Marianne Nails Nail Art Stamping Plates Review

Hey stamperistas,

How's everyone doing today? It's time for another one of my in depth plate reviews which in your heart you totally know you can't resist!  This time I'll be taking a look at a few plates from Marianne Nails. You may recall, if you're a regular reader, that I have been posting about this brand for the last 2 weeks or so. You can read my introductory post to the brand here.   As usual with my reviews information will be divided up into sections.  Feel free to scroll through if you are looking for a particular section. Now let's get started...

Marianne Nails

For a quick refresher this is a France based company run by the lovely Ghislaine Debray.  What's unique about these plates is that for each of the original 56 designs only 200 copies will ever be made, and each Friday 5 new plates will release until the total 54 is reached.  For this review I chose to test 6 of the original 20 plates that were initially released.  I did this as well because swatching out images of 20 plates of this size would have been overkill.  I just randomly selected from the pool of plates I had excluding the XXL plate that I will review in a separate post.

Each plate comes in a signature Marianne Nails sleeve.  As you can see they are are extremely elegant. In the lower righthand corner you will find the plate number i.e. Model No 32 in this case, and if you flip the cover over you see instructions for use of the plate in English as well as the limited edition number of your plate from that model no series. 

For instance on for this one we can see I have Model No. 32 and the 6th copy out of 200 from that series.

The Plates

Each also come with a blue protective film once you remove them from the sleeve.  They are backed by a hard plastic frame similar to those that we have seen from MoYou London and the Dashica Beauty Infinity series.

General Dimensions

The plates themselves measure 13 cm tall x 7 cm wide, and for the non-landscape plates feature 12 full sized nail images at a minimum while others offer smaller images in the upwards of 15 or more.

Full Nail Image Size Comparison

The images do vary a bit as you can see, but the full sized images for these plates measure 2.0 x 1.5 cm (length x width). I think a lot of the longer nail ladies can breathe a sigh of relief since these are about the equivalent of the most jumbo nail sets. Certainly I had no difficulties with the sizing of these images, but you can take a look at the list I compiled below for ease of comparison to some other general brands.

MoYou London Plate Pro 08 (non-XL) - 1.5 x 1.3 cm
MoYou London Plates  Explorer 10 (XL) - 2.2 x 1.6 cm
Bunny Nails HD B -  2.0 x 2.5 cm
MJ Plate VIII - 1.7 x 2.2 cm
Fab Ur Nails Fun 2 - 1.7 x 2.2 cm
Vivid Lacquer 007 - 2.0 x 2.0 cm 
Cheeky Jumbo 2013 - 2.0 x 1.5 cm
Bundle Monster CYO - 1.9 x 1.7 cm
Cici & Sisi - 2.0 x 1.5 cm

The Images

As with all my reviews when swatching out the images I used Wet N' Wild Black Creme and my gold standard XL marshmallow stamper from Bunny Nails (3 years prior).  I only switch to Konad Special Stamping polish or Mundo de Unas in the event I am unable to pick up an image.  For these plates there was no need to switch to stamping polishes.  Don't forget you can click on the images to enlarge them for greater detail and clarity.

Final Impression

So it's clear that the etching on these plates is superb!  Some of the best I've ever come across in fact. Frankly I didn't have to use one trick, change polishes, or switch to a even softer marshmallow stamper. There are very few brands that I've run across that have similar high quality right off the bat on an initial run.  This tells me that Ghislaine was very careful with her tester plates and the manufacturing process.

Again the images are large enough to cover longer nails while also offering smaller elements for the shorties crowd.  I'm further impressed that even the tiniest details transferred without a hitch.  While I chose only 6 plates to stamp randomly, which clearly limits the variety on this post, the collection as a whole offers many unique plates and images so that there's something out there for everyone.  One more facet that I have to add is that this company has some of the fastest shipping and turn around time I have ever come across.  Plates arrived from France to my doorstep in about 1.5 weeks or 9 days.  Not bad at all for an international indie right?  So really I've got nothing but praise to offer this brand.

You can find Marianne Nails plates on either the store here or Facebook.  If you are unable to view the Marianne Nails website it may be because you reside in a country where the site is blocked.  If that is the case you can PM Ghislaine on Facebook and place your order through her directly.  Plates retail for 6.50 Euro + shipping.   I hope you enjoyed this review and stay tuned for some nail art using these pretty plates. Thanks for reading and happy hunting!  I'll see you next post....