The Color Workshop Eye Define eye pencil set swatches

I've spent a lot of time at Walgreens recently and I did get some of their cheap holiday sets. A lot of these brands are ones I've never tried, so I had no idea if they'd be any good at all. I got this 5 piece eyeliner set from The Color Workshop because it was $2.99 and it had some good colors. They are okay- the gold and blue are the most pigmented. The silver is by far the worst. And I seem to be having bad luck with purple lately and this purple is no exception... not very pigmented.

Wet n Wild Baked Eyeshadow wet swatches

I was asked to do wet swatches of the new Walgreens exclusive Wet n Wild Baked Eyeshadows. For my original dry swatches and the eyeliners, click here.

 Baking a Cake

Wet n Wild I ♥ Matte palette dupes

I was watching a video on youtube by barbiedlux and she showed a few dupes for the I ♥ Matte palette. It made me realize that there are quite a few dupes for the I ♥ Matte palette in other Wet n Wild palettes. The only ones I had trouble with were the blue and the purple (they weren't quite exact and weren't matte) so I definitely suggest checking out the video I was talking about because she has some for the blue and purple in other brands. For this, I'm just doing Wet n Wild products. I did comparisons in the pan as well as swatches.

Unless you really really want that blue or purple and want them matte, I wouldn't stress about finding this palette. All the other colors are available in other Wet n Wild palettes. I'd also say that if you really want the green in this palette, then get the Pride 6 pan palette because it's much more pigmented. 

Wet n Wild Baked Eyeshadow Color Icon kit swatches

The baked eyeshadow collections by Wet n Wild were less elusive than the I ♥ Matte palette was. I saw them in a few stores and managed to find all three in one store.

 Baking a Cake

Wet n Wild I ♥ Matte Palette Swatches

I went to 6 different Walgreens in search of the Wet n Wild I ♥ Matte palette, including one in a bad part of town and one in the small town about 15 minutes away. In the end, I was semi-successful in my search. I say semi because I managed to find one palette on the second store I went to, but one of the shadows was broken. I got it anyway because it wasn't too bad and I was afraid I might not find another one. I was right and not one of the four stores I went to after that had one.

I have a love/hate thing with Wet n Wild and their limited editions, especially ones that are exclusive to a particular store. Because not all stores decide to carry them, they can be the biggest pain to find. I wish they would at least sell them on their website, like Milani did with the paint palette that I couldn't find in stores.

e.l.f. holiday eyeshadow set swatches

I was at Target the other day and saw the endcap of e.l.f. holiday stuff. Most of them were eyeshadow sets and I found one that I wanted. The problem I have with most e.l.f. eyeshadow sets is that the quality is far lower than the individuals or quads. This set is actually four duos, so I thought it'd be better.

Overall, the shadows are pretty good, but are very soft so there is a lot of fallout on a few of them. The purple is pretty spotty and is by far the worst one.

MAC Dazzlesphere! swatches

I got two of the Dazzlesphere! ornaments this morning, along with one more thing from the Glitter and Ice collection.

 Pink Ornament