Australis AC On Tour Kit Review

I enjoyed the lighter shades especially for lower jawbone application. The creamy texture glided on effortlessly during application. Darker shades have the correct amount of pigment but are required to be used sparingly. For this reason, I found that I had dark shades left and no light ones! Additionally if you are beginner at blending then do not purchase as its not the easiest contour kit to use.

I have a love hate relationship with this palette I feel it has alot of potential, but at thw same time its over rated. I waited weeks to get my hands on it. I find this palettes highlighting shade not to be light enough for my skin tone and rhe contourong shades to also be to muddy for my skintone. My thoughts are thay this product would be much more suited to darker skinned ladies. Now when it comes to blending this product it is extremely difficult to blend, it just doesn't seem to want to blend out, so you end up with a massive brown streak on the side of your face.

Firstly I am new to contour and after many tutorials and recommendations plus the hype around this Australis kit I thought I would try my hand at it, I am one of those people who will give anything a go once in regards to makeup and in general.

Design of this product is so pretty in its sleek thin almost matte black casing and huge flash of metallic pink across the lid showing the name of the product and the logo. Then you open it up and there is a huge mirror and the 6 quite large sized discs of contouring shades. The formula of them are chalky and very powder on my already dry skin even on top of primed and foundation skin these seem to look very flat and drying on my skin.

The major problem I found was that this is a universal kit for all skin tones, there is no light, medium or dark kit its one item fits all and this is disappointing as even the lightest shades for contouring in the palette were warm toned and stuck on my skin like I had spent the day painting the whole look just didn't suit me and was very obvious on my face no matter how lightly I applied or how I blended it to fade together. I think now I have played with this kit a couple of times and passed onto to someone who will use it, that I need to try the cream contour kits that are designed for the fairer skin.

The contour shades in this are very dark. They should have at least one shade that's more suited to pale people. I can use 2 of the colours if I'm light handed but the third I will never use as it too orange and too dark. I feel this is suited to only those with medium to dark complexions. The highlight shades are all nice though so I will use it for highlighting only. The consistency is very powdery but it is easy to blend. I will only repurchase if they make a better colour range.

I bought this when there was a huge hype, i was so excited until i used it, what a let down!! the only thing i like about this palette is the Highlight shade it is amazing, the contour shade is really muddy and hard to blend, it also disappears throughout the day. only recommend to beginners

After hearing lots of rave and comparison to the ABH kit I decided to pick this up in Farmers when there was a BOGO special.

The first thing I noticed was the crazy pigmentation! I usually swirl my brush but with this palette I found I needed to lightly tap my brush in the pan. It's not very easy to blend so you really do need to build it up slowly. I didn't really find the highlight (shades 1 & 3) really useful, as they weren't my preference for highlighting and too pale to set foundation with. The banana shade (2) is super great for setting my undereye highlight, luckily I'm quite warm toned so it doesn't have a weird yellow-y look on me.

Shades 4 and 6 are both great for bronzing however again I have other bronzers that I usually reach for so these 2 are pretty much untouched. Shade 5 is where the real contouring comes in. This is by far the best contour shade for me, it's cool toned so it mimics a shadow really well. It gives me a nice chiseled look.

I wouldn't buy this again just for the fact that I only really use 2 of the colours. I didn't find many other problems with this palette, apart from the slightly chalky consistency this palette was very easy to use. I'm just disappointed I couldn't get more use out of the other shades.

The colours were a bit dark for my pale skin and looked like I had smudged dirt on my face. All the highlight shades didn't do much for me either since they weren't bright enough. However they did blend well so this palette could work well for someone with tanned skin.

When I first started to get into contouring and highlighting this was my first contour palette I used. It seemed to do the job just fine to me as I didnt really know any better but once I had purchased the Kat Von D shade and light contour palette there was no turning back... the australis contour palette is alright if you are on a budget and dont have the money to fork out. This would just be my last product to recommend for a contour palette. I just found that the contour shades are very muddy looking on my skin and found it hard to blend them out, however the banana coloured highlight shade is the only thing I would use from this palette if I had to use it. And australis now have made a seperate compact for this banana shade highlight powder which seems to be very popular!

Very chalky consistency, a little goes a very long way and is very pigmented especially the contour shades, banana powder is very good. Would recommend for a beginner.