Lacquer or Leave Her!: Review: Four Messy Mansion 2016 Halloween Plates!

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Hello!

Yes. I am in my happy place. Because Messy Mansion just released four new stamping plates. And I'm totally, completely in love, because their deliciously spooky factor is high!

I've started something new with my videos, please tell me if you like it--I made a shorter one that just shows the plates and the swatches quickly, and then my normal 'full' review which discusses how to use the plates. Here's the full version:

And here's the quick version:

Okay, let's take a look at the still shots of the plates...let's start with MM22XL:

Messy Mansion MM22XL

Look at the cute shapes in the word collage! A little ghost and a little tombstone, and whiskers on the word 'cat'! And the Jack Skellington-esque jack-o-lantern collage...and the Frankenstein/Alien skull collage...And spooky owls...so much fun stuff...

Then there's MM80XL:

Messy Mansion MM80XL

Omg, omg, omg, zombies!! And a body part collage! Yes, we've established before that while I definitely have love in my heart for whimsical Halloween stuff, I LIVE for the spooky Halloween stuff. Bloody body parts--yes please! And a layering zombie image that allows me to use my goopiest green glitter as the base for my zombie face? Sign me up. Yeeeeesssssssss. You can bet you'll be seeing nail art with this very, very soon.

And MM81XL:

Messy Mansion MM81XL

Whaaaattt?!?! A zombie collage?! And a zombie scene?! And retro-comic style images? And a sexy, bad-ass witch?!? Yesyesyesyesyes!

One warning on this one. The images in this collage are big, so you'll want to focus on part of them, or use the shrink technique to make them smaller. I show you the technique very quickly in the video.

And finally, MM83XL:

Messy Mansion MM83XL

This one is a more traditional full-nail image plate, and there's not an image on this plate I don't adore. Those spooky trees with the spooky faces. The awesomest Halloween cats every. Menacing ghosts and skull owls, and an anarchy skull collage. That intricate web with the quilted feel--I've never seen anything like that. But my absolute favorite is the selfie-taking skulls. it doesn't get any more Halloween-cool than that.

There are lots of different sizes on these plates, so let's take a closer look:

The full-nail images on MM83XL are 3/4 of an inch wide and 1 inch long.

The collage squares on both MM80XL and MM81XL are 2 inches square.

And the collage square on MM22XL is 1.5 inch square:

So how do they stamp?

The zombie finger is a little bit smudged, but that's my fault, not the fault of the plate. The stamping quality here is crisp, clean, top-notch.

Lately I've been trying to show you a few manis that are cute and fun but super easy to create. For this mani, I started with a base of Wet n Wild Nuclear War, and awesome orange for Halloween. Then I stamped images from MM22XL and MM81XL; I stamped with Messy Mansion Carbon:

Messy Mansion MM22XL and MM81Xl over Wet n Wild Nuclear War

How bad-ass is that sexy witch?! And how cute is that for a fast, simple bit of stamping? Love it. :)

You can find all of these plates in Messy Mansion's store; you can also find them on Amazon if that's easier for you. And don't forget to follow Messy Mansion on Facebook and Instagram!

Happy stamping,
M.