I purchased my Naked 2 Palette just as the Naked 3 Palette came out which at the time I had no real interest in because it was pink toned and I was hands down a neutrals girl, anything else scared me. Plus at the time I was still at Uni so I couldn't just buy beauty products when I felt like it. Nothing really happened with the Naked range for a while after that but eventually the Naked Smoky Palette came out. I rushed to buy it as it seemed like the exact shades/look I liked to go for. However I have barely used it. Generally I think the Naked Smoky Palette was disappointing and it was actually discontinued quite quickly. The following launch was the Naked Heat Palette. At first the concept of the palette did not intrigue me but quickly I began to see the potential within the shades. I ended up being really excited about the launch and I ended up pre-ordering it at my local counter. The Naked Heat Palette was a massive launch in 2017 and following on from that was the Naked Cherry Palette.
The Naked Cherry Palette
The Naked Cherry Palette was launched in 2018 but I didn't buy it until a couple of weeks ago. As always the launch was massive with Urban Decay creating an entire limited edition range around it and doing various events around the launch. I did not care about any of this in the slightest. I saw all the looks everyone created but I was not fussed. It has only been within the past couple of months that I began to see the potential within the palette. My love of pink eye shadow definitely began with the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Palette and the Charlotte Tilbury Rose Gold Eyes to Mesmerise. With it's golden pink tones it was a nice entry into pink shades; then I received the Huda Beauty New Nude Palette for my Birthday and the obsession with pink eye shadow palettes began. I felt like I could branch out a little bit and perhaps go with a slightly deeper pink look and that was when I began thinking about getting the Naked Cherry Palette.
When I first started to take an interest in beauty you were lucky to get 10% off, now 10% off doesn't quite cut it. Most brands will now discount to 15% off and if you are lucky it will be a little bit more but 30% is quite a discount so I ended up buying this palette for around £29 which is an amazing price. Seeing products at such a discount, it does make me wonder how they can charge so much in the first place, if they can discount it that much, but that isn't really what matters. What matters is that I have the palette and I can now give you a full review of it.
Shade Range
When I first saw the shade range of this palette I did not think it was going to be something I would use. I had never been a massive fan of working with these types of colours and to be honest I was never sure about how to make the look less pink eye-ish. I had seen a couple of tutorials that I liked and would have loved to have recreated, mainly the Jamie G one, but really I do not have that level of makeup artistry. However, as I have begun to enjoy pink shadow I though this would be the most varied colour selection I could buy.
Previously I have bought or received as a gift, both the Huda Beauty New New Nude Palette and the Charlotte Tilbury Pillow Talk Quad. Both are pink toned but they are much lighter than the Naked Cherry Palette. I've never been able to play around with some of the darker shades that feature in the Cherry palette. This does have the perfect mix of pink shadows but it really relies on pink being a look you like. If you don't like pink shadows you automatically are not going to like this palette or even consider buying it. In my eyes you've got everything you can want within this palette, Hot Spot and Caution are perfect base shadows to create an even blend. You've got some mid-shade mattes: one warm and one cool, plenty of shimmers and a deep dark burgundy matte brown which is perfect for smoking out and creating depth. I feel like you can go as bold as you want with this palette but at the same time it is really easy to create an easy daytime look.
I think the shade range is pretty spot on and that they basically have everything covered in this palette but there is one shade I do wish they had included, a matte mid-tone warm brown. Usually I like to blend out pink shadows with a brown shadow to stop it from looking like a straight up eye infection. Quite often I will use Benefit Hoola to blend out the pink shadows a little bit but other than that the shade selection is impeccable.
Formula
Whereas the colour selection has always played a massive part in the popularity of the palettes, the formula is the reason that they may not have been able to hold on to it. When the Naked Palettes first launched there was nothing quite like it on the market, and for the price the quality was really good. However, as years have passed more palettes have been launched that have been amazing quality. MAC have upped their game and lowered their prices, we've seen the rise of Huda Beauty and their incredible palettes and the drugstore palettes have improved. Unfortunately the Naked Palettes haven't raised the stakes when it comes to their formulation and now they are steadily being left behind. The formulation is good and I'm not criticising the palette but there are elements that could do with improvement.
Starting with the shimmers which have always been the outstanding shadows within the Naked Palettes. The shimmers are beautifully formulated, often with a duo-chrome effect. The shimmers are always very smooth, very pigmented and soft which means they are easy to blend and they finish off any eye look beautifully. There are a few different shimmer formulas: as I mentioned there are a couple of duo-chromes, there are a few shimmer which also include a chunky glitter. I don't mind a bit of chunky glitter but these most certainly are not my favourite shadows. Although, they do work and they do help to create a very glam look. The problem isn't really with the shimmers, they are pretty consistent, instead my issue lies with the matte shadows.
The matte shadows have always been the bigger problem when it comes to the Naked Palettes. I know matte shadows are automatically harder to formulate due to the lack of emollent and the larger amount of pigment in comparison to a shimmer but they always seem to struggle with the darker shadows. In the Naked Cherry Palette, the lighter shadows like Hot Spot and Caution are quite powdery which I don't mind and it actually doesn't matter because they are transition shades anyway so you don't need a massive amount of pigment. I actually love this formula but I struggle with the dark shadows which do have a strong pigment and unfortunately they are stiff which makes them harder to blend and causes them to look patchy. This same issue happened with the mattes in the Naked Heat palette but I do think the shades in the Naked Cherry Palette are a little bit more workable. My favourite look combines both Devilish and Privacy and they are the two darkest matte shadows which means they are difficult to blend. I make sure to get a fluffy brush to blend it out a lot and then build it up. I think it is just important to be aware of this rather than buying it and thinking it is the perfect palette, it isn't, the matte shadows aren't bad but you do have to treat them carefully to get the best out of them.
