Wet n Wild Night Elf palette: more MAC dupes (and an eye look)

Since October, I think I've written 10+ posts about these limited edition Wet n Wild Pixie Holiday palettes, and I have a feeling there are more to come because, well, let's face it: they're awesome!

But I recently realized that I have yet to do a post on the Night Elf palette (arguably the most popular and coveted of the four) including swatches of every color, and of course, an eye look. But guess what? I also found two more MAC dupes in this palette (click here and here if you missed the previous ones) so I'm throwing those in this post too.

Bottom line, if you had to choose just one palette to get from the Pixie Holiday collection, my vote goes to Night Elf. I think it contains the most unique and prettiest shades of all the palettes, and I also think that so many of these shades work for a variety of skintones, making it beautiful and versatile. For $4.99 it's a STEAL.

Now I'd like to show you an eye look I did using five of the six shades in this palette (longtime readers: you know I rarely if ever use more than two or three shades per eye look, so this was a big deal for me!):

For this look I used the following shades in the Night Elf palette:

red on lids

brown w/ teal flash (MAC Club dupe) in crease

black with silver sparkle in outer "V"

medium beige/brown (MAC Vex dupe) on upper crease and blended up

light cream on brow bone 

Basically I used every shade but the silver for this look, and I'm very pleased with how it turned out. For those of you who might be afraid to wear red on your eyes, I hope this helps take the intimidation out of it for you! Red can be very wearable if you limit it to just your lids, and use lots of neutrals and earthtones around it!

Next, I'd like to show you my latest MAC dupe discoveries in the Night Elf palette:

You can see that these are not exact dupes, but on the eyes, the difference is so marginal that I think you'll be the only one who can tell them apart.  The buttery cream shade in the Night Elf palette looks so much like MAC Nylon in the pan it's hard to tell them apart. But once the Night Elf shade is swatched, you can see that it goes from a buttery cream to a whiter shade. But when I put both shades on, it's really hard to tell them apart when they're on my eyes.

As for the silver shade in the Night Elf palette and MAC Electra, it's clear that the Night Elf shade has a touch more green in it while MAC  Electra has a touch more blue, but in person they look extremely similar.

So there you have it. I think I've written enough posts about the Night Elf palette to have you either lusting after it or sick of hearing about it!

Do you own Night Elf? What do you think of it?