Pardon my French Stamping Bundle - 1 Plate, 2 Stamping Polishes, 1 Smudge Free Top Coat, Stamper & Scraper

I love this plate and the looks I’m able to make with it. Unfortunately, this plate will work best on ur real nails instead of over gel polish. When you stamp over gel, the gel top coat needs gel polish to cling to. While the bottom of ur nails will provide something for the gel top coat to cling to, the top of the nail where the French tip is, doesn’t. So, it chips pretty instantly. The good thing about it is that it gives me a good reason to grow my real nails out lol I guess I really am gonna have to learn to draw a smile line for my nail tips. Overall though, this plate is so fun and is definitely a classic! And in looking at it and playing around a little, I can tell I’m going to use this plate more than I had originally anticipated. Especially, with the block for gradients!!!! Highly recommend this plate.

I was able to use this plate and a dotting tool to make easy and quick pokeballs for my mom's nails. Very glad I got this plate even though French tips are not something I commonly go for. This plate is quite versatile.

I’m really happy with my first manicure, I used coconut polish because I wanted a subtle look. Not quite perfect but I’m really happy and with more practice my nails will surely improve.

While I love this plate, especially for the fact that I will never be able to paint a perfect french tip, this review is more about the accessibility that Maniology’s stamping plates provide. I’m a schizophrenic and the medication I need to manage my symptoms causes extreme hand and eye tremors. Maniology has offered a way back into nail art since my diagnosis. They’re not the only brand making nail stamping plates, but they’re certainly the best. Their designs are always so well put together and fun to experiment with. Slowly but surely, I’ll collect just about every plate they make! I’ve always loved to do nails, and though I can’t control my tremors enough to hand-paint designs anymore, Maniology has made it possible once again for me to enjoy coming up with designs and express my creativity. (Pictured: the solid black portion at the top of the nail was created using this plate, the rest is meticulously hand-painted.)

I struggled with this the first few times I used it. It can be difficult to get the lines straight and clean. However, there is really no other way to beat doing a French manicure than using this plate, even if you do have a few minor mishaps. Every person needs this plate!

I love a good French manicure. I used to do the trick where you paint the line and then use a paintbrush with acetone to make the edge straight. This is soooo much easier! And I can also do different base colors with the stamper vs the other way.

This is my absolute favorite plate!!! I only feel classy when I do a French!!! And I’ve done some really cool French Nail designs with this plate!

As always, plate is excellent quality and very easy to use. I love how this plate has different curves to accommodate both different lengths and nail types. Super easy to use!

This was in my first order of plates, and I struggled so much with it that a nearly abandoned stamping before I'd even properly begun. I'm so glad I read some of the comments here and watched a few Maniology videos to help me troubleshoot.

I find it works best if I scrape along the long side of the design (so from left to right if the text on the plate is at the bottom). It keeps the card from digging in too much in the middle. Using a stiffer cards, like the small one that came with an ice cube stamper, not the more flexible one that comes with the round stampers, was also super helpful. Most importantly, though, just barely kiss your stamper across it when you pick it up. I kept trying to "stamp" it down, and that just made me get holes in the middle of the design.

I still get some small flaws in the coverage, but those are easy to fill in with a brush, and even with that extra step (which is only sometimes required), this is by far my favorite way of doing a french manicure.

This is one of my favorite plates! I love being able to do quick and easy French tips with it. I'm not always great at getting clean pickups, but the great thing is, it's so quick I usually stamp each nail twice to fill in any gaps and add some extra opacity.

No more hand drawing, no more stickers. This plate was easy to use and I like that I can finish a hand before cleaning. The blue polish in the picture is Blue Glue from the School"s Out collection. I also used a chrome powder, nail glitter, and the Sticky Black polish.

This plate is a bit tricky at first. I had to scrape much more lightly than on other plates. But I really feel like I'm getting the hang of it. And French tip manicures are my favorite. A plate I will use all the time.

My favorite design is the French as well as the full cover stamp it helps paint the nail faster especially shorter or natural nails, many French tips to choose from. Will be doing more designs to upload.

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Once you figure out that you hardly put any pressure to this plate it is a great swipe every time. It took me some time to finally figure out I was pressing to hard. You Just guide it across the plate with No pressure, really you wanna go that light with it so that it feels like you’re hardly doing anything at all. I think a good example is this: Gently run your finger gently across your arm and feel the pressure of that. This is approximately how soft you want to glad across this French tip plate for maximum pickup.

While this plate is definitely a bit more of a challenge to master than the others, it is definitely the simplest way I've ever tried of getting a beautiful French manicure.

It took a few times to get my placement right but after you get the hang of it it’s so much better then free hand or using tape forms!
Tip: Place a tiny dot on the area you want to place your stamp it helps a lot in placement mistakes.

It took me a couple of tries to be able to pick up the image and I wasn’t able to pick it up with my monocle stamper but my big gummy stamper did the trick.