This is by far my favourite make up purchase in loooong time. I've had my eyes on this for some time now but every time I go to purchase it they're always sold out! This obviously proves how popular this product really is. Apart from obviously being such beautiful shades, I kind of wondered why it seemed so difficult to find them in store....
By chance I came across a blog post of this same product and discovered that it is an exact shade duplicate of the Naked Palette 3 and for just £4 - £3.60 with student discount at Superdrug.
SAY WHAT. After doing some little research into this, I found it really is an exact dupe - excluding just one slight change in one eye shadow! If you don't believe me then please do Google it - there are so many girls posting swatches of the two palettes right next to each other.The Naked Palette currently sits at £37 which has an extortionate difference to the (basically the same) MUA palette. I've never been able to afford the posh version due to my sad and poor student status *sob* but... Every cloud. I'm secretly smug of those spending almost 40 nuggets on something I got for, like, 1/10 the price.
SAY WHAT. After doing some little research into this, I found it really is an exact dupe - excluding just one slight change in one eye shadow! If you don't believe me then please do Google it - there are so many girls posting swatches of the two palettes right next to each other.The Naked Palette currently sits at £37 which has an extortionate difference to the (basically the same) MUA palette. I've never been able to afford the posh version due to my sad and poor student status *sob* but... Every cloud. I'm secretly smug of those spending almost 40 nuggets on something I got for, like, 1/10 the price.
Top row left - right: Puff, Rose Ash, Fawn, Gild, Hazel and Lion.
Bottom row left - right: Bronze Ore, Burnished Brown, Tawny, Henna, Fuel and Coal Grey.
This is my first time using the palette. Lashes to brows, I covered in the first shade - Puff. I like covering my entire lid and highlighting under my brows with a natural colour as it highlights the brow bone and provides a natural tone and base for the upcoming shades. I find that by doing this, the other eye shadows blend much, much better. The second shade also does this job great - I've been using Rose Ash instead recently as it's much warmer (I've got a tan at the mo so it would depend on your skin tone!) On this occasion, I used (in order) Rose Ash, Gild and Burnished Brown. This is a natural, subtle day time look with a slight smokey eye. I like to apply the darker shades on the outside of my eyes above my eye liner flicks. The cat eye look is my favourite! Remember to start with the lightest shades and build them up darker and darker. Don't forget to blend, blend, blend and blend some more.
I've been using this palette pretty much every make up day since. It's oh so wonderful. The shades have slight pink hues which is lovely for my skin tone and probably for a lot of you as well. All of the shades blend amazingly well together (which is what I've also heard about the Naked Palette) and it does not crease at all during the day which is great! Perhaps my make up primer is to thank for this - always use primer! You really can't go wrong with this palette. There are also other palettes by MUA which I haven't tried yet but I'm sure they work just as great as this one.
So far I haven't found any major flaws in the product. My only teenie tiny complain is that when I apply my eyeliner after on top of the shadows, I find that during the day my eyeliner kind of fades into the shadows and isn't as definite as it was on first application. I'm hoping that this could be to do with the eye liner rather than the eyeshadow. I'll be purchasing a new liner from a different brand this week so fingers crossed it will solve the problem. Either way, I'll DEFINITELY be buying from MUA again.
Has anybody got any other thoughts on this wonderful palette or have tried the other MUA palettes? I would love to hear from you!
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