The first thing you... The first thing you should do when you open the palette is toss the brush. The bristles are so loosely packed that they feel flimsy. They might be useful for blending, if you don't already have a decent brush for that.
Next, get down to the business of enjoying the eye shadows. The Nude palette features mostly warm neutrals with a couple of cooler tones on the right end of the palette. It boasts the most mattes I've seen in a palette at this price point and the texture is lovely - smooth and buttery. Some of the shimmers are a bit powdery, but they make up for the texture with dense, fine shimmer.
The shades I wear the most are numbers 3, 5 & 6. The lightest shimmers look chalky on me most of the year as they're much lighter than my skin tone. The cool tones just don't work for my coloring. And I'm not an enormous fan of the dark ones. These shades may work best on neutral-to-warm coloring and medium to light skin tones. Users with medium-deep to deep skin tones may find that the colors disappear on them.
Over primer, the mattes stay all day, even surviving a 20 hour day at an outdoor music festival in hot, humid weather. The shimmers fade toward the end of a normal work day.
I've hit pan on shade 3 and would buy it in a heartbeat if it were available solo. I might even buy shades 5 & 6 if they were available individually. However, because I so rarely use the remaining shades, I would not purchase the palette again.
Need to be able to purchase individually I use two of these shades everyday and they are my favorites! But I do not want to buy an entirely new palette for only two shades. You really should offer these exact shades in your Color Riche Monos Eyeshadows.
Beautiful pallet! 5
2022-05-31
I love these Nude pallets! I have a cool undertone, (I wear C3 in the True Match Super Blendable Foundation), and I own Nude Intense. I love that it has cooler shades of taupes, mauves, and purples, so that I can do a variety of pretty looks. These pallets are just as pretty as the more expensive ones, and give you the same end results, in my opinion. If you are on the fence about these two, don't be. They are beautiful!
Great Overall Smokey Palette 5
2022-04-02
This is a good dupe for UD. Personally, I can't see myself spending that much on an eyeshadow palette because I only use a few shades for a splash of color. I took a very inexpensive blending brush and replaced the one it came with to keep in the palette. The colors are so easy to blend and I experienced no fallout. I would highly recommend. This, palette is OG and a staple as I remember when it first came out years ago!
Nude 2/Nude intense 4
2021-10-16
Palette has great colors but the brush was cheap looking. Not the nice Loreal brush shown online. Nude 2 and Nude Intense are the same.
Great long lasting colors 3
2021-08-03
I love the colors - they are rich without looking "made up" I just wish I knew the names of the colors so I could stock up on the individual colors that I love. Amazing that my name cannot be used if it's not 4 letters (or more) in length
I would so buy this again. Love the colors! 5
2021-07-15
Great for daily wear or evening wear. Basically any event.
Nude 2