Disclaimer: I was provided with a free Fetish Fantasy Sensual Hot Wax by Temptations Direct in exchange for my honest review. Click any image to embiggen.
♦ The Fetish Fantasy Sensual Hot Wax kit is a wax play kit in Pipedream’s Fetish Fantasy line, sold by Temptations Direct. I foresee this review being a short one. Why? It’s four candles (wait for it). In a box. With, oh horror of horrors, a “Free Mask”. There’s just not an awful lot to say, but I’ll soldier on.
The packaging is, like the Fetish Fantasy Shock Therapy Kit, very much the usual Fetish Fantasy packaging for their range of bondage gear and equipment. The box is not classy, not subtle, not even sexy, but certainly better than the last one for sheer tackiness. This box is just mildly tacky, rather than Sovereign Glue. It’s certainly sturdy enough to keep the Sensual Hot Wax candles in until you’ve used them all up.
Contents-wise, the product is very simple: the candles and a Fetish Fantasy Free Mask. I talked about their Free Masks in my very last review (above) and I remain nothing but scathing about them. Every time I review a Fetish Fantasy product that comes with a Free Mask, I will point out how awful it is until one unlikely day, they stop. Just listen to how crinkly it is!
Oh, and also about an inch and a half of the stitching on the “lining” was missing before I even started. Ugh.
Onto the Fetish Fantasy Sensual Hot Wax kit candles themselves. There are four of them. Four candles. Fork ‘andles. No, really, I am not making this up, guys. Screw the Free Mask, this kit comes with an evening’s worth of BDSM-based Two Ronnies comedy gold. If you have ever wanted your play to include more old-school punnage, this is for you.
Jokes aside, the candles are your usual sort of taper candle (though not actually that tapered) and are about five inches long and 0.75″ wide. They’re white and, as stated on the box, unscented. That’s about all it does state on the box, though. And I quote, “Material: Wax”. It’s almost like the manufacturers either don’t know or don’t care that there are actually different types of wax (paraffin, soy, beeswax, bayberry, etc.). That or they don’t expect you to care. But it’s actually pretty important because different types of wax burn at different temperatures and also because, hey, as Britain has learned lately, people like actually knowing what they’re getting.
I asked Temptations Direct if they had any idea what type of wax it was, but they couldn’t find out either. My best guess? I reckon it’s paraffin. In any case, it certainly melts very easily and burns down very quickly. We managed to use up about a quarter of a candle in about ten or 15 minutes. I’ve heard some people complain that the candles burn very hot, but I didn’t actually feel that was the case. They were hot, but not hotter than I’d come to expect from dripping, melting wax. I could easily hold the candle about a foot over my arms or legs and get quickly lower without any unpleasantness and I could have Crush hold the candle about a metre up and progressively get a little lower over the sensitive skin of my breasts. Do test your tolerances carefully, though.
The wax was easy to remove (for wax, anyway) and didn’t leave my skin greasy. It felt great on the skin, too. Just hot enough to make me think twice, but never enough to burn. The sensation was erotic and exciting. It was, however, exactly the same sensation as when compared to some other candles that I already owned. These are some white tapers (likely also paraffin) that I picked up from my nearby bargain shop for minimal cost some time ago. And they look the same. And they feel the same.
So, while I’m telling you that the Fetish Fantasy Sensual Hot Wax kit candles felt good and burned well and cleaned up decently, what I’m also telling you is that my bog standard cheapie candles also did all of the above just as well. Sure, not every cheap candle you can buy is suitable for wax play, but lots of them are. And the only real difference between my cheapo candles and the Sensual Hot Wax candles? The porny box, the Free Mask and over five of your British pounds.
Yes, £7.47 (and that’s below the ridiculous £9.00 RRP) is a fucking lot for four candles. Four candles which seem no different from my candles that probably cost me no more than a couple of quid. And that’s what it comes down to, really. These candles are adequate if you’re not too fussed on getting high quality and they’re cheap except without actually being cheap. They’re fine. They’re OK. But, so long as you’re safe about it (and do be safe, read up on these things), why not just go and buy the exact same thing from somewhere without an Important Sounding Sex Name for about a quarter of the price?
They’ll probably even let you leave without thrusting a Free Mask into your hands. ♦
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Yeah, I’ve never understood buying stuff like this when you get it cheaper if it’s not sold as a kink toy. I guess some people think that it’s somehow safer or better fit for purpose, but usually you’ve getting the same thing in a different package.
Ugh, those masks. They don’t fit my head and my boyfriend’s nose size/shape means that he can still see while wearing one, but they come with every damn Fetish Fantasy toy.
The “same thing in a different package” thing certainly seems to fit here. I’ve always found bargain shops better for a lot of stuff: candles, leads, tape, rope.
The masks are just dreadful. Maybe I should save mine up and make some conceptual art out of them. :P
My latest review is full of sarkiness about Free Masks (OMG!) and ordinary candles. Plus, Two Ronnies reference. http://t.co/cJtvYpz4ZN
@beingblacksilk loving the mask crinkle you should trademark that!
I reviewed fork ‘andles. http://t.co/cJtvYpz4ZN
Really good review. I’ve discovered I love wax play but it’s just so difficult to find candles that actually have decent, accurate ingredient descriptions. I like to know what I’m sticking on myself. (‘Look, honey. This one contains horse meat!’)
It also fascinates me how manufacturers can make something as innocuous as a candle look so tacky. The last one we tried had a really porny pic on the packaging, which did absolutely nothing for either of us.
The mask? Urgh. Sounds like a bin bag.
I did enjoying making a horse meat reference in this without actually saying “horse”. :)
Thanks for the comment and I definitely agree with what you’ve said. Especially about the bin bag!
If you like wax play (as I do!), check out @BeingBlacksilk’s Fetish Fantasy Sensual Hot Wax review: http://t.co/FEbZlzwoVw
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