Wet n Wild MegaShield Lip Color SPF 15 for Spring 2012 Swatches, Photos & Review
Wet n Wild MegaShield Lip Color SPF 15 are a new lip product this spring.
These super moisturizing and slick lip colors come in fourteen shades and contain vitamin E, amino acids, avocado oil and rice bran oil, as well as an SPF of 15. Yahoo!
I was expecting a more sheer wash of color when I first went to swatch these. Something along the lines of the Revlon Lip Butters maybe. But WOW, they are super pigmented! Color like a lipstick, but they feel more comfortable like a lip balm. Very slick and easy to apply. They last a good solid 3-4 hours without me feeling the need to reapply.
They are not without their “issues” though, but more on that later.
Pink Champagne, Lady Popstar, It’s A Girl, Salsa Lessons, Within These Adobe Walls
Pink Champagne is a light frosty pink. I’m not gonna lie, it looks a tad 80′s to me.
Lady Popstar is a bright raspberry pink shade. Again a little frostier than I would like.
It’s A Girl is a bright bubblegum pink. Yep, frosty again.
Salsa Lessons is a bright red/orange shade.
Within These Adobe Walls is a peachy/pink shade.
Pink Slip, That’s Berry Beautiful, Birthday Suit, Peachy Keen, Make Me Blush
Pink Slip is a medium rose pink color. A little frosty again.
That’s Berry Beautiful is a reddish/berry color.
Birthday Suit is a pale nude.
Peachy Keen is a orange/peach color.
Make Me Blush is a medium warm orange shade.
Arrest Me Copper!, Ring Around The Rosy, Bare-ly Legal, A Currant Affair
Arrest Me Copper! is a medium coppery/orange color.
Ring Around The Rosy is a medium/deep rose/orange.
Bare-ly Legal is a medium warm nude.
A Currant Affair is a deep red/berry color.
So let’s get down to the nitty gritty of my main issue with these. The packaging. This might be extremely convoluted, but hopefully you pick up what I’m laying down. 
These come in a tube that have a couple different seals on them. One of them is the seal that you peel down the perforated line, and it keeps the lid on them safely. Fine, I get that but also stuck to that is a “New” sticker, which I could do without.
The other is a larger actual sticker that also contains the “drug information” on it. This sticker covers the entire black bottom portion of the tube. Ok, having the drug info can be handy and I think is mandatory.
The problem is the peely seal goes under the other larger sticker with the drug info. So it’s nearly impossible to get that off without also partially peeling off the drug info sticker. However you don’t want to peel that one off, trust me. I did it with a few of them and it left a glue resin all over the lipstick. It doesn’t come off and now cat hair is gloriously stuck all over a few of them.
So long story short, I think they could have thought of a better way of doing this because this way is no good!
More pics below.
Overall:
Here’s the deal. I was very impressed with the feel and pigmentation of these. Some of the pink colors were way too frosty and dated looking for me though. The packaging drove me nuts, but I am not going to write them off because of it. I just wish they fixed it.
The one thing I really don’t like about drugstore brand makeup is all the stickers and seals they put all over it. I understand they have to keep people from opening them in the store, but then to have the case ruined after you get everything off REALLY bothers me.
Availability: Drugstores.
Pricing: $2.99.
Have you seen these in stores yet? Do all the stickers and seals turn you off or do you not care because the price you are paying?
-Kelly
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Your so right about those stickers. They also drive me crazy. There is a product called Goo Gone which is supposed to take off stickers. Wonder if it would work? I adore lipstick. The price is great and they do look terrific. I even like the frosty ones. I’d have to try one first to see if I would love it. I don’t own any makeup from this brand. I’ve read all of your reviews about them. One of these days I’ll go buy myself lots of shadows, blushes and lipsticks!
Goo Gone works but it will stain your clothes like a mofo so be careful!! You only need a tiny bit. That being said for $3 I’m gonna pick up half of these. I love me some new lipsticks!
Oh Kelly- do they have a taste/smell? I can’t stand “fragrance free” lip products that have a weird chemically scent even if it’s faint.
Hi Anna,
No taste or smell!
there’s some easy ways to get rid of that residue: http://www.ehow.com/video_13445_remove-stickers.html
I have found the rubbing alcohol works particularly well for beauty product cases like this.
thanks for doing the swatches – I was also expecting this series to be very sheer – glad to see they’re much more pigmented
For the price and the payoff I can definitely look past poor packaging. Thanks for the swatches!
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You can also use peanut butte to get rid of label residue. It’s easy to control and non toxic (unless you’re allergic to it).
Good grief: peanut BUTTER. lol
LOL!
