Australis AC On Tour Kit Review

This was the hardest review to write so far, As soon as Australis released this palette everyone was lusting over it and the ones that didn't have this were searching high and low for this, even paying $50-60 for this on trade me! Lucky for me I was able to pick one up when I was in Gisborne over christmas. It was smaller than I had imagined it to be so that came as a shock to me. I also have the Anastasia Beverly hills contour palette so I was able to compare these 2.

Firstly I like how this palette comes with a secure clip to close the lid, the plastic looks and feels cheap so I am overly cautious on where I place this as I can imagine how fragile this would be if this was dropped.

On the back there is a diagram on how to contour and highlight which I thought was such a clever idea especially for people that don't know how to contour or need a little help with the placement.

This palette comes with 3 highlighting shades and 3 contouring shades. The first 2 highlighting shades are matte finishes, the third looks the same as the first highlighting shade but with shimmer in it. The 3 contouring shades are all matte finishes.

The formula of these are buttery and pigmented, you only need a small amount of product on your brush, I find lightly swiping my brush into the palette is enough product for me, if you have a heavy hand you will lose alot of product.

The first highlighting shade comes out too chalky on my medium toned skin, the second highlighting shade is the same unless I use it lightly over my under eyes, I use the third highlighting shade for everything, highlighting my brow bone, on top of my cheek bones, above my cupids bow and above my forehead.

The first shade of the contouring shade comes off too muddy for my skin so I normally use this shade as an eyeshadow. The second and third contouring shades I mix between the 2 for contouring my face depending on what I'm going for. The second shade is slightly darker and the third shade is warmer.

Comparing this with the Anastasia Beverly hills contour palette it is an affordable dupe, the colors are very similar but a lower quality version, but for the price it is an absolute bargain. I will definitely repurchase this again when I have the chance.

Contouring seems to have taken over the makeup world currently. With heaps of makeup brands releasing contour palettes, I was unsure whether I should buy one. In all honesty I was skeptical of them just because I feel that contouring is generally too much to do for an every day makeup, and I thought contouring palettes were excessive.

My opinion has changed, however, after being given this by a friend. As I mentiond, I was skeptical about contouring palettes and wasn't sure I would loved this. However, after using it almost daily since I got it, I am in love.

The packaging is super sleek and the palette is encased in a matte black container. On the back of the palette there are step by step instructions on how to use each powder. Whilst I don't refer to this, I think this is an awesome addition to the palette and is definitely helpful.

There are 6 large powder in this. The first row is your highlight shades and they are a peach toned matte shade, a yellow toned matte shade and a peachy shimmery highlighter.

The second row is your bronzers or contour shades. The first is a despise brown, the second is a cool/grey brown and the third is a warmer brown. All of these are matte.

All of the powders are really pigmented and soft to the touch. You need only a small amount of product on your brush and be warned they are really well pigmented. Despite being so pigmented, these are super easy to blend and look extremely natural on the skin. My personal favourite contour shade is the brown/grey shade as this mimics shadow extremely well on my face.

Whilst I like both of the matte highlight shades, I feel that they don't show up too well on my skin as my skin is similar to the lightness of the highlighters. I don't consider myself super pale, although I am light skinned. The shimmery highlighter is my favourite as it creates a super subtle and natural looking glow to my skin. I like to use the yellow highlighter to set my under eye area as it adds a tiny bit of brightness to that area. If you are darker in skin tone I think the highlighters would show up really well.

Overall I am extremely impressed with this palette and I adore it. If you can find it I absoloutely, 100% recommend getting it. Even if you are a novice at contouring I think this is an excellent palette to have in your collection.

This kit was the most hyped about contouring kit over the internet. With beauty-gurus and even the normal beauties on the makeup obsessives facebook page claiming it was a drugstore dupe for the Anastasia Beverly Hills contour palette. When this palette was first released in NZ it sold out within that day so I unfortunately had to wait three months for it to be restocked at my local Farmers store.

The packaging is super thin and does feel very fragile. I do love how it comes with a very secure clip that won't come undone easily. This is also great to travel with as it doesn't take up loads of space.

The kit comes with 2 highlight shades, 1 undereye setting shade and also, 3 contour shades. The first highlight shade is a matte pink toned beige which i prefer to use as a browbone highlight and the second highlight shade is a shimmery peachy shade which I love to use to highlight my cheekbones, bridge of my nose, cupids bow and chin. I have found it is a very natural highlight as its not as intense as the Mary Lou highlighter from the balm. The undereye setting shade is a light matte banana yellow shade and sets your under eye area without any trouble. Now, the last row of this palette is all the contour/bronzer shades. The first is a medium, warm-toned brown. I tend to use this as a bronzer shade which does compliment my fair skin. The second shade is a cool-toned grey/brown which I use as my contour shade and it is such a natural contour. The last shade is a very warm brown which I haven't touched yet as I'm afraid it is too warm for my complexion.

