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Here is the mani I posted a few days ago on my Instagram.

Colors & Plates Used:
**Remember you can use similar colors that you already have in your stash :) or use different colors.

1.  Color Club Over The Moon
2.  Color Club Harp On It
3.  Color Club Beyond
4.  Color Club Eternal Beauty.
5.  Konad Black Special Polish
6.  Orly Coffee Break
7.  Rimmel Blue My Mind
8.  Rimmel Mintilicious
9.  Sally Hansen Cherry Red.
10.  Gals plate GA3:  image of waves
11.  Cheeky jumbo plate 8:  Mermaid and waves
12.  Cheeky jumbo plate 9 seahorse and fish
13.  Gals plate GA17 starfish
14.  Winstonia plate W106 crab
15.  Krafty Gurl Designs Gloss It! Top Coat
16.  Duri Rejuvacote Nail Growth System as my base coat.

Steps:

1.  Apply your favorite base coat to all your nails.
2.  For your Ring finger:  Make a nail decal using Cheeky Jumbo plate 8.  The image is a mermaid and waves.  This is a advance nail stamping technique that is easy to do, I have two tutorials here and here.  The colors I used: Orly Coffee Break for her skin, Sally Hansen Cherry for her lips, Color Club Eternal Beauty for her hair, for the waves I used Rimmel Blue My Mind, Rimmel Mintilicious & Color Club Harp On It.  Once you have applied your decal just finish off with Top Coat.
3.  Other Nails:  I applied Color Club Over The Moon.  Wait till the polish dries before stamping.  Use Gals plate GA3 (image of waves) and stamp using two colors:  Color Club Harp On It & Color Club Beyond.
4.  For my Index finger I used Konad black and Gals plate GA17 for the starfish & Winstonia plate W106 for the crab.
5.  Middle finger use Konad Black and Cheeky jumbo plate 9 for the seahorse.
6.  Pinky use Konad Black and Cheeky jumbo plate 9 for the fish.
7.  Finish off with top coat and your done! :)

I hope you enjoyed my brief description, maybe one of these day I find the courage to make a video. 


¡Hasta Luego!

Swanette

2013 Gals "Princes Set"

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I recently purchased the 2013 Gals Princes Set and wanted to share with you swatches and designs I created with them.  I purchased them from Amazon here, but you can also purchase them on Cheeky's website here.  They sell for around $12 and you get 25 plates.  That's only .48 cents a plate. 

There are a lot of mixed reviews on amazon and honestly that was one of the main reasons I took so long to purchase them.  Fortunately I had no problem with them, they stamped beautifully.  I really like the geometrical patterns.  They are mostly full nail images as you see below:

  

I believe that a picture is worth a thousand word, so I took the time to swatch each plate using Wet n Wild Black Crème.  The picture will demonstrate that they do indeed stamp beautifully.  

Here are some simple mani's I posted on Instagram using the Gals Princes Set:

1.  Colors used:  Rimmel Sage All The Rage as my base, plate GA14 & China Glaze Con-fused.

2.  Colors used:  Orly Sea Girl for my base, plate GA4 & China Glaze Split Perso-nail-ity.  Ring finger:  @kraftygurldesigns  Totally Rad over Zoya Raven.

3.  Colors used:  Finger Paints It's an Original as my base, plate GA6 & China Glaze Modify Me.

4.  Colors used:  China Glaze holographic Get Outta My Space, plate GA12 & China Glaze magnetix Positively in Love.

  

As you see in the pictures above the plates are very good. I really love they way stamped.  Luckily I had no problem with them, but I do advise you, if you ever get a plate that doesn't stamp or is badly etch you should immediately call customer service, they should be able to help you out. 

Finally the size of these plates.  They are slightly smaller than Pueen plates.  Here is a pic of the measurement using inches. 

I really hope my post helps you out.  I tried my best to show you in photos the quality and size of these plates.  What do you think of them?  Will you be purchasing them, please leave me a comment below.

¡Hasta luego!