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Literary Lacquers My Red Hair.
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Literary Lacquers My Red Hair.
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Hi Goddesses
Wow, it's been a bit of a long and exhausting week for me, so apologies that this - AND #52WPNMC - are coming to you late.
I don't think I've ever had a hobby I've committed to as intensively as I have nail polish. It's thrilled me in so many ways, and a lot of these have been detailed in the Confessions of a Polishaholic series (which WILL be coming back).
Whilst I have gained a lot of polishes and knowledge, and learnt how to do nail art, the main gift it has given me is friendship. I had no idea this community existed, and through various groups - and especially ones I started myself - this hobby has grown into something much bigger - an international family and support network who inspire me and are there for me.
Today's nails celebrate this community, starting with the one closest to my heart - the Digit-al Dozen. Some of my closest friends are (or were) in this group, and my life would be considerably poorer without them. My thumb nail features one of our logos.
The middle and index nails just celebrate my love of polish. The bottle may or not be OPI, and the heart is filled with one of my favourite polishes - OPI Planks A Lot.
On the ring finger, I am celebrating nail art and the Crumpet's Nail Tarts. I am apparently the DD Queen of Dotticures, and I quite like the autumnal vibe of the one I created here.
Finally, the pinkie represents the amazing polish makers that I get to count as friends. It's very special to be trusted by a polish maker to showcase their baby, and I am grateful to everyone who lets me do that, especially Amy and Janice, who I have worked with the longest.
One of my greatest thrills was when Amy created Literary Lacquers My Red Hair for me, which is the polish on the little finger. It's discontinued now, but it will always have a special place in my heart.
And so concludes our week. It's been a hard theme to translate, but I'm grateful it's given me the chance to articulate some of the things I am most thankful for.
Hi Goddesses
Today I have a VERY special polish on the blog - one that was co-created by me and the lovely Amy from Literary Lacquers. I could have squealed (well actually, I'm pretty sure I DID) when Amy asked me to be part of her Community Collection, and I instantly knew Sylvia Plath would need to be my inspiration.
Here is my official "blurb" for the polish -
I was 16 when I first read Sylvia Plath. At an awkward and impressionable age, I was ready to be awestruck by the visceral power of her writing and the brutal language of her poems. I quickly became obsessed with her, and the great literary tragedy of her marriage to Ted Hughes, and her life, her triumphs and her struggles, have influenced and empowered me like nothing else in my life.
My Red Hair is inspired by her most famous poem, Lady Lazarus, where the heroine, a born sufferer, tortured and abused to the point she has to commit suicide every 10 years to have a chance at a better life, vows that “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair / And I eat men like air.” It’s a chilling line: a whisper, a shriek, a manifesto, and a promise as a cold as dead lover’s kiss.
So what did Amy create for me? Well I wanted a burnt orange to ruby red duochrome as I had never seen one, and whilst this isn't perhaps *exactly* what I envisioned, it comes very close.
The polish is shown at 3 coats on all fingers except the ring finger where it's layered twice over black. You can see the shift of the duochrome across the span of the nails.
What amused me most is that when I tried to take some very (awkward) photos, it did exactly match MY red hair, which I hadn't planned on, and for that alone, I love it.
I also have one bottle to give away to a lucky Crumpet reader - sadly, it can be UK only due to postal restrictions. To win, please leave a comment with how YOU would describe this polish, and my favourite will win.
As ever, this polish was sent to me for review, and you can buy it in Amy's shop, HERE.