I was also going to comment that Goo Gone is great for this stuff. I really hate those New stickers as they leave that residue on the front of my wetnwild pallets. These lipsticks look great, I especially like Birthday Suit. I hope that the wetnwild reps read your posts about the annoying package seal though! Thanks for the info and all the pictures.
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Definitely going to keep my eyes peeled for Salsa Lessons! That was the one that really stood out to me, personally.
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LOL I totally get the sticker thing you’re talking about! I haven’t bought an awful lot of US drugstore products, but the ones that I did buy took me FOREVER to open properly without making them look hideous. It was definitely a good 5 minutes to unpack the Wet n’ Wild Comfort Zone, I can tell ya! And cat hair stuck gloriously to the tubes… I can VERY EASILY imagine that!
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I have been looking for these but I haven’t seen them yet. Well – that’s not quite true, I’ve seen a couple totally destroyed displays, but nothing with the colors I want to buy! Salsa Lessons looks like my kind of color!
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Hmmm…not super excited about these, but for 2.99 I’ll probably try at least one of them! Thanks for the swatches.
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I have several of these and I’ve been completely happy with all of them! (I definitely steered clear of the frosts.) But the packaging. OH, THE PACKAGING. I have never felt so unintelligent as I did while trying to get these open. Absolutely ri-donk-u-lous.
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I’m not super excited about the color selection, but I’m actually not all that upset with the packaging, because every time I go try to buy a wet n wild lippy in my area some #$%#$^#@^ has slipped the little plastic seal off of all of them and done who knows what and then put it back on. It makes it really hard to tell if someone has tampered with the product so I still have never been able to buy a wnw lipstick in store. This new packaging seems poorly thought out, but at least it might be easier to tell if someone has opened it and hopefully will be too hard to open discretely at all.
These are WAY better than the Mega Slick glosses!!!
Within These Adobe Walls & Bare-ly Legal look like good ones but I can’t deal with the frosty lip colors
Thanks for the review
Thank you for the comprehensive review! The price point makes these an attractive option, and pigmentation looks good, but honestly the packaging makes a big difference! I feel like it shouldn’t if a product is good, but “nice” packaging does matter. I feel like this was poorly thought out; maybe they need to re-think sticker placement?
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I completely understand what you’re saying about both the frost and the packaging! Those were my 2 major gripes as well. I got pink champagne and not only did the frost make it look ridiculous on me, but it also magnified the dryness on my lips. And I, too, made the mistake of peeling that sticker off and getting that gross goo left on it.
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Okay, not gonna lie… I’m probably going to end up buying all of them. Dang WnW and their awesome prices!! >.<
Nope, too frosty for me.
I just take a knife or box cutters, press it into the groove around the edge of the cap, and turn the lipstick or gloss around once. It is fast, does not ruin the labeling, or frustrate me. If you want to cut the labels all the way off, you can score vertically and peel them that way.
The deal is, probably, they had all these ready to be distributed and the FDA came back and said they had to put the drug info on it. So to save money, and rightfully so as Wet ‘n Wild’s margins aren’t a huge as say MACS, they just put the needed info over the rest. Not cool, but they had to do it or else, scrap the entire line. Goo Gone is good. Just a tiny bit does it.
I think there are a couple I would like to try. But, I’ll pass on the frosts.
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For the price the packaging doesn’t really put me off much, I’ll just deal. Also I read on Pinterest that a blow dryer really helps with those sticky stickers- and it did the one time I have tried it (but not with the sticky residue stuff)…but not sure how that’ll work with makeup…
Love the cat hair comment! Price & quality usually override bad packaging for me. That said, I think those stickers and seals were designed by someone who was picked on by a makeup lover as a child…because they sure seem to be designed to make you feel stupid when you attempt to open them. Especially since I have no fingernails…grrrr. The things women put up with : )
I bought It’s A Girl a few weeks ago… I love the color, but I’ll have to agree that it is frosty (not overly frosty that I can’t deal with it). Can you think of any dupes for the color?
I just bought two of these and YES the crazy shrinkwrap/sticker combo on these is the worst. I was *thisclose* to tossing these out the window trying to get them off!
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I see so many nice and interesting colors here
they look better than the revlon lip butters which i never liked ebcause of the lack of pigmentation! are these moisturizing? and i also love the variety of colors of these ♥
One time I stuck a sticker on the back of my ipod case and when I tried to peel it off there was sticky glue resin like you’re talking about. Here’s how you fix it!
Take a towel with hot water and rub the gluey area. Then put some peanut butter or other oily substance and let it sit for a bit then scrub it off with the towel and you should be fine!
If you want better instructions just google it! Hope it helps, thanks for the lovely swatches, now I know which colors to get! I <3 WnW!