r/nailstamping

>The Holy Spirit of Nail Stamping possessed me today. What was supposed to be a quick, simple manicure with maybe 1-2 nails of fun stamp decals turned into a full manicure with 10 nails of fun stamp decals. Once I started, I couldn't stop until I ran out of nails. Now I'm too distracted by them to finish my work for the day. Anyways. Stamp on, lacqueristas.

Base Coat: Zoya - Naked Lavender
Base Color: ILNP - Cygnus Loop
Stamping polish: Maniology - Gold
Top Coat: Sally Hansen Insta-dri Top Coat (red bottle)

I saw a post yesterday (sorry, I didn't grab OP's name) discussing Born Pretty's yellow stamping polish. I've never had it work to use as a stamping polish but it works great as a jelly polish (which is wild, right?).

Put a coat of the yellow stamping polish down as a base, stamped white roses from an unbranded stamping plate, then topped it with the yellow stamping polish.

Finished this set with a matte top coat.

Stamping is fun, but bold/big designs can sometimes overwhelm short nails and they end up looking too busy. These are 5 tricks I use to keep my manicures delicate and visually spacious. My nails are 1.1 cm long aprox.

-​Neutral Bases: Soft pinks or milky whites help with creating more space and make the look more classy.

-​Low Contrast: Pairing the base color with a low contrasted color of stamping polish is much softer on the eyes and it doesn't cut your canvas.

-​Negative Space: Letting the base color see through creates the illusion of a larger nail bed and space to breath.

-​Fine Lines: Heavy lines can look cluttered and chunky. Fine lines keep the design delicate, airy and light.

-Vertical direction: prefer vertical lines that will make your nails look more elongated. Or movement of the lines pointing towards the free edge.

-​Cohesiveness: Treat your hand as one canvas. All nails are different but part of the same theme. Gives visually more space and creates a vibe.

Do you have any other tips? 💅🏻

Born Prettystamping polish in gray, purple, green, brown, and fuchsia

Pandahall 3pcs Fruit Nail Stamping Plates

This group has amazing stampers! I wonder what are the things that make your life difficult when stamping, and if you sometimes find yourself deciding not to stamp because of them. Pic of a recent stamping mani I did with chrome powders.

Products:

-Essie - first base (base coat), Gel couture (quick dry top coat)

-Cirque Colors - Chiffon (neutral base), peel n' paint (peel-off base coat)

-Clear jelly stamper - black sticky stamping polish S01, CjS 241 plate

-KADS - Nature 016 plate

-Saviland - green, fucsia and gold chrome powders

-ILNP - Frosted glass (matte top coat)

I’m experimenting with some stamping and these stripes are adorable ! I’ve also used stickers from 3 different sets and put them together in a collage 💕

I'm looking for a better yellow than what I currently have that would ideally pop a bit better than what i currently have; I've only used Moyou London's stamping polish and the black and white from pueen I found in a walmart for actual stamping polish, but i've also used my best one coat polishes too. Double stamping is definitely a way i've tried in the past but my hands shake too much so they just dont line up that well so I'm more interested in trying a new yellow but because of yellow's nature I thought i'd ask for suggestions instead of blindly throwing money at different yellows until I found one that worked for me.

Products used: nailtiques 2 base, lyn by's enchanted aura, moyou's be my raptor (stamping polish), zoya's tanzy (hoped it would help them pop, did not unfortunately), ioni's aqua pop water based top coat for the stamps, and sally hansen's insta-dry (red) topcoat. Stamping plate Moyou London's Pro Collection XL - 11

Theme nails for the last regional dance competition of the season - one nail for each of the main dances.

🕶️ Stay (DMB)

💎Money Good (Megan Thee Stallion mix)

💲Money (Cabaret) ft pic from her solo

🍺Play Dirty (Lucky Peterson)

👬☕ Brotherhood of Man (How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying

All stamping polishes are Maniology, but plates are various

Made this one for an Instagram art collab. It was my first time using nail foil and wow, was that a learning experience!

The components:

Polishes: Holo Taco's No Smoking & Maniology's Straight up Black, Sally Hansen Double Duty top coat

Iridescent nail foil

Maniology plate M441

No toads were harmed 😋

I don’t know I wanted to use the base color so I got stoned and came up with this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

From bottom to top:

One coat ORLY Breathable Protein Boost

One coat ORLY Bonder

One carrrreful coat Zoya Cecilia — if I weren’t stamping a full image pattern over it I would definitely have done two

Stamping from the UberChic Beauty Art Deco Refinement plate in Maniology Ducky.

One coat ORLY Just an Illusion

Reverse stamped ladies from the MoYou London Back to the 20’s 01 plate. Polishes used are all Maniology: Boba, Skin Deep, Thriller, and Starfish.

I did not make it easy on myself and decided to try isolated chrome for my first stamping attempt. I actually wanted to do a different stamp (checkerboard) but that plate was still in shipment and I got too excited to try stamping so I decided to go with this one from Maniology’s M488 which is the only plate I had.

I’m not thrilled with how they turned out but I’m not too mad about it lol. Going to practice on my sister next.

So much fun! Can’t wait to learn more from this community!
Maniology plate and used regular quick dry polish

Maniology plates M688,689,691 over Bees Knees “Merciless Life”

Holo Taco Not Milky White, Maniology Blue Glaze, clear jelly stamper gold, plate used was Maniology Broken and Beautiful m679.

Maniology plate M685, wrapped in wool.