WetnWild Golden Goddess Holiday Palette Review + Look

Pfew, we are cranking through these reviews aren't we?

Today I have the last of my WetnWild Holiday palettes review... this one is the lovely Golden Goddess palette:











































This palette just screams fall, cold weather, Thanksgiving, cinnamon, apple pie... lol! It reminds me of all of these things, the shades are absolutely gorgeous!

I am surprised that this is my favorite of the 3 palettes I purchased. I don't normally lean towards warm colours like this but something just draws me in.

But how do they swatch? Let's take a look:





















Top row (left to right): Pale shimmering gold, bronzey glittery gold, fiery soft orange
Bottom row (left to right: medium coral with gold shimmer, strong foiled amber, dark sparkling brown (slight purple lean)

The eyeliner is a brown with gold sparkle, very lovely. Similar to Mac Lord It Up (the formula is completely different but if someone really wanted the colour of LIU, this is perfect)

The colours in this palette are rather hard to describe... they are quite unique so I find it hard to come up with proper colour words!

The pale gold is almost identical to Mac Creme de Miel from what I can tell, but I don't have Creme de Miel to compare. I do have two others to compare... the "strong foiled amber" and the "fiery soft orange" to Mac Amber Lights and Mac Firespot, respectively:

























The WetnWild swatches are on the left, and Mac on the right. The WetnWild version of Amber Lights is spot on, wow! I couldn't tell the difference in person and I love me some Amber Lights. The textures are even very, very similar.

On the Firespot comparison, the WetnWild has a darker base and Firespot itself is a little more sheer. Firespot is a bit chunkier and chalkier while the WNW is a lot smoother. I would consider them different enough to own both -- Firespot is lighter and the WNW is more of a burnt orange with the same goldish effect.

The look I came up with from this palette is my favorite of the 3 looks, and probably one of my favorites that I've done recently! The lip is much less orange than in the photos... I don't know what is going on with my colour settings.








































































































Notice anything about the photos? Yeah... I didn't have mascara on. I was trying a weird lash tinting technique I heard about. It obviously failed.

FACE:
- Clinique Redness Solutions base
- Maybelline Dream Smooth Mousse foundation, #110
- Maybelline Super Stay concealer "Cream"
- Sleek Rose Gold blush
- Mac Espresso eyeshadow (brows)

EYES:
- Too Faced Shadow Insurance
- Wet n Wild Golden Goddess palette - all 6 colours and eyeliner

LIPS:
- CoverGirl Lip Perfection in Kiss (review coming... brand new! Teehee!)
- NYX Chestnut gloss

Wet n Wild Color Icon Eyeshadow Singles: More Mac Dupes?

As you know, Walgreens had a 50% off WetnWild sale semi recently... and here's how I ended up with all of this makeup...

I wandered into Walgreens expecting to buy contact solution and a toothbrush. But what often happens, happened. I found the makeup section... this time noticing that a few of Wet n Wild's products were 50% off. I wasn't sure if this meant that they are about to come out with new items, or if Walgreens had an overstock... it's not like the items were ever overflowing from the displays, honestly. But it could mean new goodies from this brand!

Anyway... one of the items on sale was the single eyeshadows. If you remember, I reviewed their Nutty single for a mere $1.99. These were 99 cents! Less than one dollar! Holy heck, I will take all of them!

Well, not really... I got 3 more:





















Envy, Lagoon and Kitten.

For the record, I think Kitten is an interesting name for that shade. It's a gorgeous lavender purple with swirls of gold (which don't transfer) and medium blue... very interesting for the drugstore and probably my favorite of the 3.

Envy is a dark, shimmering green that rivals the likes of Mac Humid... more on that later. I had been looking for a deep green and this is perfect!

Lagoon is the only slight disappointment of the bunch. The color from the pan doesn't translate as well in swatches as a lot of drugstore blues often do. It mellows out but is still a pretty medium, shimmering blue.


















Look at the shimmer in Envy! Holy cow... gorgeous!

I did some comparisons to a few Mac eyeshadows. I only have 27 out of their entire range, and that includes a few limited edition colours, so I'm sure their permanent line has some better dupes. I did it for a comparison, mostly.

























1st column, top to bottom: Mac Mink & Sable (Starflash), Wet n Wild Envy, Mac Humid
2nd column, top to bottom: Sleek Acid light blue, Wet n Wild Lagoon, Mac Deep Truth
3rd column: top to bottom: Mac Beautiful Iris, Wet n Wild Kitten, Mac Trax

It's really funny how much I love Mac until I see it next to other brands. Bear in mind that these are no base, primer, or anything. Mac looks great over a base but flops without one. (I think that's a sales ploy, to be honest, but anyway...)

For the 1st column, I feel like Envy is Humid's brighter and more vibrant older brother. Love it! Mink & Sable was just for comparison... it's much more brown toned.

2nd column, these were all for comparison. I don't have anything that is a comparable dupe for Lagoon.

In the 3rd column, Kitten looked much less like Trax than I realized when I put them side by side. The only thing they share is gold shimmer. Trax has much more of a plum base. Beautiful Iris is the same idea, just lighter and lacking the vibrancy.

I haven't used these in a look but that is upcoming and I will of course post the results for you guys :)

What did you all get up to this weekend? Stay tuned for the Sugar Plum Fairy palette review and FOTD (will post at noon!)