I am so excited to share this product today! It is the Chi Chi Glamorous Nudes eyeshadow palette. I have been hunting this down for quite a while and my friend Yasmin managed to find it and pick it up for me. Thanks so much! It has been so scarce because it is an intentional dupe of the famed Urban Decay Naked Palette and has been sold out everywhere for the past month! Almost all the shades are very similar and even the layout of the shadows is copied! As I don't own the Naked Palette I can't compare them, but Mishelle has a wonderful post here and this video from Gooroo beauty is a very in-depth comparison.
The packaging is plastic with a black base and a clear lid with 'nudes' written on top in silver. It clasps shut very firmly so the packaging definitely isn't flimsy. It includes 2 double-ended foam applicators.
Just for reference, here are the UD Naked palette shadows:
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| Image credit Roseyreview |
Very similar huh? Anyhow, the shades consist of a good range of light, medium and dark neutrals, mostly warm toned. The only thing that I wish was that it had more matte shades. The two matte browns included in the Chi Chi palette are very similar (Buck is darker than the corresponding shade in the Nudes palette), but other than that the colours are beautiful. Everything you would need for daily wear or night time smokey eyes is provided in this palette!
The shades don't have names so I've just numbered them 1 through to 12.
1 is a light, shimmery, pink-toned off-white shade
2 is a more metallic, darker, champagne compared to 1
3 is a matte light brown
4 is a metallic light bronzey brown
5 is a matte mid-tone brown, only slightly darker than shade 3
6 is a very warm metallic coppery gold
7 is a deeper bronzey brown shade
8 is a deep, shimmery, taupey brown
9 is a warm metallic mauvey-brown shade
10 is a shimmery purple-taupe
11 is a dark gunmetal grey with shimmer
12 is a metallic steel blue-grey shade
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| L-R, 1-6 |
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| L-R, 7-12 |
All of the shades have really amazing formulas! They are smooth and pigmented, even the mattes. A few of the shades are slightly powdery but nothing too annoying! Of the shades I've tried, they apply really nicely to the eyelids with a brush. Having never tried any Urban Decay shadows, I can't compare the formulas of the two brands, but on its own, the formulas of the Chi Chi shadows are very good!
Overall, this is a really good and cheap alternative to the UD palette and I highly recommend it! It was $19.95 for 16g of product, but Chi Chi is often on sale. There are 2 other colour variations of this palette; Bronzes and Brights. I'm very happy to have added this to my collection! Now for the Naked 2 palette...