All the powders are really pigmented so be light handed when applying the product to your brush. I have found that all the shades are super easy to blend and looks very natural.

I absolutely adore this palette and haven't touched any of my other contour kits or bronzers. This palette is definitely an essential in my everyday life and is probably the best Australis product I have ever tried.

People have been going MAD for this kit ever since word of it's release hit the net. A drugstore contour palette that was a dupe for the much-loved Anastasia Beverly Hills Cotour Palette had the beauty-world in a spin and it sold out everywhere, so when I managed to spot one on sale at Priceline when I was on holiday I had to see what the fuss was.

The kit itself contains 3six shades in total, three to highlight and three to contour. The highlighting shades were: - a matte, pink-toned beige. I have medium, warm-toned skin so I found this shade a little on the light side for me but have used it as a brow-bone highlight. - a matte banana shade, I used this for setting under-eye concealer as I found it brightened the eye area nicely. - a warm beige shade with a slight shimmer through it. I really wanted to like this as colour-wise it was perfect for my skin tone but I found the consistency a little chalky for my taste so I haven't been using it as often as my baked highlighter.

The contouring shades all had a matte finish and consisted of: - A medium, warm-toned brown. Great for warmer skin tones and would suit fairer girls. - A cool-toned cocoa brown, I didn't really use this as it didn't suit my skin. - A warm-toned earthy brown. I naturally gravitated to this shade most out of the contour colours as it was the most similar to other contours I have.

I found all of the powders had quite a bit of fall-out so do make a fair bit of mess in the palette. It's better to pick up a little powder at a time and work from there. The contour shades are very pigmented so you really only need a light hand. I found them quite hard to blend in and if you had been too heavy-handed they can have more of a streaky, muddy effect that's hard to salvage. I've been told such effects make it look like I've been 'punched in the face'.

Regarding the packaging the slimline plastic case suits it well, it's simple but functional and the catch holds the case closed well. I love bronzer but I'm definately a contouring novice so was glad to see the back of the palette had a step-by-step contouring and highlighting how-to.

Would I buy it again? Not personally, I do think it's a good product and would suit those better at contouring but despite really wanting to love this I haven't been able to get the hang of using it. The contour shades are just a bit too hard to master and blend in for a novice like me and while the highlight shades are okay, particularly the banana for concealing, I still reach for other products more often.

I really wasn’t too sure initially on this one part of me thought I would never use everything in the pallet & the other part of me really wanted to try it & it had such great reviews so when Lutece popped on the BR forum that it was back in stores I raced down to farmers and bought one. The packaging is a great size for a contour kit like this great for my gym bag/handbag. I did think the plastic casing is a bit on the cheap side but it snaps closed and keeps everything nice and safe. It did also have a set of instructions complete with diagrams on the back to help people with where to place the contours and highlighters which I thought was a great wee idea.

This kit comes with 3 highlighters and 3 contour shades. The first highlight shade is a matt pink base, the second is a light matt banana yellow type base and the third is a pinky shimmery type highlighter. Now the contours the first on the left is a neutral brown type colour, the middle contour is a grey based brown and the last one is a more orange based brown.

This definitely took a bit of playing around with to find which colours best suit me and where on my face they suit. You really don’t need a lot of product with these they are very pigmented and smooth. The contouring shades did take some time to blend in, a really light hand is needed here I used a contour brush and went with swiping the colour I wanted then tapping the excess off on top of the contour case and then tapping again on the back of my hand, this seemed to give me the right amount of product. Now we had a few disaster’s with the contouring the middle grey based brown made me look like I had been bruised or rolling around in the dirt and the last orange based brown was too orange for my skin tone it would be much better suited on a darker skin. However after much experimentation I actually found swiping my brush along all three gave me a great colour.

I absolutely loved these highlighters, I’ve become more and more obsessed with highlighters over the last few months and these really have tickled my fancy. I love that there is a matt and shimmery finish in these. I ended up using the middle banana yellow highlight under my eyes on top of my mineral powder it gives my under eyes a brighter healthier look (great for those like me with dark circles). I then swipe the matt pink highlight and the shimmer pink highlight and tap off the excess on top of the kit and apply to my cheekbones, nose, cupids bone and tip of my chin. This gives a really subtle highlightling finish. It gives my skin a wonderful healthy shine/glow to it. These are just as pigmented and smooth as the contours.

This lastest my entire work day easily without any need for a touch up.

I would most definatley recommend to anyone to give this kit a go and if it ever runs out (you don’t need a lot of product so this kit should last a long time) I will be repurchasing.

I was nervous to give this a bad-ish review seeing the other 4 and 5 star reviews and the OMG I LOVE THIS comments I have been hearing but I do this in the most honest way possible. I was lucky enough to buy this with the help of a lovely BR babe because after hunting high and low in our Farmers stores they were always sold out as soon as they come in.

