Wet 'n' Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer Review, Photos, Swatches
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer ($3.99 for 0.46 oz.) is a soft, golden beige with a luminous sheen. Illamasqua Aurora (P, $24.00) is more shimmery. Chanel Jardin de Camelias (LE, $65.00) is less shimmery, lighter. Burberry Nude Radiance No. 01 (P, $48.00) is lighter. Becca Moonstone (P, $38.00) is more shimmery, darker. Becca Moonstone (P, $41.00) is less pigmented. Kevyn Aucoin Candlelight (P, $44.00) is more shimmery, lighter. See comparison swatches / compare dupes side-by-side.
This highlighter isn’t new, but when they originally launched, I couldn’t find this shade, and the other day I was at the drugstore and was reminded about it and picked one up to try–and I’m so glad I did. The texture of this powder is exceptionally smooth, almost creamy, with a finely-milled consistency that doesn’t get powdery at all. It has a really fine shimmer that translates into a glowing sheen, rather than noticeable shimmer, and it never turns frosty. It seemed nearly impossible to over-apply as a result! The resulting finish is absolutely beautiful, and it wears a solid eight hours.
Reserve Your Cabana
PPermanent. $4.99.
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Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
Wet ‘n’ Wild Reserve Your Cabana Bronzer
What?! You only get to review this NOW?? But I’m glad this one got the perfect score(aka Temptalia approved!!)!! I think it’s official, this one is a #musthave!! T
Sorry, it wasn’t available when they originally came out, as it was already sold out in my area!
Better late than never! I like it when you recommend something that I already own.
oh! I was actually pleasantly surprised you still took your time to review this amidst all the crazy make up releases, I thought you’d focus more on new products, not that I’m complaining! I always admire you’re dedication and passion to what you do!! More power Christine!!
I wish I could review things faster!
That looks nice and natural. Can’t go wrong for $4!
Very true!
Just went to Walgreens to look for it and it was on sale! $2.99!!! YES!
This is on sale at Rite Aid. All Wet N’ Wild is 40% off this week.
I have this, and I like it! I use it on the bridge of my nose and my cheekbones, where light would fall.
I’ve heard this highlighter is amazing. A win for the drugstore!
It is great!
Ooh, that looks more like a highlighter than a bronzer! I might have to look for this.
I was going to say maybe they didn’t want to bother with a new formula name since it was released alongside the two more typically-hued bronzer shades, but then @Ani_BEE mentioned it is her pale girl bronzer, so sounds like Wet ‘n’ Wild just made sure to cover all bases!
I’ve used this for a long time now. I love it. I actually reach for it over my Chanel, Burberry and Becca highlighters. I always travel with it. Maybe because it can be easily replaced.
Very nice! I’m glad it was permanent.
I was pleasantly surprised to see this review. Love!
It’s a really great gem!
Are my eyes deceiving me? I log into my favorite makeup website and the first post is a review of my favorite product!
I think the real appeal of this product is as a finishing powder rather than a highlighter. Every time I use it as a finishing powder, I get so many compliments on my skin. I have gone through so many. It’s a big ego stroke!
Very nice! 🙂
That’s exactly how I would want to use this, as a finishing powder. I am medium bordering on tan with olive/yellowish undertones for reference, not sure if our skintones are close or not?
I am fair in skintone, but it is worth a try! And if it doesn’t work out as a finishing powder at least you have a highlighter!
I took the plunge and bought this last night. When I got home, I took my big kabuki brush and dusted this on my outer forearm which is darker than my face, and it actually looked REALLY good! Pleasantly surprised, because my upper chest and limbs get darker despite my using spf! So I was actually applying this on the equivalent of NC42-ish!
It works out well as a finishing powder for me. I’m between and NC15 and NC20 (I mix both foundations together). It makes me look like I’m glowing from within. I need to pick this up for my friends!
I love this one! And you get so much product too. I mainly use it to top cream highlighters to blur it and blend it into the skin – it’s absolutely indispensable for that!
What’s your favorite combo?
I find the name a bit misleading since this shade seems to be too light for a bronzer even for the palest of the pale, but I’ll get this asap as a highlighter! Looks beautiful on you!
Reader @Ani_BEE actually just mentioned that it works well as a bronzer on her very fair skin actually 🙂
It works well as a highlighter!
This is my pale girl bronzer, it gives me a tiny bit of colour and a nice glow! But it’s a nice neutral highlighter as well if your not pale like me. 😉
Very good to know!! 🙂
This is my fave bronzer ever! 99% of bronzers look too warm, dark, muddy, or orange on my fair/light skin, but not this one. I can apply all over with a big brush, and it’s almost impossible to over do. Gives a light, very natural glow. And it’s a HUGE pan for only $4 and has SPF15 !
It is a huge pan!
So pretty! I’m still not sure if I will pick this up, but this seems like a great semi-matte highlight. Did you experience the same, or is it more shimmery? Do you know how this compares to Laura Geller’s French Vanilla? Pleased about your rating!
I don’t find it to be at all matte, but I have normal-to-dry skin so matte highlighters look horrific on me, haha, and this is really pretty – a nice sheen to me.
