Nail Polish Addicts Anonymous

sawan82

Have photographed my stash (most of it). Some are astray in the house, others which haven't been organised aren't here (these are the ones I've managed to list so far :eek:) Will do nail pics later I think.







Just realised there are more missing then I realised with a 'few' purchases over the past 2-3 weeks

amyb_2

Toomuchdebt wrote: »

Quick help please-what's the difference between the original and the matte nail envy?The matte one seems to be cheaper-is it just as good?

I prefer the matte as i use it as i base coat; but TBH there is not much in it.

The OPI TSV on the 22nd is rumoured to have the Pink nail Envy included.

lauradora

Have recently discovered Gelish,think I may be an addict

catch_me_if_you_can

I found myself wandering around superdrug at lunchtime looking at the lovely lovely array of colours and effects you can do... think I like this new interest of mine! :rotfl:

starrystarry

China Glaze Secret Periwinkle...

VALM

amyb wrote: »

I prefer the matte as i use it as i base coat; but TBH there is not much in it.

The OPI TSV on the 22nd is rumoured to have the Pink nail Envy included.

And it's apparently going to have a coral colour made exclusively for QVC.

HanSpan

starrystarry wrote: »

China Glaze Secret Periwinkle...

LOVE that colour! Added to my wish list.

HanSpan

starrystarry wrote: »

You can rough up the stamper with a nail file, I find the images pick up better since I did this, particularly when I'm not using the konad polish.

My problem isn't so much getting the polish onto the stamper but getting it off the stamper onto my nails. I seem to end up with strings of polish between the two and can't get a whole image off the stamper without wrecking bits.

HanSpan

Lady_S wrote: »

Hiya, I will try and answer some of these questions.

- Getting the image centred
This is difficult and it is only trial and error. I tend to shy away from patterns which are stripes or you will see that it isn't applied straight. Other than this it is trial and error. I just try and line the image as best as I can with the further edge to my nail, then roll towards the near edge.

The theory sounds great but I really do seem to have no hand eye co-ordination (always was rubbish at games) and can't for the life of me tell what is straight. I can't even seem to judge where the edge of the pattern is in relation to the nail!
Tonight I have had a play and if I can find any that aren't just too blurry I may post some pics for you all to laugh at my ineptitude. The sort of french nail patterns are the worst (or best for comedy value).

- plate size.
Different plates are different sizes, Even within a pack some can be different. If possible and necessary I will stamp twice onto one nail to cover it. Although I do have fairly short and thin thumbnails. Other than that I have made a 'feature' our of my thumb when it isn't possible to match the pattern.

I think I need to play with the 'feature' idea, as the lack of ability to get the pattern straightish once means a second one to join it is just never going to happen!

- stringly varnish.
I think that you can stamp with almost any varnish as long as it is a thick opaque type of one. However, the most important thing is the actual stamper you use. I have one which when it came was slightly rougher than the other and it is great for picking up the non konad special polishes. However, with the konad polishes it is rubbish. I just use a different one depending on what I am doing.

No idea about really big stamp grabbers, but I have konad, cheeky and bundle monster plates. I am hoping to 'invest' in the DRK-A and DRK-B plate soon. But need to flog some stuff on ebay to justify it.

I think its me not the varnish or stamper. I never was artistic so who knows what made me think I'd find this easy, never mind - it keeps me out of trouble and is reducing my chocolate intake if nothing else!
Thanks for the tips. I shall keep on trying.

HanSpan

Hope its not considered poor form to resond to your own posts with an update.

HanSpan wrote: »

Last night I received another package - Kand (fake) set from HK with some additional plates and stamps and scrapers. Very good value but the polish seems hard to manage and some of the big shapes seem a bit blobby. I will try again as I was stamping on bits of paper rather than my nails which isn't really a fair trial. Again most of the whole nail stamps are too small for my thumb except for one *huge* spider web on plate A37. this has the reverse problem - its too big for the stamp grabber! Can you get really big rubber grabbers?

So tonight I've trashed the spangly green nails with a few attempts at stamping from this kit.

The kit had 3 bottles of polish, several plates (plus a few extras I bought), a stamper, a double ended stamper/scraper & nail varnish remover and corrector pen.

I've given up on the polish all together. It drys so fast I will never get it off a plate onto a stamper then onto my finger. Its not at all like the konad special polish. Even with pure acetone its hard to get back off the plates and all surrounding objects. Hard to describe but I think probably just rubbish! Happy to send it to anyone with some experience to see if its just me - otherwise its going in the bin. I'd not offer it to a novice as if I'd tryed this before the konad, or pretty much any of my other polishes, I'd never have stamped a thing again!

Scrapers ditto. They just move the polish around and give me the nails on a chalkboard feeling. They have already gone in the bin.

The plates seemed fine once I'd switched to konad polish, scraper and stamper. I am not an expert so they may not be top quality but - other than the mess caused by my shaking and taking too long and so on - I can't see blurry edges.

Stampers I'm not sure. I think I need to experiment with other polishes and I may try the roughing them up trick.

Nail varnish remover pads took some polish off the plates but is making no real dent in my several layered nails. Neat acetone on cotton wool in tin foil soon! Nail corrector pen totally useless - another item for the bin.

So all in all more flops than goodies. If I ever buy again it will be just plates as they are very reasonably priced. To be fair the whole thing has turned out OK as it only cost me £13 including postage and if nothing else I have 7 new plates including the A series one with the whopping spider web.
Now I'm wondering if the others in the A series are also huge.

Just been to look at the website and they *look* big, they are only 82p each, and postage last time was only £3.17 (as I forced myself to wait for the slow 20 working day option).

I must not buy more stuff, I must not buy more stuff. Wonder how long my willpower will last? At least until the genuine Konad plate arrives, hopefully tomorrow, for comparison. then all bets are off