Wet n Wild Mermaid’s Cove Nail Color Collection Swatches, Photos & Review
Wet n Wild’s newest nail color collection is called Mermaid’s Cove. It features eight new shimmery and glittery colors all inspired by the sea.
I have heard this collection can be tricky to find in certain areas, so forgive me if you have been lusting after it and cannot find it!
The formula varied quite a bit with these so I’ll talk about that further under each photo.
Magic Trident
Magic Trident is a bright tangerine orange with yellow flash. I know we have been seeing a lot of these tangerine orange’s with yellow, but I cannot help it, I love them all so much!
This was really creamy and applied like butter. No streaks, no issues and perfect in just two coats. Love!
Diving For Pearls
Diving For Pearls is a medium teal-green with green and silvery shimmer. Love the name, LOVE the color. So pretty and very mermaid-esque.
The formula on this one was also outstanding, no problems. This was just two coats.
Ocean Grotto
Ocean Grotto is a celadon green glitter. The base is light green and the super heavy micro-glitter seems to also be green and yellow. I was pleased that there was actually a base color, I prefer my glitters with that. Really cool!
The formula was pretty good with this one, though even after three coats you can see my nail line.
Waves Of Enchantment
Waves Of Enchantment is a warm coral pink color with heavy pink and gold shimmer. This is a really gorgeous color and I don’t have a lot of other colors that are similar. It totally reminds me of a colorful piece of coral you might find in the water of a tropical island. 
The formula was a little thick with this one, but really I didn’t have any problems with it. I think it needed three coats for complete coverage.
Sea Witch
Sea Witch is a deep royal purple/red with heavy blue and pink shimmer. Ugh, what’s NOT to love here? It’s shimmery, glowing and totally gorgeous.
The formula was great with this, super easy to work with and covered in two coats.
Stream Of Wonder
Stream Of Wonder is a medium blue almost frosty looking color with blue shimmer. I’ll be honest, I don’t love this color for some reason. I feel I have it a few times over and it’s just kind of middle of the road for me personally.
The formula was good, but I used just two coats here and probably should have used another to cover my nail lines a bit more.
Sea Of Dreams
Sea Of Dreams is a pink/purple/mauve color with pink and blue shimmer. Hmm. Once again I don’t love this on myself personally, but it’s still pretty.
This is the one I had the most formula problems with. It definitely pooled quite a bit if you tried applying another coat too quickly or made too thick of a coat. I also had some issues getting the tips covered even with three coats.
Atlantis
Atlantis is a pink and silver glitter suspended in a light pink base. The glitter is small but there is a lot of it. I would have liked the base color to be darker so that my whole nail was covered with color, but it’s a fairly sheer pink. I would most likely use this over another color rather than on it’s own, but I love the color of the pink glitter. It’s almost a rose-gold color.
As far as formula it’s thick and a little hard to get even if you don’t wait in-between coats a bit. It wants to pool so watch out!
Overall:
I really like this collection. It’s got some really unique great colors and overall, the formulas were pretty good. The ones I was the most impressed with were Sea Witch, Magic Trident, Diving For Pearls and Waves Of Enchantment.
Availability: In stores now but hard to find!
Pricing: $1.79-$2.00
What do you think about these?
-Kelly
Welcome! My name is Kelly and Vampy Varnish is a animal friendly beauty blog.
Thats a really great collection. Waves Of Enchantment is the one I am most drawn to
Wonder if we will get that here in Denmark as well. Wet n Wild could sure use some more colors in their range here 
I see four must-haves on here…but I haven’t seen them around my area…just my lick! LOL
Wow! What a colorful collection! I’d love to have Sea Witch and Waves of Enchantment.
I love these colors! I just can’t find them anyywhere in my area! It sux!!
Normally I’m drawn to greens and purples, but in this collection, I’m digging the orange and the coral-pink! Those look like they’d be really fun to wear.
Thanks for swatching them.
These are so gorgeous! I’ve been hunting these for weeks with no luck here in northern Michigan.
Magic Trident, Diving for Pearls. AMAZING! I can’t find any of the WnW summer collections at my local stores
I think I need Waves of Enchantment, but I’m big fan of almost all of the colors! Gorgeous!
I’m probably not allowed to say this, but Atlantis would be a great option for one of the two DS colors coming this fall. How many coats is this? If it could be worked up to glitter opacity I would totes ditch the DS for this one.
Also, I’m loving Waves of Enchantment. What’s wrong with me lately?!
WnW has just been killing it this year! These polishes are awesome!
For that price I can get them all ;3 I don’t care for Atlantis, Stream of Wonder or Ocean Grotto though. Ocean Grotto is pretty but glitters are such a pain to remove :/
I have Ocean Grotto, Atlantis, and Waves of Enchantment, I think Waves of Enchantment is my favorite. I didn’t pick up the teal because I already had Teal of Fortune and didn’t feel like I needed both.
My favorites are Diving for Pearls and Sea Witch. I have a Sinful color similar to Waves of Enchantment and a Milani color similar to Atlantis. Ocean Grotto kind of looks like Cult Nails Always Winning to me, although I don’t have that color. Magic Trident looks nice, but after my recent fail with China Glaze Papaya Punch, I know I’ll be skipping it! My least favorites are also your least favorites – Stream of Wonder and Sea of Dreams. I’m not sure if I’ll find these, but I’ll look for them on my WnW eyeshadow hunt next week. Still loving WnW in general!
Oh wow, I love all of these! I’d love to get my hands on them.
