Slithery Slide - China Glaze GR8, Born Pretty Nicole Diary-125, Hit the Bottle As Black As Night

I have a quick and easy review for today.

[S-s-s-special!]

I wish my nails weren't quite so short at the moment! Would've loved to test this stamping plate out on longer nails.

[Nicole Diary-125]

Here's the plate that I'm testing out - Nicole Diary-125 from Born Pretty. It's a pretty cool set of designs themed around snakes and florals. Definitely a classic tattoo vibe going here!

[Base: China Glaze GR8, Stamping plate: Born Pretty Nicole Diary-125;
Stamping: Hit the Bottle As Black As Night]

I picked two designs to use on my nail; the bottom middle and right designs. My base polish is China Glaze GR8, a gold linear holo which you can see in this (really old!) post here. I then stamped over with a plain black creme stamping polish - Hit the Bottle As Black As Night. 

[Base: China Glaze GR8, Stamping plate: Born Pretty Nicole Diary-125;
Stamping: Hit the Bottle As Black As Night]

How wonderfully did the designs transfer! I'm so pleased that all the fine detail was so easy to stamp. Would love to do a white, black and red variation on these designs when my nails are longer!

If this tickles your fancy, check out the plate here at Born Pretty. Code above will give you 10% off full priced items as well. Tis the season to be shopping after all... :p

Pink Foil-age - Revlon Perfectly Plum, Born Pretty Texture-L002, Born Pretty Miss Pink

I'm back with a few review items from Born Pretty to try out...

[Purple lightning]

...and they're some great stamping products, as you'll see..!

[Born Pretty Stamping Plate - Texture-L002]

The first is a foliage-themed stamping plate - Born Pretty Texture-L002 which features lots of intricate leaf patterns. The stamping plate comes with a handy cardboard sleeve with a window so you can see the plate itself. As always, there's protective blue film to protect the metal that you need to peel off before using. 

[Bottle to nail: Born Pretty Stamping Polish BP-Q06 Miss Pink]

I'm also trying out an extremely shiny stamping polish from Born Pretty - this one is BP-Q06 Miss Pink. I don't think I have anything quite like this in my stash! It's an extremely sparkly silvery purple foil that stamps like a dream.

[Base: Revlon Perfectly Plum; Stamping: Born Pretty BP-Q06 Miss Pink;
Stamping plate: Born Pretty Texture-L002]

I've done a different pattern on each nail so you can see what it looks like. Love how beautifully the leaf pattern on my middle finger here turned out.

[Base: Revlon Perfectly Plum; Stamping: Born Pretty BP-Q06 Miss Pink;
Stamping plate: Born Pretty Texture-L002]

...and here's another five stamping patterns on my other hand! Unfortunately my nails are quite short at the moment so I couldn't get a lot of each image on the nail. The foil is also so gosh-darn sparkly that it's hard to photograph, but it certainly looks eye-catching in person!

All in all, very easy products to use - great quality at a decent price. So if you're interested, you can check out the stamping plate and polish at Born Pretty. Code above as usual will give you an extra discount off full-priced products!

Across the Night Sky - Orly Au Champagne, Born Pretty Outer Space L002, Born Pretty Birth of the Queen

Wheeeeee, today, I'm doing a stamping review with items from Born Pretty!

[Starry Night]

I used Born Pretty's Outer Space L002 stamping plate and Born Pretty's Birth of the Queen stamping polish to produce this starry result! The base coat is Orly's Au Champagne, a really old nail polish that I still love dearly. It's my favourite white polish, as an icy white polish packed with shimmering white microglitter.

[Born Pretty stamping plate Outer Space L002
Born Pretty stamping polish Birth of the Queen]

Here's the stamping plate Outer Space L002 and stamping polish Birth of the Queen. There's some really pretty stamping patterns on the plate and Birth of the Queen is a gorgeous royal purple chrome. I love the name too! :D  Birth of the Queen looks more blue than purple in the photos but that's just my camera that doesn't always pick up purple as a shade.

[Base: Orly Au Champagne; Stamping Plate: Born Pretty Outer Space L002;
Stamping Polish: Born Pretty Birth of the Queen]

You can see the stamped results above and I think they turned out great! I really love the one on my thumb's nail, of the snow-peaked mountain with the constellations above it, and the cat looking out into the night on my ring finger...and actually I really like the filigree moon and the string of stars and beads, okay I like all of them! They're just such lovely patterns!

[Base: Orly Au Champagne; Stamping Plate: Born Pretty Outer Space L002;
Stamping Polish: Born Pretty Birth of the Queen]

These ones on my other hand are more unusual but still interesting! I did have trouble stamping the one on my middle finger, as you can see it's off-center unfortunately. But it did give me fun Card Captor Sakura vibes, for those of you familiar with manga/anime, heh. I also like the one on my thumb and the mountain scene on my little finger.

