Review (4/5): Etched well with some minor issues
These stamping plates are not the best quality in the areas of fine detail, but they are not the worst either. I used many different stampers and the firm stamper it comes with really worked the best. You can see this on the swatch sheet I did; the two boxed in areas were done with the stamper that came with it. I was pretty shocked it worked so well and did not need priming. So, I'm quite happy to add this stamper to my collection. The white stamper shown is the Uber Chic XL Non-Sticky stamper that usually picks up everything in great detail.
I tried using these plates with Wet N Wild black first, and not stamping polish, to see how well the images picked up. The detail did pick up well but I found that some of the plates had large areas that were etched next to really find detail areas so sometimes the card would get stuck. The metal scraper that came with the set was not helpful at all. It is metal and as I feared completely scratched the plate and got stuck in some of the large areas I mentioned. I just used a gift card like scraper and got better results.
This is also not a set from one manufacturer. It appears it’s a hodge podge of collection of plates and my set had a duplicate which is pictured below. Also, one plate was rusted under the blue film. I have not contacted the manufacturer about this.
I tried to go for the finest details on each plate for the swatch and for the life of me I could not get the suckers from the octopus to all come out. The blue portion of the swatch is Mundo de Unas stamping polish which did not even make that portion better.
Most of these plates stamped well though, you can see this on the swatch image. I was impressed that I was able to get the watermelon seeds with regular nail polish. I was however really dissapoined that one was damaged and I only received 9 distinct plates.
I received this product at a discount for a fair and honest review.