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Wet n Wild Color Icon 5-Pan Palette [1114071E - Camo-flaunt] Review

By Maychiri's Thoughts - August 09, 2023

Now that the eyes are primed with the Wet n Wild Primer, let's apply an eyeshadow! Maybe this lovely eyeshadow palette, the Wet n Wild Color Icon 5-Pan Palette, shade 1114071E/Camo-flaunt?
 
 
I had been thinking about buying this palette for a really long time before finally buying it. I like the concept of 5-pan palettes as they are designed to give you a complete makeup look with more versatility than eyeshadow quads. This shade in particular seemed like a great neutral choice with the option of applying the shimmer for a more glamorous look. And since BIPA had all makeup at a 30% discount, that was the perfect time to buy the palette. Let’s see how good it is!
 
 
Packaging: it’s really simple, just a white plastic case with a clear lid. The clear lid allows you to judge how the colours would look on your skin. It looks rather sleek and modern because of the white Color Icon stripe and the slim size of the palette. The lid closes very tightly and is pretty well made, not at all loose or squeaky. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ingredients: jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) seed oil in every shade and no parabens. The scent is very subtle, smelling a tiny bit like plastic or pool floats. The expiration date is 24 months after opening.
 
 
 
 
 
This is a brown toned eyeshadow palette, with both cool and warm toned shades included. It’s beautifully coordinated for a smokey eye. You can make a subtle smokey eye with the matte shades or a glamorous one with the glitter. There are 5 shades: a more cool toned matte dark brown, a shimmery silvery cool light brown, a glittery brownish gold, a shimmery copper, and a matte buff warm brown. My favourites are the dark brown matte and the shimmery copper; the copper shade is really beautiful!
 
Every shade swatched
The pigmentation of every one of these shades is extremely intense! They all look super intense even with just one layer, but amazing with multiple layers! The most pigmented shade is shade 3, the glitter, naturally. Among the shimmer shades, the silvery brown is much more pigmented than the copper one. And the two mattes are equally pigmented. 
 
Wearing Shade 1 + Shade 2 + Shade 4 + Shade 5
In more detail: shade 1 is super pigmented with one layer and looks great on pale skin. Shade 2 is super intense and pigmented and really sparkly and shimmery, especially with a couple of layers, and is perfect for the festive season! Shade 3 is extremely pigmented and just as excessively sparkly and intense with a single layer! Shade 4 is very pigmented and blends beautifully with pale skin, but is still really intense and noticeable and looks great with a single layer, but, of course, it’s so much better when you layer it on! And shade 5 has good pigmentation and blends very nicely into the skin, although it will probably need a few layers to reach its full pigmentation.
 
Wearing Shade 1 + Shade 2 + Shade 4 + Shade 5
All of the shades are super easy to apply, although the glitter and shimmer shades do have a lot of fall out. The mattes are best applied with a brush, while the rest are better applied with fingers than brushes, especially the glitter. The glitter is far too coarse to be applied precisely with a brush; you’ll get glitter everywhere but where you wanted it. I was a bit uncertain whether I really liked the finished look at first, but the more I use the palette, the more I love the look, and how easy it is to blend it perfectly into a vibrant brown smokey eye!

Wearing Shade 1 + Shade 2 + Shade 5 with Dirty Works Glamour Eyes Liquid Eyeshadow and Liner Eye Pencil

The textures are: matte (shade 1, shade 5), very shimmery (shade 2), glittery (shade 3), and shimmery (shade 4). The mattes are very soft and there is absolutely no fall out or smudging. It’s a very finely milled formula that blends into the skin beautifully! The copper shimmer is so soft and creamy and blends beautifully without any fall out. The silvery shimmer, on the other hand, is more scratchy and coarse but still very easy to use despite that; there is, however, a ton of fall out with this shade. Like, I always have a huge amount of shimmer under my eyes no matter how carefully I am applying it. So, that’s annoying. At least it is easily blendable. The glitter is, as expected, pretty difficult to use compared to the other shades; there is an absolute ton of fall out and it doesn’t really blend easily. So you really have to get it right the first try, because it is really difficult to fix it. Though Wet n Wild’s glitter always feel much more creamy than other brands’ glitter, so there is that. 
 
 
 
 
The mattes and the copper shimmer feel weightless on my lids, they are so, so light! The silvery shimmer can feel a tiny bit scratchy, but it usually feels pretty comfortable. The glitter is a bit uncomfortable to wear, especially when it starts to fall out and starts to feel really scratchy. But that’s standard for glitter pigments, to be honest. 
 
 
 
 
The longevity is excellent, in general, but there is quite a lot of creasing with some shades. The mattes don’t crease a whole lot and don’t fade one bit at all! The copper shimmer is super long-lasting but it does crease; the same holds true for the silvery shimmer. The glitter creases like crazy and tends to slide around the lids throughout the day unless you use glitter glue under it, which isn’t unexpected, but it is really annoying and is the primary reason why I rarely use glitters. Though the more creamy formula of Wet n Wild’s glitters makes it perform slightly better than other glitters. So, the worst performing shade is, what a surprise, the glitter. But all in all I am very pleased with how well these shadows perform throughout the day!

 
As far as how easy they are to remove, most of them (besides the glitter) are super easy to remove. The mattes take mere seconds to remove and don’t stain the skin, while the copper glitter takes a tiny bit more time to remove. The silvery shimmer is easily removed but leaves a lot of residual shimmer all around the eye area, which is quite annoying. And don’t get me started on the glitter, it is so incredibly annoying to remove as it will either explode all over the face when you swipe over your eyelids or you will have to spend ages carefully removing it. And even then you most likely won’t be able to remove all of it! 
 
 
The most tolerable way to remove glitter is to actually take small pieces of sellotape and then patiently stick it to the glitter little by little. That way you minimise the chance that you will have residual glitter everywhere. It sounds weird, but trust me, it really does work!
 
In short, this is a fantastic eyeshadow palette! The colours are perfectly coordinated for a classic brown smokey eye whether with or without the glitter. I really love the shimmers and mattes, they are so intense and beautiful and just look incredible! Shade 2 is especially sparkly and intense and looks amazing during the holidays! The glitter is annoying to use and especially to remove so I tend to skip using it altogether, but it is extremely intense and vibrant and not at all for everyday use! The shadows are mostly very long-lasting, well, besides shades 2 and 3, which crease a lot! I would always advise using an eyeshadow primer, for multiple reasons, not just to prevent creasing. There is not a trace of creasing when I use a primer underneath. If I am not using the glitter, removing the shadows is quick and painless, even though the silvery shimmer does end up getting everywhere around the eyes. It’s only if I use the glitter does it become tedious and annoying, which, to be honest, is par for the course for glitters. All in all, I really love using this palette (minus the glitter), and how natural and neutral the default look is! It looks even better if you apply shades 2 and 4 in reverse, with the silvery shimmer on the eyelids instead of the inner eye and brow bone, and the copper shimmer in the inner eye. It’s even more festive that way! I often reach for this palette when I don’t know what kind of look to do, so I will, naturally, recommend it! It is really, really good!
 
 
 
Rating: 8/10
 
 
Would buy again? Definitely YES


 

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