Urban Decay Naked dupe Battle featuring Make Up Revolution

 Hello my lovelies, how are you?

I hope you are all feeling and doing OK?

As I sit here typing, the sun is shining, the birds are singing and a gorgeous little dog giving me cuddles. I mean, seriously? What more does a girl really need?

Anyway, onto a very serious post: a full on battle of the dupes for the crown of best Urban Decay dupe. Today, I am pitting the Make Up Revolution Iconic 1 palette up against the UD naked palette. What will the outcome be? Who knows? Well, actually, I do but hey, you can't win them all.

I will be scoring the palette on a variety of things eg pigmentation, formula, wear time, packaging, ease of purchase,  each segment will get a score out of 5 and the one with the highest score will win.  There will be a giveaway including the winning palettes at the end of the series. The palette going to battle is the Make Up Revolution Iconic 1 palette. Good luck.

 Packaging: The MUR packaging is a plastic, sleek, black that does fade slightly with time but does still look good. It is quite sturdy when open and closed.  I give a better than average 3/5.

 

    Dupability: The MUR eyeshadows are so close when compared to UD that I am seriously cheering on MUR for the amazingness of it. However, on a  few of them, they are so off base that they cant really be called a dupe though they are lovely shades in their own right.  I have to knock a couple points off for the lack of pigmentation in the shadow that is the dupe for Naked I really had to work like a crazy woman to get any colour 2.5/5 is still a good score.

Wear time:  The MUR eyeshadows wore a decent amount of time without primer (5 hours) and over 8 hours with primer, pretty impressed with these bad boys. A very well deserved 4/5.

 Formula: Now this is were it gets a tad iffy as some of the shadows are so crumbly, it just felt too dangerous to use them. I lost so much eyeshadow when swatching these that it put me off trying them on the lids (I did though and was more lost there) though when they have it right in this palette, the formula is great. They blend super easily when worn and do not blend into 1 colour.  2/5

Pigmentation: Now the pigmentation to the majority of these pretties are phenomenal only a couple let the palette down. Though some of the shades are off dupe-wise, when you take that out of the equation, the eyeshadow shades are just lovely and I love wearing them.  A massive 3 out of 5.

  

 

  ease of purchase: Mur is easily available in Superdrug and on the MUR website. 5/5

 

Quality: Now I have to say that this is not my favourite MUR palette, having said that, when you look at the price, I do think the quality is there though I also think that it does need to be improved to get a full on 5 out of 5. 3/5

 Value: For me, this also links to the quality too thoguh I feel terrible for slating this palette as it only costs £4 and that alone is blooming phenomenal. I have paid more than that for 1 eyeshadow, let alone the 12 you get in this particular palette.. I think this is amazing value. 5out of 5 for the value is definately brilliant.

Overall score: For me, in spite of there being a few gliches with this palette, it is still a great palette and I would highly recommend it. I love MUR as a brand not for me, palette wise anyway, I much prefer the Salvation palettes as they are just phenominal and they are on offer atm in a 3for 2 here. I think the total of 27.5 out of 40 is a great score and if they bring in the new formulation, this is going to be hard to beat.

Make up Revolution have done pretty darn well in this battle but sadly, it is so far in 2nd place. W7 has alot to live up to, can it knock MUA off the top spot? This really is a close battle I can tell you.

It is that time where I say goodbye, just remember that life is short, enjoy it and love one another.

Until the next time,

Ta Ta for now.

Luscious Lass

xxxx