Dusting off my Konad

Happy Friday! I hope you all have had a great week. I've been working the night shift so my schedule has been a little off. I didn't work last night but I had a difficult time sleeping so I stayed up playing with my Konad and Glitter supplies. Here's what I came up.


I used 1 coat of Wet N' Wild black then stamped with China Glaze Metallic Muse. The glitter is by LA Girl Glitter Addict - Nostalgic. The image plate actually isn't Konad, it's from Dashica's Beauty, Big Sdp A Image Plate. It's hard to see the detail but I put one piece of glitter in the middle of each flower.

I love how it turned out. I did make a couple of mistakes but the great thing about stamping over black was that I could paint right over the mistake and try it again.

And here's my daughter's art work. She wanted me to share it with you all. It's a nail polish bottle if you couldn't tell. I think I'm rubbing off on her :)

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Dashica's Beauty Big Image Plate SdP-A

Hello everyone! Today I have a review of Dashica's Beauty SdP Big image plate A. If you're not familiar with Dashica's Beauty, it's the same owner as Shirley's Nail-Art & Water Decals. Yes, the lady with the cute image plates. Shirley introduces 7 new plates with 42 designs. Here are a few of the mani's I've done using plate A.

The swirl image is one of my favorite designs. It's a like a water marble without the mess. For the base color I used Finger Paints Aren't You Glad-iolouis topped off with Konad white.

There's also a Hello Kitty image. I stamped with white, then filled in HK's head, then stamped again with Konad blue. The base colors are Zoya Sweet & Color Club Take me to Your Chateau.

I also tried Hello Kitty in black.

A full heart design. I used China Glaze Something Sweet & Emotion . The lighting is bad in this pic and makes the image appear faded. It also stamped well.

A closer view to show details.

As you can see, the image plate works very well. Its about 8x6 inches and has 42 designs. Some of them are duplicates to allow you to stamp mirror images. The designs are larger than Konad & BM's, so it's great if you have large-r nails. I usually have to stamp my thumbs twice with Konad plates, but these are large enough to cover my entire thumb.

The images are pretty, feminine and offers a good variety. I like that most of them are full nail designs with a few French tips (half-designs). The plate stamps similar to Konad's and I had no issues with stamping or image transfer.

This is a sample plate, but the original plates will have 2 holes that allow you to organize them in a ring binder. I almost forgot Shirley added a cute little plastic/paper backing to the plate.

Plate size comparison. Konad, large plate & SdP big plate.

View of the sample plate. The actual plate will have two holes so that you can store them in a ring binder.
Close-ups of the designs. (Click to enlarge)

You can find the Big SDP plates and other Nail Art supplies at Dashica's Beauty Shop. She also posts updates and new arrivals on blog Shirley's Beauty Nails. The plate retails for 15,99 euros, about $22 US dollars.

~The above plate was sent to me for review~

A Few Valentine Inspired Manis

Yay! I finally got a chance to post a few pics. I'll be really busy again this week so thought I would combine all of my pics into one post. Most of them are Valentine's like manis.

The first was done using Shirley image plate A15. This is my first time trying out her image plates and the designs are really feminine which I like. I stamped with SH insta-dry Racin' Red.

This was done using the letter image plates along with the "Love" stamp from Chez-Delaney D-series D24. I almost didn't post because I couldn't get a good picture of the mani.

Here I randomly placed a few Klean Colors hearts over WnW White and CG Fairy Dust. I don't have the exact name of the polish because I had to decant the hearts from the bottle. The top got stuck and I had to cut it off, lol.


My last and favorite mani was also done using the Shirley image plates B09. I almost didn't buy this one but I'm glad I did. I stamped over Nicole by Opi Sheer Fun.


I hope you enjoyed the pics. It's a beautiful day out and the last thing I want to do is study, but I only have one more week until Spring Break! Talk to you then.