Love it! It reminds me of their once holy grail highlighter that everyone loved called All Over Shimmer. Thanks so much for testing this cheap find for us.
No problem!
Why does it say bronzer when it’s a highlighter? I like it though, looks very pretty.
For very light skin, it might be more bronzer than highlighter!
Hi, what shade are you in the MUFE HD foundation? I’m pretty sure my colouring is very similar to yours, so it would be nice to have an idea what shade would suit me. Also, have you tried the Cover FX Illuminating Setting Powder? I need a setting powder for undereye concealer and that one has rave reviews online. If not, is there one you would recommend?
Sorry, I don’t know if the shades I bought match me yet! No, I haven’t tried that CoverFX powder. I use my regular setting powder – UD Naked or Guerlain Les Violettes for everything.
Oh Wow! $4 and Temptalia recommended! I have to find this!
Should be in the permanent display! 🙂
Oh, I really should try this one. Wet N Wild makes some quality products – even if the packaging isn’t great, but that’s what you have to expect for the price. Actually, my Maybelline packages usually brak much more often.
This one is really nice!
this looks great but i heard it smells like coconut which really bothers me! too bad.
I didn’t notice any scent!
I’ve always kinda wanted this, and even though it’s only like 3 bucks it’s kind of bulky and I figured it would just take up space and I wouldn’t use it over my high end stuff (like Nars Nico). I’m definitely getting it now. Since it’s not too shimmery I’ll add it to my everyday routine as a blush topper. What brush do you apply it with?
No brush in particular – I don’t remember what I used with it (wrote the review over a week ago), unfortunately!
Proof that price isn’t an indicator of quality! I love this as a highlighter and I’m glad you love it too!
For sure!
I use this as a setting powder and it makes my complexion look glowy and warm not shiny or glittery. I flippin’ love it so much
Awesome, Baily!
I’ve heard great things about this one, but I can never find them in stock anywhere.
My local store had full stock, surprisingly!
Since it’s permanent, I’ll just keep checking back till I get lucky. 🙂
It is sold at Walgreens and Rite Aid. This week, all Wet N’ Wild is 40% off!
Thanks!
Walgreens also has it online,on sale, and free shipping with $25 min
Thank you!
They call it bronzer, but it’s a highlight? It’s hard to find W & W here. My Target, Ulta & Walmart don’t have much. It looks beautiful on you & you gave it an A-I have to get it!!
Like most products, it will depend on your skin tone. Very fair complexions may find it adds noticeable color vs. medium skin tone will find it is more of a sheen than a highlighter!
I agree with Erin. This is great as a highlighter as well as a finishing powder when you take a light hand. I use it like my Hourglass Diffused Light Powder just to add that nice glow to the skin.
Great to know!
I was hesitant on buying this every time I saw it in the store because it was marked as a bronzer and knowing with my tan skin it would look like flour! Now I now that its a highlighter, I might have to go the cvs and pick this up!
Definitely more a highlighter than your traditional bronzing shade!
Does this mean you’re reviewing WnW again? If so, that’s pretty exciting! I love seeing the mix of luxury and drugstore product reviews.
I never stopped!
Oh yay! I remember a while back you were pretty frustrated by their decrease in quality (you were not wrong), but I’m glad you’re still investigating some of the new stuff.
I’m certainly not going to trek to 8 locations to locate new eyeshadow trios, you know? But I definitely look for their new stuff 🙂
I have this and have never used it. I’m shocked that it’s a near dupe for do many highend products that are on my really want it list. You have saved me so much money! Thanks
You should use it!
*Sprints to my nearest Walgreens* I’m so excited to try this! I’ve been trying to find a powder highlighter more subtle than the Becca Pressed formula, and I really like the shade of Becca Moonstone, so this looks perfect. And the price is so, SO right!
Fingers crossed, Kat!
GORGEOUS!!! I have been looking for a luminous finishing/setting powder for summer, something that won’t dull the beauty of the GA FS 14 mixed with Tarte Med. Honey foundation combo I’m using. Not sure if this could work for that purpose or not? Also, is it too light for my skintone or not?
It may be too light, but I am not 100% certain. I think it may be doable!
I think I’m going to give it a go, and if it is too light, I will gibe it to my daughter. She is lighter than me, around your coloring NC25-30.
I don’t know that I would call this a bronzer or a highlighter, but it sort of works for both things if you’re pale. I use this sparingly to set my foundation in the summertime when I want to maintain a bit of dew. It looks very naturally pretty, and while it isn’t dark in color, it does somehow give off a sunkissed sort of glow. I actually prefer this to some of the hourglass shades I’ve tried :X
Almost like a highlighting bronzer? Maybe?
i absolutely love reserve your cabana I use it as a highlighter also I apply it as a base over my eye primer it helps to blend shadows really well it’s a super product
Awesome! 🙂
Nice to find a bargain
Very true!
can’t live without this product!
