War Paint

On Friday morning MrsM and her friends, Helen and Caroline, set off for their Day Out in London. It was intended to be a serious, grown-up day with a trip to a museum and lunch in an vegetarian cafe. In the long time that they had known each other they had never been shopping together and MrsM felt a bit embarrassed when she asked  'Do you mind if we pop into Kiko in Regent Street?' Helen and Caroline had never heard of Kiko and so it was that MrsM led Helen and Caroline downstairs to nail polish paradise. MrsM pondered the dark greys for a few moments and when she turned around Caroline had tried three shades of brown polish and was experimenting with silver glitter while Helen had covered her hand with tape creating a tiny rainbow of pink, green and orange. 'Look!' said Helen 'It says this is magnetic polish - how does that work?' MrsM demonstrated how to create a pattern with a magnet on wet polish as though she did it all the time and Helen and Caroline squeaked with excitement. It was just like being twelve all over again.