It works like this:
There are a stack of metal disks with patterns engraved on them. You choose a pattern, and add a tiny amount of "stamping polish," to fill in the pattern. There is a blade which you run over the pattern to remove the excess. Then there is a small ruubber roller, like an old ink blotter that you rock back and forth to blot the extra ink. Yes, none of us ever actually used a blotter like that. Our (grand)parents might have.
I don't know exactly which set she purchased, but it was like this and this together in a single kit.
Since we were going out late, she wanted to do my nails and she both polished and stamped them. I always wish I could keep the polish on longer (my toes are still Big Apple Red), but I still need my fingernails bare (or shiny at best). It seems like a lot of work for one day but it really takes just a minute or so per nail.
Here are both paws. Click for detail:
So, a polar bear walks into a bar and says to the barman, "I'll have a.......beer please." and the barman says, "OK but why the Big Paws?"
ReplyDeleteWhen I first started work we had some ledgers that still ad to be filled in with fountain pen using special ink and I used to use one of those blotters
reallllly cool nail designs! i like the base color too.
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