasonal Stamping

Here is one of the least seasonal posts you'll see on here this month, I've had it saved in my drafts for ages and while I'm scheduling some posts over the Christmas holidays I thought I'd squeeze it in.

For this manicure I used Kiko 355 as a base with Jade Jump & Blue-Away by Sally Hansen for the stamping.  355 is a bold yellow shade, perfect for summer, why I decided I had to wear in in the middle of November I'm not sure, the stamping was also in two pale summery shades, a minty green and a sky blue.  I chose these two as I wanted to see how well they stamped.

I used this chevron style image from Cheeky plate CH8 with Jade Jump on one side and Blue-Away on the other.

This stamping didn't quite turn out how I wanted, I was hoping the colours would look a bit more different to each other than they did in the end.  I also managed to bash a couple of nails before they were fully dry so they look a little beat up.

Overall I am not really too happy with how this manicure turned out, I do love the shape of the stamp though and both Sally Hansen polishes stamped really well so it wasn't a total waste of time, I'll be quite happy to take it off though!