The life and death of Stamping

"Try Stamping" they said. "It'll be fun" they said. THEY LIE. I'm a hardcore nail-art fan, and have always done my nail art free-hand. Sometimes it looks like a piece of art, sometimes it looks like a piece of fart. I decided to try my hand in stamping because so many girls I know are completely addicted to it. I figured, how hard can it be? slap some polish on a plate, scrape, stamp, transfer. My dogs could do this blind folded.

I started off picking up this "As Seen on TV" stamping kit at the dollar store for $3.00, because seeing as how I've never done this, I figured I'm not going to invest in something I have no idea what I'm doing with. It came with all the tools I needed, and 5 stamping plates to chose from. 

Since I'm still sporting last week's mani, and it is perfectly in tact, I decided to stamp onto my accent nail and preserve my most beautiful color, Rae. I thought it would look adorable to zebra print onto my nail. So I picked a color and set out. Slathered on the polish, scrape.

Um. Yea that's about as far as I got. Why? Because the dang scraper scraped off all the polish from my plate repeatedly every time I tried, and I got very upset that I was wasting so much polish. 

So that was that. I gave up. What also discouraged me was the 0-3yrs old label. That lead me to believe that any child or adult over the age of 3 should be able to figure this crap out. I'm 36. Do the math.

I'll be returning to my normal free-hand nail art and giving this little bobble of displeasure to the first person who manifests interest.

**EDIT**

A brilliant and awesome reader, Amberley, pointed out there is a protective film on the stamping plates. The logic behind it escapes me, but there is, indeed, after much picking and prying, a film over the plates. Something that would be awesome had they included that part in the instruction sheet they included. With my luck, it was included and I missed it. I swear, I'm not a ditz. This NEVER happens to me. 

**EDIT Part 2**

I'll try my hand at this ONE.MORE.TIME for Amberley tonight and let you all know how this goes. Wish me luck.