REVIEW & COMPARISON: NYX Nude on Nude & Urban Decay NAKED palettes

REVIEW:
Urban Decays NAKED Palette is packaged in a rectangular velvet/velour covered casing and contains 12 eye shadows, eyeshadow brush, and a travel size Primer Potion. ($48 at Sephora, Ulta, Urban Decay.com). These shadows are beautiful, super soft, blendable & highly pigmented. Favorite colors include: Virgin, Sin, Sidecar (despite the chunky glitter), Buck (gorgeous matte), Half-Baked, Smog, Toasted, Hustle and..oh who am I kidding, I love them ALL!!! Seriously there is not one color in here that I dislike. I will express one disappointment….the newer palettes have a eyeshadow brush instead of the double ended liner & a price hike of $4. But I still think its totally worth splurging on.

NYX Nude on Nude (S119) is also rectangular however it is packaged in a brown plastic palette containing 20 neutral eye shadows and 10 lip glosses. ($25 NYX.com.I bought it for $14.99 at Ulta during a sale a few months back). This palette has a mixture of shimmery and matte colors including a great matte light beige, pinky beige and white shadow which the NAKED palette does not have. The formula on most of these eye shadows are also very pigmented but they are not as soft and a few can be a bit chalky. Do I love every color in here like I do the NAKED? No. Favorites here include #'s 2,3,4,8 on the top row and #'s 2,3,7,8 on the bottom row…7 & 8 probably being my favorite in the entire palette. Although not the same quality eye shadows as the NAKED palette you can still achieve a great everyday neutral or smokey eye and this is a great palette to have in your makeup collection for the price.

COMPARISON:




I have heard quite a bit of people comparing the 2 palettes and basically implying that the NYX palette is a cheap dupe for the NAKED palette.

So is it?

No….at least not for me.

NYX is a great neutral palette that for the price you cant beat considering how many eyeshadows you get. In my opinion however only 5 out of the 20 eyeshadows that I swatched actually come close to colors in the NAKED palette.


The "dupeable" shadows are Virgin, Sin, Naked, Hustle, & Half baked. On the swatches below T stands for top row and B for bottom row.






T2 is closest to Virgin, B2 & B7 are close to Sin, Naked & T6 are almost exact (UD e/s is softer however), B5 & T8 are similar to Hustle and B3 although more of a canary color is closest to Half-baked.

Swatches of all shadows in both palettes.

NAKED



Nude on Nude




Thanks for reading!! XOXO