Review (3/5): Cheap, but Cheaply Made.
I've had these for almost a year but I haven't used them that much--there are a select few designs that I use regularly, but the majority have remained untouched. Here's why:
-A lot of my plates came damaged; maybe I'm just the unlucky one in a thousand, but many had imperfections in the metal that ruined the images. Other than that, the undamaged plates worked decently. You might run the risk of having damaged plates like me, but I'm guessing this was just my bad luck. Can't really blame the company since I never made the effort to return them, and it's been waaay past 30 days (at the time I was just happy I got them).
-I liked that there were themed and matching stamps, but to be honest I just don't like a lot of the images enough to actually use them. There is an unnecessary amount of tribal/swirly images, and what were they thinking with the ambiguous pair of chili peppers? Take a good look at the individual images and take that into account more than the sheer number of plates. Will you actually use them?
-Unless you have child's hands, the full-nail plates are waay too small--it's most noticeable on the thumbs and middle fingers, but they can barely fit over any of my nails (in terms of width, not length--I don't have crazy-long nails). To avoid awkward-looking nails, I haven't used many of the full nail stamps. Images like the polka-dots are easy to align and restamp, but others not so much.
-They come off a little blurrier than Konads, but nothing too horrible
-Some of the images are nice in theory, but don't show up that well once stamped. For example, there's a cute lace french tip that I just couldn't get to work because it was impossible to pick up the full image.
On the plus side:
-they're cheap, and most of the images are pretty crisp
-A lot of the full-nail designs have matching french tips
-The french tips will definitely (probably) fit over all your nails, including thumbs.
-I like the themed plates--for example, there's a Christmas one and a Halloween one.
-I've heard complaints that these plates were too sharp, but I don't see how you could accidentally hurt yourself with them--maybe they've updated their plate design?
Although I haven't used many of the images, those I do use make the bundle worth it. The total price for all 21 image plates--damaged and unattractive though some may be--is the price of 3 Konad stamps. It's definitely worth the price, but I can't guarantee amazing quality.