Max Factor Fantasy Fire Swatch - aka I have sooooo many untrieds!

Uh oh.

So, after realising that I has 12 purple polishes yesterday, I started wondering how many polishes I had altogether. Last time I checked it was 78. So now, it's a bit more than 78...................I found 150! Now, to many of you reading this, you're like "150, that's nothing!". But let me crunch some numbers.

I got bitten by the polish bug in July. At that point I had 11 Barry M polishes. Fast forward 7 months, I have 139 more polishes. Maths tells me that I'm currently purchasing polishes at a rate of roughly 19 polishes a month. Eeeeeeeeeeep. But there's more. Of the 150 polishes that I own, 40 of them are untried! 

So, like many other bloggers I've been reading, my slightly belated New Years resolution is to use my untried. I decided to start by indulging my current obsession with purple further. Enter, Max Factor Fantasy Fire. 

A totally gorgeous colour, love, love, love! How this has sat in my untrieds for so long I just do not know. The photos don't do justice to the deep reddish sparkles hidden within the purple, lifting this from another purple to, well, a fantasy purple. 

I must admit that it's staggeringly sheer, one blog I checked said that she's had to do 4 coats. Meh to 4 coats, I have a cat to cuddle, and she can't wait for 4 coats to dry! Thus I painted it over another untried (see what I did there, 2 untrieds in 1 post!), Deep Purple by GOSH. 

This is actually a slightly warmer purple than the picture shows. It has a goegeous application, almost perfect on the first coat, totally perfect with two, and it's so gloooooooooossyyyyyyyyyy! The photos above are with no topcoat. 

However, it chips like you cannot believe! Colour vs practicality.............hmmmmmmmmm. Well let's put it this way, I can't be bothered with constantly repainting. I'm not sure this will stay in my collection. 

And this is to shame me into using my untried - 2 down, only 38 more to go:)

Bits and bobs, and the worst polish EVER!

Urghhh, I'm hanging, went out last night and drank a little bit too much. Which would have been fine if I'd then been able to sleep, eat carbs and nap throughout the day whilst watching crappy TV, but sadly I was forced by bf to go to his niece's Christening, which was jam packed full of wailing babies and screeching toddlers. Urgh. It was a bucket of cold water over my ovaries, I can tell you!

Anyway, enough whining, looking through my photos I realised that I has several random swatches that I hadn't posted, so here's a few of those bad boys for your viewing pleasure.

This lovely duck egg blue is part of an Accessorize multi pack on sale in Superdrug. This was the one that convinced me to be honest, there were some nice pinks on the pack as well (9 polishes altogether) and some nice looking glitters, but this sold it to me. Considering the tiny size of the bottle, the brush was fine and the quality was the normal Accessorize quality. This is two coats, tbh it probably needed 3, but I really loved this colour. Think it will be more of a summer polish, but couldn't resist trying:) Boo seemed to like it too!

This was another polish from the multi pack. It is EVIL! It looked so promising, full of small and large pieces of green glitter. There I was thinking, brill, another Christmassy polish to keep December sparkly and shiny. So I popped it on for a sneak preview......argh! Good grief, it was dreadful. It clumped, the brush was dreadful and removing it..............................I'm still trying to removed green glitter from my cuticles:( Awful. 

Thankfully this is a very good polish. I'm actually in love with this polish. I only bought it as part of a 3 for 2 offer in Boots, it caught my eye and tbh I wasn't sure at first. I liked it, but I thought it might be a bit old ladyish, or one of those dreadful sheer things that need 453 coats just to get a bit of coverage. But once it was on my nails - love at first sight. This is only two coats, it's a really gorgeous colour and I feel it will be featuring regularly on my nails. It's my first Max Factor polish  but after this I'll be keeping an eye on their new colours. 

And this is just a flipping cute photo. Monty (left) and Boo (right) posing for a photo:)