Urban Decay Naked Palette

This is one product that needs no introduction, the real question is why its taken me so long to purchase it. Well to answer that I didn’t buy any high end makeup for a long while, like a long time… and then in a matter of a week I was the owner of two naked palettes. Sorry not Sorry.

 

outer packaging

 

The packaging of the palette is sometime called a bit flimsy and dirty. It’s a brown velour palette with gold leafing on the top that says it was the naked palette. I know a lot of people have said that the palette get very dirty very easily and that I can’t argue against. I store it in the cardboard box that it came in and then in my plastic draws and some how there is still dirt all over the palette. I have no idea how to but yeah, if you like your makeup to be clean at all times this palette might make you a little crazy.

top of palette

The inside of the palette shows the 12 colours lined in a row with the mirror on the opposite side of the casing.

inside of palette

The colours are lovely everyday brown, neutrals that I love.

The colour “virgin” is described as a nude satin colour and it is the lightest colour of the palette, now this one get a little use and the only time I do use it is a inner corner highlight on my skin as with being so pale it works very well.

The shade “Sin” is a champagne skimmer and I use this all over the lid if I am looking for something that is a very light shimmer colour, I have used this as a brow highlight too but again this is something I don’t get a lot of use but its simply because I always forget to apply a brow highlight.

The colour “Naked” is described as a buff matte and this is the one that I use the most, this is something that I put all over my lids nearly every time I se this palette. It is very slightly too dark for my skin tone but it is still used by me as an all over lid colour to even it out before applying other shadows to give them an even base.

 “Sidecar” is described as a beige sparkle. I love this colour on days that I go for a more smokey glittery look this is the colour that gets used in the centre of my eye. The shade is so lovely and so easy to work with.



from left to right - virgin, sin, naked, sidecar

“Buck” is a brown matte and this is the one I pair with “Naked” on my everyday eye look if I am using this palette by simply sweeping it though the crease to give my eyes more dimensions and I love it, again its pigmented and easy to work with.

“Halfbaked” is referred to as bronze but I completely disagree with that, its gold, pure and simple. It’s a beautiful colour though for more a Christmas look, which is when I mostly use it cause who doesn’t love a gold sparkly eye on Christmas?

“Smog” is another one of my favourites described as a golden brown shimmer but I think this comes out more bronze it is a lovely colour with a lovely pay off that could be used as an everyday shimmer look as it is beautiful without looking over powered if applied in the right way.

“Dark Horse” is described as a bronze-plum shimmer, now I don’t know about you guys but I don’t see any plum in this at all though, it makes a lovely outer eye colour though if you are going for more of a smokey look but still want the shimmer too… this is in my normal night out eyeshadow routine when I get to use it.

from left to right - buck, half baked, smog, dark horse 

“Toasted” is said to be a taupe-bronze, and I can say that but mostly it comes off on my skin copper, which makes a beautiful eye look with a simple pink lip.

“Hustle” is described as a mocha shimmer and its one is another lovely outer eye look but I normally blend just a little bit on my outer crease to add that little bit more of a smokey look.

“Creep” is a near black metallic shade and that is pretty bang on description, because it is slightly not black. I reminds me of an old live XXL hair colour that was so close to black but in certain lights looked a very dark blue and this is the same but with a little bit of blue shimmer in it.

“Gunmetal” is described as a dark grey metallic and again that exactly what it is, and what I use it as, it’s a lovely outer eye colour again it just depends on the eye look you are going for whether this will work for you or not.

from left to right - toasted, hustle, creep, gunmetal

The pigmentation of these shadows is immense though, I can not rate them highly enough and words just don’t come close enough 15/10 for pigmentation.

The application of all of these is lovely too, you just need to know the right type of brush with all the shadows so for example if you apply “Sidecar” with the fluffy brush it goes everywhere, however if you apply it with a flat shader brush it works very well. The only one I find a great deal of fallout from is creep but keep a brush handy to swipe it off and you will be fine.

Overall this palette is pretty damn amazing, the price point may look steep when first considering the product but after using it I would say it is well worth the money if you need a brown/warm palette. There is literally only one bad point about this palette and as mentioned before it simply lies in the packaging and how dirty it gets but if you don’t care all that much about that this palette is perfect and by far my favourite high end palette if not my favourite palette of all time.

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Until next time...

Love Kim x