$18.90 like I paid is I think a great price for something so sought after and very affordable to those obsessed with makeup like me but are on a tight budget. I love the packaging it's quite edgy but feminine, alot like me. It's black with Australis AC Contour Kit on the top. The plastic palette is quite flimsy and wouldn't stand the test of being dropped or stood on. It would surely splinter and crack in to a thousand pieces. Inside is the six shades of contour powder which for an amateur is quite daunting. I proceeded with an open mind and a heart full of hope nonetheless.

I bought a contour brush and blender especially for the occassion and watched numerous Youtube tutorials to make sure I was equipped with the knowledge I needed to know about where and how it went on. I also studied the helpful guide on the back of the case which to me seems silly because how are we going to reference back to this when we have to keep turning it over while we are using it!

The texture itself is quite chalky and sticks too much. I found it is very hard to blend in and looks too obvious that you have contour on. I find the product falls out of my brush too much and it ends up in a dusty mess on my top. I have found that less is more Even brushing my brush through delicately too much product comes up. I use very minimal and even that looks too fake. I am at a loss with how to use it to look good on my skin and this is with trying more than 20 times. I just find it isn't for me and is too low quality to get any benefit from it.

I adore the highlight shades in this - so pigmented! The banana shade is great for setting concealer, and the others are amazing for highlighting. The contour shades are a bit harder to blend, but the middle shade is a great cool toned brown which is perfect for contouring. I'm a beginner and I don't have to much trouble blending these - I don't find them too muddy at all.

This kit is okay. Not great, not bad. With my ELF Contouring Blush and Bronzer duo, my ELF bronzer brush worked perfectly to blend out powder. With this, I can't use it.

First of all I love the packaging. Super small, sleek, matte black and it fits in my make up bag to take the place of up to 4 products.

But when it comes to the actual products, I don't love them. Firstly they're all super powdery, no matter how lightly I tap into them. Two of the highlights aren't intense enough for me while the banana shade can't be used to set under my eyes because the yellow really shows up on my skin. Not pretty.

There is one colour that I feel is suitable for contouring, but it's very intense. One's super warm toned and the other is slightly warmed toned, but still enough to make it useless for contouring. I can barely get away with the shades on my skin. One up side is that they are all super pigmented, the downside is that I often end up with streaks of brown on my cheeks that wouldn't look flattering on anyone. None of my brushes except my Real Techniques ones work when trying to blend this harsh line out. Also the powder gets everywhere. Inside the palette, outside the palette, on my vanity... Ugh.

When it comes to contouring and bronzing I prefer shades that AREN'T super pigmented, cos then I can build them up to the intensity that I like. With these they're just too much even when using only a little bit of product. My hopes for this palette being a low cost dupe for the Anastasia Contour Kit have gone down the drain. Now while I don't hate this kit, I think it's overhyped and I prefer my $6 duo from ELF much more.

Update: I'm loving this product a lot more now. I've found after a bit of practice as long as I use a super light hand, I can get a nice contour from this. I'm loving the warmer shade as a bronzer and the shimmery highlight shade is stunning. Just wish the contour would last better on the face.

I am no expert in contour and highlighting so I figured I need to learn if I wanted to improve my makeup techniques. What better to learn than with a palette that is cheap, has rave reviews and would be perfect for beginners like me?

The palette cost me $20 which is think is pretty cheap for what it offers. I honestly never saw this palette in person so I had no expectations and had no idea what I was in for, I just know that I had to have it.

Packaging: The palette is medium sized housed in black case which is not the best quality makeup packaging but I wasnt expecting wonders with only pay $20. I will on opening the palette it doesnt have a mirror which is disappointing but understood given the price.

First impression: There are 6 available shades of which 3 is for highlight and 3 for contour. 2 of the contour shades are warm with an orange undertone and 1 has a grey undertone making it warm. Sadly I wont be using the warm shades as my skin tone looks horrible against orange shades therefore the only shade I've been playing with is the cool contour shade. I love all the highlighter shades even though 2 are matte and 1 is a shimmer. The shimmer is perfect as a highlight on the cheek bone. The matte shades have 1 peach tone and 1 banana tone. I only use the banana tone under my eyes as the peach doesnt suit my skin tone.

Quality: I was amazed when I swatched all the shades at how pigmented they are. You just need a little for a dark pigment. The tones are all powder but when you blend them they turn into a buttery consistency. Its is so easy to go overboard with these powders but remember a little goes a long way and its so easy to use too much product and spend hours trying to blend it out.

Blending: All the shades blend like a dream. Like i said you need the smallest amount, so take your brush and just dab it onto the colour and that will be more than it enough. The colours are not only blendable but easily buildable. So start off with a little and build your way to your desired shade. The first time using this palette I give my brushes a good coating with the product and instantly hated the effect on my skin because it was too much.

When I become more comfortable contouring I will invest in better qualify palette as a beginner I have no business buying high end palette. I would recommend this palette to anybody who is learning to contour because the commitment is cheap. If you dont like it and especially when you have no idea what to do then you havent wasted any money.