Naked or Naked 2

My birthday was last weekend and I got $50 American express gift card from my mother in law. It was a total surprise since i got it in the mail. I immediately thought about Sephora and what type of makeup i should should buy with it. I went online researched all of the different new makeup products that had just come out. I was thinking of getting a kit with different  makeup products, like this one by Tarte:

It comes with a full size LipSurgence lip tint in enchanted, full size Amazonian clay smart mascara, a full size Amazonian clay 12-hour blush in blissful and a full size multiplEYE™ clinically-proven lash enhancing liquid liner.

Then I thought...well i don't really need another mascara, and I had already tried the Lights, Camera, Lashes! mascara and i hated it, also I don't really want a blue liquid eyeliner, so that was a no. Then I thought about getting one of these two new products, i didn't know which was was better, this one:

or this one:

 and then I thought, well i don't really ever use bright eye makeup and I bet i can get a better neutral eyeshadow palette that has more shades. So as i walked into my sephora (the one closest to me) I went straight for the Urban Decay display and saw this:

I knew right away that this was what I wanted. I had been hearing so much about this palette and have been meaning to buy it since Christmas time. My hubby instead of giving this one (which is what i really wanted) gave me the Urban Decay book of shadows IV. Which was still sweet since I wanted that one too, and he had also remembered how I told him I liked it. I was so excited to have it finally and not only that but the lady at the register also gave me my annual birthday gift.
For those of you that don't know, sephora has a program called beauty insider. You basically get a little plastic card that the cashier at sephora is suppose to scan every time you buy something there or you have to enter the numbers in the back in the sephora website, under your account. Every time you buy something you accumulate points, i think its $1 spend per point. Not only that but every year on your birthday they give you a special birthday present. Its usually just a deluxe sample of a product. This year they gave me a little box with two deluxe samples of Fresh lip balms. Since i had over 500 points they also gave me this:

I haven't used this yet though but i plan on it. Anyway back to the Naked 2 palette. I was really excited to try these eye shadows on so, when i got home i put some of them over the matte eye shadows i had worn that day. They looked amazing, like urban decay eye shadows usually are. The colors are all so beautiful but i was a little disappointed that they put half baked in there again, since it was already in the naked palette. Also I noticed that busted on the naked 2 palette and hustle on the naked palette are the same, exact color. Also snakebite on the naked 2 palette and smog look almost exactly alike. I don't know why urban decay did that, maybe they thought we wouldn't notice but i didn't like that at all. I like the other shades, even though they are all neutral colors they are still different from the colors in the naked palette.The palette also came with a tiny little lip gloss called naked and a double sided good karma brush. The gloss was OK but the brush really wasn't that good. These brushes separately retail for $26...yeah extremely expensive, considering that they don't pick up color well and that they don't apply color well either. The bristles are extremely stiff and way too smooth, almost like plastic. I hated them so much, please don't buy them separately. In conclusion if you don't have any of the naked palettes and want to buy one of them I would honestly recommend the first palette. I think that the colors are beautiful as they are, back when i bought it it came with a two sided 24/7 eyeliner in black and brown and a tiny primer potion. I wish they still sold it like that since i think its a much better value then a brush and a lip gloss. On the other hand, if you are an avid makeup collector and already have the naked palette then, i think you should get the naked 2. Why not...? most of the eyeshadow shades are very different from the shades in the naked palette and if you want to have two of the same shades or don't mind that at all then, for sure buy it. If you have both palettes, which one is your favorite?? and did you notice the shade similarities in the naked and naked 2 palettes too? let me know. Bye!