CICI&SISI STAMPING PLATES 23 AND 24 - REVIEW AND SWATCHES

//Provided For Honest Review//

Good evening darlings,

Time for some nail art! :) YEAH! :) Finally!

This week I received my review package from Cici&Sisi with an entire Nail Art Stamping Collection Set Jumbo Series 4. A total of 6 plates, from which I have reviewed two for you today. The plates came in a red case which looks like this:

The plates include 15 full nail designs, and a bigger gallery design that gives you so much opportunities to create the nail art you want. The full nail designs measure 15mm x 19mm, so they are one of the bigger full nail designs out there. Perfect for my nails, although I had to shorten them yesterday due to an accident while cleaning the flat... :(

CICI&SISI STAMPING PLATE 23

Firstly, I reviewed the plate No. 23. I liked two designs very much on the first sight, and had to try them out immediately. I like the variety of designs on this plate, since you can use it for winter themes, autumn themes, flowers and even technique themes. The plate looks like this:

On the picture below you can see that all the designs stamp perfectly. Maybe the flower design on the bottom is the most difficult to work with, but if you work a bit faster, you should not have big problems.

I have chosen two designs, and did two manicures to show them to you.

Firstly, the snowflakes design. I have used my Catrice Brightening Base Coat as a base and then applied pink and purple nail polish with a brush. Polishes I have used are China Glaze Spring In My Step and OPI You Are Such A Budapest. I have mixed the polishes with some clear polish, in order to make them sheer - some sort of home made jellies. :) The ring finger is done with Glitter Lambs It´s Snowing Cotton Candy, I applied one coat of Poshe top coat to make it dry faster. Than, I used the chosen design and stamped it on my pinky and index fingers. The middle finger is stamped with my OB-M Christmas stamping plate. I added then some more glitter from the Glitter Lambs polish to the rest of the nails as well, and finished my manicure with another coat of Poshe.

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Secondly, the flower design. I started with two coats of OPI Alpine Snow. While waiting for the nails to dry, I made some home made decals, using the flower design. You can find my tutorial on how I make these stamping decals here. Polishes I have used for the flowers are Catrice Nickel Minaj (silver) and Daphine Polish Blueberry Pie (blue holo). When the decals were ready and my nails were dry, I transfered the decals on my nails using Essence Sealing Top Coat. On the pinky and my index finger I added some dots with the same silver and blue nail polishes. I finished my manicure with one coat of Poshe.

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CICI&SISI STAMPING PLATE 24

For my second plate in this review I have chosen stamping plate No. 24. Again, some great designs. Some kaleidoscope designs, flowers, sea and summer themed designs... I love specially the one on the left on the bottom, but as I did a winter landscape mani not so long ago, I decided to make something different this time. 

These designs also stamp perfectly. They are deep enough, so you can take a bit more time for doing your stamping, because the stamping polish will not dry that quickly.

I have worked with 5 different designs this time. I used 4 from the jumbo gallery design for one manicure, and one more full nail design for the other manicure.

The first manicure is a stained glass manicure. I used the right hand side design on the bottom of this plate. I used the same home made stamping decal techinque as for the previous manicure. I started again with OPI Alpine Snow. The made the decals. i colored the design with Doctor Lacquer polishes - Carotene (holo) (yellow) and Lycopene (holo) (orange). I applied the decals on to my nails with Essence Sealing Top Coat. To finish my manicure I applied one coat of Poshe.

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The second manicure is an abstract one. I used for the decals four designs from the plate 24. I just wanted to see how they are going to look together on my nails, and I am very satisfied. I started with my Catrice Brightening Base Coat. The decals are colored with Doctor Lacquer - Annatto (holo) (pink) and Phycocyanin (holo) (blue) and Daphine Polish Bahplumbug (purple). I transfered the decals to the nails with the same Essence Top Coat as with the previous manicures. I finished my manicure with a shinny coat of Poshe.

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We came to the end of my review. Which manicure is your favorite? :) I love the last one the most! It turned out better than I expected! :) 

These plates are available on Cici&Sisi official page  in set or you can buy them now individually as well. The price is very low - $29,99/Set or $5,99/Plate.

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