Out of This World

New from Australis: a chunky, multicoloured glitter polish called Milky Way. I grabbed this shade when I saw it on display at Priceline as it looked like a potential dupe of China Glaze It's a Trap-eze!, a nail polish I've coveted since I first laid eyes on it. After trying out Milky Way, It's a Trap-eze! still seems like a superior polish, but for now, I'll have to make do with this not fully satisfactory substitute.

Milky Way is a white base polish with a tonne of glitter: there's blue, yellow and green microglitter and hexagonal glitter of varying sizes in all the colours of the rainbow (I could see orange, pink, purple, green, yellow, red, blue, as well as white and silver). The white base looks slightly blue but I'm not sure whether it's more just the fine blue glitter that's distorting the colour. I needed 2-3 coats to get an opaque base, which creates a sandwich effect as glitter from previous coats gets buried underneath the top layer. It's not that the glitter isn't generous, it's that you can't see it all with multiple coats because the white isn't sheer enough. The formula was on the thick side and would probably take an age to dry, but I used liberal amounts of Sally Hansen Insta-Dri to significantly speed up the process. I only wish that the base was either more of a jelly (so multiple layers of glitter show through), or a pastel blue rather than a stark white, which looks slightly odd. But the generosity and variety of the glitter in Milky Way is a step above similar polishes.