We all know that the price we pay for cosmetics items is marked up way over the cost of manufacturing. That's fine. That's the way it works. We also often suspect that prestige and luxury brands are also probably not that much better than the cheapie stuff... that is, proportional to the price differential.
So it's incredibly funny to me that my love of "cheap thrills" could have been my love of expensive polish in this one case: Priti. Priti markets itself as an "organic" cosmetics line (and I wonder if that's just supposed to mean "B3F") and their polishes are often sold at higher end spas and healthy alternative living stores for at least $12 each. (They're $12.50 on the Priti website.)
$12.50 is a lot to pay for a polish.
But $2.00 isn't. And what company makes awesome polishes for $2?
Diamond Cosmetics. My favorite cheap thrill. :D
When All Lacquered Up posted about Priti's teal-colored Tulip Tree polish, someone on NB commented that it looked a heck of a lot like Diamond Cosmetics' Don't Teal My Heart Away. Same color, same shaped bottle. Combined with someone's recent experience going into Henri Bendel's and being led to a display of overpriced "organic" polishes, only to find one called Never So Ever-Green, it didn't take long to develop the opinion that Diamond furnishes Priti's private label polishes. Even little polish dollops on the Priti website look identical to the little polish dollops on the Diamond website. Check out the Tulip Tree dollop and the Don't Teal My Heart Away dollop. The Bluestar dollop and the Oh Tiff! dollop. The Lambstail Cactus dollop and the Chainmail Charm dollop.
So for anyone who sees a Priti polish that they REALLY REALLY want, here is a handy dandy little conversion chart based on matching the dollops to help you save money. ;) (There are more but I got tired of looking at dollops and some of the Priti polishes are missing dollops.)
| Priti | Diamond |
| A Times Rose | Warm Coral |
| Aureola | Honey Glace |
| Baby Toes Cactus | Lemon Yellow Zest |
| Bachelor's Buttons | Not Just Your Hum Drum Plum |
| Bella Donna Lily | Pink Starburst |
| Blue Moon Clematis | Iced Plum |
| Blue Parrot Tulip | Very Berry Smoothie |
| Blue Poppy | Blue Diamonds |
| Bluestar | Oh Tiff! |
| Bristol Beauty | Twilight Violet |
| Cambridge Scarlett | Smokey Rose |
| Chelsea Star | Midnight Passion |
| Cherry Ripe | Mulberry Mayhem |
| Chilean Bamboo | Cafe au Lait |
| Chocolate Cosmos | Cherry Tobacco |
| Constant Nymph | Mystical Nights |
| Cornflower | Metallic Blue |
| Crown Imperial | French Beige |
| Dandy Dahlia | Tropical Dreams |
| Darjeeling | Mauve |
| Dreamland Tulip | Sun-Kissed Coral |
| Fireglow | Orange You Sexy |
| Flamingo Flower | Romance |
| Floral Dance Matte | Matte Burgundy |
| Goldilocks | 18K Gold |
| Great Maiden's Blush | Iced Pink Parfait |
| Hardy Water Lily | Party Hearty |
| Iberica Iris | Decadence |
| Iced Maiden Violet | Lavender |
| Japonica | Raspberry Ice |
| King Protea | Bubbly |
| Lady Derby Hyacinth | Rose Suede |
| Lady Killer Crocus | Joust for Kicks |
| Lambstail Cactus | Chainmail Charm |
| Lucida Waterlily | Fuchsia Flash |
| Magic Pink LIly | Pink Ribbons |
| Mountain Laurel | Playful |
| New Dawn Rose | Golden Beige |
| Nigra | I'm Raven About You |
| Old Man Cactus | Silver Brocade |
| Oleaster | Matte Smoke |
| Paperbark Maple | Nice N Naked |
| Peekaboo Rose | Baby Bloom |
| Purpurea | Hue Are You |
| Queen of the Pink Hyacinth | Velvet Rose |
| Queen Victoria | Rubies & Diamonds |
| Ruby Giant | Matte Mulberry |
| Ruffled Velvet Iris | Monarch Masquerade |
| Schwarkopf | Midnight Blue |
| Sexy Rexy Rose | Tickled Pink |
| Silver King | Glitter Silver |
| Snapdragon | Raging Orange |
| Spring Song | Tira-mi-su |
| St Catherine's Lace | Roasty Toasty Taupe |
| Stemless Gentian | Crushed Velvet |
| Sugar Daddy | Amethyst & Diamonds |
| Sugar Daddy Petunia | Sparkling Sherry |
| Sunrise | Olivia Orchid |
| Super Purple Daylily | Darkest Desire |
| Susan Azalea | Twinkle Twinkle |
| Tulip Tree | Don't Teal My Heart Away |
| Water Hyacinth | Canyon Sunrise |
| Water Poppy | Life's a Beach |
| Widow Iris | Mudd |
| Zoja Violet | Free N Easy |
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19 comments:
I thought that it looks an awful lot like Don't Teal my Heart Away!! Great detective work. :) Thanks.
