Cirque Book of Shadows
Book of Shadows was released as part of Cirque's Objet d'Art collection. It's a dreamy diaphanous pale silvery lavender foil polish. Metaphorically, it's a perfect counterpoint to its name, contrasting while simulataneously enhancing. This kind of subtle detail, small but emphatic, is a hallmark of Cirque's sophistication as brand. Love it!
The color of this polish is so delicate. It's really just a blush of rosy lavender. Silver, and most light colors, are usually kind of stark on me. Not so with Book of Shadows. It's a soft, gentled silver, and feels quite at home on the nail. It responds to any ambient light with a Tolkienian elvish gleam, even in the dimmest of environments. In direct sun, it has a scintilating sparkle.
Application was lovely. I am totally smitten with the brush that comes with Cirque's polishes. It's soft and flexible, easy to control and holds plenty of polish without overloading the nail. Book of Shadows went on like a dream with zero issues, no running or pooling or patch pulling. The consistency was lighter and slightly thinner and more fluid that the other Cirques I've tried so far. This polish was meant to be a little sheer and light and the pigmentation reflects that. Nevertheless, I achieved an opacity I was happy with in only two coats. Clean up was surprisingly easy. I was expecting the acetone that I use for clean up to release a bevy of shimmery paricles over the skin but not so!
Book of Shadows dries in very good time to a gleaming foily finish that shows no brushstrokes. It does, however, show imperfections in the nail bed such as ridging.
Photos show two coats of Book of Shadows over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite to protect the finish and hasten drying.
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I adore foils and this one is so lovely and so flattering and applies so beautifully that I simply can't say enough good things about it. Did I mention yet that every Cirque polish has lavender and clary sage essential oils added to its formula? The subtle but perceptible fragrance stays with the polish after it dries, another small detail that makes the experience of this brand such a pleasure.
love,
Aunt Liz
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