Cirque One-Night Stand

One-Night Stand was released in June this year by NYC-based indie polish maker Cirque Colors as part of the Vice 2017 collection. This is a creme in a medium-dark to dark intense and saturated blue-purple color that is similar to Majorelle blue or electric indigo. It deepens considerably in low light to more of a web indigo shade with aspects of ultramarine and Mardi Gras purple, and reads as a lush Spanish violet under incandescent light. Changeling polish!

Application was great! The consistency of One-Night Stand is fluid, light and creamy with a medium viscosity and a fluent, even, self-leveling glide over the nail. Nice! Pigmentation is very good, delivering evenly opaque coverage in two coats. Cleanup is straightforward with a tiny bit of pigment travel but little to no trace staining. One-Night Stand dries naturally in good time to a smooth, matte finish that wants a glossy topcoat to look its best.

Photos show two coats of One-Night Stand over treatment and basecoat with a topcoat of Seche Vite.

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

Cirque One-Night Stand

This is definitely a polish that will mess with your mind. Although it looks excessively blue in the photos (as is common with blue-purples), in person the color is so rich and saturated and intense that it's all but impossible to tease out an exact classification outside of the moment you're looking at it -- and blurple just doesn't work for me. I must say though, for originating from a collection of neons, this polish is really holding its own on this deliciously grey, wet November day, feeling for all the world like a bold winter jewel tone.

One-Night Stand was a limited edition, as were all of the Vice polishes, so this isn't available any longer but Cirque has several medium-to-dark but bright blues that ARE  -- Annie's been particularly successful with this sort of shade, I think. I especially like NYFW as a potential stand-in for this one.

love,
Liz