Final Review: SHANY Image Plates

Once again, I purchased these myself a few months ago and I have used a few of the images in some stamping, but I figured it was time for an all out review of all 25 plates. I bought my SHANY plates from Amazon.com here.

My final take on the SHANY image plate set, a total of 181 images from 25 plates – four of these being repeats. I have to say that the four repeated images kind of ticked me off. They couldn't make four more different images? Really? I expect the occasionally duped image among different brands of image plates but this is my first experience with dupe images in one set from the same brand. Other than that, I was happy with how most of the images came out and how easy most of them were to pick up. Most of the image were pretty crisp as well. The images themselves seemed to be deep enough that I didn't experience that “insta-dry” problem as with some other plates. It is very frustrating to scrape an image and discover it dried before you could even pick it up. Happily that wasn't the case here! I tested these plates with Konad special polish in black and also China Glaze Joy. They stamped well with both.

I was even shocked at how well some of the more detailed images came out! I would look at an image, like the last image on SH25, full nail spider webs and think, “No way! This is only going to be a partial pick up or stamp.” Then imagine my surprise when I got every single little web line. Awesome sauce!!!

I definitely think I’ll be using these plates more now that I have tested all 181 and only had issues with maybe 3, and that was fixed with a simple change of scraping direction. I have no qualms about buying a set down the road for a giveaway now. But you probably want to see some images stamped on nails, right?

Here you go, I embellished my Pink Wednesday mani with scroll work (SH03) using China Glaze Admire and then again with the scroll work butterflies (SH24 & SH12) using Konad stamping polish in black. I am loving this!

Don't forget to enter my current giveaway here! It ends at midnight on 4/1 so hurry!

Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Review: SHANY Image Plates – Part 3

Again I am not a 100% sure of what some of these designs are on these plates but all the images below are shown one the first stamp (no test stamping) in Konad Special Polish in Black onto white 3x5 index cards.

Plate SH11:

Scroll waves?, flower, flower, flower, paw prints, tribal scroll design, striped heart design

Plate SH12:

Flowers, happy face, heart/clover design, ladybug, stars, flowers, butterfly

Plate SH13:

Dot design (firework burst?), butterflies, flowers, deer (reindeer), gecko, stars (same as SH12), star (flower?)

Plate SH14:

Zodiac symbols x 12 (in stamping order: Taurus, Aries, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, Virgo, Leo, Cancer, Gemini), pirate skull with swords

Plate SH15:

Tribal double heart design, leaves, scroll work cross, scroll design, tribal design, flowers, tribal-ish heart design

Next up SH16-20…Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Another St. Patty's Day Mani

I liked the pink and green St. Patty's stamping mani I did for Pink Wednesday and as I was looking at it, it hit me! Neon! It would look awesome in neon. Now I didn't want to completely copy my previous mani so I opted to paint the Irish flag on my thumb and ring finger and then used to color for that on the other three fingers. Green on pinky, white  on middle, and orange on index. First I painted all my nails with two coats of my base coats franken (does any one else fraknen their nail treatments?), then two coats of Orly Au Champagne.

Here's what I used for the orange on my index finger and in the flags I used one coat of Color Club Wham! Pow! toppped with one coat of Fantasy Makers Creepy Pumpkin then one coat of Seche Vite.
For the green on my pinky and in the flags I used one coat of Cosmetic Arts unnamed neon green (might be the same as Color Club The Lime Starts Here but not sure since I don't own that one). Topped with one coat of Jesse's Girl Firefly (I know it looks white in the bottle but over this green you really only see the green flash of the glitter) and topped again with one coat of Seche Vite.For the white on my middle finger and in the flag I used one coat of Sinful Colors Smoking Hot over the already there 2 coats of Orly Au Champagne. Topped with one coat of Seche Vite.

Obviously before clean-up. LOL!

I then proceeded to stamp over this once dry with Color Club Wham! Pow! and Cosmetic Arts neon green using the plaid design from m60. The rest of the stamps are using Konad special polish in black using RA-116, SH12, and BM-03. I wish that the plaid had come out a bit brighter but I still love this mani. I think I will sport this one for the day and try to post some more tonight.

Hope you enjoyed this one! Much Love, The Dragon Lady

Pink Wednesday - St. Patty's Style

So my goal this week was to get in at least one St. Patrick's Day themed mani from Sunday's Year Challenge post through to St. Patty's Day itself (Saturday). Unfortunately, I just haven't found the time to post them yet.  It is POURING down rain here. The wind is insane. I was running late this morning. So I am kind of playing hooky this morning to get all my St. Patty's Day manicures posted.I figured since it was Pink Wednesday I would do a special pink/green St. Patrick's Day mani for to get these posts started.

For this mani I used 2 coats of Color Club Peppermint Twist (pink) and on the accent nail 2 coats of Color Club Twiggie (minty green). I topped these off with one coat of a quick dry top coat. On a side note, I am not very happy with my current quick dry top coat (it's slow, smears stamps, etc) and will be switching back to Seche Vite here very soon. I then stamped images from RA-116, BM-03, and SH12 with Konad special polish in white, China Glaze Cherish, and my trusty green foily snowman polish. 

 

I felt it still needed something so I added one coat of an unnamed holo & iridescent glitter top coat franken.

I will be posting more St. Patty's Day manicures later today and for the rest of the week...and for those of you reading this here's a sneak peek at my giveaway that I'll be posting on Saturday.

Much Love, The Dragon Lady