I uploaded a video to my YouTube channel yesterday,
talking a bit about the both the Urban Decay Naked and Naked 2 eye shadow
palettes. I recently bought the Naked 2 and have been wanting to do a sort of
comparison review for ages!
I will link the video down below; I talk about both
palettes in a lot more detail in the video.
So first up is the Naked Palette. I got
this a few months ago for my birthday and it is much loved. I’m really not a
fan of the packaging for practicality reasons. The dark velvet lends it self to
get very messy very quickly and it also feels a bit flimsy as its basically
just cardboard with a magnet to hold down the lid.
The shadows in this palette however are my
favourite out of the two. I know everyone love love loooves the Naked 2, but
for me and my colouring I find the warmer shades of the Naked a lot more
flattering.
Moving swiftly on to the Naked 2 palette. I
love the packaging of this palette; it upsets me that the Naked palette isn’t
in the same sturdy tin that this is in. It has clips on either side of the lid
to make sure the palette stays firmly shut, so no accidents in your suitcase.
The shadows in this palette are all lovely,
but there are one or two that really look awful on me. For example Foxy is a
slightly yellow toned neutral shadow, one of the two matte shadows in the
palette. However it does not look nice with my skin tone, it’s far too yellow.
Like every palette there are ones I love and ones I hate, so let me end with a
positive. The one shadows that I have found I lean more towards are Blackout and Snakebite. Snakebite
is a gold toned brown and makes blue eyes really pop. Blackout is the perfect, rich matte black every girl needs. It is perfect for smoking out the lash line.
The actual quality of these shadows are pretty good. The pigmentation is fantastic and all of them give excellent colour pay off. My only found flaw with these shadows, in both palettes, is that they do have a problem with fall down. If you make sure you really tap off the excess that is on your brush before applying, you shouldn't have too much of a problem.
As to whether you should own both of these
wonderful palettes or just one, that really depends on a few things. Do you
have a warm skin tone or a cool skin tone, and do you prefer you shadows to
contrast with your skin tone or blend.
The Naked is the cool toned palette and
looks better on cool toned skin, but there are some shadows that work with
warmer skin tones. The same goes for the Naked palette only it is a warmer
toned palette. I prefer the Naked palette purely because it has more shadows in
it that make my blue eyes pop!
I would recommend getting both purely to have
options. As a pair they cover all bases but it really depends on if you feel
you would get good use out of both, as they’re not cheap.
RRP of £36 each ($50USD, $60AUD, €42.30EUR)
I've been wondering which one I should maybe get, I've always wanted the Naked because of the primer potion!
ReplyDeleteEstelle x
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The Naked is deffo my favourite out of the two. The little primer potion comes with a weird doh foot applicator and it doesn't seem like the same product to the full size primer potion. The full size is thicker and creamier and the small size seems quite liquidy :/ x
DeleteIve always thought the NAKED palette (nr 1.) was the better one, just flatters my skin tone so much more
ReplyDeleteSame, I am starting to use the Naked 2 palette a lot more now though. The Naked 1 palette will always have a special place in my heart haha
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