Many of you have heard of the Naked collection by Urban Decay. However, you may have mostly seen it swatched on fair skin. To give you an idea of this author’s color range, her most natural foundation color is Temptu Pro Toffee mixed with a couple of drops of Cappuccino. MAC NC 44 is usually close, but it is a little orange. Dinair golden olive mixed with dark olive or Kett O5 mixed with O7 also match closely. Of course with Orlando’s fickle weather, her skin tone varies upward a shade or two in the summer. Now let’s get naked…
Naked, Naked 2, and Naked Basics are better suited for lighter skinned people, but the colors can be used on darker tones as well.
- Naked: As you can see in the photos, some of the colors appear very faint on medium olive skin. These colors can be used for very neutral or nude looks. The gold color is nice for a shimmer or highlight color.
- Naked 2: These colors are also faint and can be used for the same purposes as stated above.
- Naked Basics: Matte colors in general typically have less “slip” or ease of applying and blending. These colors need to be treated in a special manner and applied by patting with a semi stiff brush to pack the product onto the lid or area to be colored.
Conclusion: while these colors may be a little light for medium olive skin, they can be used to contour and highlight the face. The taupe based colors are good for under the eye to create depth. Black can be used as liner. Lighter colors can be applied in the inner corners of eyes, on brow bones, or on apples of cheeks.
These palettes were handy when on set of TV shows, where the author had to prepare her own makeup.
Urban Decay is available online, Ulta, or Sephora.
Urban Decay Naked eye shadow palette swatches
These swatches are depicted on medium, tan,olive complexion. Notice the color absorbed into the skin tone.they make great contouring and shading colors on medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked palette
This is a picture of the original Naked palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked palette
This is a picture of the original Naked palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked 2 palette
This is a picture of the Naked 2 palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked 2 palette
This is a picture of the Naked 2 palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked Basics palette
This is a picture of the Naked Basics palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
Urban Decay Naked Basics palette
This is a picture of the Naked Basics palette. Note the variety of beautiful color combinations that can be made. This is great for fair skin or to contour, highlight, and shade medium to dark skin.
