Top 5 Favorite Neutral Palettes

Hello!! Anyone who reads my blog knows that I'm a sucker for neutral palettes. I can't get enough of them. I wear neutral eye looks everyday, and rarely branch out into more colorful things.

I'm going to share my top 5 favorite neutral palettes with you all! 

Here we have the (original) Naked Palette by Urban Decay, Lorac Pro Palette, the Smashbox Full Exposure Palette, the Sauce Box Creme de la Creme Palette, and the Urban Decay Naked Basics. 

This was my first ever big makeup purchase so this will probably always be my all time favorite. The original Naked Palette is my favorite out of the 3. I almost included the naked 3 in this post instead of the Smashbox one, but I though including 3 nakeds was a little excessive lol! 

The Lorac Pro is probably my second favorite palette. This one is so versatile because there is super light colors, and some darker shades as well. The darker shades are great because they pair so well with the light ones to created a smoked out neutral look. And plus this has half matte shades! 

The Urban Decay Naked Basics is defiently my most used palette. I use this baby every single day, literally lol. These shades are all matte, except for the first one has very faint shimmer. These colors are all gorgeous. The first three make for good lid or highlight colors, and the two browns are great crease and transition shades. The black can be used for eyeliner or to smoke out the look. This palette is just perfect. 

If anyone hasn't heard of or tried Sauce Box's eyeshadows, I really recommend and suggest you check them out!! The shadows are so buttery it's amazing. Even more so than Urban Decay's. These are all so pigmented and gorgeous! The black shade is the best black shadow I've ever used, it blends so nice and has very little fall out. 

I just recently got this Smashbox Full Exposure Palette but it quicky became a favorite. I mentioned that I almost picked the naked 3 instead of this one, because I would say that they are tied for one of my favorites! This one is great because they're are both cool and warm tones shadows. This doesn't have the best pigmentation on some of the shadows but I still like this palette! 

What are your favorite neutral palettes? Let me know in the comments!! 

Smashbox Full Exposure Palette Review

Hi everyone!! For Christmas I got the Smashbox Full Exposure Palette! I know the last thing I needed was another neutral palette, but seriously everytime I looked at this one I just couldn't stop admiring how beautiful it looked. I'm such a sucker for neutral palettes it's so bad lol. 

This palette retails for $49. It comes with a travel size of the smashbox full exposure mascara. 

The packaging is nice. It's the same cardboard ish material as the Lorac Pro Palette, but it's not super thin. This one is a lot thicker.

The colors are beautiful, and like the Lorac Pro, it comes with a row of both shimmer and matte shades. The top row are all super sparkly and shimmery shades, and the bottom is all matte. This palette is different than any other neutral palette I own because this has both warm and cool toned shadows. 

This palette also comes with a double sided brush. I love it when palettes come with brushes! I don't know if you can see it, but one side (left) says shimmer and the other side (right) says matte. So I guess the different sides work better for the matte and shimmer shades. Also, the black end has white bristles/hairs on the opposite side. 

Here are swatches of the top row of shimmer and glittery shades. 

Here is the second row of the matte shadows. 

My thoughts on this palette

I really like the wide verity of colors in this palette. You can do a really light neutral look, or do something heavier like a smokey eye, and everything else in between. 

I find that this palette doesn't have the greatest pigmentation or the best blendability out there, but I still really like using it. The shadows aren't as buttery as Urban Decay or the Lorac Pro palettes shadows, so you have to work a little bot extra to blend and get the pigment you want. Regardless, I'm still happy to have this in my collection because it's gorgeous! 

I much prefer my Naked palettes or my Lorac Pro to be quite honest, but this is still one that I recommened.

I will be doing some looks that I created with the palette soon!!

Have you tried out this palette? If so share your thoughts on it with me!!