Friday, February 20, 2015

Review, test, & manicure: MoYou London Geek Collection 05 & 06

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It's been a little while since I've done a video review, and I'm back today with a good one: MoYou London's Geek Collection 05 & 06, two of my favorites from the collection.

This versatile collection is just adorable--it takes all things geek chic and puts them at (and on!) your fingertips.

Here's the video review to kick things off:





And here are the still images of the plates:


Geek 05: 

MoYou London Geek Collection 05
MoYou London Geek Collection 05

MoYou London Geek Collection 05
MoYou London Geek Collection 05

MoYou London Geek Collection 05
MoYou London Geek Collection 05

Geek 05 has a wide variety of geekdoms represented: video games, Elvish script, Steampunk, emoticons, and more. There's not just one type of manicure represented here--you can go kitschy, geeky, elegant, masculine, computer chic-y.


Geek 06:


MoYou London Geek Collection 06
MoYou London Geek Collection 06


MoYou London Geek Collection 06
MoYou London Geek Collection 06

MoYou London Geek Collection 06
MoYou London Geek Collection 06


Geek 06 focuses a little more specifically on devices and computer-geek chic. Computer commands, buttons, internet interfacing, online acronyms and shortcuts. In today's world you can't get through your day without seeing multiple of these, so why not celebrate them and their hidden/implied meanings?

The three images at the top of Geek 06 are also on Geek 05, but the sizes differ. Geek 06 is the equivalent of the 'regular'-sized image plates, and 05 is and XL-sized plate; here are the two of them together so you can see the size difference:






And here are both of the plates next to a standard Konad plate so you can get a feel for the size of the images:


MoYou London Geek Collection 05 vs. Konad

MoYou London Geek Collection 06 vs. Konad

So how did the plates stamp? Very well:







("Hey Michelle! That's some pretty stamping polish ya got there. What is that?" Those are two of MoYou London's duochrome stamping polishes, and I'll be reviewing them for you very soon...)


The plates worked flawlessly, I had no problems stamping with them. They're very easy to work with, a total breeze for even a beginning stamper.

So what do you think, want to see a manicure??

Something about the message of putting 'ctrl+alt+del' on a stark black-and-white manicure just really appealed to me (I think I mentioned it in my video, even), and I just had to do it--I've had many days where I wish I could just hit the 'reboot' function, lol:





This is Julep Cleopatra stamped with Konad white. I wanted a satin finish, because I wanted this to look like a keyboard. I love how it came out, and think it's such a fun statement!

There are a ton of cute plates in this collection--another of my favorites is Geek 08, a collage-style plate made up of emoticons. So cute and so fun!!

You can find these plates on MoYou London's website; some of their plates also sell on Amazon. Check out their duochrome stamping polishes while you're there--I'll be reviewing them shortly, but spoiler alert: they're awesome. :)

Happy stamping!
M.




37 comments:

  1. What fun plates those are. They stamp beautifully too.

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  2. Good review. Just a little note.. The thing you call steampunk (the one you stamped with the golden duochrome) is supposed to be Gallifreyan (Doctor Who) and there's also Klingon on that plate, to the right of the Elvish :)

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    1. Thank you!! I thought that might be Klingon, but I wasn't sure...Still learning Romulan...;-)

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  3. This is a great review! I love that you have the video right in this post. I'm going to have to check out some MoYou plates!

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    1. Thank you so much! I have a ton more MoYou videos on my YouTube channel if you have a hard time choosing. :)

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  4. MoYou plates are the best! I love the themes.

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    1. They come up with such an amazing array, don't they?

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  5. I love Moyou plates. Great review, very thorough.

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  6. Nice review. These plate look so cool. I really liked plate 05.

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  7. That elven script has me smitten! Love the alt ctrl del mani!

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    1. I love it too--I'm going to have to do a special mani with that. And thank you!

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  8. I really liked these plates but just don't think I would use them enough to make it worth getting them... then again I thought that about my Rebel 2 plate and its one of my most used plates.

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    1. It's funny how that works, isn't it? Sometimes the ones I think I'm going to use the most are the ones I use the least, and vice versa...

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  9. I love that there is klingon on these plates!!

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  10. I just feel the need to point out the fact that I thought you had some pretty epic background music playing to accompany this "geek" post... Took me a minute to realize I had WoW playing in the background of my Mac. o.O O.o Rofl. Great review!

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    1. ROFL!!! Oh, that is SO something I would do, lol!!

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  11. What fun plates! I LOLed big time at the image.

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  12. Such a cute plate! I haven't tried the geek line from MoYou yet, but I might now.

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  13. Loved the video! And these plates are so much love. The keyboard keys are so cute.

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  14. Oh dats a cool plates. .don't know how I missed it. Great review.

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    1. Thank you! They put out so many, it's easy to miss some. :)

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