Work Wear Wednesday - CIRQUE Book of Shadows

Hi Goddesses

Happy Happy Hump Day!!  I am exhausted already - early night anyone ?

I teased you at the weekend by showing you 2 of the 3 Cirque polishes I received for review from Sally Magpies.  Well, I saved the 3rd one for today, because I think it IS work appropriate, and it's also a teeny bit special.

Book of Shadows is a metallic polish, but feather light in application.   Most metallics are opaque in 1 coat; this one is like gossamer.  I am wearing 2 coats in the photos, and there was a little VNL, but I didn't want to make the polish look heavier by wearing a 3rd coat.

What I love about this polish is that it's a shape shifter.  It's dusty mauve, icy lilac, dove grey, medium grey - all rolled into one, and all at the same time.

It's muted tones make it perfect Work Wear, whilst it's chameleon sensibilities give it the added wow factor.   Super delicious.

You can buy Cirque polishes at Sally Magpies HERE.

This polish was sent to me for review.

Enjoy xx :)

Sat-ART-Day Club - Away With The Fairies

Hi Goddesses

I am a grumpy Crumpy this morning.  Beth has woken me up (which she is NEVER allowed to do) by squealing and running riot with Bluebelle and it's not even 9am.  My Saturdays?  They never tend to start much before noon.  Gggggrrrr.

Today's theme sounded so cute, and then reality hit - what the HELL was I going to do lol.   The obvious choice was the Red Angel Stamping Plates as they have "fairies" on them - unfortunately, these fairies look more like strippers, and I really didn't want to take that route.

Instead, I found a Red Angel plate RA-115 which featured a huge pair of bushy angel wings, and decided to draw my fairies *inside* the wings, with a wing collage on the thumb.    Clever huh ?

Yeh .... except I seem to have ended up with the scariest fairies EVER - they look like neon wraiths!  I think the shredded dresses, blank faces and windblown hair all added up to too much.  Sorry, they're not happy giddy little fairies :(

Technicals - the base is the gorgeous Book of Shadows by Cirque, which I'll be doing a proper post on soon.  The dresses and the faces were done by mixing acrylic paints, and then the hair ... argh, the hair.  Eventually, this was done using a nail art pen, but only after another refused to work.  It also decided to be awkward - hence the windblown hair lol.

So now that my scary fairies have spooked the crap out of you, go!  Enjoy your Saturday.  Lol.

xx