Born Pretty Store Stamping Plate and Nail Art with Elevation Polish

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Happy hump day, dear readers! I hope you've found a good way to stay cool with this heat this summer! It's almost hard to believe it is cold in some parts of the world when we hit over 100 yesterday! Thankfully it's cooling down this week as my toddler was not happy about not getting to play outside yesterday.

For today's blog post, I wanted to share with you an extra large stamping plate from Born Pretty Store. While I don't keep my nails super long, they are often still a little too long for several stamping plate images. I'm really glad to see Born Pretty Store now has larger images to stamp with! Let's check it out.

The stamping plate is contained within an attractive protective case.

For this post, I was provided with stamping plate BP-L-003. There are 15 images on the plate to choose from.

Stamp stamp stamp!

I had a little bit of trouble with picking up images from the plate. The wider grooves worked pretty easily, but the finer ones gave me a little bit of trouble. For these four nails alone, I counted a dozen stamping attempts to try to pick up the image fully. I switched polishes a couple times to see if they were the issue, and while it helped slightly, I'm not convinced the stamping issues I've had were all because of the polish. It could easily be user error as well, and I need to play around with this plate more to determine what exactly is the issue. There are a lot of cute images on this plate, and I definitely plan more nail art with it in the future!

Nail Polishes Used:

Elevation Polish Ceram Sea

Elevation Polish Malaspina Glacier

Elevation Polish Muztagh Ata

Zoya Loredana

Zoya Willa

This stamping plate can be purchased from Born Pretty Store here. There are several other stamping plates available as well, including other plates with larger images like this one. While you are there, be sure to check out what else the store has to offer for your nail art needs!

You can save 10% off your full-priced orders with discount code QWL91. At the time of this post, the stamping plate I reviewed above is on sale so the discount code will not apply.

Disclaimer:  The product reviewed above was provided to me for my honest and unbiased opinion. All thoughts stated are entirely my own and are based on my use of said products.  I love receiving feedback from my readers, and any comments left here are the express opinions and/or property of the individual authors.  Therefore, I, the author of this site, cannot be held responsible for the opinions held by others.  I reserve the right to remove any comments that I find to be harmful, unnecessary, or not constructive for other readers.

4th of July Nail Art Design

Good afternoon, dear readers! I have a nail art post I wanted to share with you today. With the 4th of July holiday quickly approaching, I wanted to share a simple and cute look I created in case you are still trying to plan our your manicures. Let's check it out!

I wanted to do something patriotic but something just a little different. I opted to keep the general red, white and blue colour scheme, but I opted to use a lighter blue rather than the traditional cobalt blue I usually wear for the holiday.

Nail Polishes and Products Used:

Octopus Party Nail Lacquer Bermuda High and Piece of Caicos

Salon Perfect Liberty Bubbles and Metallic Tattoos

NailVinyls Star Vinyls

Are you planning a 4th of July manicure? I'd love to hear what you're planning!

Until next time, dear readers, have a great day!

XO!

Sweet Heart Polish: Celebration Collection

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Good afternoon, dear readers! I hope this post finds you well and you enjoyed the weekend! Our weekend wasn't super eventful other than a stray kitten making its way into our lives. We've been trying to locate the owner, and I have a feeling our family might be growing soon if one cannot be located! Oh boy! Now let's get to some polish!

For today's post, I have the new Celebration Collection by Sweet Heart Polish to share with you. This collection is made up of five "Hidden Mickey Polishes": there are Mickey-shaped glitters mixed in with the other glitters found in each topper! Naturally I had to have a Mickey inspired accent nail for these swatch photos, and for some reason, I got it in my head I could freehand circles using my non dominant hand. HAHAHAHA! Well, at least it kind of looks like Mickey! Now let's check out the glitter toppers!

Frontierland

over Sweet Heart Polish Drink From the Nile and Zoya Dillon

How cute is this topper! I like the glitters are all the same colour- it certainly makes picking base shades easier! I had no trouble with this polish- I just dabbed on about a coat of glitters, and these Mickey heads came out easily enough on the brush. I added top coat to smooth my nails out for these swatch photos.

Main Street USA

over Zoya Cole and Zoya Kylie

Continuing on, Main Street USA is our red glitter topper with hidden Mickey glitters. The glitters dispersed easily for me across my nails although I did have to fish for these glitters. I ended up using about 2 coats of polish plus top coat here.

Adventureland

over Gabriel Cosmetics Petrol Blue and Zoya Godiva

I am definitely a fan of blue, so I am glad to see this colour used for a hidden Mickey polish! I dabbed on about a coat and a half of polish to get this density. The glitters spread easily enough on their own, and I did have to fish out these two Mickey shapes. I added top coat for these swatch photos.

Fantasyland

over Sweet Heart Polish unlabeled sample and Zoya Micky

It is a complete coincidence that I ended up using Zoya Micky as a base shade for this polish. I just pulled the colour from my stash without looking at the name, and I didn't realize just how perfect it was until my nails were already painted.  Ha! I love when that happens! Fantasyland  was easy to work with, and I had no troubles with the glitters spreading over my nails. On my ring finger, both Mickey glitters came out of the bottle on their own, but then I had to fish for Mickey glitters for on my index finger. It really is the luck of the draw whether or not you'll get a hidden Mickey glitter! I also added top coat to smooth out my nails for these photos.

Tomorrowland

over Sweet Heart Polish Oasis of Ahm-Shere and Zoya Thandie

Tomorrowland completes the Celebration Collection of Hidden Mickey polishes. I tend to wear silver glitter toppers pretty frequently, so you know I'm happy to see this colour! It just matches (almost) everything! I dabbed on about two coats of this polish for these swatch photos. The glitters spread out easily across my nails although I did have to dig to get the Mickey glitters. I also topped my nails off with top coat for these swatch photos.

The Sweet Heart Polish Celebration Collection is a sweet little collection for all you Disney fans out there! I really like that each polish is monochromatic rather than being a crazy assortment of colours- it makes them so versatile and easy to match whatever base colours you want to wear! These polishes do contain hidden Mickey glitters: sometimes you'll have a Mickey head appear on the brush and other times you don't get any at all. I quite enjoy the surprise!

The Celebration Collection is scheduled to launch on the Sweet Heart Etsy shop here on July 1st at 9am PST. That's less than two days away! You can also follow Sweet Heart Polish on Facebook here for shop news and announcements.

What is your favorite colour for a glitter topper? I'd love to hear from you!

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

XO!

Disclaimer:  The products reviewed above were provided to me for my honest and unbiased opinion. All thoughts stated are entirely my own and are based on my use of said products.  I love receiving feedback from my readers, and any comments left here are the express opinions and/or property of the individual commentors. I reserve the right to remove any comments that I find to be harmful, unnecessary, or not constructive for other readers.