Today I am going to talk about a nice little tool that became my addiction in the last few days...Konad!
Konad is a brand that sells those little stampers with image plates that make it so easy to have the most fun-tastic nails!! :P
I gave it my first try on monday and I have to confess I was pretty upset for the first hour trying. It is not a fool proof method, and you have to keep practicing until you get the hang of it, but once you do it's extremely easy (like learning to ride a bike, once you learn you never go wrong again! haha)
Let me show you guys how the stamper I bought looks like:
This is the double sided stamper (I believe konad has 2 other kinds of stampers) - you can see it comes with a little scraper too - that's what you use to scrape off the excess polish form the plate.
I have to say, I've been having so much fun with these, you can create the coolest designs on your nails!
PLEASE NOTE: I did not buy the Konad nail polishes. It took me many tries and a lot of frustration, but I found some polishes that will work good (actually many will work, the problem is that some will just be so faint you won't really see the stamping, so you have to choose more pigmented colors if you're not going to buy the Konad ones. And the goopier the better!)
Someone posted a video on youtube showing
how to thicken nail polishes so they will work for stamping, which is adding
Xanthan Gum until they are thick enough. It did not work for me at all, I paid 11 dollars for the xanthan gum and it did not change the consistency of my polish. Oh well...
This has been my experience with Konad so far:
the first one is a leopard print (I know I did not use the "right colors" and I know my cuticles are ginormous, but let's get past that :)
Aren't these flowers the cutest things??
Anyway, if anyone decides to try Konad send me pictures and tell me how your experience was! :)