All in all, I really like the patterns on this stamping plate. The stamping polish as well as the stamping plate came together nicely to produce very nice crisp stamping results. The stamping polish was easy to use, opaque and I just love the rich purple colour.

If you like what you see here, you can check out these items at Born Pretty. Our code here will give you a 10% discount off full priced items as well!

Manic Mineral - Ulta3 Infamous, Born Pretty Texture-L001, Holo Stamper, Hit the Bottle Snowed In, Spun Gold,

This is a double review in one, so let's get right on to it~!

[Silly string]

Preview of my final finished stamping manicure... 

[Bottle to nail: Ulta3 Infamous (2 coats)]

My base shade from last week - Ulta3 Infamous, a blue jelly shimmer packed with silver microglitter.

[Born Pretty Stamping Plate Texture-L001]

I received this plate from Born Pretty for review. This is plate Born Pretty Texture-L001, and it is a great way of getting crackle or water marbling effects using stamping rather than all that effort and mess! I received this plate in a cardboard sleeve as usual, but this one has a super handy window in the front so you can actually see what plate is stored inside!

[Born Pretty Holo Stamper]

I also gave in to my magpie instincts and picked this super sparkly holo stamper for review. Not only is the squishy head packed with ultra sparkly holo particles, the titanium effect base satisfies the multichrome cravings. It's so gorgeous! It's also holo so you can see what you're stamping.

[Base: Ulta3 Infamous (2 coats); Stamping: Born Pretty Texture-L001;
Stamping polish: Hit the Bottle Snowed In, Spun Gold]

So I had this idea of precious mineral veins so using a white stamping polish (Hit the Bottle Snowed In) I first chose the thinnest crackle pattern and stamped that. Then I stamped over with a gold stamping polish (Hit the Bottle Spun Gold) using a slightly more dense crackle design.

[Base: Ulta3 Infamous (2 coats); Stamping: Born Pretty Texture-L001;
Stamping polish: Hit the Bottle Snowed In, Spun Gold]

Here's the finished product! I think it's not quite what I was going for, but I think it actually could be modified slightly to do a decent effect of sunlight glinting off waves at the beach. What do you think?

The stamper itself was nice and squishy - no issues picking up and transferring patterns. You do have to make sure you have some good lighting handy because the speckles of the holo particles can make your stamping design a bit hard to eye off when you're trying to place it on the nail. It's worth it for how gorgeous the stamper is though. But if that's not your thing, it also comes in a plain version!

If these products interest you, you can check out the stamper here, and the texture plate here at Born Pretty. Our code above will do you a 10% discount off full priced items as well. Happy stamping!

Fantastic Fancy - Dance Legend Step in Style Color LE01, Hit the Bottle To Have and To Gold, Born Pretty BP-L007

Gosh, I was searching through our posts to see the last time I used this particular stamping plate that I'm about to show you... and it was back in 2015! Good times, good times...

[To the left, to the left...]

What I discovered this time is that even with the aid of a clear stamper, I can be pretty abysmal at centering symmetrical designs, oh dear...

[Base: Dance Legend Step in Style Color LE01 (2 coats)]

My base from last week - Dance Legend Step in Style Color LE01, a gorgeous green jelly with loads of green and gold shimmer. Ah, so pretty~

[Base: Dance Legend Step in Style Color LE01 (2 coats);
Stamping: Hit the Bottle To Have and To Gold; Born Pretty BP-L007]

Using Hit the Bottle To Have and To Gold, a rich gold shimmer stamping polish, I picked one of the many intricate designs from Born Pretty stamping plate BP-L007 to stamp over my base shade.

[Base: Dance Legend Step in Style Color LE01 (2 coats);
Stamping: Hit the Bottle To Have and To Gold; Born Pretty BP-L007]

Pretty happy with how this turned out! I recently attended an ethnic South Asian wedding and goodness, that was such a treat for my magpie eyes, so this was a bit inspired by all the sparklies I saw there!

Myth Mash - Born Pretty Harunouta-L076, Hit the Bottle Blue-tiful, Sasatinnie #44 The Mermaid

Today I'm reviewing a stamping plate from Born Pretty. 

[Harunouta-L076]

This is the Harunouta-L076 stamping plate provided for review by Born Pretty. As you can tell, it's a very Eastern-inspired plate with lots of designs featuring traditional flora and fauna.

[Bottle to nail: Sasatinnie Jewel Glaze #44 The Mermaid (2 coats)]

My base is from the previous post - Sasatinnie Jewel Glaze #44 The Mermaid, a blue creme textured polish wit blue, black and white microglitter and fine silver shimmer.

[Base: Sasatinnie Jewel Glaze #44 The Mermaid (2 coats);
Stamping: Hit the Bottle Blue-tiful; Plate: Harunouta-L076]

I then stamped a whole bunch of different designs from the plate using Hit the Bottle Blue-tiful, a blue shimmer stamping polish. Now can we take a moment to appreciate how well the designs transferred considering the fact that I was stamping onto textured polish (with a layer of topcoat granted!)! Look at the detail, especially on the peony (pinky finger) and fortune cat (index) designs.

