Emily stamps for the first time... and it's love.

I've always been intrigued by polish stamping, especially after reading Let them have Polish!  and seeing all of the amazing designs she does, but have been wary about investing the money into it, as most plates cost about $7 each. What if I'm no good at it? Then that's good polish money wasted! Luckily, a girl I work with has a set that she let me borrow so I could get a feel for it before investing in my own set. Thanks Lauren! Lauren has only one Konad plate, the stamper and the scraper, and a huge set of Bundle Monster plates that she said worked just as well.

I started by applying Rain Drops, a light grey creme from Claire's as my base. I'm loving all the grey polishes I've seen this spring.

I watched a couple of instruction videos on youtube to get a feel of what I should do and decided on BM plate 20 as my first stamp. I did exactly as they said, scraped the polish, stamped quickly and...

Nothing on the stamper. Huh??

Puzzled, I try again. Nothing. Hmm.... mystery. Fifteen minutes later I find that this plate still has a plastic wrap on it. Oh.

Good one Em. After five minutes of grumbling about being outsmarted by nail art equipment I am ready to try and stamp again, sans plastic wrap. I get a much improved result, but still not the entire image. Several attempts with several plates/designs yield no better result. I end up trying the actual Konad plate to see if its something I'm doing wrong and I ended up with this.

Not bad for a first shot eh?? I used Revlon Lunar to stamp with. The next day I removed just the top design, painted another coat of Rain Drops and tried another design.

I love the way it turned out! This cemented my interest in Konad, but not my faith in Bundle Monster. The price is right, the BM plates are much cheaper on Amazon, but even with subsequent attempts with different polishes I have yet to get a decent image from a BM plate, which is pretty disappointing. When it comes down to it, I'd rather spend more to get a product that yields better results then save and end up with a headless peacock mani. Does anyone else use Konad or Bundle Monster and have better results? I'd love to get some opinions!