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.
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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.
I’m a sucker for blues and when I saw Boho Bonnet I feel in love with it. It is a blue/grey crème. It went on like a dream; the formula was perfect. I used two coats. On my middle finger I used Peaceful Opposition. This is a silver glitter packed in a milky white polish. I loved the look but application was a bit difficult. I expected that with such a packed glitter polish. But the effect of it was lovely. I tried my hand at doing a glitter gradient on my thumbnail that came out ok but I need to practice that technique. I tried to capture the manicure under different light. Pardon the nubs but I have been struggling with a lot of breakage and just chopped them all off out of frustration.
