Product Review: Australis Pout Pastes.

Hello lovelies,

Happy hump day! I seem to be running perpetually behind this week (work has been insanely busy), and I think the cold weather we're having in Melbourne is making me really sluggish, so I skipped this week's makeup tag. Instead, I bring you a review of one of my new favourite glosses/stains/liquid lipsticks, the Australis Pout Pastes!

Australis Pout Pastes.

These gorgeously pigmented beauties were launched last month and I jumped at the chance to try them as they remind me a little bit of the fabled OCC lip tars or my much beloved Mirenesse lip bombs! I have a love/hate relationship with glosses as my lips have a natural lip line, and I need a product that's opaque enough to cover my natural pigmentation.

Australis Pout Pastes.

The Pout Pastes come in three shades:

• Berry Nice Kiss - a pretty purple that looks more grape than berry in tone.
• Pash Me Pink - a soft Barbie pink.
• Love Bites - a very glossy red.

They are packaged in a squeeze tube, with a doe-foot applicator, which I find very handy as it's very travel-friendly - you won't have to pack a lip brush to apply it. Each tube is clear, which is great as you can easily identify which gloss you've picked up.

The doe-foot applicator of the Australis Pout Pastes.

The doe-foot applicator of the Australis Pout Pastes.

The Pout Pastes have a slight floral scent which I personally find very pleasant. What I love most about these glosses, though, is how brilliantly buildable they are. One light swipe gives you pretty, sheer colour (which is still pigmented enough to cover my natural pigmentation), yet you can apply a few layers to get deep, opaque colour, much like a lipstick but with added shine. A reader asked me if these feel 'goopy' on the lips, the answer is no; because of how glossy they are, they can feel a little sticky but not tacky. The consistency is quite smooth and thin, so it's not thick or uncomfortable to wear.

Light application of the Australis Pout Pastes - blended out.
L-R: Pash Me Pink, Berry Nice Kiss and Love Bites.

Heavy application of the Australis Pout Pastes in natural daylight.
L-R: Pash Me Pink, Berry Nice Kiss and Love Bites.

Heavy application of the Australis Pout Pastes in shade.
L-R: Pash Me Pink, Berry Nice Kiss and Love Bites.

Overall, if you like shine and buildable colour, you really need to try these out! They aren't the best choice for a windy day (unless you don't mind your hair getting stuck to your lips) but would be perfect for wearing to work when you know you're heading out after, as they can take you from a day look to a night look very effortlessly! The fun thing about the Pout Pastes is you can mix-and-match the shades to create your own custom shade, rather handy when you want something in between the sweet pink of Pash Me Pink and the traffic-stopping-red of Love Bites!

My favourite shade in the bunch is Berry Nice Kiss; it's such a versatile shade that a light swipe of colour gives you a natural look, while you can really build up the colour for a statement lip. The Pout Pastes last quite a few hours on me without bleeding or the need for touching up, but I do find that it's best not to eat a sandwich with these on, as the colour transfers quite easily. You'd be better off wiping it off and reapplying a fresh layer after lunch.

The only downside? I wish they had more colours in the range!

The Australis Pout Pastes are available for $12.95 from standard Australis stockists like Priceline, Kmart, BigW and selected pharmacies.

Have you tried these, lovelies? Which shade is your favourite?

Much love,
MM.
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Note: These products were kindly provided for my consideration. This has not affected my opinion in any way. I was not obliged to blog about it in any way but am choosing to do so at my own discretion. For more information, please refer to my Disclosure Policy.

EOTD

Hi lovelies!

I'm actually home on a Friday night, which is something that happens very seldom! I'm actually not feeling too well so I thought I'd chill at home. Somewhere along the way, though, I got bitten by the creativity bug, so I thought I'd play around with some eyeshadows!

This probably isn't something I would wear out, but I enjoyed mixing things up a bit and putting a darker shadow in the inner corner of the eye. I used my Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Eyeliner, Australis Killer Curves mascara and my Beauty UK Day and Night Palette for this. Please excuse the 'crunchy' eyelashes, I was already wearing mascara and added another coat after playing with shadows, so they got a bit clumpy and there wasn't anything I could do after that.

Taken from the Beauty UK website.

This is what I ended up with. I'm terrible at naming these looks so we'll just go with EOTD, shall we? If you can think of a great name, feel free to leave me a comment and I might take you up on it!

 

Much love,
MM.
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My Euro Haul!

Hey lovelies,

Is everyone doing well today, the first day of autumn? Gosh, this year is speeding by, isn't it?

So a few weeks ago I had some cousins and an aunt who trotted off to Europe for a wee bit so I asked them to do a bit of duty free shopping for me, and wow, can I just say that the salespeople in Britain/duty free/Geneva are way more generous than their Australian counterparts seem to be?

I basically stocked up on my usual Holy Grail (HG) products, but I also picked up one or two extras. I had asked my aunt to ask the salespeople for samples but this surpassed even my expectations!

Here's what I got.

Shu Uemura: My cleansing oil in 'fresh' (I bought the last one in January and I'm already halfway through it) and the long lusted for lash curler! And I received a BUMPER 15 samples of cleansing oil, cream, serum and moisturiser.

Shu Uemura stash.

Clinique: Two chubby sticks in Fuller Fig and Mega Melon (I bought Fuller Fig in January as well and I finished it halfway through February)! I don't think I've finished a lipstick/gloss that quickly before. And I received a cute sample pack of the 3 step system, 2 samples of laser wear cream, and an eye cream sample.

Clinique stash.

Lancome: Oscillation powerbooster (lash primer, apparently they're phasing this out *sob*). And they gave me a sample of the new foundation, Tresor Midnight Rose (which I LOVE), and Vissionaire sample.

Lancome stash.

And some miscellaneous goodies:

MAC: Paint Pot in 'Painterly'. I've been dying to get my hands on this for ages! Can't wait to try putting some coloured shadow on tomorrow!

Painterly paint pot.

Australis Eyebrow Kit: I really wanted a little palette with a wax and I heard this was a really good one, so I searched EVERYWHERE for it and finally found it at BigW (it's a limited edition gift with purchase, and it was sold out everywhere else) only to find it wouldn't scan through! So they told me to come back the next day once they had a chance to discuss it with their manager. They rang me back the next day and agreed to sell it to me for $5! What a bargain, I snapped it up quick smart!

This is adorable, with two powders, brow wax,
a dual brush (which I won't use) and mini tweezers.

And last but not least, a geranium and rose shower gel which was a gift, together with some imported Kit Kat chocolates from the UK! All in all, I think it was a great haul and I'm so happy to get stuck into creating some new looks! :)

What did you think of my HG haul? I've been lusting after some of these products for so long, it's just so satisfying to get my hands on them at last! Have you used and do you like any of them? I'll be doing some reviews soon!

Much love,
MM.
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