Tarababyz on YouTube lists this almost every video – she uses it on her neck. I gave it a try & urge anyone fair to medium to do the same. It’s like a magic trick ! It blurs out all my “chicken skin” and I swear my neck looks 10 years younger. As a bonus, there’s a little spf coverage.
That is great to know!
I absolutely LOVE this powder!!!!! I learned of it from tarababyz on utube. I’m so glad you like it as well. The price doesn’t in any way, shape or form reflect it’s quality.
It’s fantastic on the neck to set a sun block product. That’s how Tara uses it.
It is such a pretty shade!
Aha! I was looking for this in the store and I might have passed it over because I was looking for a highlighter and not a bronzer! Thanks for the info. Now I’ll go back and look for the right thing.
Woohoo!
I LOVE this product – by itself as a light bronzer/highlighter, or sometimes I’ll use a big fluffy brush and mix this with Chanel Les Beiges powder and apply all over as a finishing powder – freaking AWESOME on days when I just feel like my skin is looking kind of dull.
Very nice to hear, Dawn! 😀
Glad to see this review and super glad this “bronzer” got such a good grade!
I’m pretty sure I have this already….or maybe I’ve been eyeing this product so long that I thought i owned it by now! Eek. Must hunt this down. 😀
lol! Hope you have it!
Haha, I just found it! And I started wearing it again after being inspired by you. 😀
I have this product, and I like it!
Yay!
Maybe this is a long shot, but would you know how close (if at all) this is to MAC Sunsparked Pearl? I’ve never found a similar highlighter/bronzer for us palefaces I loved as much as that…
I suspect Sunsparked Pearl is peachier, but maybe for $4 I’ll just try it regardless.
Definitely a lot lighter and less orange/peach compared to Sunsparked Pearl!
So I stopped by CVS and picked up one of these. Most importantly, I LOVE it. What a find, for the price!
But also… I swatched them next to each other and they are, to my eye, close! Sunsparked Pearl is absolutely rosier, and on my skin the difference is maybe more apparent, but they’re really not that far off each other. They’re about the same lightness/sheeniness (totally a word… right?) — though Reserve Your Cabana is better pigmented and creamier.
Of course, MAC did that super frustrating thing of releasing Sunsparked Pearl in various different collections in different formats, so it’s possible the one in my possession is not the same as yours. Wouldn’t be the first time different batches diverge significantly! Can’t make it too easy on makeup geeks, I guess… 🙂
YAY! Glad they ended up pretty close 🙂
I’ve had this for a while and I LURVE it – if I’m going for a glam evening look, I sometimes use this as a finishing powder and it looks amazing in low light situations. Glad you love it too!
Happy to hear you enjoy it as a finishing powder!
Wish I’d known about this before I’d bought ask my expensive highlighters, lol.
Awwww! Well, this could be the replacement for when you run out 😉
It does look more like a highlighter than a bronzer – but it is a steal for that price. So sad that we cannot get Wet n Wild easily here in Australia. The product is fantastic.
Such a shame they aren’t more available globally!
After hearing people rave about this forever, I finally picked it up the other day. It’s so funny that you’re just getting to try it as well. It really is a lovely highlighter at an amazing price!
It is!
Actually, this looks like a great eyeshadow.
I could see it working as such!
About a month ago, I saw this (somewhere) when I was out with my oldest daughter. I picked it up. I held it in my hand. I put it back!!! I didn’t realize it was also a sunscreen or I would have purchased it!
Hopefully you can get it sometime, Cat!
Oh I like this!
Yay!
Ahhh! Can’t believe you couldn’t find this until now. It’s a great highlighter.
I don’t usually look at the permanent displays, just the new stuff, so once it was out, it just fell off my radar since I am always very behind 🙁
I love when really inexpensive products are super awesome!!!
Me too!
It’s noted that this can be purchased at Ulta, but I just wanted to clarify that it can’t. I haven’t seen the brand at any story near me or in the surrounding states. Plus I work for Ulta and we don’t carry the brand as a whole.
That is so weird! Will fix that.
My Walgreens was $5.79 across the street at Kmart it was $3.99, that life in New York City for you
Bought 3 sending 2 out to my nieces with your review
Thank you
My pleasure!
…Wet n’ Wild made something recently that didn’t get an F? I don’t understand…
I’m pleased, but I don’t understand…
This is a good one!
Do you have any info on how this would compare to Laura Geller’s Baked Body Frosting?
Sorry, I don’t have that!
This is a great under eye brightener too 😉
So good to know!
Would this suit medium skintones? Not dark, just medium, warm toned skin.
For what purpose? I am seeing readers who are a few shades darker than I using this!
I’m so pleasantly surprised to see a review of this product from you!
I actually saw Kathleen Lights use this and say good things about it and immediately I wanted to have it…
I googled to see reviews and there it was!!! Review by Tamptalia!!
Now I want this all the more!!
Thank you!!!
♥ xox
No problem, Kulsum!
You are so awesome Temptalia! Thanks for all you do! I picked this up and am really liking it. My HG is the Kevyn Aucoin candlelight, but I hate paying for it. Being able to compare it in your swatches was so helpful.
YAY! I am so happy this is working well for you, Sarah 🙂