Bundle Monster Nail Art Nailart Polish Stamp Stamping Manicure Image Plates Accessories Set Kit 25pc

Ok, here is the deal with Bundle Monster...it absolutely works!!! Yes, in the beginning, I thought it was garbage and didnt work. I purchased the Konad double ended stamper and attempted to use it without any success with transferring the designs to the nail. HOWEVER, upon watching a youtube video about "buffing" the rubber ends of the stamper with a nail file, I tried it and this solved the entire problem. Im sure others have posted their ideas on what works, but here are some thoughts of my own. I wear acrylic nails, so here are my tips on how to use bundle monster designs with acrylics.NOTE: if you are using this kit with your own natural nails, be sure to press firmly and roll the stamper from one side to the other. The stamper has a curved surface and so do your natural nails, so pressing straight down without rolling will not allow for a smooth transfer.How to use with Acrylic Nails:Prepare the nail tips/designs before you glue them to your nails to allow for trial and error.For me, Wet N' Wild nail polishes works great! Try Wet N' Wild Shine, Fastdry or Megalast. Dark colors work fantastic, BUT when using bright colors like yellow, orange and green, use dark yellow, dark orange and dark green to ensure the color shows up well against the desired background.1) First, buff the rubber of the stamper with a nail file to ensure it picks up the designs2) Second, paint the artificial nail in desired color and let dry3) Since artifical nails are curved, hold the nail horizontally between your thumb nail and index finger...why you ask...because when you apply the stamper/design, you want to be able to roll the stamper across the nail with ease preventing any gaps (again...the stamper also has a curved surface, so if not done correctly, only a portion of the design will transfer).4) Once the design has been transferred, apply a clear top coat to the artificial nail tip and let dry (the clear coat will prevent the design from smudging when applying the acrylic to your nails.5) Now, you can glue on the nails and apply the acrylic without any worry of any mistakes or having to redo the nails. It is sooo much easier to prep artificial nails before they are attached to allow for touch ups if you do make mistakes...cause believe me...you will make mistakes especially if you are new to nail stamping like myself.8) Optional...once finished, jazz it up a bit by adding clear/colored rhinestones randomly across the nail to really make it pop and sparkle!!!

I've never used Konad plates, so I don't know if they're any better. I'm a novice at nail art and a bit of a perfectionist, which means it took me all day to get my nails right the first time I tried this. You must roughly file the stamper first so it picks up the image. I didn't buy the "Special Polish," but instead tested all the polishes I had to see if they worked with the image plates & showed up on the stamper. Metallic ones showed best, but I have a lot of others that worked great too. It gives you a lot of color combos to work with & doesn't bleed your wallet dry.I like these image plates better than the Bundle Monster 21-pack I purchased for someone else, but that has nothing to do with the quality, it's just personal design preference. These image plates are sturdy, but I agree with other reviews that say not to use the Konad scraper that comes with the stamper. It really scratches the plates up & over time I can definitely see this causing a problem with the image, so I started using an expired credit card. Every gift card I tried wasn't sturdy enough, but the credit card is. To get it to work though, you need to practice with it a bit. At first, I'd recommend not fully painting your nails with the base & color, but just stamping the images on there to test it out so you don't waste your polish. Also, I found myself using my thumbnails a lot to correct mistakes & using them the most when removing polish from other fingers I screwed up on with a cotton ball & polish remover. It was really annoying to have to do my whole finger over because it smudged or the cotton got stuck in it, so now I save my thumbs for last, once all other nails are completely done & dry.Practice makes perfect, so I'll be trying a new design this week.

I'm a huge fan of nail-stamping. I purchased the original Bundle Monster kit  Bundle Monster Nail Art Nailart Polish Stamp Stamping Manicure Image Plates Accessories Set Kit 21pc  and was, like others, disappointed with the size of the full-nail designs. Well, this set goes above and beyond my expectations.It's nearly ALL full-nail designs, with some great nail-tip designs. The best part, the very best part, is that there is NO repetition between either the BM1 set or the MASH set  MASH Set of 25 Nail Art Nailart Polish Stamp Stamping Manicure Image Plates Accessories Set Kit  and very few similar designs, although some of the small BM1 full-nail designs have larger counterparts in this set. When the best value comes in sets, you want each set to be fully valuable, and it certainly is, in this case.The error level has also improved. In my BM1 kit, there were a couple plates with tiny gobs of metal in the actual design, leaving a gap when stamped. I only had one tiny tiny such blemish on this entire set of 25. There are now backings on each plate, so no sharp edges! Also, like many others, I got some doubles! I wanted to get a friend of mine into stamping, so I gave her the doubles and a couple of my BM1 plates for her children with small nails.The designs vary a lot and are all interesting. Many nail design plates I've looked at on the internet are just plate after plate of swirls and flowers. Yes, there are a lot of flowers in all plate sets, but this BM2 has so much variety and truly interesting designs.I'm thrilled, and if Bundle Monster makes a third set, I will buy it as soon as I find out!

The images on those plates are pretty large, perfect when you use the full nails one. And the images are really crisp and so cute!

Love the designs to choose from ! I'm still trying to the hang of applying the design to my nails because they often turn out not too good. Hopefully this is just my inability to use the product and not the product itself. Great shipping time.