MUA Eyeshadow Palettes

Here is my collection of MUA eyeshadow palettes...

All five palettes

'Undress Me Too'

'Undressed'

'Starry Night'

'Glitter Ball'

'Heaven and Earth'

As you can see, they are very similar to the Sleek i-Divine palettes from my last post. I'm actually going to do a comparison of the two sets in a separate post where I will be comparing price, shades, pigment and application. 

Shades

There are ten different palettes in this range. The others are called 'Poptastic', 'Pretty Pastels', 'Dusk Til Dawn', 'Glamour Days' and 'Glamour Nights'. Some of these weren't available when I placed my order, otherwise I would have bought more ;)

The palettes each contain 12 different shades - a mixture of mattes and shimmers, but predominantly shimmers.

The 'Undressed', 'Undress Me Too' and 'Heaven and Earth' contain very similar-looking shades but when I swatched them on my hand I could easily tell the difference. Between these three palettes I have all the nude colours I'll ever need!

Application

The shimmer shadows are highly pigmented and apply really well. They go on as smooth as butter and blend easily. I always use proper eyeshadow brushes and not the spongey applicators they include as they are pretty useless.

The matte shadows are a bit more chalky and harder to blend, but I have found that with most eyeshadows. Luckily there aren't many in these sets (I much prefer a bit of sparkly anyway!) 

I always use a primer underneath my eyeshadow to make the colour stronger, and the primer helps prevent creasing and makes them last longer, too. Currently I am using the Benefit 'Stay Don't Stray' from this month's Birchbox.

Dupes?

A lot of people have been comparing some of these palettes to the Urban Decay Naked palettes. Whilst I do not own any of the Naked range, mostly due to the price, I have seen a lot of pictures and blog comparisons and I have to say they look very similar!

'Undressed' and 'Undress Me Too' are the most similar to the Naked palettes and many other bloggers have noticed this. Even the names have the same ring to them ;)

Price

They retail for £4 each which I think is a bargain! Compare that to the Naked palette at £37 for the same amount of eyeshadow, and you'll see why I chose to buy these instead :) I managed to get five palettes for almost half the price of a Naked palette. Granted, the Naked palettes come with an eyeshadow brush too but I have loads of those anyway.

Verdict 

I'm all about finding affordable but good quality makeup and I'm so glad I bought these. You really can't go wrong for £4 each!

I bought mine from Superdrug but you can also purchase them from the MUA online store.

Huge thumbs up for these palettes!

Love, Sarah NailsfromNothing xx