Unicorn Nail Art with Born Pretty Store

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Happy Black Friday, dear readers! I hope this post finds you well and those that celebrated had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday! My inlaws have been visiting, so they spent the day at our house. I'm also not an early morning person in general, but especially when it comes to shopping on Black Friday; I was still in bed inspecting my eyelids at 6am. I do have to run a few errands later today, but I'm hoping the craziness has died down by the time I venture out. Now on to today's blog post!

I had received the Born Pretty Store stamping plate in BP-L089, and it is filled with animals drawn in a geometric style. It is such a cool plate! As soon as I saw it, I knew exactly what to pair this with!

I had stumbled across this Mermaid Candy Striping Tape set at Born Pretty Store. Talk about a perfect match! My nail art design just fell into place perfectly!

This is my completed design. I actually had planned to go a slightly different route, but my base polish, I,A.M...Custom Color Cosmetics in Plantain Muffins, ended up on my swatch desk and was too perfect to not in this design.

The unicorn image on the stamping plate was deeply etched, and I had no issues picking up the image with my stamper and Girly Bits Cosmetics stamping polish in Silver Bells. All the lines from the etching were picked up and were very crisp.

The striping tape, on the other hand, sadly was not as easy to work with as I had hoped. The tape itself isn't particularly sticky, so I couldn't get it to actually lay down on my nails with the original animal design I attempted to lay out. While I don't consider my nails to be particularly curvy, the issue was more noticeable when I placed the striping tape on more curved parts of my nails. In the end, I ended up changing up my design and just used the multiple colours of the striping tape to emulate a unicorn horn on my nails. I used the striping tape in the 1mm thickness, and I wonder if the wider tape would have laid better on my nail curves.

Here is a closer look at the striping tape on my nails. Even with the longer strips of tape covering a larger portion of my nails, the ends of the tape still wanted to come up. I had to use my top coat and hold the tape down on the ends with tweezers so it would dry flush with my nails. The colours are lovely though!

Here is another look at my geometric unicorn design from the stamping plate. While I'm not a diehard unicorn fan, this image is pretty awesome!

If you are interested in picking up either of these items, the stamping plate can be found on the Born Pretty Store website here, and the mermaid striping tape can be found in a range of colours and sizes here.

While you are shopping, you can save 10% off full-priced items with discount code QWL-91. Because it is Black Friday weekend, Born Pretty Store is having a big sale, so be sure to stock up for all your upcoming nail art needs!

What geometric animal design is your favorite? How would you were this striping tape? I'd love to hear from you!

Until next time, dear readers, have a wonderful day!
XO!

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