A little Wet n Wild swatchathon

Wet n Wild is one of those great US drugstore brands Australian girls for the most part read about and wish we had access to as easily and cheaply as our US friends.  I got my first taste of WnW years ago when a friend bought me WnW's 666 lip liner pencil as a souvenir of her US trip and I quickly realised this was the best 99 cents she'd ever spent on me!  Fast forward a few years and US blogger friend Kaki sends me a care package including some WnW items I'd requested - and a few more (see here to refresh your memory).  Naturally another 666 lip liner was on my list!  :)) 

Quite a few of you who commented on the care package post wanted to see swatches of the WnW Color Icon eyeshadow palettes so I'm happily, finally doing it for you now, along with some quick swatches of THE lip liner and the polish I also received from Fergie's line of WnW polishes. 

First up are the eyeshadow palettes.  All photos have been taken indoors in natural daylight and all of the swatches were done on bare, unprimed skin for the truest indication of pigmentation and finish.

Walking on Eggshells

This trio is a great everyday palette, taking all the guessing out of achieving an easy, work-appropriate EOTD.  The shades are warm neutrals so I think they'd be flattering against most skintones and eye colours .

Swatched L - R:

Eyelid, Crease, Browbone

Petal Pusher

Being the unabashed purple lover that I am, this palette is right up my alley.  The eight shades differ in intensity and finish so the options can go all the way from soft and ethereal to dramatic and smokey.  I've swatched these as though they were two palettes - left side and right side - and you can see they have quite different personalities.  The left side is the very soft, romantic and the right is the vamp, after dark.  Of course they can be mixed and matched however you please so there are lots of possibilities with these eight pan palettes.

Left side swatched:

Browbone, Eyelid, Crease, Definer

Right side swatched:

Browbone, Eyelid, Crease, Definer

Comfort Zone

I'd seen so many rave reviews of this palette and it doesn't disappoint.  The pigmentation is more consistently intense than Petal Pusher palette and there are some interesting shades here that step outside my comfort zone and push my colour boundaries in a good way - particularly the duochrome definer on the right side of the palette (which is widely blogged as a dupe of MAC's Club eyeshadow). 

Left side swatched:

Browbone, Eyelid, Crease, Definer

Right side swatched:

Browbone, Eyelid, Crease, Definer

666 Brandy Wine lip liner pencil &

Ferguson Crest Syrah nail colour

666 is my go to lip liner pencil because it's just a little darker than my natural lip but still soft and neutral enough to go with any lip colour without overpowering it or creating that distracting "I'm wearing LIP LINER!" look.  In the bottle Ferguson Crest Syrah appears as a burgundy glass fleck nail polish subtly shot with gold.  I'll post a proper NOTD swatch very soon but have posted a quick tape swatch below.

Swatched L - R:

666, Ferguson Crest Syrah

Until next time!

Vita :)