Battle of the neutral palettes: UD Naked Palette v/s CS Revealed Palette
Urban Decay Naked palette is a cult favorite eye shadow palette. From YouTube beauty gurus to makeup artists, everyone keeps raving about it. However, not everyone can afford a $54 eyeshadow palette especially if you are a beginner at makeup or a college student. With numerous warm-toned bronze eyeshadow palettes available, the UD Naked palette is quite easy to dupe. One of the most famous and close dupe for the UD Naked palette is the Coastal Scents Revealed 1. In less than half the price, it also has double the number of eyeshadows. Read on for the detailed comparison, review & swatches.
Price
Urban Decay Naked: $54 for 10 eyeshadows
Coastal Scents Revealed Palette: $19.95 for 20 eyeshadows
Packaging
The CS Revealed palette comes in a slim cardboard casing while, the UD Naked palette has a chocolatey-brown velvet case and comes with a small mirror and a double sided brush. Both are more or less equally sleek and have a magnetic closure, making them great to travel with. The CS Revealed palette lacks a mirror and an applicator.
Shades
Both the palettes have warm neutral colors from the gold-bronze family with a few blue and pink toned shades here and there. These eyeshadows would look great on any skin tone, especially medium to olive skin tones. Majority of the Urban Decay Naked shades have close dupes in the Revealed palette which are as follows.
Dupes
UD Virgin -CS 2
UD Sin – CS 3
UD Naked – CS4
UD Sidecar- CS 6
UD Buck- CS 7
UD Half Baked- CS 8
UD Smog-CS 12
UD Darkhouse- CS 14
UD Toasted- CS 17
UD Hustle- CS 18
UD Creep- CS 20
UD Gunmetal- CS 1.
The colors Naked, Buck and Sidecar do not have true dupes in the Coastal Scents palette.
Texture & Pigmentation
The Urban Decay Naked eyeshadows are soft like butter and blend in seamlessly. None of the shades are chalky or patchy. They have great pigmentation apart from the color Creep. The glitter in Creep and Halfbaked from this palette have some fallout. Whereas, the Coastal Scents Revealed palette’s eyeshadows are also very soft and blend well. None, of the shades (described as dupes to the Naked palette) go patchy or chalky. They are slightly less pigmented and slightly less buttery in comparison. Most of the shimmer shades from Coastal Scents do result in some amount of fallout.
Staying Power
With a primer underneath, the shades in the UD Naked palette stays put for a good 7-8 hours. In comparison, the Coastal Scents Revealed eyeshadows give a wear time of about 5-6 hours after which they starting creasing.
HBM Verdict: There isn’t much of a difference in terms of the shades included in the UD Naked & CS Revealed palettes. Instead you get 10 more shades in the Coastal Scents palette. The eyeshadows in the Revealed palette are slightly less pigmented and aren’t as long lasting as the UD ones. However, the CS palette is almost half the price and is definitely the best dupe for the Urban Decay Naked Palette.
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This definitely looks like a close enough dupe.