Diamond Cosmetics Amethyst & Diamonds

So, so, so gorgeous. I really don't know why I've waited so long to try this! It's a very pretty grape purple  with holo glitter. I decided to stamp a butterfly on my ring fingers using a mixture of China Glaze Ruby Pumps and L'Oreal Lady Luck.

Please click to enlarge this picture so you can see the beautiful holo sparkles. I wish I would have gotten more pictures of this polish! So pretty.

Review: Diamond Cosmetics Chainmail Charm

My first Diamond Cosmetics polish! And boy, is it a stunner. I've been craving holographic polishes like crazy lately, but I haven't been able to find any. Finally I decided to just go ahead and order from DC, since the polishes are so reasonably priced. So, so, so happy I did. This polish is absolutely gorgeous.

Chainmail Charm is a charcoal with rainbow holographic..shimmer? Yeah, sure, let's go with that. It applies like a dream. Two coats to opaque, though I ended up doing three, because I was having serious polishing problems last Sunday. I messed up so many times. So, honestly, any crappy looking areas on the nail are because of me, not because of the polish. Actually, because of how badly I applied it (and because my nails themselves were peeling like crazy, causing the polish to chip prematurely), this manicure only lasted about a day. This is not accurate! I will try it again very, very soon so I can get a proper wear-time estimate.

I decided to give you two videos (as well as one picture, above) to show you just how pretty this holo effect is. (However, the quality on the videos isn't amazing, sadly. I'm not sure why this is. They were fine before I uploaded them to flickr. Sorry about that!) I've heard some people compare it to OPI My Private Jet, but since I don't have the original MPJ (All I have is the weird brownish one), I can't tell you how similar they are. CC is absolutely gorgeous, though, and I highly recommend it.

(All videos/pictures taken outside, in natural light.)

The only thing weird about the whole process was the shipping of it. And this is all FedEx's fault, not Diamond Cosmetics'. For some reason, FedEx decided to ship my package from its origin point in south Florida, to Orlando, FL, to ATLANTA, GA, and then to my house in the Florida panhandle. Why? Why, I ask? It just seems like a big hassle to bypass my house by several hundred miles, just to turn right back around and go another several hundred miles to actually bring my package to me. But whatever. They got here, and that's what matters, haha.

Review: OPI La Paz-itively Hot and Diamond Cosmetics mini-haul.

I put this on on Thursday night. I wasn't really feeling this color when I first put it on. I even thought about taking it off and replacing it with something darker. It was about one in the morning, though, so I decided I'd just leave it. I'm happy I did. I actually really, really like it. At first, I wasn't sure if it worked with my skintone. I think it does, though.

La Paz-itively Hot is bright fuchsia with a subtle blue-violet flash. Really ostentatious and pretty. Application was so-so. Fairly streaky, but I managed to even it out. I did two coats, because I knew I wouldn't be going in public this weekend, so I wasn't really concerned about VNL, of which there is quite a bit. Three coats probably would have fixed this, but whatever. As pretty as this is, I still want to try the matte version. It looks awesome.

Oh, and I apologize for the horrible cleanup job. Like I said, I wasn't going out in public this weekend, so I didn't really take the time to make this look amazing, haha.

All pictures taken with flash, indoors. I apologize for the huge chip in my index finger in the last picture and the chip on my thumb, but I had to take the picture. This polish perfectly matches my Cheshire Cat pillowcase! I love it.

On another note, my Diamond Cosmetics order came today! I was shocked to find it in my mailbox, because according to FedEx, it wasn't going to be here until Tuesday. Actually, FedEx has been weird throughout this whole shipping process. For some reason, my package shipped from its origin point in south Florida, to Orlando, Florida, to Atlanta, then to here. I live in Florida. I don't see why it had to bypass me by hundreds of miles, only to come right back this way. Oh, well. It's here now! These colors are so, so pretty. I want to wear them all right now, but I'm not going to, because I already decided on wearing SOPI Brainiac for next week, and I don't want to have one of these beauties on for only one day.