Color Club stamping plates review

I have read many negative or only semi-posiive reviews of the Color Club plates and less than 5 positive ones, so I was very excited to try them myself – let’s see what my conclusion was…

The plates come in cardboard sleeves - open in the front and with instructions on the back.

The plates have a plastic backing with print on the back, unfortunately not acetone resistant .

The plates are golden with steel colored etching. 

The plates come with a clear protective film, so make sure to remove that. 

The plate size:  6 x 12 cm

The pattern size is 2.5 x 1.8 cm

The price is $10

The etching is simply too uneven and that makes the plates very temperamental. The strange thing is that the etching doesn’t feel shallow.

Where to buy: Color Club and more. I bought mine from Color4nails.com, but Rainbow Connection in the UK also soon get them.

In my book I should be able to use a squishy stamper and stamping polishes for any stamping plate – with a few changes with more temperamental plates and polishes.

At first I randomly tested the Color Club plates with a normal (non stamping) polish, and I got rather nice pick ups, and I thought: “what’s all the fuss about”?

But THEN I tried random stamping polishes, and I too had problems with very poor pick ups on many patterns.

Then and there I decided  to do my test with two different stampers and two different stamping polishes – and do some stamping on swatch sticks painted with a white polish.

The test stampers are Fab Ur Nails Jumbo Stamper (very soft/squishy and sticky) and my old Konad (hard rubber).

The stamping polishes are Moyra SP04 Purple (cream) and El Corazon 308 Midnight Tango (metallic = usually works better than creams), so I didn’t go for a black (most temperamental among stamping polishes).

I scraped with a LIGHT hand!

OK let’s get on with the tests…

Remember to click on the photos to see a larger version!

Africa:

Africa: I tried four different patterns, only one of the four worked well – there might have been more, but I gave up. Arrrgggh - it's such a gorgeous plate...

Left to right Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes.

The pick up with the Konad (above) was much better (used the Moyra stamping polish) - but it's difficult to stamp a swatch stick using the hard Konad - so it's my fault it smudged.

This pattern war fairly OK - and it's stamped with my soft Fab Ur Nails.

Again a better result with the Konad - on the right.

China:

China: the patterns I tried all worked fairly well, but the result isn’t super crisp. It's a really beautiful plate, isn't it...!

The fine print in the Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes.

Tree patterns that ll worked fairly well using my Fab Ur Nails stamper.

Puzzle:

Puzzle: I pretty quickly gave up, I only could make it work with the Konad stamper. I had looked so much forward to this fun plate...

Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes. On the right it's stamped with the Konad stamper.

Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes.

Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes.

Hawaii:

Hawaii: most I tried worked fairly well, but again no super crisp. Unfortunately this plate comes with a deep etching scratch – clearly a faulty plate.

This pattern didn't work so well, left to right: Moyra creme - and the El Corazon metallic stamping polishes. On the right it's stamped with the Konad stamper.

These all were fairly OK...

Roses:

Roses: At this point I was giving up, and became more and more sad, so I'll let the photos speak for themselves...
Really sad - this also is a gorgeous plate.

So what do I think? (if you haven't guessed ;)

Pros: I really love the big selection of patterns and that they are grouped by theme, 48 (I think) different plates to choose from at the moment.

Cons: Where to begin – I’ll just say that I feel these were a waste of money!

Would I like to buy more? Nope, no way!

Final conclusion: All though the patterns are gorgeous, way too many of the designs are too temperamental UNLESS you chose to stamp with non-stamping polishes and/or use your hard Konad rubber stamper - or simply is way more skilled than I am.
In this case only two out of three plates worked - but not super well.

At $10 each, I can buy many other gorgeous and non-temperamental plates from many, many other brands.

I hope you found this NON SPONSORED review useful - even if it is rather negative. But I have to be objective - as I always am.
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Color Club Glitter Wonderland swatches

Color Club Glitter Wonderland is from the Winter Affair 2012 Holiday collection. It’s a gorgeous purple with shimmer in blue, purple and magenta. This is two easy coats with a coat of Seche Vite.

It's pretty, isn't it?

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Color Club Wing Fling swatches

Color Club Wing Fling is from the Take Wing collection, summer 2012. It’s a gorgeous hot pink magenta with an amazing magenta shimmer. This is two easy coats with a coat of Seche Vite.

I love this magenta pink - so perfect for summer!

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Color Club La Petite Mint-sieur and Holy Chick! swatches

Today I have swatches of two Color Club pastels for you.

Color Club La Petite Mint-sieur is a beautiful mint crème, and because of my ridges I needed 3 coats and I also added a coat of Seche Vite.

Color Club Holy Chick! is a pretty, pale lavender creme, very delicate. You see it in two rich coats (you might need 3) with a coat of Seche Vite.

Do you like them?

I prefer the mint one...

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Color Club Macaroon Swoon swatches

It is summer, it is Friday and you are on Marias Nail Art and Polish Blog; that means time for another pastel yellow...

Color Club Macaroon Swoon is a rather pretty pastel yellow, but to be a “perfect pastel yellow” for me it should be just a tad brighter, it’s as if it’s just a little but muted. But that being said – it is close enough for me LOL. It is fairly opaque in two rich coats, but for these photos I added an extra plus a top coat.

I think it,s pretty..!

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Color Club swatch spam: Blue Ming, Bright Night, Feelin’ Groovy, Pucci-Licious, Take Me To Your Chateau and Twiggie - and Polish adoption

Six completely random Color Club swatches - and you can adopt 3 of them for free :D

Blue Ming is in my book a mint green cream polish, so bright and beautiful, just like I prefer them. 2 coats are enough, but I chose to use 3 coats + top coat for these photos. The formula is easy to work with and the dry time is good.

Bright Night is a strong cobalt blue, very easy to work with, this is 2 easy coats with a top coat.

Feelin’ Groovy is a speed-marker green neon. I am showing it in 3 coats over white underwear. I also used a matte top coat as it’s natural finish is fairly matte.

Pucci-Licious is a medium purple, or at least mine is, as I have read that it also was released as a lighter and more blue toned version with the same name. This is two easy coats and a top coat, it’s natural finish is not super shiny.

Take Me To Your Chateau is a perfect baby blue. This is two easy coats and a top coat.

Twiggie is a spring green cream, bright and fun. The formula is easy to work with and the dry time is good. This is 2 coats with top coat.

OK - 6 random Color Club nail polishes - do you have any favorites..?

Polish adoption: Bright Night, Feelin’ Groovy and Pucci-Licious are looking for a good home, the new owner only needs to pay the shipping price "B-post": Denmark DKK 22,50 (bankoverførsel), Europe DKK32,5 (€4.30 through Paypal).
If you are interested, tell me why YOU are the best new owner right here in the comments below (funny is good) - and I'll try to pick among you, if anyone want's the poor siblings LOL
Rules: They have been swatched on 4 nails. You adopt all 3 of them, and if you don't like them in person you cannot sell them, only give them away to someone else - you need to be a GFC follower on my blog - and preferably like my Facebook page :)
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