Born Pretty Store Review: Owl Stamping Plate BP-54

*Disclaimer: some items in this blog post were received for review. All opinions expressed are my own and are not influenced by anyone or anything.

Hi!

You already saw a Born Pretty Store stamping plate review a few posts ago, and now I have the second stamping plate to show you! This time, it's plate BP-54 and you can see it here on the BPS website.

This plate has 8 images, and like the other one, it comes with a blue protective film so it is protected against scratches during its shipment. It also has a very pretty sleeve to put it in, as you can see in the pictures below.

There are 4 images with owls, and 4 with leaves or flowers. I think all of these images look pretty cool, and I especially love all the owl ones and the leave pattern which I used for this design. 

But like, seriously, HOWWW CUTE is that owl pattern!?!

For this design I decided to use the two images on the plate which can cover your entire nail - the owl one and the leaves one.

This is still only about my fifth time stamping, so it's not perfect. I think that's more to do with my limited stamping skills than with the plate though, as my stamper picked up everything just fine but I didn't roll my stamper over my nails entirely.

I did a watercolour background because I thought it would fit the cute owls. I started with one coat of Snow Me White by Sinful Colors, then I used Claire's Beach, Maybelline Tropink, Claire's Fairy Wings and OPI My Vampire Is Buff for the watercolour. 

I stamped with a new black polish, Only You Black Passion. I picked it up because other polishes from the brand stamp pretty well, but this black polish was a let-down. As you can see, it isn't very good for stamping. Normally I use Maybelline Blackout for stamping and I guess I will have to stick with that one!

Now, what did I think of the stamping plate itself? I actually really love this plate. It's so full of super cute owl images, and I definitely see myself using this one A LOT. I also love that it has both a few "loose" images that don't cover your entire nail, and also patterns to stamp over your entire nail.

I found this plate was easy to use and I didn't have any issues with it. The images picked up well, I just should have used a different black polish to stamp with, but that is obviously not the plate's fault.

So, because I used a wrong spolish for stamping, I did another design with the plate!! This time, I stamped with my trusty Maybelline Blackout polish.

I did a quick gradient on two nails with some new polishes: OPI My Boyfriend Scales Walls and OPI Don't Bossa Nova Me Around.

On my middle finger, I did three thin coats of MBSW and stamped a feather image from the plate I showed you last time - and it came out SO good!! I love the detail in this image a lot.

On my ring finger, I did three thin coats of DBNMA and stamped an owl from this plate BP-54. The owl was supposed to go in the middle of my nail but I totally failed. After trying it two times I decided it wasn't gonna happen right now, so I stamped some extra bits of owl here and there to make it look like that was the whole idea of this design lol. The top owl came out a bit bodyless and it looks like there's only some legs floating there. Let's say it adds a comical effect ;)

I love how that cutie owl is popping up in the right bottom corner lol!

My final thoughts on stamping plate BP-54:

Price?: This stamping plate is currently on sale and costs $2.54 instead of $2.99. You get one stamping plate with eight images on it. The plate has a thin, blue protective film on top of it so it is protected against scratches during shipping to you. You don't get a scraper or a stamper with it, but you can find many stampers on Born Pretty Store - I bought this one from there and I'm very happy with it - I also used it for the stamping in this post.

Where can you get it?: You can find this stamping plate here on Born Pretty Store. They have a lot of stamping plates on there, so you can browse around here as well to check out some others - I have one of those to show you next time ;)

The final verdict: YES! CUTE! Did you see those owls!! Okay, I might be biased because I love everything with an owl on it, but I think these are pretty hard to not find cute :) The plate stamped really well too and I didn't have any trouble with it, so I love it!

Discount? Yeah! You can use the code XDX31 to get 10% discount on all your orders from Born Prety Store!

What do you think of these owl and plant images? Are you an owl fan like me? :)

Thanks for reading!