Wet 'n' Wild Comfort Zone Palette: Not So Comfortable...

You know those times when you're just waiting around a train station and you've got a significant amount of time to kill, so you just start perusing newsstands and drugstores nearby and spending money that you probably had better uses for, but now there's just no getting it back?  Well that was me last week.  In the thirty minutes I should have spent twiddling my thumbs in the NJ Transit waiting room, I instead chose to pick myself up some magazines, a rehydrating sports drink (ahem), and of course a few drugstore makeup items.  In my groggy head, I somehow worked it out that I would be better served picking up an eyeshadow palette, rather than the Advil I so desperately needed.  But, what's done is done, as they say.

When I got home and had taken my photos (call me anal, that's fine), I cracked the palette open for personal use, and discovered that the colors are really quite pigmented.  You don't need to swipe a ton of times at all to get a very strong color payoff.  Quite unexpected in a drugstore makeup palette, but then this particular item does have its fair share of hype around it.  The colors are varied enough that you could easily create a day or nighttime look, and all for under five dollars!  The defining colors are definitely my favorite of the set, as I have no other shadows like them.  Especially that reddish-blue one on the bottom right (though it shows up more red on the lid)!

Now onto the bad news.  I've discovered something that will keep me from ever using Wet 'n' Wild eye makeup ever again.  I'm allergic.  Because of course, that's just how my life goes.  I have had very little luck with drugstore makeup in the past, so I don't know why I thought it would be different this time.  I always lose when I can't test out a product.  So if you have particularly sensitive eyes, steer clear of this palette.  Otherwise, lucky you!  Before I started tearing up from the actual shades themselves, I discovered the shadows to be very blendable, highly pigmented, and very versatile.  All around a great palette, as long as your body doesn't reject it!

This Wet 'n' Wild palette is available in most US drugstores for $4.99.  I bought mine at Duane Reade.  If you're at all interested in some of the other eye palettes that Wet 'n' Wild have to offer, I would direct you to Estee's blog post.

Now I'm off to go get my Christmas tree!