I looked at this thread about 10 times before buying some of these, so I just popped back in to post a picture of a 100 gram vanilla pastel...pictured next to a rather nice pastel (het clown).
The pastel is actually one of the nicer ones I've seen (very little orange to turn brown later), but the picture had to be a little dark so that the vanilla pastel didn't look blown out. The difference is unreal.
Here's a head shot of a 1,500 gram male vanilla. Very ghostly in appearance and the pattern on the back is perfectly clean.
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