Should You Buy the Urban Decay Naked Palette?

Hello! Today I wanted to talk about my all time favorite eye shadow palette. It is the ever famous Urban Decay Naked Palette, as shown in the title. Something different about this post is that I will be including pictures, so I thought that would be more interesting.

What does it look like at a glance? 
The palette comes in a long, rectangular velvet "box" basically. "Naked" is spelled out in big capital letters. Urban Decay, the makeup brand, is written smaller below it.

What does the inside of the palette look like?
When you open it up, you see 12 eyeshadows. Under those is a slot that comes with a nice eyeshadow brush. There is a mirror above all of this, as you can see in the photo below.

Why would I want to buy this?
The palette is great for an everyday eye look. I could honestly be just fine if these were the only eyeshadows I had in my makeup collection. It is an investment because the palette is $50 (that's about $4 for each shade). The palette also comes with a high quality brush and an eye shadow primer potion ($10 for that same size if you were to buy it alone). So, all in all, it really is a great deal.

Pros:

• High quality eyeshadows
• Comes in a lot of shades
• Great neutral colors
• Very pigmented colors
• Good size eye colors

Cons:

I figured I should also feature some cons, because let's face it, even though this product is close to perfect, there's always a couple things you wish could be different.

• Not great for travel: a good alternative for this is the Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. The palette includes only 6 eyeshadows and is a lot better for travel.
• The outside, velvetly material gets stained easily

Have you heard about the Naked 2?

If you are not a fan of the shades in this palette, maybe they are too dark, or you just don't like it, don't lose hope just yet. Urban Decay released a second Naked palette that also has 12 shades. I don't own it, but I will link it below.

So, all in all, this is a great product. I will link this product, the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette, and the Urban Decay Naked Basics palette now:

Urban Decay Naked Palette: http://www.sephora.com/naked-palette-P267200?skuId=1324532

Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette: http://www.sephora.com/naked2-P302916?skuId=1393636

Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette: http://www.sephora.com/product/productDetail.jsp?skuId=1458157&productId=P376213&_requestid=54133#!keyword=naked%20basics

Disclaimer: All opinions are my own.

xoxo,

livebeauty26 a.k.a Hannah <3