another Australia drugstore eye primer...

Australis Eyeshadow Primer

Australis have released an eyeshadow primer as a part of their gorgeous Australis Paparazzi Perfect High Definition make-up collection. This eyeshadow primer is specifically designed to use on your eyes under your eyeshadow (no surprises there!)

Australis Eyeshadow primer

The whole idea of the Australis Eyeshadow primer is that it is designed to extend the wear and enhance the colour of your eyeshadow. It has an oil controlling formula with silica to make sure that your eyeshadow really sticks!

Australis Eyeshadow primer applicator and swatch

How to use Australis Eyeshadow Primer…
So what’s this eyeshadow primer actually like? The primer is a creamy consistency and it applies really easily and smoothly to your eyelids – it doesn’t drag at all. You cover your eyelid, wait 30 seconds and then you’re all good to go with your eyeshadow…
After the 30 seconds is up, if you touch the primer on your eyelids it feels dry but slightly sticky to the touch. You can definitely feel that you have something on your eyelids when you apply you eyeshadow, it’s slightly more difficult to get it on!

Eyeshadow after a full day of wear L: no primer, R: with Australis eyeshadow primer

The results…
Wow! You can see in the pictures, the difference wearing the primer under my eyeshadow made.
In these pics I was only wearing one shade of eyeshadow (my super subtle work eyeshadow!) – if you’re wondering what it is, it’s one of the Bourjois Little Round Pot eyeshadows – no. 5. This is my eyeshadow after a full day of work so I put my make-up on at 7.30 in the morning and both photos (with eyeshadow primer and with no eyeshadow primer) were taken at about 9.30 at night.
Without Australis eyeshadow primer my eyeshadow has creases and probably more noticably, my mascara is all over my eyelid – what a mess! With the Australis eyeshadow primer my eyeshadow looks nearly as good as it did when I put it on first thing in the morning! Freaking fantastic!
I’ve been wearing the Australis eyeshadow primer everyday since and wore it with a heavily made up eye on Saturday night and it was just as good! I can’t say enough good things about this eyeshadow primer… it’s one of those things that I had never even thought about using as well – so thank you very much to the lovely ladies at Australis who sent it to me!
I have already shown you the Australis Paparazzi Perfect High Definition eyeshadow and I have a few more bits from the Australis Paparazzi Perfect make-up collection that I will show you as soon as I can!
Australis Eyeshadow Primer costs $16.50 and you can buy in New Zealand from Farmers and pharmacies everywhere

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Saturday, October 2, 2010

Drugstore Dupe for Stila's Kitten

In my previous post, I mentioned that there's a dupe to a pretty big name shadow hiding in Wet n Wild's Walking on Eggshells trio - and here it is.

Kitten to Stila is what All That Glitters is to MAC. It's that color that most girls associate with the brand and has been deemed as a 'must-have' from them. Well, I've already given you an All That Glitters dupe, so here's the Kitten one!

While the other two shades in the trio are also pretty, the one we're interested in is the 'eyelid' shade. That's Kitten in pan form sitting on the WnW trio. I know that Kitten looks a bit more shimmery in the pan, but look what happens when applied.

 (left) Kitten and (right) WnW eyelid shade 

Here are the swatches in natural light. I tried to catch as little direct light as possible so you could better see the actual colors next to each other. But how do the finishes compare?

Here they are in more direct light. Pretty similar, yea?

More good news is that both of these swatches only required one swipe of the product; no building up was necessary and, as always, no primer was used for either of these.

So with the Stila single shadow coming in at $18 and the Wet n Wild trio being only around $2, this is definitely a good (and economical!) dupe to check out!

Thanks for reading.

Let me know if you pick this up!