Born Pretty Plates vs. MASH Plates: Full Nail Design

So a comment from an understanding follower (sorry - I will explain in a moment why it took me all day to get this up) has led to this post. At any rate thanks so much for your patience! So we have another Born Pretty vs. MASH but we've got full nail designs this time. When you look at the plates they look about the same size. You can see a few differences but the size is about the same:

From your perspective the right is Born Pretty and the left is Mash. I bought the Born Pretty plate first and got it almost solely for the floral design. Lets see how it stamps:

Born Pretty on top and MASH on bottom. I have tried and tried to get the floral to stamp with Konad polishes and a variety of other polishes and.it.will.not.stamp. I have to say I DO like the second in design for the Born Pretty plate better, but that wasn't the one I bought it for and the other designs stamp worlds better.

See that disaster on my thumbnail??? Yeah that's coming up....water marbling for the win right? OY!

Onto why this took me all day. I heart toddlerhood....or I would if I wasn't missing half a bottle of Zoya and a quarter bottle of Seche Vite that is. He is in 2 year-old overdrive mode and DRIVING ME UP THE WALL!!!! I told him yesterday, "You are driving me crazy!" and he toddles around happily declaring, "Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Well at least he has some good humor about it....

Born Pretty Plates vs. MASH Plates

Let the war begin! So if you are new to stamping there is the deluxe, prim o plates otherwise known as Konad. Spendy but a starter kit from them is very much the way to go. From here plate picking gets hazy but here's a list of the ones I know

• Born Pretty
• MASH
• Bundle Monster
• FASH
• SHANY 

I have not tried the last two because all I have ever seen is terrible reviews of both. However I do own some of each of the others and since there seems to be no reviews on Born Pretty's site for their nail plates other then the Hello Kitty plate (which I have and I do love it) here we go:

Be sure to click each picture to see much larger images but wow - check out that difference! So I didn't stamp from this plate (since the mani I'm doing right now is a different theme) but I stamped them on the paper. In particular the one I bought the plate for. It's a bit sad:

The one next to my thumb is Born Pretty and the other is MASH. Isn't the difference shocking? The Born Pretty one barely covers my middle finger! Why do I have dupes? These cheaper plates are sold from knock-off sites. MASH is a set of 25 for 16.99 and free shipping on amazon and the Born Pretty plate was on sale so it was 1.55 and free shipping. My advice? Don't bother with Born Pretty. There's a reason there's no reviews on there. More plate reviews to come!!

P.S. Plate won't stamp at all? Have you tried removing the sticker? *giggles*