There are countless reviews about the Urban Decay Naked palettes, and I thought that instead of doing another one, I would just go through my top favorite shades in each of the three palettes. I love the Naked palettes and I do not find myself wanting to reach for anything else. Sit back and let's take a little journey through the wonderful neutrals of Urban Decay...
Naked
The original Urban Decay Naked palette is what really started my love for high end make-up. I received it as a gift and I never looked back. My most used colors in this palette are Virgin, Sin, Naked, Buck, Smog, and Darkhorse. Virgin is a very pale shimmery highlight. I love to dab this lightly to the center of my eyelid for brightness and dimension. It is also a great highlight for under the brows. Sin is one of my all time favorite Urban Decay eyeshadows and I also own it outside of the palette. It is perfect for an all over lid color or as a base color. Naked is a matte skin tone like color, and it is perfect for blending or as a base color. Also pictured here is Sidecar, which I will admit that I do not care for much. It is a beautiful color, but there is soooo much fall out with this shade that no matter how careful I am, I end up with glitter everywhere. Buck is also matte and is a few shades darker than Naked. It is great for a crease color or to add a little bit of dimension to the outer corner.
Smog and Darkhorse are probably my absolute most reached for shadows in this palette. Smog is a beautiful metallic-looking bronze color with a hint of copper tone in the sunlight. This color is great as a more intense all over lid color. Darkhorse is a slightly shimmery dark brown. It is a great alternative to using black for a less dramatic smoky look. Honorable mentions: Toasted and Hustle. Toasted is a beautiful coppery brick brown color, and Hustle is a more red based version of Darkhorse with less shimmer.
Naked 2
Until Naked 3 came out, I was exclusively using Naked 2. I definitely found myself reaching for it more often than the original. I absolutely love Foxy, a matte, yellow-based pale highlighter. I actually use it to set concealer under my eyes (yes, that is how fair I am). The color is the perfect shade for under my eyes and the finely milled consistency of an eyeshadow looks so much more natural and soft in such a delicate area than an average face powder. I did not want to hit pan in the palette for this purpose, so I also purchased Foxy separately.
I DO NOT understand why they put Half-Baked in the original and the second Naked palettes... I want to like it but it is too orange-toned to be a flattering gold on my skin tone. I love Bootycall as a highlight, it is more white than Virgin in my opinion, and I find it to be more pigmented. I also love Chopper, a shimmery copper, and Tease, a matte "greige" taupe color that is great for a light contour in the crease. My top color in the Naked 2 palette would have to be Snakebite. It is a dark shimmery metallic-looking brown with extremely subtle hints of gold. It is beautiful in the outer corner or the crease.
Next to Snakebite are Suspect and Pistol. Suspect is a light shimmery gold-bronze color that is much more flattering than Half-Baked and is perfect for the lids (especially with Snakebite). Honorable mention goes to Pistol, a great shimmery light gunmetal/graphite shade that I do not find myself using often enough.
Busted is Naked 2's versions of the Darkhorse and Hustle shades of the original Naked. It is a very dark brown that can almost appear to be a warm black when used heavily. It has a slight shimmer. Blackout is an amazing matte true black. It definitely scared me at first, but it really opened my eyes to the versatility of black eyeshadow. I love to use it as an eyeliner and a tiny dab of it looks amazing when blended into the outer corner.
Naked 3
We have finally arrived at my current favorite of the three palettes, the Naked 3. I will admit that I was nervous about this palette at the beginning with all of the pink tones. Boy, was I wrong. They are all gorgeous! I was afraid that they would look like cheap costume makeup tones, but I find myself using EVERY shade in this palette! The original and the second palette have a few shades that I do not use often, but that is not the case here. Strange is a beautiful matte pinky white highlight shade. I LOVE a matte highlight in this shade. Dust is a glittery pale pink that translates a little more silver toned when used. I like to dab a little bit of it on my lid to add dimension to other colors. Burnout is a slightly shimmery blush pink, my go-to lid color of the moment. Limit is a matte mauve pink that is perfect to use with Nooner, shown below.
Trick is so unique in my opinion. In the pan it appears to be a shimmery rose gold like color, but when used, it is the most beautiful pink toned champagne. Nooner is a matte darker mauve tone that is perfect in the crease. Liar, Factory, and Mugshot are equally wonderful in my opinion. They are all essentially slightly different shades of the same metallic pink brown loveliness, and all three are beautiful alone all over the lid or as a crease color. Factory is the most dramatic of the three, and Mugshot is the most gray toned. I truly have trouble choosing which one to use.
Darkside and Blackheart are both amazing dark tones. Darkside is a slightly shimmery super dark brown with a slight greyish purple tone to it. It is wonderful as an eyeliner or smudged below the lower lashes. Blackheart is probably my favorite of all of the Naked palette attempts to create a black tone. It is the most unique color. It is a deep black with red/pink/burgundy shimmer. This really helps it to be a warmer toned black that makes a GORGEOUS eyeliner. I love that this color is so deep and dramatic, but the pink shimmer makes it appear to be soft.
As I wrote this, I realized that I listed every color of the Naked 3 palette except for Buzz. This was actually completely unintentional. I am a big Disney fan and Buzz is definitely a Disney princess pink. I also find it funny that the name is also the name of a Disney character... Bottom line, this is just slightly too pink for me. I have not found a way to wear it well, but I will have to keep playing with it.
I hope this was an informative and interesting post. I always like to know which colors people use the most in these three palettes, and I wanted to share my personal favorites. These palettes are so versatile, and I recommend that everyone who wears makeup should have at least one of them as a staple in their collection.
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