Recents: Wet n Wild, Essie and Revlon

 

Wet n Wild Color Icon Palettes

in Vanity and Walking on Eggshells

I use the Vanity palette DAILY - especially the matte cream color that's top left!

These shadows are creamy, easy to blend, and highly pigmented - and for the price?! I am thrilled to have discovered Wet'n'Wild shadows (and not to mention nail polishes!) via the blogging community.

'Walking on Eggshells' is not used as often as 'Vanity', but the quality is all the same. And if I'm remembering correctly, they are all MAC dupes? Not sure of the shimmering white/cream, but the middle brown shade looks a lot like the limited edition 'Time and Space' eyeshadow from MAC's Neo Sci-Fi collection, and the champagne-y/pink color is quite similar to 'All That Glitters'? I don't own many MAC shadows though, so I'm definitely not certain!

Essie Nail Polishes

in Sew Psyched and Turquoise & Caicos

I'm pretty disappointed in both of these. I was expecting Sew Psyched to be a lot more green, and therefore a lot more unique, and for Turquoise & Caicos to be a lot more opaque. With Turquoise & Caicos I was really just looking for an alternative to my all time favorite nail varnish, China Glaze's For Audrey, but I just suppose nothing can compare. Sigh.

Compared to China Glaze's For Audrey...

Revlon Nail Polish
in Stormy and Silver

So very pleased with these two shades. Revlon is seriously the best. 'Stormy' is a really standard and typical gray, super "on trend", thought I should have it around, blah, blah, blah. What I really love about it though is it's opacity and crazy fast drying speed. AND it was like $4...... You heard that right.

And 'Silver' is not silver at all (or at least not the silver that I and I'm sure most of the world are familiar with), first of all, it's a cream, no where near metallic or shimmery. And second of all, it has a lovely light blue/lavender running through it - it's subtle though. It's beautiful. I love it.