[Base: Sasatinnie Jewel Glaze #44 The Mermaid (2 coats);
Stamping: Hit the Bottle Blue-tiful; Plate: Harunouta-L076]

This hand had less topcoat on the base, so a slightly more textured finish. While the speckles in the base colour make the design a bit harder to see, you can see how well the designs have transferred regardless. My favourites are the carp (index) and the peacock (thumb).

Check this plate out here at Born Pretty! Code above as usual takes 10% off full-priced goodies.

Yee Haw - Born Pretty Western Memory L002, Born Pretty Dark Amor

Here's an unusual plate that was sent to us for review!

[Born Pretty Western Memory L002 Stamping Plate]

The above is Born Pretty's Western Memory L002, a Western themed stamping plate. 

[Born Pretty Dark Amor
Born Pretty Western Memory L002 Stamping Plate]

Here's how the packaging looks. I like this gold and white look that they've got going, rather pretty. The stamping nail polish is Born Pretty's Dark Amor which was also sent to us for review. I took it out of it's box for this photo so you could better see the colour.

[Base: Born Pretty Mystery
Stamping: Born Pretty Dark Amor stamping polish,
Born Pretty Western Memory L002 Stamping Plate]

Okay so... I clearly made a mistake choosing Born Pretty Mystery (a gift, which I reviewed previously here) to go with this stamping polish. I thought pink and red should go okay together, without taking into account that the holo does make the stamping pattern hard to see! Oops...?

I think you can sort of see that the index finger is a butterfly with a sword, the middle finger is a cowboy hat with flowers/vegetation in it, the ring finger is a gun with a rose, and the pinkie finger is a llama I think! Unusual, as I said!

I did try other patterns as well but they didn't look very good, mostly due to my own fault. The only other pattern that really turned out okay was this one:  

[Base: Born Pretty Mystery
Stamping: Born Pretty Dark Amor stamping polish,
Born Pretty Western Memory L002 Stamping Plate]

If it isn't obvious, it's two cacti and the word SALOON across the bottom. What really impressed me about this one is how prettily the circles turned out, haha.

So first, let me talk about Dark Amor. It's a bright red creme stamping polish and it stamps beautifully. That is a great and easy to use stamping polish. Western Memory L002's patterns are very nicely etched to the stamping plate and I say this because I've had trouble with stamping plates in the past that aren't etched deeply enough. There's not issue with stamping when it comes to this one.

Most of the stamping issues I had was due to my mistake of choosing a red stamping polish to go with a pink holo base. The only real problem I had with Western Memory L002 as a stamping plate was how close and thick some of the patterns were and the size of some of the patterns.

I stamped some of the patterns on a white paper so you can see them better:

[Patterns from Born Pretty Dark Amor stamping polish and
Born Pretty Western Memory L002 Stamping Plate]

They did turn out quite well and easy to see against white, but you can see the size of some of these patterns are kind of big and wide. It was pretty hard to see what some of these patterns were on my narrow nails. Maybe if you have wider nails, they would be clearer. Also, the patterns being so thick and close together made them harder to see clearly as well.

Our code above will give you 10% off full priced items at Born Pretty. You can find the stamping plate here, and the stamping polish here. Enjoy your shopping!

Delicate Detail - Born Pretty BP-WT04 The Noon Sunshine, Nicole Diary-L03, BK polish #08

Now I'm not known for putting the best colour combinations together in my stamping (mis)adventures... but I don't think I did too badly this time!

[Born Pretty Nicole Diary-L03]

The plate I'm reviewing was generously provided by Born Pretty - this is Nicole Diary-L03, a plate chockers full of lovely Eastern-style floral designs. I love all the patterns on this plate!

[Bottle to nail: Born Pretty stamping polish BP-WT04 The Noon Sunshine;
Base: BK Glow in the dark #08 (2 coats); Plate: Nicole Diary-L03]

The stamping polish I'm using is also from Born Pretty, this one is BP-WT04 The Noon Sunshine, a sort of seafoam-y Tiffany blue (it's a tad greener than my photos suggest). Such a lovely colour!

[Base: BK Glow in the dark #08 (2 coats); Plate: Nicole Diary-L03;
Stamping: Born Pretty stamping polish BP-WT04 The Noon Sunshine]

Using a blue jelly base (BK Glow in the Dark polish #08), I then stamped over all my nails with 10 different designs from the plate. I must say this stamping polish has the ideal formula, slightly thick, great opacity, doesn't dry too quickly.

[Base: BK Glow in the dark #08 (2 coats); Plate: Nicole Diary-L03;
Stamping: Born Pretty stamping polish BP-WT04 The Noon Sunshine]

Pretty much every design I stamped came out practically perfect, so colour me impressed! Really happy with both the plate and the stamping polish.

You can find the plate here, and the stamping polish here. As usual, our code above will give you 10% off full priced items at Born Pretty. Happy stamping!