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UD Slays With New NAKED Ultimate Basics Palette

by Amy Sciarretto

Who doesn't love blockbuster palettes and insanely wearable neutrals? Urban Decay is known for its "must own" palettes and guess what? The Urban Decay NAKED Ultimate Basics Palette is a crowd-sourced collection that the brand created based on emails and social media comments from Beauty Junkies. According to Urban Decay reps, Beauty Junkies were repeatedly asking the brand for more mattes in neutral shades, more basics, and more NAKED options. The result is the NAKED Ultimate Basics Palette, which UD founder and fearless leader Wende Zomnir revealed via Instagram. So what is this new Urban Decay NAKED palette comprised of?

Oh, just 12 pans of matte shadow! There are a dozen brand new shades of the brand's signature velvety eyeshadow, including a demi-matte hue that was designed for highlighting.

According to the press materials Bustle received via email, the UD NAKED Ultimate Basics palette includes neutral mattes that are were created to to work with any and all skin tones. From light and cool tones to olive or darker complexions, this palette is meant to be complimentary.

The all-matte palette was also crafted to work with other Urban Decay eyeshadows, such as bolder, brighter, or glittery hues in, say, the Moondust Palette. Or you can just use the colors included within the palette. Expect to hit pan sooner than later.

The palette boasts a mirror and dual-ended brush.

Oh, it's utterly and totally fabulous.

Here is the post where Urban Decay teased and then revealed the new palette details. Zomnir shared the intel in the comments, since that's exactly the source the brand mined for information about what fans wanted it to create.

There is the screen shot of the deets.

The price tag is $55 and it lands at the Urban Decay site on September 18. It will take you deep into the fall and winter seasons. You can also shop it at Sephora.com, beauty.com, Macys.com, and Ulta.com. It will also be available at Sephora and Ulta locations, as well as select Macy's stores.

This "classic" NAKED Basics Palette offered everything you needed for neutral, wearable awesomeness. The new Ultimate palette boasts totally different shades than the NAKED Basics and NAKED2 Basics palettes.

The NAKED Ultimate Basics Palette is a welcome, matte and all that edition to an already incredible lineup of limited edition and permanent palettes.

So much richness and pigment!

These babies are so beautiful.

Image: Courtesy of Urban Decay (5); Wende Zomnir/Instagram (1); Urban Decay/Instagram (1)