MoYou stamping plate and polish review

So, I was very fortunate this week to receive 2 stamping plates and 2 polishes from MoYou to review on my blog.

The plates I received were 128 (shown on the left and 122. In addition to the 2 polishes California Orange and Blue, I also received a stamper and scraper.

The stamper needed to be primed before it would pick the polish up fully, but once I had rubbed it gently with a magic eraser it behaved beautifully (perhaps I should try the magic eraser on my boys!!)

I got to work straight away and used plate 128 and the blue polish over a three colour gradient. I had to create a "mermaid" mani for an Instagram challenge and thought the fish scale design fitted the bill quite well. The pattern transferred perfectly (even if I do say so myself!!!) and I am definitely a novice when it comes to stamping. I had to work quickly on the clean up as the blue polish is heavily pigmented and could stain the skin if left for too long but overall I was delighted with my first experience of MoYou products

Next up it was the turn of the California Orange Polish and plate 122 - again I stamped over a gradient (2 colour this time!!) and whilst I was pleased with how the polish stamped, I think my choice of colours for the gradient affected the overall result. The peach colour was quite a lot lighter than the Orange of the MoYou polish but you have to look really closely to see the pattern over it.

Not to be beaten, I set about creating another mani using the California Orange. This time I used plate 128 and selected the stripe design. I had a few failed attempts to start with, as I was scraping too hard and scraping the polish away from the relatively bold design. Once I got the hang of it, I was really impressed with how easy it is to stamp lines, rather than messing around with nail vinyls.

Next up, I tried stamping over the striped mani using the Blue polish and some of the other designs from both plates (I even managed to get the MoYou logo on my thumb!!!)

I was totally in the stamping zone by now, so decided to try the orange again but over a different base colour. I wanted to avoid anything orange based and loved the orange and blue together so tried stamping orange over blue - sadly the orange wasn't pigmented enough to show over the darker colour. Back to the drawing board, I selected a light khaki colour (I've always liked orange and khaki together in clothing!!!). I picked a design from plate 122 and was delighted with the result.

Having focused on the California Orange for so long, I felt I had overlooked the blue. I was still keen to create a blue and orange combo after my previous nail fail stamping orange on blue, so I decided to try it the other way round. I used the California Orange as a base and then stamped the zig zag design from plate 128 over the top - once again I couldn't resist getting the MoYou logo in on my thumb!!! Success - really pleased with the colour combo and overall result.

In short, I loved the stamping plates, the images transferred onto the stamper cleanly and once I'd adjusted my technique for the larger designs (stripes and zig-zags) and didn't scrape all the polish away - I had no problems at all. 

The stamper was a great size for my nails, and once I'd primed it with a magic eraser it behaved beautifully!!!

The MoYou polishes and plates reviewed retail at £4.99 each and can be found at www.moyounails.com

http://moyounails.com/product-category/image-plates/

http://moyounails.com/product-category/nail-polishes/

I'm looking forward to reviewing some of MoYou's new collection so watch this space - I will also now be able to post in the MoYou Facebook group at last!!!

Xoxo