Review: 3 nude palettes under £4

Nude eyeshadow palettes are a must have in every make up collection. Urban Decay Naked Palettes are considered the top of the line, but what if you have a limited budget?

I've been looking around, and I tried 3 different nude palettes, all under £4.

MUA Undress Me Too Palette

This is a 12 shades palette, featuring matte and shimmer colours. What I love the most about it, is that it includes different tones such as gold, bronze and pink.

It's basically a dupe of Urban Decay's Naked 2 - the shades are not exactly the same, but if compared side-to-side the similarity is pretty close. 

Of course, for £33 less, pigmentation is not as good as the Naked 2, but it's surprisingly good, especially for the shimmery shades.

The mattes are very thin and very hard to use without a primer.

Worth every penny.

Price: £4

UK MUA Online Store

Superdrug

COLLECTION 'Work the colour' Nude Eye Palette

One thing comes to my mind when I look at this palette: Chocolate!
Unlike the MUA UNDRESS ME TOO, this palette consists of 8 shimmery shades from a very specific colour range: from light beige to dark brown. It also includes a cream highlighter.

I find that the colour difference of some of the shades is maybe too subtle, but this is still a good set if you are in need of a brown eyeshadow palette. The consistency of the product is a bit powdery, but it holds up OK using primer.

Price: £3.99
Collection Cosmetics Online
Superdrug


H&M 5-Pack Eyeshadow - Nude

I was really excited about these pretty colours! But... when applied, the incredibly powdery eyeshadow is barely visible. The colour also tends to vanish from the eyelids after a few hours. Tons of primer does not save this.

Another thing to consider, is that compared to the previous ones, the H&M Palette feels a bit incomplete. To have a decent range of lights and darks to work with, you would probably have to get the Smoky Palette too.

Price: £3.99
H&M Webite

This is me looking confused and wearing a quickly applied MUA Undress Me Too Palette

In my opinion, MUA Undress Me Too wins the budget palette battle! I love the shades and it's very easy to work with, I definitely recommend it.

Another brand worth checking out for inexpensive eye shadow palettes it's Sleek (£7.99). It's slightly pricier than the ones mentioned above, but I think it's worth it. The colours are beautiful and extremely pigmented, have a look at Au Naturel and Oh So special (my all time favourite palette!).

I hope you found this useful! Do you know of other naked palettes that are worth trying?

FLAVIA

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All the photos in this blog are taken in natural light, and then carefully digitally adjusted to match the products true colours.