Friday, October 24, 2014

Born Pretty Store Nail Art Stamping Plate Update: BP vs BornPretty Plates What's The Difference?

Hey stamp champs,

I wanted to address the difference in the Born Pretty Store plates when I noticed.  While looking through all the available plates on the website lo and behold I recognized the first set of Born Pretty plates from 1-10 and the bundle currently listed  from 1-10 on the website were all different! Sigh.  I can't say I'm happy about that when I noticed the first set has images that are much smaller compared to the new plates.    So this is basically what happened.  If you were like me and got the first set of plates that released from the Born Pretty Store brand they were the smaller images and the plates are labelled as BornPretty.  At the time  of the initial sale and release these plates were $18.39USD not the 0.99 cents per plate that was offered yesterday but roughly $2.39USD per plate.


Above are the old/first release of the Born Pretty Store plates from one month ago. If you want to see close up individual images of all the plates see my original post here. Now take a look at the BP plates which launched yesterday and are essentially the larger version of the BornPretty plates though many have been completely redesigned.  Especially BornPretty 06.  I'll show you that one individually below.







Look at the total difference between BP06 and BornPretty 06. I'm a bit surprised that Born Pretty Store didn't bring this obvious change to our attention since these are clearly different plates and what's more the image sizing is completely different as well.


Side by side comparisons (sorry I could not make them larger or they would go to a different line).  But the difference is quite obvious.

 

Despite the above too looking the same they aren't.  The BP01 plate clearly has different sizing and spacing compared to the BornPretty 01 original.  Trust me my eye for these kinds of subtle differences is very sharp. Plus see how the party hat in the upper left is now changed to a smaller christmas tree? They removed the hat because it was taking up too much real estate and enlarged and moved the christmas tree that had been there in the original.




See how the images have been enlarged and zoomed in on the new BP versions? Also the snowflakes and one of the other spirals at the bottom has been removed.  And here's another prime example.

 

Zoom, rotation, removal, and addition.  Sigh.  So I would do this with all the plates because they have all been changed but A, all of the individual images of the BP plates aren't up on the website and B, I think you get what I am pointing out.


 

For me the disheartening part about all of this is that it would have been very easy for Born Pretty Store to post an addendum to the links on their page or in the newsletter saying the original 10 plates had been redesigned so that we knew to get them if we wanted during the 0.99 cent sale.  I tried searching the site and blog and couldn't find that information anywhere.  I have no problem with a brand revamping old plates Bundle Monster did it with their 2010 set, although these hardly qualify as old seeing as they just released a month ago, but I do have a problem with operating with partial information.  I have written to Born Pretty to ask what they plan to do about this for those of us that ordered the originals, which I'm still waiting to arrive, and wanted the larger plates.

I won't lie, but right now I'm pretty disappointed.  Hopefully a few of my readers caught this before I did and were able to get the new revamped plates during the sale if you wanted them.  Personally I'm hoping Born Pretty Store will offer the redesigned plates again for 0.99 per plate or a discounted price for those of us who purchased the originals and wanted the redesigned plates since we have already demonstrated out loyalty by buying them at a higher price originally even when they were on sale.  Ok I'll leave it here for now.  Let me know what you think in the comments below and I'll see you next post....

38 comments:

  1. Pretty disappointed as well. First, I'm disappointed that I still have yet to receive the first set of plates I ordered from them. Then here they go already releasing the second set?? I have longer nails, I can't use small images. So if/when the first set of plates ever makes it to me, they're probably going to be useless (and never mind that I paid DOUBLE the price they were available for yesterday!!) Second, they definitely should have made the change in plates known to everyone and even offered replacements to those that already ordered them the first time around. These plates were my very first order from Born Pretty, and I have to say, the experience is not making me jump to make another purchase!!

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  2. I have to say that I am disappointed as well. I was hoping to get both of the Sailor Moon inspired plates and the original one is gone. While I understand that some of the images are now larger they are missing some images completely. I wish that there was a notice stating that they were going to revamp the old plates and it wasn't a "new collection"

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  3. I just got the original initial set - I am so disappointed - some images are sooooo small :( Almost useless, I got little nails, nubbins you could say, wearing them short, but still some of the "full nail" patterns are too small. No wonder they redesigned what appeared to be bullshit size images, but I paid for the plates and I may not use some of them...

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  4. That makes me feel better about not buying any - I didn't realise they were the same plates! I thought they were all new ones! Kinda gutted though, because these "new" ones look a lot nicer than the "old" ones in many cases. I'm bummed because my plates STILL haven't arrived. It's not like BPS to be so unprofessional! (Mostly.)

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  5. You're the first person I've come across that has actually received their plates!

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  6. There were issues with BPS parcels in my country (still people wait for June, July and August shipments) and I bought more than just the plates so decided to pay extra for tracked shipping. WHich appeared to be only 6 days waiting for BPS to pack the stuff and 21 days to get the envelope at my post office.

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  7. I'm bummed too. My originals haven't arrived yet but I ordered all the new ones yesterday and would have coughed up for the retooled ones if I'd known how lame the original set was.

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  8. I would agree the new ones in terms of design do appear a bit more polished than their predecessors. I wish they had been more forthright about the redesign I would have been fine about getting the redesigns at the 0.99cent price point and not full price considering what I already paid for the original set.

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  9. Oh, no, I totally did not notice the change. I ordered plates 01, 02 and 10 from the original set, and still don't have them. And yesterday I ordered both new sets, and now wish I got the redesigned plates from the old set, too.

