When I first heard that Urban Decay were bringing out another Naked palette, I think I died a little inside. However, after a little bit of research, I discovered that it was a fully matte palette. Not going to lie, I don't really like matte colours. I love shimmery, smoky eyes but being a Naked lover, I had to order this palette anyway.
You get 6 eyeshadows in this palette. Venus is a new soft, off-white demi-matte shade, Foxy was in the Naked 2 palette and is described as a cream bisque matter, Walk of Shame (W.O.S) is a very light nude matte, Naked 2 is pretty much like Naked from the Naked 2 palette and is a new taupe matte, Faint is a new warm, dusty brown matte and Crave is a new deepest, darkest brown/black matte.
The packaging is beautiful. It's a lot smaller than the other palettes (obviously as it contains 6 less shades) but it has a huge mirror inside it and the eyeshadows themselves are still full size. The actual outer packaging is bang on. If you can remember the original Naked palette then you'll know that however beautiful the packaging started out, it still wasn't exactly travel friendly and it definitely isn't nice and clean now. The Naked 2 palette packaging was a big step up and the Naked Basics is even a bigger step up.
So although I only bought this palette because I thought I needed it to complete my collection, I've actually fell in love with it. These colours really make creating that perfect shadow so much easier and having mattes is great for creating a basic day time eye look or building on top of. I absolutely love Venus and W.O.S as highlights, Foxy is a wonderful base colour, Naked 2 and Faint are so good in the crease and Crave is the perfect eyeliner colour. I haven't been reaching for my other two Naked palettes half as much since I bought this. I really love it. The pigmentation, as always, is outstanding and the shadows themselves are easy to blend.
You can buy this palette for £20 here.
What do you think of the Naked Basics palette? Have you bought it yet?
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