Gideon would be more than happy to forego both paint and trouble for however the Bar launders towels, but it matters to Harrow in a way it doesn't to her.

So she'll wear it, and ruin towels, because she loves her adept and her adept loves the trappings and secretive rituals of the Ninth.

It's giving her a hell of a breakout along her jaw, though: she frowns at the smattering of acne revealed by the cold cream, pink and sore from scrubbing her skin and the hot damp towel she's using to wipe her face.