The Digit-al Dozen Does Stamping Day 2: UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring!

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Hello!


I started off The Digit-al Dozen's stamping week yesterday with a super-simple-but-super-chic manicure to show you how easy it can be to get great results with stamping. Today I'm gonna show you some simple, more intermediate ways to add color to your stamping.

Along the way, I'll be featuring UberChic Beauty's Welcome Spring plate, hot off the stamping presses! Here's the video I did reviewing this plate:

And here's a look at the plate:

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring

UberChic's full nail images are 1.7 x 2.1 cm, and here's a shot with a ruler so you can see how big the other images are:

As always, UberChic's stamping quality is top-notch:

Now on to the manicures! One of the easiest ways to get color into your stamping is to create a gradient, and the stamp over it. For this manicure, I used a gradient of Zoya Darby, Haruko, and Ireland, and then stamped with Messy Mansion Carbon:

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Zoya Darby, Haruko, and Ireland

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Zoya Darby, Haruko, and Ireland

A second way to incorporate color into your stamping is to stamp it directly using layering images. To do this, you'll need a clear stamper so you can see where you're laying down your different layers of color. If you're a beginner, start with an image like this one below, where it doesn't matter so much if you get the layers precisely placed--practice with those and when you get the hang of it, move on to more difficult images.

For this mani, I started with a base of Zoya Lacey, and stamped my branches with Messy Mansion Pudding, my blossoms with Messy Mansion Chalk and Hydrangea Pink, and dotted the flowers with Hydrangea Pink and Petal:

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Zoya Lacey

UberChic Beauty Welcome Spring over Zoya Lacey

When you're feeling a little more comfortable with placing those images, you can play around with combining all sort of images and colors. For the mani below, I wanted to get the placement of the negative space oval as similar as possible over all of the nails (you'll notice it was nearly impossible on the pinkie because of the length of my nail!), and make sure the chick was placed in the same position on each nail. I started with a base of Zoya Snow White, and then stamped with Messy Mansion polishes in Amalfi Coast, Spring Green, Happy Now, Banana Bender, and Petal

I love how each of these manis came out, for such different reasons! I love how well the gradient came out on the first, pastel and spring but still vibrant; I love the lacy feel of the cherry blossoms, and the pop-art chick-lets just make me smile. :)


You can find this plate on sale now in UberChic Beauty's store, and you can follow them around the interwebs here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uberchicbeauty/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uberchicbeauty/

Fan group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150090828353009/

I'll be back tomorrow with more stamping, and in the meantime, check out what the other Digit-al Dozen ladies did, linked below. :)


Big hugs,
M. xoxo

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