Messy Mansion plates and Accessories Kit 2.0

Hey guys! It's not just 3 great plates that I'm blogging about today, but also an accessories kit that's simply perfect for all the stamping lovers out there! But first, here's a mani I did with one of the plates, you can see them all and the kit further down :)

The plates come with protective blue foil on the front, and no protective backing, but the plates aren't sharp either. Just like the other Messy Mansion plates that I have, these plates are larger than the average plate, they're 7cm in diameter to be precise! The average round plate is 5.6cm, so they're clearly quite a bit bigger. And as you can see, so are the images!

This is the plate I used for the mani in this post, I took a piece of the fence on the right. That middle image is HUGE, haha! And considering how long some of these images are, they're perfect for really long nails too. I just took a small part of that image, about 1/4 even. I haven't seen a plate with fences before, so unique! I bet it could look lovely if you split a fence in 2 and stamp 'em on 2 nails.

The images on this plate are long and narrow, they'll fit on all my nails except my thumb, there I lack a tiny bit on the sides then. But you can always stamp them horizontally as well of course. Another plate with pretty fences & swirly designs :)

And here's my favorite, a plate that satisfies any need for lace designs, and again suitable for those with really long nails as well. These designs are packed with fine details, but the Messy Mansion plates are of such high quality that you'll get it all on the nail!

A England Camelot with Mundo de Uñas Lime and Messy Mansion MM51.

And here's something I'm very excited about, the Accessories Kit 2.0! This cute little tin contains 3 plastic scrapers in 3 different thicknesses, and 2 metal templates. This kit is fantastic, especially for all those fully covered plates, and for all those crazy stamping ideas that you might have but weren't sure how to get onto your nails without a truckload of tape :D I think they might also be handy for other things, like cutting a shape out of dry watermarbles or (homemade) decals. I haven't tried that yet though!

And as you might know, I struggle a bit with plastic scrapers, the sharp metal ones just give the best result for me. But I'm loving the thickest scraper of this set, it works great for me so far! So if you have a hard time getting clean images, trying a different scraper can help, and this kit offers variation in those as well.

Here's a quick test on paper (I haven't even tried them on my nails yet, but I was too excited to share this kit!), I used the largest lace image from plate MM56, and this also shows again how well the Messy Mansion plates work by the way. I cleaned the plate just once in between all these little tests! ♥ The metal templates are thin enough to give no problems whatsoever with picking up the designs, and you use them by scraping the excess polish of your design and placing the template on top of it, then picking up the design with your stamper. I did notice that a soft, squishy stamper works best.

To give you an idea of the size of the templates, the nail shapes vary between 1.3x2.2cm (largest) and 0.65x1.0cm (smallest). In my case, the 2nd most large image is big enough for my thumb already ^^

The Accessories Kit 2.0 is currently sold out (no wonder, it's awesome!!), but you can always fill in your email at the productpage so you get a notification mail when the product is back in stock. Messy Mansion sells all kinds of stamping tools, plates and other products, which you can all find on their website.

What do you think of my black&lime combo? And how about the plates and accessories kit, anything you'd like of that? :) Thanks for looking!


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Purple on taupe

Morning! Here's a mani from the vault, with an image that stamped crisp but went a bit runny from the top coat. The result is almost like it's handpainted with a wider brush or something, don't you agree? That wasn't my intention, but I don't mind it here either :)

Perfect Touch #27 Utaupia with Mundo de Uñas Fantasy and Messy Mansion plate MM48.

Purple and taupe combine very well if you ask me, I've done such combos before but then usually with darker polishes. But it works in this lighter & brighter mix too :) You can see the plate that I used for this mani in this post. Thanks for looking and have a wonderful weekend! ♥

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Inspired by... my paintings

Morning! I recently found out there's painting by numbers for adults as well, and I couldn't resist giving that a go! I remember them from when I was a child, I don't think I did them often, but from what I recall they were usually animals and had a plastic white frame, and they never turned out the way the were on the box, lol! But luckily the adult version turned out good :) I still have plenty acrylic paint left, so decided to go for a mani with a bunch of the green colors. I didn't really have a plan in my head, but it turned out like some sort of messy camo plants. Yeah, that sounds about right!

Here's a pic I showed on Instagram before, when I just started the first herb and was still quite overwhelmed by all those tiny spots! Well, at least it gave me plenty good practice with a small brush, so at least my right hand should be better with nailart brushes now, heh.

And here's how they turned out :) The gold frames shown on the box weren't included (you can purchase them seperate, but they're not really my taste), I'll probably go for white or wooden frames.
If you're also interested in doing this, this set was from a brand called Schipper and I was pleased with the quality. But there's only 1 brush included, so I ended up buying some more! The paintings are done on cardboard with a linen structure, and the size of these (18x24cm each) made them easy to turn around and work from different sides. The backgrounds are more beige/brown than most images on Google (they showed more grey), but I like this more, it looks warmer.

Here you can see a little of the paintpots in the background, I have 24 colors on 4 strips of pots. They're small pots though, so I worried if it would be enough for all the paintings, but I didn't finish a single one and I have so much left of most!

