UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini plate! (Or, Happy Birthday America!)

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Hello!

The cool thing about when Fourth of July falls in the middle of the week is you get a cool weekend of celebration, and a day off to celebrate, too. I know lots of you are taking today off so you get a four-day weekend, and I hope you have a great one! Here's a plate and two manis to give you ideas for great nails to help you enjoy.

Let's take a look at UberChic Beauty's Fourth of July mini plate; here's the video review I did of the plate:

And here's the plate itself:

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini plate

What I love most about this plate: I love the stars that look like snowflakes; I love that she gave us not only the continental US, but Hawaii and Alaska, too; I love the statue of liberty and the 1776, and I love the 'vote' and the checkbox, because I will be doing patriotic nails for election day with this from now on!


UberChic Beauty's full-nail images are 17mm x 21mm, and here is a shot with a ruler to help you see the size of the other images:

How does it stamp? Have a look:

 

Crisp and beautiful--and that's with a clear stamper.


For my first manicure, I started with a base of Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, a gorgeous red holo, and then stamped my images with Hit The Bottle Blue-tiful and Messy Mansion Sterling; on the ring finger, I did a second layer of stamping underneath the sterling with Holo There Beautiful to get some holo shimmer, but it's hard to see in the picture:

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini plate over Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, stamped with Hit The Bottle Polish Blue-tiful and Messy Mansion Sterling

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini plate over Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, stamped with Hit The Bottle Polish Blue-tiful and Messy Mansion Sterling

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini plate over Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, stamped with Hit The Bottle Polish Blue-tiful and Messy Mansion Sterling

I love the look of the 'snowflake' stars over the regular stars, and there's nothing like the sparkle of a gorgeous holo the help you get the feel of fireworks across. I love love love how this came out. :)


For my second mani, I did a smoosh with Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, Sally Hansen Get Mod, and Girly Bits Le Freak; then I stamped my images with It Girl Nail Art Sapphire, and Messy Mansion Red-y Or Not and Sterling:

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini over Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, Sally Hansen Get Mod, & Girly Bits Cosmetics Le Freak

UberChic Beauty Fourth of July mini over Shinespark Polish Heart Of A Hero, Sally Hansen Get Mod, & Girly Bits Cosmetics Le Freak

The trick I used here was to stamp the images in a blue and a red stamping polish that were a shade or two darker than the polishes I used in the smoosh, so they would be differentiated from it. I love the collage feel and how the silver stars seem to fade into the background and give the mani depth.


I did two other manis with the plate that you can see here, and I also did a tutorial for one of them that you can find here.


You can find this plate on sale now in UberChic Beauty's shop, and you can follow them around the interwebs here:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/uberchicbeauty/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uberchicbeauty/

Fan group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1150090828353009/

Happy stamping, and Happy Birthday America!
M.