When Urban Decay first released images on the third instalment of the popular Naked palettes (not including Basics or Flushed) I was gobsmacked at just how beautiful the colours looked. The rosy-gold hues are absolutely gorgeous and extremely popular currently. I purchased this when it was first release whilst I was overseas last year from Sephora but I do know Australians can purchase it through Beauty Bay.

Within the palette there are 12 rosey toned shadows ranging with different finishes. I quite like the consistency of all the shadows except the shade Dust (second from the left) as it is dusty and glittery and tends to create a whooooole bunch of fallout. I generally try and use this with a spray and a very good primer.

Within the palette there are 3 mattes (Strange, Limit and Nooner) with the rest all having some form of sheen or shimmer. I find that Limit and Nooner, even though in the pan Nooner looks a fair few shades darker to Limit, swatch very similar together. It would have been nice to have a really dark matte colour included within the 12 shades. This is a problem I find in all of the Naked palette unfortunately. To be honest, as someone with a very light complexion these shadows look fantastic on my skin tone, however, I struggle to see how these would really turn out on more coloured users! I feel the matte colours wouldn't show up as intensely or as crease colours like they do on me.


Final thoughts on this palette are that the colours are absolutely stunning, the rosey toned shades are definitely right up my alley and I feel they look stunning on my eyes and with my skin tone. I do wish there was a better variety of colours as they do swatch very similar to each other in my own opinion.

Do you need to purchase it? No. Unless you find these colours gorgeous like I do... or you have a problem like I do...

Have you purchased the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette? What did you think of it?

Jacquelyn xx