The problem with a Wet n Wild collection launch (lol – if you can even call it a problem!), is that there are SO many products to test out and try, that it means you’re going to be in for a long haul review post. So buckle up people – the new Wet n Wild Zodiac collection is a beast, and I’ve got every highlighter, eyeshadow, lip gloss and powder swatched, reviewed and applied to my face in this post!

Available only at Walmart.com or on Wetnwildbeauty.com, the Zodiac collection features colour stories that center around the elements (earth, air, fire, water) and the twelve astrological signs. You can buy them individually or get them in themed bundles on Wet n Wild‘s web site.

The collection is mammoth, so let’s dive right in.

Wet n Wild Zodiac Collection – Eyeshadow Palettes

Housed plastic packaging, the zodiac eyeshadow palettes are individually focused around the theme of earth, air, fire or water. Each palette comes with six shades of varying sizes within the same pan. You’ll find that some of the colours have a bit of a more shimmery overspray on top of an already shimmery shadow. It’s not apparent in all of them, but I did notice it at least once per palette.

I thought the Air eyeshadow palette was going to be the most intriguing, albeit potentially the palest.

Sad to say I was half right – it IS the palest, but it’s also the least interesting.

It was the first palette I tried and I found the colours to be incredibly stiff. I had to dig into the pans to get any kind of colour payoff (that shimmery lavender/blue is on my lid but it basically looks like nothing special!) so I was super unimpressed with this palette.

Fundamentally… this is a pale palette with weak pigmentation so it’s really not my aesthetic at all.

Thankfully, the palettes got more impressive after the Air one! This is Earth and it has an interesting mix of predominantly neutrals with a copper, bronze and green spark of colour.

On the eyes, the green behaved bizarrely… it deepened up significantly from the pan and kind of went a little blueish too?

I used the pale bronze on the lid and it turned an interesting greenish hue when mixed with the more green outer corner shade.  The gold looked lovely on the inner corner, but the dark matte brown was really bad to work with – chalky, chalky, chalky. The whole palette was good aside from that shade though!

I knew as soon as I looked at this package that the Fire palette was going to be my favourite – and I was absolutely right!

There isn’t a dud eyeshadow in this entire palette – every shade was smooth and pigmented!

While two of the reds are near indistinguishable from each other, it doesn’t bother me that much because it’s such a lovely shade (I ended up combining them since the pan sizes aren’t overly huge).

LOVE!

And the very last one I used was the Water palette – clearly inspired by anything and everything aquatic.

Colour payoff was good across the board on this one except for the brown on the far right – I found that one to be a bit patchy.

I went back to a look as old as time for me – shimmery green on the lid with a deep blue (matte-ish) outer corner colour. I used the reflective pale blue on the inner corner and I think this one came out really well!

Wet n Wild Zodiac Collection – Highlighting Bars

Continuing with the elemental theme, the Highlighting Bars (and any Wet n Wild highlighters really) have become the item I look forward to the most in any given collection they put out.

These Highlighting Bars have a slight bit of glitter overspray that gets removed after the initial application. It’s not a TON of glitter, but some people (understandably) hate an overspray, so I thought I’d mention it.

The highlighting reflect is really strong on Air and Earth, semi-strong on Water, and not nearly as apparent in Fire (although that changed considerably on the cheeks).

Air is your more traditional champagne-pink hue of highlighter. Beautiful reflect on this one!

Earth has more of a golden hue than I was expecting based on the swatch, but it’s still gorgeous!

Fire surprised the heck out of me. I was expecting it to be impossible for me to wear just because the swatch deposited SO much colour on my arm. I do feel like the shade deepened up my blush (but I ain’t mad about it), and the reflect…. wow! Completely unexpected from a red-ish shade!

Water though… yikes. No. Nope. Negatory. Do not want!

Look, I *love* oddball coloured highlighters and I wear them all the time, but on me they only work when the base is pale and the reflect is a different colour. This was the opposite – the base was blue and the reflect was pearly. Fundamentally this looked like an awkward bruise on me and I really did not like how it looked. I ended up swiping off this highlighter before I went to work that day because I just could not get down with the colour of it.