For my mani I just used most of the greens and randomly dabbed some on. Then I took a stamping polish which looks a lot like a few of the green colors, and stamped a plant image. Messy and a bit unusual, but I like it :) And working with acrylic paint on my nails really was so much nicer than I expected, I can totally see why it's used a lot! Next time I'll try something a little harder I think, because creating this background for the stamping was about as easy as it gets, although I'm slightly worried for the result on my right hand then :D

Basecoat with acrylic paint stamped with Mundo de Uñas Lime and Born Pretty Store plate QA27.

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Fossils on my nails!

I showed some awesome Messy Mansion plates in my previous post, and here's another mani done with them. This time I went for the dino plate, and instead of going for the usual, using a full nail image, I randomly stamped some of the smaller images. Or well, smaller... as you can see, they're still pretty big! :)

Catrice Lost In Mud with Mundo de Uñas Bones and Messy Mansion MM47.

I've reviewed the stamping polish in this post, but I wanted to show a bit more of it. What better way to test it than on a darker base and with an image with larger areas to cover! And it's clear that it has no problems with that, I couldn't have asked for anything more from it ♥
I'm not fully sure what dinosaurs are on my nails here, I think one's a triceratops, but the other 2... ? Check out the full plate here! Have a great weekend and thanks for looking :)

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Hearts with Bones

Nono, there's no actual bones stamped on my nails, but this Mundo de Uñas polish is called Bones! And it matches its name well, it's a warm, light beige stamping polish that leans to the yellow side. Here it's shown in a lighter, somewhat pale mani, but just like the other MdU polishes that I tried, you can stamp this on any color. It covers perfect on light and dark!

Bones came in a 14ml bottle, but is available in the 5ml minibottle as well. It was a little bit thicker than the other stamping polishes I tried from MdU (shown here & here), but it still worked like a charm. The transfers aren't as perfect, but that's because we're getting warmer weather and I simply need to speed up my stamping a little on such days, haha! But I didn't mind it as much with this combo, I think it turned out cute nevertheless :)

I am very impressed with these stamping polishes, the huge range of colors and the quality ♥ Needless to say, you'll be seeing these a lot more often on my blog! Check out the Mundo de Uñas website for their stamping polish (they have SO many great colors, I'd bring out your wishlist when you go look at them!), or for their other stamping related products. They ship worldwide and carry a lot of plates too! *drools*

Have you tried any MdU polishes, and if so, what's your favorite color? Thanks for looking & take care!

Catrice Steel My Soul with Mundo de Uñas 67 Bones and Bundle Monster BM-317.

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Mundo de Uñas gradient tiger

What better way to start off a sunny weekend than with fun & bright nails! The Mundo de Uñas stamping polishes that I used here are perfect for such a mani :) They're closer to neon (they dry more matte too), and you know how that goes with capturing them! So yes, they're showing too soft in color here.

These 3 colors came in the mini bottles that I mentionned in my previous post (where I showed the Lime polish), these cute bottles contain 5ml. If it's a color you'd use a lot, you can of course always get the 14ml bottle. The pink one is #55 Orchid, the turquoise #61 Fiji and purple is #60 Fantasy. They're all great colors to have in your stamping polish collection, and just as Lime, they work like a charm on any color! You can find these on the Mundo de Uñas website and in various webshops.
For this mani I used a tiny drop of each color on the side of the image and scraped it into the image. I didn't continue scraping until the gradient had really smooth transitions between the colors, since I wanted to show the colors how they are as well. Thanks for looking and have a great weekend! :)

Catrice How I Matt Your Mother with Mundo de Uñas Orchid, Fiji and Fantasy and DRK XL Designer plate 1.

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Bright green with Mundo de Uñas Lime

Hi guys! I recently received some stamping polish from Mundo de Uñas, a brand that I was very curious about. I tried some out already and well, I now want ALL their colors, haha! These stamping polishes are simply perfect! I'll of course show them all soon, and here's the first, Lime.

Please note; I had a hard time capturing the colors of my mani, the green base turned out lighter and on the blue side, and more important, the lime leans a bit too yellow on my pics. The bottlecolor and the stamping on black/white are more color accurate! It's a fresh limegreen color, especially great for the coming seasons.

As you can see on the left, it might be a lighter stamping polish, but it has no issues whatsoever with a dark base. It's a real stamping polish, which means it's a little thicker, smells a bit different (funky sweet) and is very pigmented, but this color didn't stain on my fingers at all. Yay for that! And I just needed a tiny drop of polish to easily cover the whole design on the plate, love it!

The Mundo de Uñas stamping polishes come in 2 sizes, 14ml and 5ml, and can be bought on their website and in other webshops. Those 5ml bottles aren't just cute, I think they're handy as well. If there's a color you'd like to have in your collection but you won't use as often, these babies will do the trick :)

Miss Sporty #464 with Mundo de Uñas 65 Lime and MoYou-London Pro plate 06.

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