Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Color Icon Palette Review + 3 Looks

A month or two ago I posted my first impressions of the Wet N Wild Rose in the Air Colour Icon Palette. This palette is widely known to be a dupe for the Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance Palette, at least in colour story. I waited until I had my very own ABH palette to compare the formulas before posting my review. I was curious to see how much of a Dupe the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette really was.

Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette
Review

Wet N Wild Colour Icon Palettes come in four basic colour stories. The Rosé In The Air Palette is a very close dupe to the Modern Renaissance Palette by ABH, the Nude Awakening is a neutral palette, Comfort Zone is smokier with a deep navy and olive green tones and the Not A Basic Peach Palette is peach toned with a pop of light blue. *There are now four new variations of 10-pan color icon palettes.*

Each palette contains ten pans for a total of 0.29oz. I couldn’t find exact quantities per pan, most likely because they aren’t all the same size. Each palette retails for $4.99USD, or around $7CAD.

Packaging

The packaging does feel pretty cheap but I mean… the palette was only $7 so can I really complain about that? I think not. It would have been nice to have a mirror but that would have ultimately driven the price up and that’s not something I expect from a drugstore palette.

I love the layout of the pans. It’s really nice to have two giant transition shades because those are the pans that I will be dipping into the most.

The one thing that I think the palette is really lacking is shade names. They did assign each shade a number to the diagram tutorial on the back of the palette but shade names are so helpful to describing what I’m doing in my tutorials/reviews, instead of just saying “This brown shade” & “that gold shimmer shade”, etc.

Color Story

As I said in the Intro, the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette mirrors the Modern Renaissance very closely. I love that you get a warm and a cool toned transition and that they are the largest shades in the pan, I use one or the other every time that I reach for this palette.

The only shade striking me as not having a very close MR dupe is the bottom transition shade. There are so many dupe videos across YouTube you can watch to see direct comparisons, as I said I do not own the MR.

The only shade that I would take out or replace with something else is the Lilac Purple, I never really know what to do with it and it always gets muddy on my eye.

Pigmentation, Fallout & Blend

The shadows in the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette are much dustier than I’m used using. They still feel somewhat buttery to me when I swatch them or apply to the eye. The shades build up well and aren’t difficult to work with. They don’t have the same wow factor as when I swatch my ABH Soft Glam palette, the ABH formula is extremely pigmented and smooth compared to these Wet N Wild palettes but of course these ones are only $7CAD while the ABH palettes are $55. So I can’t really complain about the difference! They’re still pigmented, if not quite as pigmented as ABH Shadows. I swatched them for my review and they stained my arm, I could still see the faint trace the next day.

The matte shades in the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette are very pigmented but the shimmers don’t translate well on the eye for me unless I wet my brush with setting spray first. I found that the shimmer shades applied better as a last step because they disappear the more I blend.

The matte shades blend really easily and don’t get muddy as I blend. They don’t have a crazy amount of fall out, though I noticed lots of kick up in the pan. There was more fallout with the shimmer shades which is pretty standard as far as eyeshadow goes.

Makeup Looks

Make sure to check out my 3 Looks Video for my full tutorials on how I created these looks! Unfortunately these shades don’t have names but I did my best to describe exactly what I was doing in my video.

Look #1: Earth Goddess

I love how this look turned out! The cool brown tones in the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette translated really well on my eye, this is a look that I would wear just about anywhere. To start I set my Eye Primer with the Matte White shade. Next I swept the cool brown transition shade into my crease, followed by the warm tan transition shade just below. On my brow bone I placed the matte white shade and blended out the edges of my transition shades with it to soften them.

On my outer corners I focused the deepest matte brown in the palette, then I placed the brown plumy shimmer on the outer 2/3s of my lid with a wet brush. I used a wet brush again and placed the gold shimmer shade on the inner 1/3 of my eyelid. I smoked out the lower lash line with that cool toned brown transition shade and the deepest matte brown.

Look # 2: Ring Of Fire

This second look came out very glam compared to how I normally wear my makeup. I went with it though, I actually wore it to work! I was dying to share this look with you guys on Instagram 🙂

For starters I set my Too Faced Shadow Insurance Primer with the matte white from the Rosé In The Air Palette. Next I took the warm brown transition shade and swept it through the crease. Below it I placed the burnt orange matte. For the halo effect I placed the Magenta Pink on the inner & outer corners of my eyelid and filled in the center with the burnt orange. To make the halo pop I took the Gold Shimmer on a wet brush and placed it on the center of my eyelid. I mirrored the lid shades on the lower lash line.

Always A Cat Nearby

Look #3: Simple & Sweet

I really feel like there are a lot of looks you can do with the Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Palette. Like, a LOT! I spent quite a it of time playing around with it before deciding ultimately what looks to post on my blog, I like to showcase the very best of the palette. I originally wanted to use the lilac purple shade as a cut crease lid shade but it turned out so muddy that I scrapped the idea.

For this third look I applied the cool toned transition shade in my crease, followed by a light dusting of the dark brown matte. Next I popped the warm brown transition shade all over my lid and added a bit of the burnt orange to the outer corners of my eyes. I used the shades from the lid & crease on my lower lash line, minus the orange.

Final Thoughts

The Wet N Wild Rosé In The Air Colour Icon palette is really, really good. Especially considering this palette retails for only $4.99USD, the quality is so much better than I thought it would be. Even if you don’t generally buy drugstore makeup I truly do think this palette is worth it. I don’t know exactly how similar it is to the ABH Modern Renaissance, but I don’t feel the need to go buy it because the Rosé In The Air has all the warm pinky red tones that I need.

The packaging does feel a little bit cheap and the shades to have a fair amount of kick up in the pan, and I do with that the shimmers didn’t always need a setting spray to stay vibrant, but I can look past those things. All three looks wore on me all day without fading too much or creasing.

Have you tried the Wet N Wild Colour Icon Palettes?

Thank you so much for reading! I hope you enjoyed this review and the three looks I created, let me know which one was your favourite 🙂 Please like & subscribe if you enjoyed this post <3

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