Anyone know if/where WnW is sold in Canada?
Wow I really like how Sea of Dreams looks! Too bad about the formula, but since WnW is so affordable, I think I’ll pick it up anyway. The drugstore is my new bff.
AHhhh this collection taunts me! I was able to find a few of them when I was home in Wisconsin but grrrrrrr I cannot find them here in Colorado. I realllllly want waves of enchantment. Any idea how it compares to rica in the zoya – sunshine collection? Because if they are similar, maybe I don’t need to search – I already have the zoya.
Hi TygerKitty,
Not offhand but can look for ya later!
<3! Can you buy them online? Seems like that would be an easy fix, but I googled and didn't see anything really
I was thinking it looks a lot like Zoya Rica too! That color has been one of my favorites this summer.
I’ve been stalking them throughout Orlando. I feel it’s like a needle in a haystack. But, your awesome swatches can tide me over
i like them all, except the last one… but that one would be great for layering
Some great shades in this collection – some look like some of the Zoya colors I have. Problem I have with W&W polish esp. is soon as it’s in my local drugstore (live in a pretty semi rural area with miles and miles between towns where the next chain drugstore is)…the shades are gone – picked over so fast by the teens who have the time to go in and look every day (and get an ice cream cone too). They are always way gone with maybe one or two shades left over by the time I ever find them.
This collection looks rly interesting :O
i need Waves Of Enchantment i hope i can find it. i went to cvs yesterday and they only had like 3 colors but none of them were these :[
Ocean Grotto and Sea Witch are the two ultra-mega-standouts for me.
And Atlantis reminds me of Butter London’s Rosie Lee…
As always, great swatches- thank you!
I’ve picked up and put down Waves of Enchantment and Sea Witch time and again at the store, so I’m glad you swatched these!! They will deffo be going in my basket next time
Love your swatches of this, Kelly! I am glad I got all of the ones I wanted of these, based on your swatches!
I can never find these kind of WnW items but I’ll be searching for Sea Witch.
haven’t been able to find it in RI or boston/massachusetts cities…soo annoying i can never find any wet and wild LE collex around here
Michaela, right now my Ocean State Job Lot has 4-5 displays of the Bloom collection from WnW out. Yeah, 4 or 5 of them! I’m hoping this means they will start getting other WnW collections a month or two later (Bloom was the Megalast nail polishes for spring). So if it never shows up at your drugstore, check OSJL in Sept or Oct!
Another lovely set of swatches.
I was able to score 4 of these at a Fred Meyer in Oregon when I was on vacation. Not in a display, or anywhere near the other WnW stuff… just scattered on a shelf next to a big Color Club display.
Anyway… picked up the last 4 colors they had : Sea Witch (LOVE!), Ocean Grotto (had the same VNL issue), Streams of Wonder and Diving for Pearls. I like the other colors, but the only one I’m sorry to have missed was Waves of Enchantment.
I am glad to have the info on your formula and application issues. Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only one having those problems.
Given that these are only $2 a pop, I’ll snag the other colors if I see them, since I’ll be out looking for the new Color Icon shadow collection.
Think I may just have to break into the piggy bank for these. Since they’re so cheap I’ll buy them all. Hopefully I can find them!
atlantis looks good!
The first four are amazing! Pity they’re not available in the UK. I’ve seen nothing like Waves and I love it.
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR WAVES OF ENCHANTMENT EVERYWHERE.
Sorry to shout, but seriously. I found one display in my town with this collection, and every color was there, EXCEPT W.o.E. So bitter.
Hi, I am loving your site, and I am really impressed by this wet n wild collection. I have magic trident, but it just looks really yellow on my nails, to a point where they look dirty :/ It must be because of my skin tone …
Must get the Diving for Pearls, that’s soooooo pretty. Pleasantly surprised by the few of these polishes I picked up awhile ago, they’re sturdy!
VV, what did you think of the brushes? I love several of these and am very tempted by this collection but I have some other WnW FastDry colors, and I have a real love/hate with them. Coverage and formula is pretty great, dry time is awesome, but I find the brushes bushy and sloppy. (Not just wider as is the current trend.)
I’m considering finding some other brushes to use with them, or putting them in other bottles, which kind of blows some of the under-$2 appeal.
I’m definitely intrigued by Waves of Enchantment. I have Zoya’s Rica and WoE looks like a larger fleck version, which I’d love, so I’ll look for these regardless of the goofy brush.
I hate the brushes!!! I don’t mind wide brushes in general but these seem to splay out at the end like an actual paint brush does sometimes – I had to do extra clean up but I might move them into other bottles as well.
Sea Witch looks like their Wild Shine core collection shade Eggplant Frost. Actually, looks like you swatched it here: http://www.vampyvarnish.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Wet-n-Wild-Wild-Shine-Eggplant-Frost.jpg
They seem to be the exact same color. ;P
Picked up a few of these from CVS a couple of weeks back. I’ve only tried Ocean Grotto so far, layered onto my tips over Zoya Envy and it worked so well. Loved it in direct sunlight!
Waves Of Enchantment & Sea Witch look amazing. Nowhere around here is carrying this collection for me, which makes me a sad panda, but the colors are fab.
I really want Waves of Enchantment. Wet N’ Wild is great!
Beautiful pictures, thank you!
I want these! I hope I can find them
Waves of Enchantment was my most favorite from this collection! I really wasn’t impressed with the initial Fast Drys that released last Spring, but this collection seemed to have a better formula…. if that makes any sense?