Oooh! Sneaky, sneaky! :)
Very sneaky of them. Thank you for the help and the very valuable info!
AWE-SOME!! Do you have links to the Diamond and Priti pages? I have to see this shizz!! :D
Click on each individual bottle to see the dollops: http://www.pritinyc.com/PRITI_c_1.html
The Diamond Cosmetics website is a bit weird but if you go to and click on Nail Polish in the sidebar, you should see those polish dollops: http://www.diamondcosmetics.com/
This is awesome. Thank you so much for doing this!
Ha! I love it! :D Now the marketing people on Priti will be so bummed. flinty saves the day! :D
<3
This is so sneaky of them! I love that no one can hide from the NB =) //Lackoholic (cannot figure out how to comment with my name & url!)
Thanks for this. I believe Karma Organics is also manufactured by Diamond Cosmetics. I think it's ridiculous that they call their polish organic!
=)
How can nail polish be organic? This mystifies me. How can you fall for that. What could possibly be organic about polish?
I've purchased quite a few Priti Polishes..but that list helped a lot. I also like Diamond Cosmetics. Do you know of any Diamond matches to Priti's Imperial Frosty Rose, Magic Man Iris, and Wishbone Flower?
Thanks for the heads up!
Rachell, Imperial Frosty Rose and Wishbone Flower don't have dollops so I'm not sure about those, but Magic Man Iris's dollop appears to be a match for Diamond's #175 Venom. (I downloaded the dollop pics and enlarged and the reflections match.)
On a related note, does anyone know if Massini polishes are made by Color Club? Lots of identical name/color combos have me wonderin'...
Re: ReaderRita, Yes Massini polishes are made by CC. Scrangie did a post mentioning this here: http://www.scrangie.com/2009/12/another-drugstore-favorite-massini.html.
*handface* You've already been answered...and that was the only comment I failed to read.
Dear Polish or Perish Readers,
I would like to clarify these messages that Priti NYC is supposively manufactured by Diamond Cosmetics... Apparently a very unethical blogger has claimed over and over again that Priti NYC is manufactured by Diamond Cosmetics. Based on misleading and unaccurate information she acquired elsewhere. She has even gone as far as to claim, that this has been confirmed by the owner of Priti NYC, Kim D'Amato. Which is also another false statement!
Today, I write to you directly from Priti NYC with the TRUTH behind this matter. These statements are in fact UNTRUE & FALSE! Priti NYC Nail Care is in fact is manufactured by FIABILA and NOT Diamond Cosmetics. So when looking to find out the truth... Only believe the information comes directly from Priti NYC.
Thank You,
Catherine Acosta
Chief Business Development Officer
for Priti NYC LLC.
www.pritinyc.com
Diamond Cosmetics makes their polishes available for private label use. Anyone with sense can tell that Priti, Karma Organics and others are using Diamond Cosmetics colors that you can get for less than $3 a bottle.
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