We had freezing rain over the weekend in Toronto. This is a picture I took of my neighbour's tree. There are still berries on this tree, which are now frozen.
I have something else to share with you today. I bought Urban Decay's Naked 3 palette when it was available on Sephora. Since I'm a rouge member, and I had a C$20 gift card from Sephora, I decided to use it to buy the Naked 3 palette. I wanted it anyway, and was going to buy it in the New Year to start building my status but $20 off can't go wrong.
I received this last Tuesday, and I wore it on Thursday - Saturday. I am falling in love with this palette. I mean, I was worried at first because when I try to wear rosy/pink eyeshadows, I look like I was punched. I bought the Urban Decay Vice 2 palette but I didn't like that. Sure, there were beautiful colours but one of the colours really made it look like my eye was bruised. So I returned it.
The Naked 3 palette gives my eyes a really nice look and it's not too much. I don't have a picture of my look since I just wanted to talk about the palette and not really my technique or anything like that.
A picture of my palette. I have swatched all the colours on my arm but I haven't used all the colours on my eyes.
The swatches on my arm.
Close up shot.
Before my palette arrived, a lot of reviews said that Dust has a lot of fall out. It's very true to it's name that it is dusty and my picture of my palette might look a little powdery because of Dust. I must say, I love Dust! It's so beautiful. It has this really pretty light pink shimmer to it. I used Dust for the three days I have used this palette. I use a base colour and a pat the shadow on instead of using a swiping motion. It seems to help. I didn't come up this myself, I totally saw a YouTube Beauty Guru suggest this and it worked!
I have also used Burnout, and Limit from this section.
The rest of the close up of the shadows.
Another colour I was worried about was Blackheart. It's a black base with red shimmer. I have used this colour to line my eyes or use it at the edges of my eyes. I think it's really pretty too. Though the red shimmer is pretty subtle or it's the way I'm applying this shade.
I also really like Factory and Darkside.
Overall, I really like this palette but out of the few days I have owned it, I haven't used all the colours yet.
A closer look at bases and Dust:
My bases: NYX Milk, NYX Cottage Cheese, Maybelline Barely Beige and Maybelline Barely Branded.
One of the Maybelline colours was a limited edition shade but I forgot which, so I just threw both in as an example. They are both very similar. I think Barely Branded is the one that is in the permanent collection.
Bases applied in this order: NYX Milk, NYX Cottage Cheese, Maybelline Barely Beige and Maybelline Barely Branded.
Blended in NYX colours
Far left is Dust on it's own without a base, then over Milk, Cottage Cheese, Barely Beige, and Barely Branded
Closer look at Dust with base colours only
After looking at all of these, I think it goes with Milk the best, for me personally. I don't use a lot of Milk, just a little so that Dust can stick onto it better.
Thanks for reading my post. I wouldn't really call it a review of any sort since I'm just explaining what I like about this palette. I'm not an expert or anything, but I really like this palette and since I have a blog I just thought I'd share my feelings.
I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. Merry Christmas!
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