Review of Select MoYou Stamping Plates

Hi Lovelies! As 2015 sets off to what I'm sure will be another fast paced adventure, I've got a few blog related New Year's resolutions in mind. I debated telling you what they all are, but I will hold off on that for now since they are still not well defined at this point.

One resolution that I can tell you about, is my goal to review all of my stamping plates. I've purchased oh so many stamping plates over the last couple of years and somehow I never find the time to review them. Most often I get delayed in hopes of creating a few manicures before writing a review and then end up not posting at all.

My goal this year is to post a stamping plate review every Saturday or every other Saturday as time allows. Hopefully this will be one resolution I can stick to! Once I get a few reviews under my belt, I plan to add a tab at the top of the page for reference and to show what's to come. I'm really excited about this feature and I hope you will enjoy it as well!

I'll start today with a review of the most recent MoYou plates to join my collection. You can see the rest of my MoYou plates here.

If you are not familiar with MoYou London stamping plates, they are 6x12cm (edge to edge, not including the plastic backing). They have a protective blue plastic cover which needs to be removed prior to stamping...

Reindeer Sweater

Hi! Today is a manicure that I should have shown you a long, long time ago. Well most certainly last year! I have been pre-occupied with personal and family issues very recently and while I will try to keep up with the blog, it is going to take a backseat for a bit. Now on that 'happy' note, I'd like to show you a manicure that I created when I was in a festive mood, inspired by everyone's holiday sweater creations...

Kaleidoscope Whirlwind

Hi Everyone! I recently added a few more MoYou plates to my collection and I was itching to try them out. Starting out today with a manicure created using one of the Kaleidoscope plates. I'm pretty much obsessed with the images of this entire collection, although I only opted to purchase one plate due to image size issues. Insert really sad pouty face directed at MoYou here...

Butterflies...

Today I would like to show you a manicure that I created a few weeks ago while I was playing around with the Polished by KPT thermal beauties. With the MoYou challenge Day 28 theme of 'butterflies' in mind, I stamped lots and lots of them...

Love in Bloom...

Today's manicure was inspired by Day 15 prompt of 'Love' in the MoYou 30 day challenge. Although I haven't had time to take part in many of the challenges, this one seemed a perfect fit for the Polished by KPT beauty 'Love in Bloom' that I was playing around with a little bit ago. I took the polish name quite literaly and surrounded the couple in love with blooms...

Color Shifting Tribal Nail Art...

Hi Everyone! Today I would like to show you a quick tribal manicure that I created with one of the beautiful Polished by KPT thermals. For the design I had today's MoYou challenge in mind. The theme for today is 'geometric' and I decided the triangles, diamonds and other shapes which make up the pattern would be a perfect fit.

Fiery Tigress...

A few days ago MoYou London, the makers of some pretty amazing stamping plates, launched a challenge in celebration of reaching 10K followers on Instagram. The challenge is to create manicures using MoYou stamping plates that go along with their daily prompts. At the end of the month winners will be picked to receive some new stamping plates. Life is a bit too hectic right now to take take on the full challenge, but I will try to join in and create a manicure or two when I get a chance...

The prompt for yesterday was Animal Print. I happened to still be wearing the Kiss My Tan, the gorgeous fiery metallic orange by Dazzle Dry so I thought of tigers. Oh my!...

Happy International Women's Day!

It is March 8th which means International Women's Day! I wish all the wonderful women out there a day filled with love, happiness and good fortune!

It seemed appropriate to show you a flowery manicure today. I actually created this a few weeks ago in response to a prompt by Nail It! magazine for a chance to be featured in the next issue. I won't know if this made it into the magazine or not until it hits the news stands in a few months, but regardless I'm quite excited about how it turned out...

Zoya Naturel Floral...

Oh how I love the beautiful shades of the Zoya Naturel collection. Not only are they the perfect creamy nudes and mauves on their own, but they also go so well together. I couldn't resist blending them in a soft gradient as a delicate backdrop for some floral stamping...

Sunday Stamping: Valentine's Day

It has been ages since I've participated in a Sunday Stamping challenge in the group Adventures in Stamping. Life has been busy and sadly fun challenges end up low on the priority list. Today's manicure isn't a new one, but it fits the theme of Valentine's Day for today's challenge so I'm taking the opportunity to show it to you...

Winter Hummingbird...

Hi Everyone! Today I have another manicure to share with you which has been patiently waiting for it's time in the spotlight since last month. I was tempted to wait even longer and post this in the Spring when a floral manicure would be more appropriate, but considering that I wore this for almost a week in December, it seems that I'm not too concerned with seasonal appropriateness. Hope you don't mind seeing seeing this flowery mani here today. Maybe you're already dreaming of Spring and warmer weather?...

Black Roses Featuring OPI Make Him Mine and MoYou Stamping

Hi Everyone! Today I've got a manicure to show you that I actually wore at the beginning of Dec, but have not gotten a chance to post about you until now. It has been sitting in a folder with lots and lot of other photos that are waiting for their time in the spotlight. Maybe if we can all just vote to extend the days a little bit? An extra hour or two a day would really help! Is that too much to ask for? OK, getting side tracked here, let's get back to the manicure...

piCture pOlish Collab-Fest 2013

Hi Everyone! I have been getting some much needed R&R over the past week and I return today with a very special post for piCture pOlish Collab-Fest. This end of the year celebration aims to show off all the amazing shades created by piCture pOlish in collaboration with bloggers. Each blogger will create a manicure featuring their own shade to share with you. I'm super excited to get an excuse to show you my collaboration shade, Sea Jewel, again and bring to life the manicure which has been floating around in my head for a while now...

A Transformation...

Last week I showed you a sheer little El Corazon Poly-Chrome beauty. As a rule of thumb I like to try the sheer shimmery shades over a black base and this was no exception. The beautiful brassy color that resulted did not disappoint. Accented with a bit of stamping, it was transformed from a delicate beauty last week to something much more bold today...

MoYou Stamping Plates

Today I would like to show you the MoYou London stamping plates that I recently added to my stamping plate collection. MoYou London (not to be confused with MoYou Nails) has taken the stamping world by storm. They feature some of the most unique designs I have seen and have quite an extensive assortment of themes and patterns. If that wasn't enough, new plates are released weekly to keep tempting us even more. If you follow me on Instagram than you may have already seen my excited post about this epic nail mail from MoYou London. Although only about 1/3 of these plates are mine (I purchased together with a couple of friends), I just had to show this awesomeness to you. Keep reading for a closer view of the 13 plates that I got...

El Corazon Floral...

Today I would like to show you a manicure with one of the El Corazon beauties that I received for review. It made the perfect base for some delicate stamped flowers. I love how this looks as though someone just doodled on my nails...

Kaleidoscope Stamping...

This weekend I got an amazing package from El Corazon filled with beautiful polishes all the way from Russia. I cannot wait to show you all of the pretties that were sent to me. One of the polishes in the package was this purple Mirror metallic shade from the Kaleidoscope brand. I knew it would stamp perfectly and I was so excited to try it out that I stamped right over the manicure I already had on...

Sunday Stamping: Between Jelly Layers...

I decided to take part in today's Sunday Stamping challenge for Adventures in Stamping. The challenge for this week is to sandwich stamping in between layers of jelly polish. It sounded like a fun technique to try to give some depth to the manicure. This is actually my second attempt at this manicure. My first attempt was ruined by using a jelly that wasn't sheer enough. Turns out I don't have very many sheer jellies because I never felt I had a need for them. Now I'm on a quest to find more because this was messy but fun...