Here is Hello Kitty Red Sparkle from the current Noir collection at Sephora.

 I used a base of two coats of Diamond Cosmetics Matte Black and then one generous but not gloppy coat of Red Sparkle.

 I love that Red Sparkle applied so evenly and easily.  That adorable kitty bottle is hard to hold for pictures, though!

 This just continues my current red obsession.  I'm plotting my future red manis, as long as I still enjoy wearing this festive color!  :)

I hope to see more lovely, sparkly and even edgy colors from Hello Kitty.  And by edgy, I mean you, Night Sparkle!  Oh - I don't think I've shown you that one yet.  Here:

This is just a swatch with only one coat!  LOVE it.

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 Here is three coats of Diamond Cosmetics Moonsand.

 It's a lovely gray-silver-blue foil polish.

 It totally feels moon inspired to me!  Friday I was wearing my Dior Moonlight quint eyeshadows and felt all kinds of moon-ish.

 I'm currently on day four of this mani and despite a little tip wear and two small chips, it's holding up pretty well!

Later this afternoon I'm going to change the toes and tips, though.  The toes need it so very badly!  I hope everyone is having a good Sunday.

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Glitter, glitter, glitter!!!  How I love thee!

Here I started with two coats of Diamond Cosmetics Not Your 'Hum Drum' Plum.  It looks more purple in the bottle but then applied a little darker and more blurple on my nails.  And it looks blue in the photos.  Ah, well.  You know the drill.

So far I'm loving my Diamond polishes!  Great formula.

Oh, and the GLITTAH.  It's Lynderella's The Glittering Crowd.  I used two coats.

I didn't have much trouble applying the glitter, but you may notice that the glitter gets progressively thicker as it goes from left to right on my nails!  By the time you get to the pinky it's out of control mania.  I have no idea why that happened.  I was probably careless.

Can I just say that I love that the glitter is reflecting different colors on my skin here, like stained glass windows?!

I used Lynderella's Glitter Tamer and then two coats of top coat after that.  I'm still fighting with my Glitter Tamer, but I think what I will do next time around is add some thinner after doing my right hand (which I paint before the left).  It's definitely too tacky and stringy by the last few fingers on my left hand.

I should have taken a picture of my right hand because there was a star shaped glitter on my index finger that really made me happy!

I think The Glittering Crowd is definitely the ultimate multi-colored glitter polish.  Forever and ever amen.

I bought my Diamond Cosmetics polishes from the company's website.

And if you haven't heard about Lynderella polishes, then you should check out her blog here.  They are a little hard to get, but not impossible (and so, so, so worth it)!

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 I recently ordered some Diamond Cosmetics polishes for the first time ever!

 This is two coats of Deep Blue Sea.

 I'm really impressed!  Great application, formula, and cheap, too!

 This is a darker blue than my sunny pictures would lead you to believe.  It's almost navy.  And the lovely shimmer is turquoise blue.

It would seem that this is very close to Orly Royal Navy, which I am yet to try.  The shimmer in Deep Blue Sea appears to be bigger and more prominent, as well as a different color (the shimmery in Royal Navy is greenish, if I'm not mistaken).

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