wet n wild The Pride Metallic Palette Review

Behold the wet n wild The Pride Metallic Palette

Availability: This is available at wetnwildbeauty.com where it retails at $14.99, it is now simply called "The Metallic Palette" but the shades look to be the same.

Would I buy this?: Probably not. 

Notes: I feel like, especially because we are in pride month, that I need to call this palette out for being a perfect example of rainbow capitalism. I'm all about celebrating pride, don't get me wrong but it looks like they took an existing palette and wrapped it in rainbow packaging to make it appealing to the LGBTQ+ community and ok, say you were to buy this palette, your rainbow is essentially either missing or very muted, depending on how you look at the palette. Nothing about this color story says pride to me and personally that's what makes me disappointed in the palette. In addition, all the shades here are some variation of being either shimmery or metallic, I wish that there was texture variation here because it makes the palette difficult to use as a standalone. 

Without further ado, swatchfest!

This is a shimmery white with white micro-glitter flecks, that has a tiny flash of gold when the light hits it just right.

This is a soft shimmery rose gold. 

This is an intense metallic gold with a hint of rose and golden micro-glitter.

This is a soft metallic copper.

This is an metallic coppery bronze with subtle magenta and gold micro-glitter,

This is a soft metallic mauve-y pink. 

This is a metallic cool-toned rose with a silvery micro-glitter pearl. 

This is a metallic coppery red.

This is a satiny pinkish red. 

This is a soft satin brown base with gold micro-shimmer.

This is  just a BEAUTIFUL silver that has silver, magenta-violet, and gold micro-glitter that combine into this cool-toned pewter silver shade. 

This is  a metallic black base with an intense violet pearl.

This is similar to the above shade but with a more intense black base and a subtler violet pearl.

This is a soft metallic black base with a green pearl.

This is  a soft, metallic aqua. 

Please let me know if you have any comments or questions.

Disclaimer: My wife gave me this for Christmas.