Sincerely & Truly Truthful: Getting NAKED for the Summer

Urban Decay Naked Palette ($44.00) is the latest must have for any makeup junkie, serious collector, or for someone who just needs a great go to palette. It contains twelve shades–eight are incredibly neutral, but four pack a little–much welcome–color punch. There are six permanent and existing shades, one repromoted shade, and five new shades.

If you like myself have found yourself lucky enough to get your hands on this palette, I congratulate you! Urban Decay has simply out done themselves with the creation of this palette that offers (in my opinion) the most bang for your buck! Laced with some of the most pigmented, unique and most popular variations of colors, Urban Decay definitely manages to put a spin on the boring, played out neutral look.

Packaging:

Wow! Talk about looking elegant & sleek...this palette oozes sophistication. Packaged in a velvet chocolate brown felt material with that infamous gold fold lettering I would have to say that this palette is unlike many of the other palettes I've seen from Urban Decay, setting it appart even more. It's closure is a nice sized magnet with great holding, it's not the strongest magnet I've ever handled (the magnets on the MAC 4 eyeshadow pans are much stronger which I somewhat dislike) but it undoubtably will do the job of keeping your palette closed. Also inclosed is a nice travel sized mirror, with the mini travel sized original Urban Decay Primer Potion (it's actually on the size of the palette packaging, not inclosed in actual palette), a double ended 24/7 eyeliner featuring the award winning color Zero and a deep brown color called Whiskey.

***Note: If you have purchased this palette as of or after February 15,2011 you will receive a Urban Decay Good Karma Shadow Brush (a $26 dollar value) INSTEAD of the double ended 24/7 eyeliners. The reasoning for that is because when UD originally launched the Naked palette the demand was greatly out reaching the supply because the materials needed to make the 24/7 liners was simply not in stock/available...so in order to keep the UD Naked palette on the shelves, they did away with the liners and gave you a brush instead which is still a great value. The original palette with the double ended 24/7 liners cost about $44 plus tax, this new palette with the Good Karma Shadow Brush cost $48 plus tax (still an amazing value).

Dissecting the eyeshadows:

Virgin: a frosty,shimmer, pale beige. It makes for an awesome highlight color (although it does have some shimmer, if applied lightly and buffed out, it's perfect) and also great for the inner tear duct to open up the eyes.
Sin: soft, frosty champagne color.
Naked: a matte medium-beige brown.
Sidecar: shimmery medium brown bronze like color.
Buck: this in my opinion is a darker hue of Naked. It's a matte dark beige-brown color.
Half Baked: coppery-bronze like color with a frosty sheen but finishes almost like a metallic eyeshadow.
Smog: a beautiful medium bronze frosty eyeshadow.
Darkhorse: deep chocolate brown with flecks of gold shimmer and a slightly red undertone.
Toasted: medium gold color with shimmers of pink.
Hustle: deep plum-chocolate with soft,slight simmers.
Creep: a deep black & blue based color with flecks of teal blue, gold and silver shimmers.
Gunmetal: black and light blue based color that comes off as a metallic, it really is one of those colors that has to be seen to be appreciated...without that, it can be underrated.