MUA: Undress Me Too Palette Review + Swatches

A while back, a day or two after the Undress Me range had been released by MUA, I headed to my local Superdrug with my friend to see if the collection had been stocked, only to find that only a foundation and highlighter from the range were there. Not what I wanted to see (it took a week for the whole range to be stocked, actually, which annoyed me) but my friend, who wanted the new Undress Me Too palette like I did decided to ask one of the store assistants if the new range was out, and low-and-behold, it was... It was just hidden in a drawer. Sadly, the palette that we both desired was not there, so I opted to try and look for the Heaven and Earth palette instead, or even the first Undressed palette.

Luckily enough, thanks to what my friend calls my Make-Up sniffing skills, I found the Undress Me Too palette - in fact I found two of them - behind some of the Undressed palettes. Luck or what!? Of course my friend was also ecstatic, and we both bought a palette each.

I have now had this palette for a while, and it is one of the few MUA palettes (actually, one of the few palettes I own in general) that I own; I own three, the Glamour Days palette, The Artiste Collection and now Undress Me Too. Of course, after having read so many great reviews concerning this palette, I was excited to try it out.

I need to learn to not buy into the Hype of things.

Behold my terrible swatch skills!

When I first used the palette, I was amazingly disappointed by the pigmentation of some of these eyeshadows, especially with the colours in Naked and Reveal, the two shades that I had been most looking forward to; the pigmentation is extremely weak, or at least weak for MUA's standards, but for £4 I can not complain much... but I was still disappointed, because MUA have amazing eyeshadows so I sort of expected these to be a little more pigmented than they were...

I have a feeling that my own skin tone does not help that some of these colours do not look too pigmented on me, but I have found that when I apply them some of the shades just fade into each other and make no difference. The first time I used Undress Me Too, I played around with my two favourite colours; Naked, Shy and Reveal, only for Shy and Reveal to basically look the same. To say I was disappointed is an understatement; I did not want those colours to basically blend together so well that they looked the same.

Now despite all my complaints, I do not think that this is a bad palette, I just find that it did not exceed the expectations I held thanks to the positive reviews it had or the hype behind it. I do like it, and I use the shades Naked, Lavish, Tranquil, Wink and Corrupt quite a lot; Corrupt is reserved for eyeliner purposes mostly, but the others serve as great day-to-day eyeshadows for a simple and easy look. When I use Naked though, I tend to use a sponge tip applicator because using a regular brush makes the eyeshadow look sheer, and the sponge tip applicator gives great application and brings out the colour to its true intensity.

It's a nice palette I think, but it really did fail to impress me like I expected it would; I know I will be a part of that minority who are not totally overwhelmed with this product, but it really did not live up to the hype or the standard of quality that I had hoped for or expected from MUA. If I had the chance to repurchase this again, I probably would not. It's not amazing, but for the price, it's decent.

But this is MUA, and when it comes to MUA I can not complain much. The brand is cheap and you get some top notch products for a killer price. This sadly is not one of them, though.

MUA Undress Me Too Palette - £4 from your local Superdrug or online