Naked 3 Palette Review

This review was requested by Catherine from http://beautylovefashionthoughts.blogspot.co.uk/

So as you may know from my last blog post I was lucky enough to receive the Naked 3 palette from Urban Decay for christmas. Today I'm going to be sharing with you a review on what I think about the palette, my favourite shades and how I use the shades etc

The packaging is quite similar to the one of the Naked 2 palette because it is tin, but as you can see this one is a rose gold colour suggesting the types of colours in the palette. It also comes with a double ended shadow brush and 4 samples that each are meant to last a week of the primer potions in: original, eden,sin and anti-ageing.

Here is an overview of the palette

(from left to right)
Strange: A pinky white matte colour, great for inner-corner highlight
Dust: A very shimmery pale pink colour, does give a bit of fall out though
Burnout: A Light pinky peach colour, a neutral tone which can be used easily
Limit: A light dusty rose matte, I love this colour for all over the lid and it looks really pretty.
Buzz: A metallic rose shimmer, with pink micro-glitter, I don't use this colour as much but it's nice to dust on top of another colour
Trick: A pinky gold colour with a little shimmer to it, I love using this in the centre of the lid and is one of my most used colours

Nooner: A medium pinky-brown matte. One of my favourite shades from this palette,I love using this in my crease.

Liar: A medium metallic mauve shimmer. I like how this doesn't have too much shimmer in but still has enough and looks really nice on.
Factory: A pinky-brown satin. I find this a brown-gold colour and I love putting it in the outer corner of my eye to darken up the look.
Mugshot: A metallic taupe shimmer with slight pink shift. I love the shimmer in this colour and the texture is very nice aswell.
Darkside: A deep taupe-mauve satin. Perfect for using in a smokey eye!
Blackheart: It's a black matte colour with red sparkles in it making it a very unique colour,I love using it and it's so pigmented!

Swatches from - http://www.frmheadtotoe.com/2013/11/review-swatches-naked-3-palette.html


My favourite look to create using this palette is a wearable daytime look.
I first take 'limit' and place it all over of my lid, then I take 'nooner' and place it in my crease, I use 'factory' in the outer part of my lid, then add 'trick' to the centre of my lid. I always use 'strange' for my inner corner highlight and if I want to darken up the look I will add a bit of 'blackheart' in the outer v of my eye.
Although this is my favourite look I've created so far using the palette there is so many more to create and all the colours look stunning together.

Overall I love this palette so much,It's my first thing from the 'naked family' but my sister and mum have the naked and naked 2 palette. This palette is so unique and has the prettiest colours in, I've used this non-stop since I received it and I recommend it to everyone. It retails at £37 but it is worth every penny!

Thank you for reading, Amber x

What I Got For Christmas 2013

*disclaimer*- I am by no means trying to show off or brag, I am grateful for everything I got given and only am doing this post because I enjoy reading/watching these blog posts/videos.

Also I know these photos aren't very good quality because they were taken on my phone,but I'm saving up to buy myself a decent camera

So Firstly in my stocking I got some chocolate and other little bits like a mint balmi lip balm.

Then for my main present from my parents they gave me £100 because they didn't know what I wanted as there was nothing I really wanted except from the naked 3 palette... which was also the next present I received. When we went to the shops on the 23rd they were sold out everywhere so I wasn't expecting one so it was a lovely suprise when I opened it as my mum had gone out late at night to get it as they were in stock online suprisingly. They also got me one of the Lush gift boxes and the one I got was 'Merry Christmas' so they dont sell it anymore unfortunately but it had 4 bath bombs inside and 1 bubble bar and they all smell amazing! They also got me a cosy head warmer (i dont know the real name) and a top which I asked for when I was with my dad.

Every year my grandma gives me and my sister a £50 note so we each got that and she was also kind enough to give me the One Direction-Our Moment perfume which I had been going on about for ages,also as a joke she got me a really cringey One Direction pillow which I thought was quite funny.

My nan and aunties gave me giftcards/money which I was grateful for.

From my sister I got the little mix album 'Salute' which I had been wanting since it came out and also a nice facemask which I used tonight and it worked very well!

In my close group of friends there are 8 of us so we decided to do a secret santa which wasn't really a secret as we all found out within half an hour but Emily got me and she got me a mini impulse body spray, a nail polish, a nail decoration pack and a selection of chocolates with I've already eaten. But I was very grateful for her presents!

My godparents got me a pack of 3 bracelets and a nail polish duo from the 'Kelly Brook' range at New Look and I absolutely love the colour of them! Its an indigo blue colour and a chunky gold and silver glitter top coat.

From my family friends I got this nail set which comes with 5 mini nail varnishes, a top coat, nail wraps, nail scissors and tweezers, a nail file, a cuticle pusher and nail gems & stickers, the nail varnishes are also metallic which I dont own a lot of so I was very happy with that set

So that's it, I am very grateful for every single gift I received and love them all, I've not got a rather large amount of money to spend so I'm going to save 3/4 of it and spend the rest, I'm thinking of putting in a mac order but I dont know which lipstick to get, I've already got morange

Hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and happy an amazing christmas, oh and Happy New Year!!x