Packaging
The Naked Palette follows the now traditional style of packaging for the Naked Palettes. Originally they were contained in a suede-like covered palette, then that was changed to a tin palette for Naked 2 & 3 but ever since the Smoky palette it has been housed in a plastic palette. Since they swapped to plastic packaging, they have been able to create more specific detail on the front of the palette. The Smoky Palette had incredible smoke detail on the front of the palette. The Smoky Palette looked incredible whereas the Naked Heat Palette was a sunbed looking, 80s-esque palette that I wasn't a massive fan of. However the Naked Cherry Palette has to be my ultimate favourite! On the front of the Naked Cherry Palette there is a line up of Cherries with an ombre design starting from light to dark and the entire thing is a deep pink which borders on burgundy, I simply think it is stunning. The packaging is very on theme with the cherry aspect and all of the items that were in the the cherry collection had the same cherry pattern.
The palette does have 12 different shades and it is actually quite compact. You could take this travelling if you wanted and the plastic packaging is sturdy enough to protect the shadows. You've got a decent mirror and an OK brush but I wouldn't use it over my normal brushes. Anyone who has had a Naked Palette before will know what to expect.
Look
I feel like so much could be done with this palette and I simply do not do enough with it. There is one look I automatically go to above any others in the palette, a sort of berry smoky eye which I pair with MAC Velvet Teddy and I wear this look to work. The look starts off with mixing Hot Spot and Caution. On it's own, Hot Spot would be too light but I like it combined with Caution because it is sort of a nothing shade but it helps to create an even base for any shadows you want blend on top.
I then combine a bit of Feelz and Juicy to start building up the crease. Combining the two gives the look a bit of neutrality and means anything else I use will go with it. Once I am happy with the crease, I then combine Devilish and Privacy to smoke out the outer corner with a deep berry tone. This does take a bit of building and blending but it is worth it in the end.
Once I've worked the outer corner enough, I then use a cream eye shadow in the inner corner/middle part of the eye lid, mostly this is the Tom Ford Aqua Metal Shadow in Venus Rising. The Tom Ford shadow goes perfectly with the whole palette and just helps to lighten the look up a bit. Once I've blended that out, just to complete the look and draw the light Tom Ford shadow with the dark berry smoke, I use a bit of Ambitious just to make the look more cohesive. With tonnes of mascara this has been my go to look for the palette. However, I do feel like I should branch out so if you have the palette and have a go to look, let me know. I also want to try to recreate the look that Jamie G created in This Tutorial. I never thought I would be able to copy it because I didn't think I was going to buy the palette but now that I have purchased it, I now can. Keep an eye on my Instagram because if it goes well I'm sure there will be a picture of the look on there.
I then combine a bit of Feelz and Juicy to start building up the crease. Combining the two gives the look a bit of neutrality and means anything else I use will go with it. Once I am happy with the crease, I then combine Devilish and Privacy to smoke out the outer corner with a deep berry tone. This does take a bit of building and blending but it is worth it in the end.
Once I've worked the outer corner enough, I then use a cream eye shadow in the inner corner/middle part of the eye lid, mostly this is the Tom Ford Aqua Metal Shadow in Venus Rising. The Tom Ford shadow goes perfectly with the whole palette and just helps to lighten the look up a bit. Once I've blended that out, just to complete the look and draw the light Tom Ford shadow with the dark berry smoke, I use a bit of Ambitious just to make the look more cohesive. With tonnes of mascara this has been my go to look for the palette. However, I do feel like I should branch out so if you have the palette and have a go to look, let me know. I also want to try to recreate the look that Jamie G created in This Tutorial. I never thought I would be able to copy it because I didn't think I was going to buy the palette but now that I have purchased it, I now can. Keep an eye on my Instagram because if it goes well I'm sure there will be a picture of the look on there.
Naked Cherry Vs. Huda Beauty
I feel like when you truly consider the looks you can create from both the Naked Cherry Palette and the New Nude Palette, they are ultimately rather similar. Naked Cherry is slightly darker but at the end of the day they are both creating pink eye shadow looks. Both palettes individually are quite expensive so I feel like realistically you only need one so I thought I would do a quick comparison just in case you only want to buy one.
With the Naked Cherry Palette, I feel like you have a wider variety of shades so you have a greater contrast within the colours. Whereas, the New Nude palette remains in the realms of lighter pinks plus you have a couple of purples and nudes so there is variety in a different way. The Naked Cherry Palette is straight up pink shadows. In terms of the shades I think you can tell by looking at the palettes which one you would prefer to work with.
In terms of the formulas, I would say the Huda Beauty palette is slightly easier to use, except the glitters. The glitters in the palette require a glue and the skill of not making a mess but other than that, the duo-chromes are much bolder, the mattes are stiff but blend out easier and you still have a shimmer which is actually pretty similar to the shimmers in the Naked Cherry Palette. Realistically the biggest difference comes in the mattes and the shade range. The New Nude Palette is a lot lighter and there is a bit more to play with in terms of texture. The Naked Cherry is a specific pink palette with a wider range of berry shades and less textures, with the mattes being slightly more difficult to work with. Personally I would pick the New Nude over the Naked Cherry palette but it really depends on what you are looking for. If you would like a full blog post comparison, let me know!
Having said that I do really like the Naked Cherry Palette and even though I wasn't sure about the palette at first, it has now become my favourite Naked Palette that I own. I thought my favourite would be the Naked Heat Palette but now I never use it whereas I can see myself using this palette a lot. If you are into the berry eye look, you need this palette!
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