Wet n Wild Zodiac Collection – Loose Highlighting Powder

My favourite highlighter in this collection though? The loose one. Holy smokes is this ever something else! I fell in love with the Loose Highlighting Powder in the Goth-o-graphic collection (I still use it all the time), so I was excited to see how this one – Written In The Stars – would look on me. (And how cute is it that the sifter is made up of little stars??)

Swatched out, Written In The Stars is kind of innocuous right? I mean – it’s pale, it’s slightly reflective, but it doesn’t look like it’s going to wow you.

And then I put it on my face and was like “oh. Oh. OH. OH OKAY!” This is GLORIOUS! Wet n Wild do some incredible loose highlighters and this is just yet another one to add to the list of amazingness. Whereas the Goth-O-Graphic one was more gold, this one is more pearly with a hint of pink. I love it so much!

Wet n Wild Zodiac Collection – Lip Gloss

To finish off the collection, Wet n Wild has created a shade intended to be themed after each astrological symbol. Each shade is in their usual Color Icon formula, but the finish varies a lot amongst the shades. Some are glittery, some are creamy, some translucent and some are heckin’ packed with colour.

Holy pigment! Aries has a ton of colour in it! While the shade is gorgeous, because it’s a gloss it has a tendency to move around. Wear this on top of a lip pencil or lipstick that’s similar in shade and you’ll look amazing though!

Taurus is so much paler on the lips than I thought it would be. I thought this would look like Urban Decay’s Fireball eyeshadow in a gloss, but it really just comes across as a subtle wash of pink.

Gemini is freaking cool. It’s a pale, pale gold with a lot of colour. I think most people would opt to wear this on top of a lipstick to add some interest to the center of their lip. Frigging love the colour!

Cancer ended up being my least favourite. It was a milky mess on my lips and wouldn’t really stay put. I struggle with super pale, white-based lip gloss shades like this so it’s a pass for me.

Leo is like a more subtle Taurus. My lips but with a hint of sheen and glitter.

Virgo is so cool – it’s like a blue/brown pigment for the lips. I found this oddly wearable with the Air eyeshadow palette. Such a fun shade!

Libra is essentially a clear base with some pink glitter in it (feels a bit gritty). I’d wear this on top of another lipstick.

Scorpio is OUT OF THIS WORLD! It’s a deep red-purple with blue glitter in it and it’s incredible. I do struggle with colours like this right out of the tube though, so I *have* to wear this on top of another lipstick in order to keep it from moving around. This isn’t a fault with the Wet n Wild formula by the way – I encounter this issue with any highly pigmented gloss – I just need a base under it to keep it in place.

This shade is unreal though – I’ve never seen anything like this!

Sagittarius is one that has just enough pigment but not too much so that I can wear it on its own (without lipstick, lip liner, etc.). It’s a deep burgundy with red and pink glitter. I adore this shade.

Capricorn is similar to Sagittarius but it’s more molten and shimmery.

Aquarius is potentially the most wearable out of the entire collection, but it’s still fairly unique because although the base is peach, it has beautiful gold glitters thrown into it.

And lastly, we have Pisces – a clear base with teal glitter. This one would work best over top of something else on you lips.

Final Thoughts

PHEW! That was a lot of products and a lot of typing! Here’s your TL;DR:

• For the love of all that is holy, get the Loose Highlighting Powder in Written In The Stars if you think the colour might work for your skintone – this was my favourite item in the whole collection!
• The Fire eyeshadow palette is a winner, and maybe the Water one too. Earth was decent, but left me feeling like it needed less neutrals (that’s a ME thing though). The Air one was a total dud. Although I think it’s neat what they tried to do with the unique eyeshadow sizes in a single pan, I feel like it’s a bit annoying to use and will only get worse over time as you wear the shadows down.
• The highlighting bars are freaking lovely… except Water. Hard pass on that one!
• The lip glosses are some of the most unique and varied shades I’ve ever seen in a collection. I like the super pigmented ones, because the colours are unlike anything I’ve seen before. The pale to medium tones glittery ones would be fun to spice up a regular old lipstick. The only one I didn’t like was Cancer – I’d skip that one. Personal favourites were Scorpio, Virgo and Sagittarius.

Let me know if you’re grabbing anything from this collection!

The Wet n Wild Zodiac collection can be purchased on Walmart.com or on Wetnwildbeauty.com.

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