Glam Ute - Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones, Born Pretty BP-L004

I said there'd be more stamping posts, so here we go!

[What's going on?]

I think this one was a bit of a fail, and I'll say a bit more about that later...

[Bottle to nail: Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones (2 coats)]

The base is the deliciously glamorous Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones from the Color Show Sequins collection. This is a pink jelly base filled with small and large pinkish-red hex glitter, plus lots of fine black glitter darkening it up and giving it a bit more of a vampy edge.

[2 coats: Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones]

Here's a better look at the glitter combination in this polish. Good formula on the thicker side with dense glitter payoff. These photos show two coats with one thin layer of topcoat.

[2 coats: Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones]

Super sparkly and leaning enough pink to not be a regular red manicure.

[Base: Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones (2 coats);
Stamping: Born Pretty black stamping polish + BP-L004]

I then used Born Pretty black stamping polish to stamp a lattice pattern from Born Pretty plate BP-L004. Hmmm! Well it was meant to be a lattice pattern but it ended up looking more like the checkerplate pattern you see on aluminium toolboxes, say on the back of a ute or something, lol!

[Base: Maybelline Ruby Rhinestones (2 coats);
Stamping: Born Pretty black stamping polish + BP-L004]

As far as I can tell, the Born Pretty stamping polish was a bit on the thin side, not filling the etchings fully and easily getting scraped off. A test with my Konad stamping polish gave a much better result. Oh well, it was interesting anyway!! Sparkly red ute box mani achieved! =p