Anyone tried the elf Holiday Beauty Books?

Nov 21, 2011

Katie P.

Ive been debating picking one of these up but I've heard mixed reviews about elfs eyeshadows. Ive seen a couple reviews on these holiday palettes and they don't seem to be as bad... though I'm not sure if there's a difference. I know the wet and wild palettes are about the same price, are those just as good or better? I haven't tried either brand!

Nov 21, 2011

Yasmin K.

I have the ones from last winter and the ones from spring and to be perfectly honest it's mixed. The books are only $5 so it's not a bad price point but the lighter colors tend to be chalky and not well pigmented while the darker colors are indeed richly pigmented but sometimes some of the colors stain badly.

With Wet 'n' Wild the palettes actually range from $2.99 to $4.99 each. Many are part of the permanent collection, some are limited (like the new I ♥ Matte and baked palettes) and some are to be discontinued (like the six-pans). I own every single WnW palette that has come out in the last year and love them. The colors are rich, well pigmented, silky and can rival Urban Decay's shadows. In fact some of the palettes can even dupe UD's shadows at 99% accuracy.

Which would I recommend? Hands down, Wet 'n' Wild.

Nov 22, 2011

Tawny T.

I LOVE them both! But I do perfer the ELF Holiday palette's. Although the Wet n Wild palette's are very good quality, and VERY pigmented. The Holiday ELF palettes has bigger varity of colors.

Nov 22, 2011

LeeAnn B.

I love Wet N Wild! I got one of their holiday palettes last year for about 4$ It was a limited edition color icon six pans which contained a very pigmented red -- the best drugstore red I have ever stumbled upon! sparkly black, a red, green, gold shimmer shadow, gold shimmer, and a beautiful silver shadow which I think can dupe for Tarte's trueblood palette color "true death". I look forward to more of their holiday palettes! A little sad I haven't seen any anywhere? At least not at Target. I say get Wet n Wild you are less likely to be disappointed with them! 

Nov 22, 2011

Khristine T.

i actually purchased their holiday palettes (the 100 palette i'm going to be doing a giveaway on since i didn't realize i already had one LOL), i also picked up the 144 palette and two 32 eyeshadow palettes, i' really love their products.. i have picked up their beauty books before (for school) and did a series of looks on my youtube channel on them.. i really enjoyed them :) and for the price, it's decent! :)

Nov 22, 2011

Yasmin K.

@LeeAnn - the new holiday palettes are out and exclusive to Walgreens this year.

Nov 22, 2011

Katie P.

Thanks so much ladies all this really helps!!! I haven’t heard tooo many bad things about wet n wild so I went ahead and picked up one of their palettes after reading everyone’s comments! And well... I love the shadow! Who knew wet n wild would be soo good?! One of these days Ill have to try elf and maybe save a palette for later. I can only have so many :p

@LeeAnn : I looked up last years wet n wild holiday palettes and that red does look amazing!!