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Naked Smoky Palette

So, if you have been living under a rock, you may not have hear that there's a brand-new Naked palette coming your way. Feast your eyes on Naked Smoky, an entire palette devoted to crafting a totally amazing and perfect smoky eye. 

Now, I'm not usually someone who does smoky eye, however recently I have really been embracing it. I truly do think the main reason I never really did it was purely down to the fact I just didn't know how, and I never really knew what shadows to use to make it looks great. However, now that this little beauty is being realised (with cards which tell you exactly how to create different look), everyone will be able to achieve that fierce smoky eye look.

The newest addition to the Naked family lands on July 8 and has everything you love about Naked — wearable-yet-cool neutrals, gorgeous packaging, a amazing shade range, fantastic colour payoff — but with a few new twists in the format. Unlike Nakeds 1 through 3, which focused on specific colour stories e.g. Naked 1 was a bit more bronze-y, Naked 2 was more taupe-y, and Naked 3 was warm and rosy neutrals. Naked Smoky will span a range of colour families. It gives you a great range of neutrals — your basic matte shades, and then a mini collection of bronze, a mini collection of taupe, a mini collection of greys and blacks, and then the one eggplant. It's a variety of colour families you can dip into.

That's nine new shades and three exclusive ones, for those of you keeping track. The shadows are also arranged a bit differently too — instead of going from lightest to darkest, the brand has placed the mattes on one end and the shimmers on the opposite side (both going from lightest to darkest, but in opposite directions), meaning the palette has all the lighter shades on the outside and the darker shades on the interior. From what I can gather this has been done to make creating a smoky eye a bit more intuitive, grouping shades categorically rather than forcing you to think about your creation in terms of shades.

Also exclusive to the palette is a brand-new double-sided brush to aid you in your noble smoked-out quest. One side features the Tapered Crease Brush, which will help you apply shadow to the lid, define your crease, or blend out colours. The other side is the Smoky Smudger Brush, which is perfectly designed for highlighting the brow bone or inner corner of the eye, and great for smudging shadow on the lower lash line and even tight-lining.

I literally couldn't be more excited for this palette to come out. I was really hoping they would release a new Naked palette that a little different from the other three and I couldn't have asked for anything better then this beauty of a palette.