Tonight I have a post for you with China Glaze Australian Alabaster from the Down Under Collection. Since becoming seriously involved with polish this year, and also China Glaze, I was browsing the previous collections and when I saw there was an Australian themed collection and I HAD to have it. Wouldn't you know it, all the online stores that stocked the Down Under Collection would not ship it to Australia...so sad. It was with the kindness of a lovely lady in America who purchased the collection and sent the polishes to me that I have them in my hot little hands today! Thanks Austin :)
China Glaze Australian Alabaster
This is 3 coats of Australian Alabaster with Seche Top Coat
Odd bottle shot!
The color reminds me of this kind of Alabaster :)
It took 3 coats of Australian Alabaster to become mostly opaque, I could still see a VNL if I looked hard. I want to call this color cream and not Alabaster, especially after a quick search..Australia doesn't have any Alabaster deposits as far as I can see! I saw alot of Alabaster in Egypt and it sure is lovely :) This to me is quite interesting as I don't own anything like it and I much prefer it to stark white as a base for some stamping as it's nice and warm against your skin tone. I had no problems with brush or formula for such an old polish (it's from 2005!) and it didn't require any thinner.
I will be showing all 6 of the Down Under Collection, they are all fairly earthy muted tones but I don't seem to have anything like most of them in my collection and it's a fairly large collection now! What do you think of Australian Alabaster, love or leave?
This is really pretty. There's an OPI Australis collection too. Both the China Glaze and OPI collections are on my wish list just because of the theme :)
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