Max Factor Fantasy Fire - Amazing.

So, when Liloo posted a brilliantly tempting blog about Max Factor Max Effect Fantasy Fire over on her blog here: Le Petit Jardin de Liloo, I was immediately smitten and made it my mission to get my hands on this little beauty of a polish. Today, I did. She was right.

Today is my husband's birthday, but he's still great enough to hunt down nail polish with me. We initially went into Boots, who have the Max Factor mini polishes on 3 for 2, they had some beautiful colours, but alas, no Fantasy Fire. So off we went to Superdrug...and they had it! I'm not ashamed to say I bought all three bottles straight off the shelf. Much.

Here it is:

Can't. Look. Away.

A tiny hint of all the colours this holds

It's a mini bottle, I just have tiny hands

What I used:

• Nails Inc Kensington Caviar basecoat
• Nails Inc Basil Street (1 coat)
• Max Factor Max Effect in Fantasy Fire (about 5 coats!!)
• Seche Vite topcoat

Now, I'm willing to say, there are a few downsides with this gorgeous polish. I'm just going to give you a rundown of what I see to be the good and the bad.

• It's unbelievably sheer. As you can see, I layered it over a coat of nude polish just to get started, and still used 4-5 coats and it's still more sheer than I'd like.
• The bottle is tiny, and when you're using this much it won't last long. It's £3.99.
• The brush is tiny, obviously, and hard to paint with.

But:

• Just look at it. It's literally jumped straight into my top 5 favourite polishes of all time.
• The colour reminds me of Dairy Milk chocolate wrappers...
• It's wonderfully shiny.
• Again, just look. In all honesty, it's a million times nicer in real life. My crappy iPhone photography skills won't let me capture the shades of red, gold, green, blue, purple...

I think I'm in love. Thank you Liloo.