First item I will show you is Born Pretty clear stamper. Click on the highlighted words for direct link to the Amazon store product location.
I used to have couple of them from Nicole Diary from while back, and I wore them out how much I used them.
I find the removable bottom great feature. First, if you record the tutorials, it is nice that you can remove the bottom and avoid reflection of your lamp, and is also preventing dust settling on the inside of your stamper and sticking to your stamper head.
Second, there is another nice thing about it. It can actually regulate firmness of your stamper. I found that if you use it with the bottom, stamper is slightly firmer than without it. Personally, I prefer firmer stamper heads, I guess, while back when I started with stamping, firm Konad stampers were only thing that was available. Firmer stamper head is also really helpful if you want to stamp on lined images - firmer stamper head will keep them straight.
I also like my stamper to be a bit bigger, especially if I do decals, as I can have bigger surface to pick the image and it is easier to pick parts you really want, especially if we are talking large images or buffet style images.
I used this stamper in all of the manicures I did for the Nicole Diary store.
Next item I received is this Harunouta stamping plate, L-034. Click HERE for direct link to Amazon product location
Plate arrived in card stock sleeve with protective blue film on the top.
Images are really pretty lined florals, and there are some individual images, and some that look as buffet style images. All images can be stamped in single color and will look amazing, or you can make decals that can be really beautiful. For this review, I did double stamping as another option for use of the plate.
As with all Harunouta stamping plates I have, etching is perfection, and you should not have any issues with image pick up regardless what kind of polish you use, or what kind of stamper. I used this plate with different stampers and stamping and regular polishes, and never had any problems.
As a base for the manicure, I used China Glaze - Fifth Avenue.
I stamped all images first with Hit the Bottle - Moonshine - white shimmery stamping polish, and then I used Hit the Bottle - Pinking of blue for chrysanthemum, and Hit the Bottle - On the loose with Chartreuse for the leaves.