The Circus is in town!

Be prepared for me to yabber on for about ten years, becase FINALLY, the bloody Sleek iDivine Circus palette got released. After traipsing round west London like a mentalist because soooomeone *cough* Kat *cough* managed to get it early, I went skipping down early to Superdrug yesterday to snatch it up before everyone else did. (There were loads there, cementing the opinion that us beauty bloggers can get a bit batshit over that much colour for a fiver.) If by any chance you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, or aren't that Sleek-savvy, my review of some of the permanent palettes is here.

Anyway, here it is!

With flash:




Swatchies on bare skin, no flash:





Um. That chartreuse. I want to eat it. I am so glad its in my life.

I didn't swatch the black, because its black, and I didn't swatch the white. If you've got the Acid palette, you'll know its very sheer. I don't mind this, as I like a sheer white for a highlight, but I'd have sacrificed it happily in a nanosecond if they'd put in another shimmery pink, say. But how pretty? I was very lacking in good pinks before, so now I'm happy as a clam.

So whats it like? Well, the mattes seem to have better payoff overall than in previous palettes. I wasn't overly impressed with the lilac colour, but I wasn't unimpressed. The texture of the shadows seems a little harder than previously palettes, particularly the mattes, which is good - I broke one of my Bohemian shadows the other day. (I actually screamed, which wasn't embarrassing at all when my missus came running up the stairs.) None of the shadows have the odd chuky texture you got before in some of the other palettes, either. Everything else previously said about these palettes applies - they're darn good. Great pigmentation, great price. I know some people will bitch about the packaging, but sheeet, you're buying a palette called Circus and you're moaning about the colour? Really?!

One other thing to mention is that I'm sure people will be PO'd about the yellow. at first glance, I thought it was the same as the yellow from the Bohemian palette. But Sleek is up to their old trick of making almost-the-same-but-not-quite colours again:



I know this picture sucks, but irl, the Circus yellow is slightly warmer, I think, and more pigmented. I prefer the Circus one and I was very enamoured of the Bohemian yellow so I'm a happy bunny.

Anyway anyway anyway, here is my first Circus look!








I used the yellow on the lid, with the chartreuse in the crease and lower lashline, with the shimmery dark purple on the outer V, and the top-right-hand purpley-pink on the..inner outer V.

One more thing! Sleek have promised to name their shadows, and well, they haven't. They promised a blogger would do it at the release, or something, but I can't find the names. So I reallllly wanted to have a go:



Top row, L-R: Sequins, Cooch tent,Aerial, Peanuts, Soleil, Dog and Pony,.
Bottom row, L-R: Freakshow, Bearded Lady, Crackerjack, Casey Junior, Water for Elephants, Tiger Tamer.


Will you be getting the palette?

Love Ring Leader Robyn x