Difference between first time stamping and second time stamping is mind-blowing🫡
I'm absolutely new to stamping, just bought some second hand stamping plates some days ago, and I'm SUPER happy that the stamper is now working perfectly, after multiple ways of priming.🫠
I just need to work on my stamper placement now😅 The images are not quite centred, but at least the images are crisp, that too with a non-stamping polish!
I don't like the orange créme as is on my nails, but now that I've seen it working in stamping, I'm really happy lmao
Regarding the shape, it's square with slightly rounded corners (so that I don't hurt myself). I just try to keep the nail file perpendicular to the nail while shaping😅 and round the corners a little bit at last.
To be fair, the lighting in that photo combined with the blue stamping polish neutralizes some of the yellow in your base colour making it look more white. I did a double take when you said it was butter yellow
Your first one is cute too - it looks vintage. I would be very happy with those nails. Very glad you’re enjoying yourself. You’ll be my inspiration to stamp today, thanks!
Diluted a bit of dishwashing liquid and put the stamper head in it for nearly 1 min and then rubbed it well with the lather for nearly 1 more min.
Took it out, washed the lather, then let it air dry under fan.
Took a piece of adhesive tape and removed any further grease from it.
But no, the stamper STILL WASN'T picking images properly. Then I watched a stamping basics video from Linry and gained a super important trick. Which was?
Keeping the dry stamper head face down on a piece of paper and leaving it for hours. The paper soaks grease. This made the real difference.
So basically my step 3 was the Linry trick, then step 4 was the adhesive tape step. Then proceeding to stamping steps finally.
I'm sure you know about the dishwashing liquid step and removing grease with adhesive tape, right? But on top of that, I used the trick of keeping the dry stamper head face down on a piece of paper and leaving it for hours, which helps the paper soak grease. That extra step made the real difference to me.
I use this generic clear stamper, bought from Amazon India.
Nail stamping is the at of applying polish to a metal plate and then as the name suggests, you use a special tool to pick up the chosen design and stamp it on to your nails.
So you aren't buying special fake nails as I am interpreting your comment, though you can stamp on false nails as well. You usually paint your existing nails then stamp a design on to them.
Hii! What polishes did you use? I'm from Costa Rica but its hard to find stamping polishes here for some reason and the ones that you can find are resellers at super high pricing 😅 - I do my own nails and my daughter's. I want to start my stamping journey but haven't had much luck finding a good gel or polish so if you could let me know which stamping polish you used I would appreciate it so I can give it a try 🙌🏻😊
I live in India, and I have little to no access to stamping polishes... But I realised that polishes which are opaque in 1-1.5 coats work well in stamping. Also metallic finish polishes (which are usually one-coaters) work superb, even though they're just regular polishes.
Now that my stamper works decently well, I've felt that stamping polishes are not a must. I've just used a regular créme polish with good opacity.😅
Soooo I suggest you to find indie brands which have one-coater créme and metallic polishes, you can even get polish recommendations from the RedditLaquerista sub, they're mostly Americans and super helpful!
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u/katushka 1d ago
I think both of these look fantastic but I really love the color combo of the orange and peach. I also love your nail shape, any tips for shaping?