Hey stamping fanatics,
I'm back with another
Loja BBF review and update from my last post. If you don't know anything about this brand I will give you a brief synopsis here, but you should go read my
first review and breakdown of her products for more in depth information plus swatches of plates 1-17. Loja BBF is a new Brazilian based indie plate and polish maker. Cris's plates are divine and feature a lot of well aimed themes such as Hunger Games, Alice in Wonderland, and yes lace print. There is a great deal of whimsy and novelty built into the now 25 plates she has released thus far. Today I will be showing you swatches of 3 plates I initially had problems with as well as the last remaining 2 plates, from the initial 20, that I was able to obtain recently.
Loja BBF
What you should know about this brand is that the owner Cris is a woman of rare business acumen and standards. When I first purchased my plates and did the review I had 3 plates that had some etching issues (too shallow or too deep). When I wrote to Cris she responded immediately and said she would send out replacements, but what you don't know is that she was also in the midst of creating a massive order of 100's of plates for a group buy. She quickly corrected those plates that I pointed out as troublesome before sending them off in what must have been an insanely exhausting one woman show. Professionalism and standards that are top notch with responsiveness to customer concerns has earned her my lifetime loyalty and it should yours as well.
The image plates below were the 5 I received including the ones that were replaced as well as the new ones that I was waiting to arrive.
Dimensions and Measurements
Image Size Comparisons
MoYou London Plate Pro 08 (non-XL) - 1.5 x 1.3 cm
MoYou London Plates Explorer 10 (XL) - 2.2 x 1.6 cm
Bunny Nails HD B - 2.5 x 2 cm
MJ Plate VIII - 2.2 x 1.7cm
Fab Ur Nails Fun 2 - 2.2 x 1.7 cm
Vivid Lacquer 007 - 2.0 x 2.0 cm
Cheeky Jumbo 2013 - 2.0 x 1.5 cm
Bundle Monster CYO - 1.7 x 1.9 cm
The Plates
As I stated before these plates do not come with a blue film over them they come in a removable paper sleeve ready to stamp. When quality checking as always I use Wet N' Wild Black Crme unless there is an issue with image pickup in which case I switch to my gold standard polishes Konad or Mundo de Unas. I also use my gold standard XL sticky/squishy stamper. That said here are the swatches of the plates I initially had problems with as well as the remaining 2 plates.
This time I also decided to give you better close up's of the images since they all fit onto one sheet and the viewer on Blogger doesn't necessarily expand with the detail required to clearly see the images. I wanted to point out that I have mislabeled BBF18 at the bottom (last swatch). It should actually be BBF 19.
You can see even the tiny waves I had so much difficulty with became relatively easy to swatch out here.
Plate 15 was a bit more challenging to swatch since it has a several infinity style images that had to be broken up in agrgregate parts as a whole to swatch. Still the quality was excellent.
Overall Impression
If you were on the fence about this brand don't be. My replacement plates were absolutely flawless! To the degree that I only had to scrape and stamp once for each image except for the one when I mis-stamped which was personal error. Talk about fantastic! I think that Cris has perfected the level of etching she wanted and if anything these plates are even more perfectly etched than my 1st batch. The last two plates I was missing are also phenomenal! I absolutely cannot wait to try out plate 18 for an indian themed mani. I think every new brand with have a few hiccups with production and etching when they are getting their start. I've seen it happen many times even with large brands, but when the quality and innovation is this excellent it's worth sticking to and supporting a newcomer to the market!
I also look forward to trying out the newest plates released by Loja BBF. If you haven't seen them read about it
here. Overall I would say, as I said in my prior review, this brand is awesome. However I can finally say beyond a doubt the quality of the plates is wonderful and you know I love the images to death! You can purchase LojaBBF plates by emailing Cris at
lojabbf@gmail.com. Plates retail for $7 USD and she ships worldwide. I hope you enjoyed this updated review and thanks for reading! See you next post...
