Nail Disaster 2

After yesterday's post highlighting my failed stamping I decided to go for something simple but a bit sparkly on my nails, just regular old polish to save any more problems and leave me with nice, pretty nails with as little effort as possible.

 

I decided to go for Orly's Fowl Play, a lovely purple based polish jam packed full of flakies.  Unfortunately the nail gods are clearly against me this week...

 

As I was applying oil to my cuticles half of the polish on my index finger seemed to slip right off!  Now, technically I could have repainted the one nail bur Fowl Play is quite a sheer polish and needs 3 good coats to get it fully opaque and I have never successfully repainted just one nail before.  So instead I decided to whip it all off and start again.

 

I can only assume that Fowl Play needing three coats and then a couple of coats of topcoat meant that the polish wasn't perfectly dry as I applied the oil and for some reason it cause the polish to lift right off, whatever happened it was most annoying not least because it was looking pretty nice before the incident and I'd like to have gotten a day's wear out of it!

Nail Disasters 1

Generally my nails turn out looking pretty good when I paint them or stamp them, whether this is luck or skill is debatable but I love stamping in particular as I find it a simple and quick way to get an impressive looking nail design without too much effort, sadly this wasn't the case with today's nails.

 

For some reason - either due to my stamping skills being temporarily on holiday or because of the different plates I used - today's stamping effort was pretty much a disaster.  I decide to use a Dashica plate which I got last summer.  I've not used these plates much as it turned out the original ones were a faulty batch and didn't stamp properly, the company replaced them but by the time the new ones arrived I had moved on to other, newer, things and never really got back round to trying them again.

 

 

Sadly my experience with them today make it seem unlikely they'll get much more use now, the stamps just wouldn't work nicely for me, as you can see from the following photos the first finger I stamped worked out fine but after that the stamp became blurry and messy looking.

 

 

No matter what I did I couldn't get any of the other nails to look as crisp as the first image, they all blurred and smudged and looked generally terrible. 

 

 

I decided to try a second design on my other hand but ran into exactly the same issue!

 

 

Now obviously the fact that I managed to get one finger to stamp alright means that there IS a way to get these plates to work well but I have no idea what that is.  I made sure the plate and all my stamping accessories were super clean for subsequent stamps, in case any excess polish was the issue, but it didn't seem to make any difference.

 

So my Dashica plates are being relegated to the back of my Helmer drawer for another period of time and for now I'll stick with my Cheeky, Bundle Monster and Gals plates which all work almost perfectly pretty much every time.

 

Have any of you used Dashica plates?  Any tips on what it is I might be doing wrong?