I'm a fan of Australis for good-quality makeup essentials and their lip pencils are no different. I have these in a number of shades for matching up with my bold lippys.
I like that Australis has paired basic black packaging with a colour-coded end, making it quick and simple to distinguish colours when they're all mixed together.
These pencils claim to be soft and easy to glide - they are! They go on easily to create a nice base for lippy, helping to prevent any bleeding or feathering of colour. It feels almost creamy as they go on, setting to a long-lasting, smudge-free finish. They also don't seem to dry my lips as much as other lip pencils I have tried.
I love the colour range as they pair perfectly with my beloved Australis lipsticks and they're so affordable, I will be repurchasing!
I own this liner in two shades: lady in red which is a true red and nudie rudie which is a light nude.
I bought these because I was looking for a liner to use with my Australis Velourlips (NY-Cee and Paree) because the formula was unforgiving on my wonky application skills and I wanted to get a better line.
For this purpose they worked perfectly. They are remarkably (or perhaps not seeing as they are within the same brand) good matches for each other. Just as I intended, getting a beautiful smooth line with the liner first gives me a bit of grace with the matte lipcolour application.
The formulation is gorgeously soft and goes on smooth. My pet hate with eye/lip pencils is a draggy, hard pencil that leaves that bumpy look but these pencils are so soft there's none of that.
I don't find that the nude Paree needs quite as much reigning in as the red NY-Cee but for the latter I definitely need the liner because the intense red is unforgiving of any mistakes. The liner keeps the lippy right where it should be.
Tips: I actually prefer these when they are blunter as I prefer a thicker line so I don't sharpen all the way to a tip when I sharpen.