I had a great big fail stamping a pattern from XL B for today, which completely proved wrong my recent statement that I find the quality of engraving is equivalent between Chez Delaney and Konad plates. Konad never fails me!
I took pictures, but promptly did a do-over on the manicure because it was really bad. For the second I also went with a pattern from XL B, but the second one I chose was composed of thicker lines, from which I generally have a much easier time getting a clean stamp. The messy one had thin lines, and the few stamps with didn't have extra polish all over have bald spots, and since the stamping was in black over China Glaze Shocking Pink, it looked pretty shabby.
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| Plate XL B over China Glaze Shocking Pink Nail Polish |
My ring and pinky nails have bald spots in the middle of the filled in sections, and the others, which I didn't scrape as hard to avoid that, have the extra Konad polish. It looked gross enough to annoy me, so off it came.
The next attempt was Color Club Wicked Sweet with white Konad polish, and I love how it turned out. A cashier at a place I often go asked about it this morning and admired the manicure, but there was a huge line behind me and she's usually really slow without a distraction (perfectly nice lady, she just doesn't mind having twenty people glaring at her while she makes small talk), and she asked about it using an "or" where neither option was correct (is that A or B?). That meant my answer would require an explanation, and since I didn't want to lie I just muttered unintelligibly to get out of explaining Konad with the line of people hating me. That often works surprisingly well, by the way, and it did this morning. Here's the manicure that's nice enough to make a line of people wait for small talk.
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| Plate XL B over Color Club Wicked Sweet Nail Polish |
Much better! I love the polish, the stamp, and it's all the better since it smells really nice.
That's what I know today, Dear Reader. Until next time, love and nail polish to you!
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