Review: UberChic Beauty Collection 4

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Hello!

I just got to try my very first UberChic Beauty plates, and I'm very excited about sharing them with you! I got to try out Collection 4, just released this Friday. I love the quality and the styles of the images--so much fun and pretty all in one place. :)

The collection features three plates, 4-01, 4-02, and 4-03; each contains a blend of antique and moder flowers and filigrees, along with some fun geometrics and whimsical designs.


Of course I did a video review of the plates:

And here are the still shots of the plates for your viewing pleasure:

Plate 4-01:

UberChic Beauty plate 4-01

UberChic Beauty plate 4-01

UberChic Beauty plate 4-01

Plate 4-02:

UberChic Beauty plate 4-02

UberChic Beauty plate 4-02

UberChic Beauty plate 4-02

Plate 4-03:

UberChic Beauty plate 4-03

UberChic Beauty plate 4-03

UberChic Beauty plate 4-03

I love the images on these plates. I'm a sucker for the Victorian flowers and flourishy filigree images, and there is enough variety in styles to give you lots of different looks. I really appreciate that the plates give you complementary images you can use together, like the close-ups of the flower images and the little images that pull out an element from the full-nail images. That gives you the creative flexibility to play and play and play.


Let's talk about size! The full-nail images are just a titch over 3/4" x 1/2":

 And to help you get a feel for the small images, here is a shot of the plate next to a Konad plate:

But the ultimate, the number one, the most important question of all is: How do they stamp??

Pretty darn perfect! Look at the details in those flowers and in the paisley pattern! Don't worry about the places where the purple looks a little darker or lighter, that's because I'm stamping on paper. The details of the images come through perfectly.

These plates have generous etching. With some brands you can run your finger over the plates and not even feel the etching; these plates are deeper than that. Neither is good or bad (unless the images are too shallow or too deep), but they do require slightly different stamping technique. For plates like this you want to be generous with the polish, and scrape well. Also, if you clean your plates with cotton, you may have fibers stick to the plate. You can fix this in two ways; either run your finger over the image (I hate the way that feels!) or just take a piece of tape and just stick it onto the fibers and they'll pull right up.

What is my overall impression of these plates? I love them so much I ran and ordered collection 3! Great quality, great elegant designs, great value for the money.

You can by this set directly from UberChicbeauty.com; it is currently selling for $24.99, a great price for three plates like this. And UberChic ships internationally, so you can get your stamp on world-wide!

I'm going to do a separate post showing you a mani from each plate individually, so stay tuned for that...


Happy stamping!
M.