Wet N Wild Fergie Center Stage Collection: Review + Swatches

On a recent trip to the drugstore (for nothing relating to what I got, as usual), I picked up some items from a new Wet N Wild collection collaborated with Fergie. From among the nail polishes, eye-shadows and lipsticks displayed, I selected a smokey eye palette called Dutchess Lounge and a nude-colored lipstick, Bebot Love.

The palette consists of 5 pigmented shadows that would be perfect for a purple smokey eye. With the exception of the center shadow, all of the shades are shimmery and offer a very smooth application to the skin. The center shade is a matte lilac and clockwise from top left are a silver, deep plum, sparkly black and deep navy with bright blue and purple shimmer.

The swatches above show the shadows from top left in the palette in a clockwise direction. The center shadow is on the rightmost end. The shimmery shadows apply very easily  and offer good payoff but the matte shadow requires much more work. 

The Bebot Love lipstick is a pinky-nude color that appears lighter on my skin than in the tube for some reason. It is quite creamy and easier to apply than the drier MegaLast lipsticks from this brand. However, I don't think I will be wearing this without a gloss to prevent that chapped lip look, due to the color. It applies pretty opaquely but can be sheered out with a light hand and lots of lip-smacking.

The Bebot Love lipstick retails for $2.99 at drugstores and the 5-shadow palettes retail for about $5. 

The collection, which is much larger than shown here, has started popping up in drugstores and may not be available in all of them right now. I started seeing the nail polishes first before finding these and will soon post some swatches of some of those as well.

Thanks so much for reading.

Have you picked up anything from the Fergie collection?