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I wanted to share a beauty product review of the lovely A-England Saint George nail polish. Let me warn you that this will be a photo intensive post. Saint George has been on my lemming list for some time. In fact all the collections of A-England are on my lemming list but that is a whole other issue.

In case you don’t know what “lemming” refers to, here is the definition according to Urban Dictionary: A lemming refers to a purchase/wished-for-item, which results from reading an enthusiastic post about a new fabulous product. Overcome by compulsion, readers follow like lemmings diving off a cliff. May be used as a noun or verb. May apply to the buyer but more commonly to the item of desire.

I can’t tell you how excited I was to receive my white little envelope with the Royal Mail stamp. I couldn’t help but take a picture.

Saint George is a scattered holographic dark teal. It is just a stunning color. The formula was amazing. I had no issues whatsoever. I used only one coat and got perfect opacity. These pictures are with no topcoat.

I wanted to do some stamping but I didn’t want to cover up the holographic effect not to mention the teal color is just amazing, so I didn’t want to loose that. I decided to use Cheeky Jumbo Plate 8 – Princess Charming, which has a royal crown image that resembles the A-England crown logo.

I used Pure Ice – Silver Mercedes to stamp the crown images. I toped it all off with Seche Vite. Pardon the awkward hand poses but I was trying to capture the stamping next to the logo of A-England as best I could. I also took some pictures outdoors trying my best to capture just how beautiful this polish is.

You can purchase Saint George from A-England: http://www.a-england.co.uk/.

I give A-England Saint George 5 brains.

Today I am reviewing the stamping plate QA48, a.k.a. Snow White plate, I purchased from the Born Pretty website. I am a sucker for all things Disney, so when I came across the Snow White princess plate I had to get it.

If you are not familiar with Born Pretty, they manufacture and sell nail art products. They also carry cosmetics, hair, hello kitty series, jewelry, etc. They have great prices plus free shipping worldwide. So check them out at http://www.bornprettystore.com.

The QA48 plate has two images of Snow White’s face and three flowery designs. I did a paper test of all the images using konad special polish black. The images transferred to the stamper but it was not a crisp image. There was some blurring/smudging around the edges special in the sow white images. Another odd thing that happened was after stamping was the image would stay on the stamper even though it had just transferred onto the paper. This was the first time such a thing happened to me. I tried using other back polishes but had the same results. I was a bit bumped out by what was happening, but I wasn’t going to let it stop me from doing a manicure.

To start off my manicure I did two coats of Wet’nWild French White Crème. I decided to stamp the flowery designs in the colors of Snow White’s dress, which are yellow, red, and blue. For this I used Sally Hansen’s Lightening, Rapid Red, and Brisk Blue. The lack of image crispness was really evident with the blue polish stamping on my pinky. I placed Snow White on my ring finger and thumb. I filled in the bow with red polish using a stripper brush. I would have liked to do the lips in the same manner but forgot.

Overall I was happy how things came out but a bit disappointed with the image quality. I know that images with large spaces can be tricky. So I gently scrapped off the polish during the stamping process. But still that didn’t help in getting the image crisp. The engraving of the images looked fine to my eye, but I’m no expert and my only conclusion is that there is a defect. Either way the image still stamped decently and it wasn’t as big a deal.

I have ordered other stamping plates from Born Pretty and have had zero problems with them. This was the first time I’ve had an issue. Remember this is not an uncommon event to happen with stamping plates.

I give the Snow White stamping plate QA48 3 brains. The issue with image crispness is the reason for the score but I do love the plate.