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  10. I agreed with most of what you said. I mean we didn't even get the option of knowing about these revamped plates to make an informed decision and I also would have posted the change on my blog so that my readers could be aware. I also have very long nails so I don't think the smaller images are going to work out for me. Overall I'm really sad about this :(

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  11. Have you tried stamping? How's the etching on these plates?

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  12. You think they would have put up a least a notice about the new Sailor Moon plate. I totally didn't realize it myself. As I ordered the original set I will have that plate when it arrives but with the images being so small it may not even be worth it. Overall I agree there should have been a notice given about the revamp prior to the sale and release.

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  13. Exactly same here. I would have bitten the bullet had I known just to make sure I got images that would fit my nails.

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  14. This so wrong!!! I'm so disappointed! I hope the ones I got are not the small ones. I hope they make it up to us. Att Gisela Matta

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  15. Well if your ordered before yesterday you got the older ones if you ordered yesterday you should have gotten the new ones...

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  16. Yeah I feel the same I did get the entire original set and then yesterday I got both of the newer sets not realizing the original has been revamped. Obviously I would have gotten that one too if only I had known. Of course the fact that we overpaid for the original plates also isn't lost on me :(

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  17. I dont even have really long nails and i dont have very wide nails but some of the full size images just barely fit on my thumb and my thumb nail is only a slightly over 1 cm wide I was super disappointed in the sizes of the images as well as the placement on the image plates being very crowded

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  18. Alice, I will try them out tomorrow, just those which I decided to open. I keep some unpacked for the account of my future blog giveaway. I will leave a comment here when I try them.

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  19. Girl I gotta be honest, I would not give away these plates if the images are that small and so many people are upset lol! If they are the newer ones that makes more sense after all you want to win things that will be useful to you in giveaway and fun right? And I don't mean that in a snarky way I just mean with all the issues surrounding the original models it might be best to use them for yourself if you can.

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  20. Wow that's the most explicit measurement I've seen so far. All of my naisl are about 1.5-2.0cm wide so I guess these will definitely not work for me. At least not without stretching the images. How was the quality of the etching?

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  21. This is sad... I just seen your post and am gutted as I prefer bigger plates, not to mention the price difference!
    Plus not arrived yet... very dissapointed from born pretty store... Yet I take this opportunity to thank you for all your informative great blogs x

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  22. Aww sweetie yeah I'm less than thrilled myself. I think if they had just given us the notice about the change we could have at least gotten some of the bigger plates while they were on sale. I'm truly hoping they offer something to those of us who got the original plates in the way of replacement. And thank you for your kind words. I will always try and keep my readers informed as best I can!

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  23. not all of them are that small, but the 03(rose rectangle 2cm long 1 cm wide) 05(1.5X1.5 cm squares), 08 (middle rectangles slightly over 1cm wide, 1.5 cm long ) and 09 (the squares are slightly less than 1 cm, and the rectangles on either side are only slightly larger than .5cm wide and 1.5 cm long). Ok so most of them these were even disappointingly small for me and like said my nails are tiny

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  24. not all of them are that small, the sailor moon and peacock plate have decent sized images but to give an idea 03(rose rectangle 2cm long 1 cm wide) 05(1.5X1.5 cm squares), 08 (middle rectangles slightly over 1cm wide, 1.5 cm long ) and 09 (the squares are slightly less than 1 cm, and the rectangles on either side are only slightly larger than .5cm wide and 1.5 cm long). Ok so most of them these were even disappointingly small for me and like said my nails are tiny

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  25. as for etching i only just got i havent tried them out yet but it seems good

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  26. Hmm those are all too small for my nails except maybe the 1.5 x 1.5 if I stretch it with a marshmallow stamper :( I'm so disappointed by these measurements for sure :(

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  27. Well thank gooodness for at least that!

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  28. Seriously??!!!?? Ugggg...why do this? I saw that the lace looking one was very different. Makes me so angry! I still haven't got mine either. I really like that second lace plate as well!

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  29. Yeah it's definitely a non-ideal situation that could have been handled in a more forthright manner. For now I guess we are in limbo until we hear something back from Born Pretty :( As I said I'm pretty disappointed.

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  30. I have checked so far just two Born Pretty 10 and 08 - both stamp really well, no issues, bold spots, missing details. No issues with regards to the quality. No more checking - it is Saturday evening and I am ready to go out! Take care, fellows!

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  31. I did not want to hide the info about the image sizes - but thank you for your remark, I respect an honest advise :) I just know few very creative ladies, who make the stamping with partial images, I am sure they will be hell a lot of ready to put their claws on those plates. But - as quality of the etching is so far really good - I start to think I do not want to give anything away, lol.

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  32. Oh, good, at least we have that. Still disappointed about small sizes.


    Thanks for checking them.

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  33. I noticed the sailor moon plate were completely different, I prefer the old design of sailor moon, but since they new one are on sale in bundle so I just give it a try. Can't wait to receive mine and see how it goes

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  34. I am seriously disappointed by the plates. I don't have wide nails but they are long, round the 2cm. When I try to position my nails on the plate for a full image only a few would work. This is very very annoying. I would have loved to have gotten bigger images because what I have now is fairly useless to me. The zig zag image on plate 08 is one of the worst imo, great design but so stupidly small!!! Stretching the stamper will only distort the image thus leaving it for only partial design use on the nail. So sad about this!

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  35. You can find these plates at:

    http://www.aliexpress.com/item/NEw-ARRIVED-QA1-98-nail-art-image-plate-nail-template-YOU-CAN-CHOOSE-THE-DESIGNS-for/2021058450.html

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  36. Just received recently the plates they are pretty so its OK... Very small designs on some though... Oh well 😉

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  37. Yeah the originals were quite small, but this past Friday they had the revamped ones up for $9.99 hopefully you were able to get them :/

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