My first time stamping! Ok, I know it’s not perfect but my back started aching….
I’m a bit of perfectionist, so I had the image of how I wanted these to turn out and I was going to get as close to it as possible. I actually attempted this to try it out and then had to take it all off the next day to re-do because I found out the challenges of stamping pretty fast the first time round.
I started off with the Holo Taco Royal-Tea Blue and One-Coat Black polishes. The black really is only one-coat necessary, it’s amazing! I started by doing a gradient on my middle and ring fingers using a generic sponge off Amazon and Mehron Liquid Latex to protect the skin around the nail from being covered in nail polish , and left the others black. I then topped my nails with the Scattered Holo Taco, finishing with just the Thumb, little and forefinger with Scattered Holo Taco as I didn’t want to clutter the ‘nail art nails’ too much.
Then onto the stamping. For some reason my stamper just wouldn’t pick up the pattern I wanted to transfer. I thought my stamper must be faulty (I’m using the Mo You London Crystal Clear Stamper and Scraper – £9), so I tested it on a different stamping plate and it worked. Judging by the extensive knowledge I acquired (cough) from a couple of YouTube videos I watched, I concluded that the stamping plate I was using was just a shallower one and needed a different technique to pull it off – YouTube videos linked further down. I got the general idea of what to do differently, and while it’s not perfect it definitely helped! I used Whats Up Nails – Silver Ag-ent Stamping Polish with the Dixie Mini Celestial Sky Plate, both from Nail Stamping Queen UK to create the planet and celestial effects.
It took quite a while what with all the attempts to pick up the pattern from the plate, but for my first go at stamping I was pretty pleased with the results. I have some other plates too which I’ll use for some more designs and upload on here.
Thanks for reading and keep on creating!
In A Beauty World 
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