When I first saw them, I passed them up completely. The store lighting made them look blah and I didn't think twice about them. Then, I saw them on a much prettier, better-lit display and Night Elf jumped out at me- I didn't notice the brown/green Club-esque duochrome before! I didn't get the others because the last Wet n Wild palette I bought was a disappointment (I swatched it but never posted it, I'll have to remind myself to try it again...). After trying the Night Elf palette and being super impressed by it, I really wanted to try the ones I originally skipped. But, of course, when I went back looking for them, they were all gone! Took quite a bit of searching but I eventually found them and I'm glad I did.
That was a boring story, wasn't it? Any normal person would probably think I'm crazy for going to seven different places looking for a stupid $5 drugstore eyeshadow palette...
But this palette is totally not stupid. It is kinda awesome.
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I did two looks with this palette so far. Unfortunately, these had to be taken with flash and fluorescent light because it gets dark so early now. The colors are a little too orange and they're a little blurry. Eek.
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This look was done using nothing but my fingers to apply the shadows. This inspired by a look I did last week using all Lancome shadows applied with my fingers. I thought it turned out really pretty and wanted to try again.
This was the dirty gold shade on the lid, the green/brown on the outer third of the lid and on the lower lash line and the white shimmer as a highlight. I used the black eyeliner that came with the kit as well.
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It's weird, in the blurry fluorescent light pictures it looks like there's a ton of silver shadow under my eyes but I did not notice it in real life, only in these pictures... Hm. That's no good.
The red is slightly darker than I normally like my reds to be, but it has this really pretty subtle strawberry colored shimmer that I just love. It doesn't look that opaque swatched on my arm, but it applied a lot better on my eye over Too Faced Shadow Insurance. I was worried it would be patchy.
I thought the quality of these shadows was great for being so inexpensive. They were really smooth and the pigmentation was surprisingly good. I didn't have to layer at all to get the amount of color I wanted. They blended perfectly as well. I don't really expect that kind of effortless application from such a cheap brand, so yeah, very happy surprise. The only thing that distinguishes these from a more expensive shadow is that the color does tend to fade/mellow after a few hours. I always wear a primer and I don't normally notice color fading with my eyeshadows.
Red eyeshadow seems to be a pretty rare thing, so whenever I see one I have to have it. So far nothing compares to the intensity and true reddy redness Aromaleigh Tainted Love :(
I love this palette, but I think I might love the gold-colored "Golden Goddess" ColorIcon palette even more... I'm completely shocked by this because Wet N Wild never used to make good, pigmented shadows back in the day and now their quality is almost on-par with some of the higher-end shadow brands I love!
Oh! And before I forget, since it was asked- the Cover Girl Lash Blast I use is the original in the orange tube. I'm still working on the blogger-not-letting-me-comment-on-my-own-blog issue, but lovely reader Mira has been helping me out with it- I hope to have it straightened out soon so I don't have to keep using Twitter to reply to questions.
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