Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette.

Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette 

Another Christmas Gift today - the Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette. I've owned the Naked Basics 2 palette for a while now, but still felt that I wanted to try the original, so I'm so glad I got this for Christmas. Even though I've been experimenting with silver and grey shades recently, neutrals are still very much my thing, and you can never have enough eyeshadow palettes right? 

The palette has 6 shades - 1 shimmer and 5 matte. I'm wearing venus, wos, naked2 and faint in the photo above, along with my Gosh extreme liquid liner in bronze (from the press tent blogger review box), Charlotte Tilbury black liner (on tightline), essence bronze liner (on waterline), makeup forever mascara, and clinique bottom lash mascara. My lipstick is from Kiko, and the base routine is the same as last sunday's Silver Sparkle GRWM video. 

All of the shades are really pigmented, blend easily and work together really well, just as you'd expect from Urban Decay - their eyeshadows are definitely one of the best on the market. 

The Naked Basics palette is perfect for everyday looks, and because it's so small, it'd be good for travelling too. I also find the basics palettes really useful for mixing with other eyeshadows and palettes that I have. 

Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette

Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette

I finally caved and bought the Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette. I already own 2 of the Naked palettes and the basics palette, but never tended to use the darker shades, so I didn't buy the smoky palette straight away as I didn't think I'd use it. Since I've changed my hair to grey, I've been trying out some more silver toned eyeshadows and have strayed slightly from my neutrals recently, so I thought I'd treat myself to the Naked Smoky palette. 

I've been using it for a good few days now, and have already tried out most of the shades. I've really been enjoying the silvery blue shades, as well as my good old favourite neutrals (in the photo above I've used thirteen, combust, high, dirtysweet and radar) as well as my GOSH xtreme liquid eyeliner in bronze, which I got in my Press Tent Blogger Review box - and I really love it! 

I think I overlooked this palette to be honest as it's such a beauty! The four shades on the right are all matte - perfect for everyday - I love using combust as a base shade. This palette literally has everything you'd need for a daytime or more intense look and has options for both cool and warm tones. 

As always, the quality of shadows is amazing from Urban Decay, and I much prefer this packaging to any of the previous ones - I think it's so much nicer and more luxurious! The palette also comes with a dual ended eyeshadow brush (a blending end and a pencil brush end) which is really useful, and makes the palette great value. There were also some ideas/instructions included too. 

I'm really loving this palette and can't believe I didn't buy it sooner! If you're looking for something to spend your Christmas money on, or the perfect eyeshadow palette for a NYE look, or just to treat yourself, I'd highly recommend the Naked Smoky! 

Urban Decay Naked Basics 2

I thought I'd do a little one-off Friday post today - I never normally post on Fridays but I thought seeing as my Easter holidays are coming to an end even though I wish they weren't, and also to celebrate 300 bloglovin followers on my Wordpress blog (THANKYOU!) I'd do a little bonus blog post!

I picked up the Urban Decay Naked Basics 2 palette this week, and have already filmed a makeup look/tutorial which will be up on my YouTube channel next Thursday. But I thought, before you see that, I'd do a little blog post of the un-used pretty looking palette!

I should start off by saying that I don't have the original Naked Basics palette, but I do own the Naked 2 and Naked 3 (I still haven't got Naked 1 or Naked Basics 1). I like the idea of these basics palettes as sometimes, the Naked palettes can be a bit overwhelming, especially if you're trying to be quick/ in a rush in the mornings. The basics aren't as cost-effective as the originals though, they're £23 for 6 shades, whereas the original palettes are £38 for 12 shades.

The main difference in the shades between the basics palette and the original is that there is only 1 shimmer shade in this palette. The lightest shade, Skimp, has a slight shimmer to it, but all the rest are matte. The shades Cover and Primal and Undone could also be used for brows depending on what shade you are (I'd probably use primal).

After using these shadows I'm pretty impressed. Urban Decay's eyeshadows are always amazingly pigmented, blend easily, last well and are just easy to use. These matte shadows are great for an everyday look, but can be smoked out using the darkest shade. I think they're very wearable, and I can see myself getting a lot of use out of this palette. I also think they'd work very well with other shadows, especially with palettes that lack a few matte shades. And of course, for travelling, this is a much better option than the original Naked as it's much smaller.

The packaging is simple but I much prefer it to the other Naked palettes I own. Overall I'm impressed with this palette, and if you want to see how I've used it, don't forget to be subscribed to my YouTube channel so that you don't miss next Thursday's tutorial video!

On the topic of followers/subscribers, thank you to everyone who follows/ subscribes to me, when I reach a bigger number (probably 1000 on my bloglovin and youtube) I will be doing a giveaway (if you guys are interested)!

Also, please let me know if you follow both this blog and my wordpress, and if you do, which you prefer as I'm thinking of going back to just wordpress so let me know :)

Have a great weekend! x