The 15's in this color are as beautiful as the 11's and 8's!

It's hard to tell from a photo just what color beads will be. I was hoping these would be an intense silvery blue, based on their name (Polaris is a star), and the fact that I already have 2 colors of Toho purple metallics, one called Purple, the other Tanzanite. These are identical to the Tanzanites. It's a very nice color, sort of a medium purple, a bit less saturated than the beads labelled Purple -- just not what I was looking for. I'm not faulting BeadaBeada though. The beads do look purple in their photos. I just -- you know...