So here it is, my gorgeous new palette! This is not going to be a
review or any in-depth discussion about it, it is simply my first
reactions to the new naked palette. So I’m not going to swatch and
compare every single shade, loads of other fantastic beauty bloggers
have done this long before me!
Firstly, looking at the outside it is definitely better packaging
than the first one which as you can see from the picture gets boggin’,
and the gold ink has started chipping off. I don’t even travel with
mine very often, and I’d imagine it would get more messy if it was being
carried around daily in a make up bag. It is in a tin and also has a
more secure fastening system compared to the magnetic closing on the
first one, it actually clips shut and feels a lot more robust. Naked 2
also has a
huge mirror which is always useful!
In the second picture down of them both opened, the new one is the
one on the top (as opposed to the other photo - nice one there
Louise!). At a glance you can see there are some similar shades and
some new ones. I decided to compare the ones that look similar in the
pan to see how they looked beside each other on skin.
These two are Smog (on the left) from first palette and Snakebite from
the second palette. Fortunately these don’t look as alike on skin as
they do in their pans, Smog is definitely a more metallic gold and
Snakebite just quite a plain (sorry!) shimmery brown.
On the left here is Hustle (Naked) and Busted (Naked 2). In the top photo there is no flash used and they look
very
similar! Then I used the flash and got quite a different outcome… I
think it washed them out as they do not look this gold or pale in real
life, but I thought it was an interesting comparison nonetheless!
Sidecar on the left (Naked) and Suspect (Naked 2). Although they would
be easily interchangeable for each other I think, Sidecar is more warm
and Suspect more cool-toned.
The last pair are Toasted from the first palette, and YDK on the
right. These two are again very similar and could be dupes for one
another, but the one on the left being slighter lighter warmer brown.
I am noticing a trend of the the colours in the ‘old’ palette being very gold/warm based in comparison to the second selection.
One thing which surprised me actually was that the actual eyeshadows
in the new palette were a lot finer when I swatched them, they felt more
finely milled and soft between my fingers, the only one from these
which felt pretty much the same as in the previous one was YDK.
Blackout also felt quite chalky and powdery, but I think that tends to
come with the territory of having a pitch black matte eyeshadow.
Two colours I really like from the Naked 2 are Pistol and Verve which
are silvery/grey shades and are really stunning, very unlike the other
colours in the two palettes.
With the palette you get a mini lipgloss and a double ended synthetic
(of course!) brush. The brush is quite nice, not amazing but I’m
guessing it’s not one of their best because they are putting it with the
palette as a sort of ‘extra’.
The lipgloss is
fine, I am not a big lipgloss fan generally so I’m not really the best
person to judge it! It is quite sticky and it is also plumping - that
gave me a fright when I first put it on, “AHHH it’s minty and tingles!” -
so these are types of lipgloss I would probably avoid. As for colour, I
have very pigmented lips naturally (excuse my lips, I’d spent the whole
day biting them!) so it just made them shiny and gave a wee bit of
pinky/purple sparkle. I would rarely wear lipgloss on it’s own anyway
so I think it would probably be nice over a pink or even more violet
toned lipstick to jazz it up!
In conclusion (oh god, reminds me of Higher English), it is an
expensive palette at £36, I used vouchers so it only cost me £21 and I
don’t regret buying it at all but I would not have bought it for the
full price. It had some very similar shades to the first one, with a
few new exciting ones, but overall I wouldn’t say it is really worth the
money if you have the original.
<3
