Australis Citrus

Out of the three Australis polishes I have tried, not one has disappointed me. The formulas have always been spot on and incredibly pigmented.

I think Citrus is new to New Zealand. I checked Australis and they have Citrus described as an orange with gold shimmer... I haven't seen any other orange Australis polishes with shimmer, maybe it just isn't in NZ? Who knows.

These polishes are really cheap too! The first time I bought them they were around $8 but Citrus was $12 or $13.

I highly recommend you try Australis out if it is available in your country!

Purging: Which ones to keep?

I think we all have that time in our nail polish lives where we feel that we own just a little bit much. As I am moving out of home again for university next year, I really want to trim my stash down! Today I am only showing you a little bit of the stash.

Purging is a hard thing to do... usually I am very strict on myself with the polishes that I keep. Usually it's ones that I don't have a doppelganger of, or I wear it more than a few times a year and most importantly it has to suit my skin tone.

These are my reds. To be honest, the only red I am crazy about is Ruby Pumps. I sort of only own the others because I don't have something like them and fear I will need them at some stage to match an outfit. Now that I think about it, I don't actually wear any red outfits, only ever red lipstick. Hmmm...

Left to right: Glitter Gal Not Another Red, OPI Guy Meets Gal-Veston, China Glaze Dress to Kill, China Glaze Ruby Pumps

These are some of my favourite polishes. Quirky, pale, sweet shades. I love every one of these to pieces. I can't trim down this area any more.

Left to right: OPI It's a Girl, OPI Steady as She Rose, OPI Skull and Glossbones, OPI Time-less is More

Browns, oranges and rose golds have only started to grow in the stash this year.

Left to right: Australis Citrus, OPI Pros and Bronze, OPI Ginger Bells, OPI Suzi Loves Cowboys

I could not trim down my navys any lower than this. I think I had about eight. They are the largest colour group found in my stash. I feel safe with these ones as I have one in almost every finish if I ever did need it. That is some weak justification if I ever did hear!

Left to right: OPI Russian Navy Suede, OPI Roadhouse Blues, OPI Play Til Midnight, OPI Ink

Lucky last, the greens. I'm still not completely sold on all of these shades. I do however love wearing Uh-Oh and Trendsetter.

Left to right: China Glaze Electric Pineapple, OPI Who The Shrek Are You?, China Glaze Trendsetter, OPI Uh-Oh Roll Down The Window

Do you have any shades you just can't get rid of?

Australis Blue Tiger and NFUOh 053

Here is my original photo and post of Blue Tiger if you are interested, http://nailjuice.blogspot.com/search/label/Australis.

For this manicure I used two coats of Blue Tiger (I forgot how awesomely pigmented this one is) followed by two coats of NFUOh 053. They're like a match made in heaven!

These next few weeks I'm going to be focusing on my NFUOh polishes and trying different combos with them. They always wear so well, I don't like removing them before I have to. Flakies tend to stick to your nail.

These angles seemed to be the only way to show accurate colourings in this crappy weather today. It's really nice to see variations of green, blue, orange, gold and purple through out the day.

Australis Blue Tiger

Blue Tiger is one bold blue! It is much bluer in real life, my camera just couldn't capture it's awesomeness.

I haven't really bought Australis polishes before but they are pretty cheap, usually around $8 from most places that sell make-up. I'm really impressed with the coverage of them! They could be one coaters if you were careful enough. I used two coats here and applied the Color Club Vivid Color Intensifying top coat to really make the colour burst!

It also dries semi-matte so you definitely want a top coat on this (why wouldn't you be wearing one anyway?!) but it also helps make the blue even more vivid. It's just great. I love this colour. 


I am wearing it for my exhibition night with OPI Silver Shatter over the top. What a great combonation. Piet Mondrian was one of my influences in the exhibition so it seemed only right to wear a rich primary blue.

Australis Limited Edition 2

I'm not too sure what collection this was from or what was Limited Edition 1, but isn't this one of the best lime greens you have ever seen?

I wasn't too keen at first because I had found my number one lime already (OPI Who The Shrek Are You), and the shimmer in the bottle shows quite blue. Once on the nail, you can't see a hint of blue in the shimmer. It's quite nice actually but then again, why have blue shimmer if it's not going to show?

Just two coats here. This line of nail polish has really really nice coverage. Their polishes also seem to dry quite quickly too.

Love it.