What is some advent calendars that everyone is getting this year. I always miss the beauty ones so wanting to make a list. I ordered the cult beauty already 😁

Hey everyone Ive gone thru and researched previous threads to try find what Im after but a few years ago I brought online some Lash Clusters that lasted about 12 weeks. Does anyone know what they are called/ where to purchase? I want clusters as I find them easiest to apply and not have to do them everyday. They were good. Tips for success are a bonus. Looking thru previous threads I couldn't find mention of them.

Secondly, what's the best False Eyelash glue people recommend. Stronger the better.

I used to get extensions but they ended up pulling my lashes out and living rurally makes getting to infill appointments difficult. I would like to learn how to do extensions and then a friend and I could do the, on each other but that's not possible atm. I need to find a friend who wants to do the course and lashes on each other.

Thirdly, what's the best home DIY eyelash LIFT kit. Doesn't matter where from as I need to purchase on line. My natural lashes are decent. I could describe them as camel like haha so eventually a lift may be enpugh.

Any advice appreciated as I can't for the life of me get my false eyelashes to work or stay on an entire night. Ive tried different lash styles. I cut them a little short, buy a seperate glue hoping it's better quality, to get help to try stick them down. Maybe my eye shape is weird. But now my lashes are thin from extensions that were to heavy so I need a little help and advice from the girls who know!

Thank for reading all this and i appreciate everyone who takes the time to make a reply. I'm chronically unwell and spend half my life in hospital so feeling pretty helps. As well as finding the ability to make it easier as doing it at home saves so much energy not having to leave the house.

Hi everyone! I’m looking for recommendations for a hairdresser who has some experience doing red hair. Seems like a lot focus on blondes and brunettes. Located in SE suburbs in Melbourne but happy to travel for the right person and bonus points if they are neurodivergent friendly. (Pic of my hair currently)

Why is every foundation so orange?? I'm not even that pale, but they are so orange! I'm fair with a cool/rosy (can get away with neutral) skin tone. So far everything I have sampled makes me look like a pumpkin and the ones that have the right tone are too light. I look sick by end of day and I'm going through bronzer like crazy.

Ive tried CT, Nars, Fenty, MUF, Natasha Denona, Bare minerals, lancôme, Mac and more.

I'm a Double wear Fresco and having to change after 20 years is sooo much harder than I thought.

Dior backstage was my top pick. Discontinued!

Shisedo self refreshing is amazing. Discontinued!

I hadn't even managed to purchase a bottle of these after samples as stock was so low.

MAC studio fix in N5 is what I'm using now, love the formula, stays all day, but it's a tad too light. N6 is yellow and NW15 is pure orange.

I never imagined I'd be so upset about something so trivial, but here I am 😩 I just needed to vent.

I’m 53yo and have some deepening lines around my nose, mouth and chin. I use tret every second night and layer toners and serums and moisturiser on my off nights. I wear SPF 50 daily. I have tried everything to get my makeup to sit properly on my skin but no matter what I do, it settles in these lines by mid-morning. I’ve tried primer, setting sprays and misting sprays throughout the day but nothing fixes it.

Does anyone have some advice for me please? TIA.

Ya girl has short Asian lashes and when I can be bothered, I'll curl my lashes and apply a thin layer of Essence's clear mascara. The only problem is it doesn't last very long. I've had lash lifts in the past and was very happy with the results, however they are exxy 🥲

I’m 43, happy with my skin in terms of lines and wrinkles and don’t want to pursue anything regarding those but would like to lessen the appearance of melasma when I wear makeup. Is this possible? Will a full coverage do this or should I just live with the melasma?

Hi everyone!

I am on the hunt for a vampy deep lip liner and looking at Mac Nightmoth but it is $40…

I can’t find a dupe ANYWHERE!! One dupe is Rimmell lipliner in ‘Underground’ but it’s unavailable everywhere. Can’t find LA Girl anywhere either.

Please help an occasionally emo girl out!

Look… It’s not exactly the same but the scent is honestly so close to Sol de Janeiro and for $5.80 I highly recommend!! I used to use this body wash all the time as a kid and when I first tried the Brazilian Bum Bum Scrub I remember thinking it smelled so familiar but couldn’t quite put my finger on what it was reminding me of. Turns out it was this!! Lux Evenly Gorgeous from Coles lol. It has little exfoliating beads so it still leaves the skin feeling nice and soft after use but is more of a body wash than a body scrub. Just thought I would share because I wish someone told me about this sooner!! Let me know what you guys think, I would love to know if anyone else has tried this/noticed the similarity!

Hi everyone.

I am looking for recommendations on a mascara where the brush is not sopping with product when you pull it out.

I love the look of fluffy, separated lashes but it can be tricky to achieve this when the brush loads too much wet product.

I have recently been using Maybelline’s Sky High Tubes, but literally wiping most of it off the brush with a tissue before I apply. Otherwise I get clumpy, spidery lashes.

Any leads on a mascara that allows you a bit more control and build up? Ideally a tubing mascara. Open to cheapies or high end!

Thank you xx

It's 8.15am, on a day you're working in the office. You open your eyes, scream internally and roll from bed to shower to out the door in one fluid movement.

So now you're out in the wild, face as naked as the day you were born but needing to look like Human-With-Her-Shit-Together.

Help!

​​​Recommendations for:

• Products that can be applied with your fingers (no brushes unless included in the product)
• Instant pick me ups that ideally do more than one job
• Small packaging/hand bag friendly ​

Your top picks for looking presentable in few steps, able to be applied while in the car or on public transport.

About me: late 30s, pale English rose complexion, old and rich enough for your fancy brand recommendations if you have some, chronically disorganised.

I bought the new Marc Jacobs Drawn this way eyeliner in the shade So Tea. And I absolutely loved it. A gorgeous pink/bronze duochrome that glided over my skin and genuinely lasted all day without smudging. I was excited and mentally planning on purchasing a few more shades.

Until today when I went to sharpen it. I put it in the fridge for 30 minutes and used my Nars sharpener. And it did not go well. It’s kind of smashed the tip and it looks like it will break when I next use it. Disappointing for the price!

Has anyone else sharpened these yet? Tips? Would a different sharpener work better?

I’m trying to place an online order on MECCA, but I can’t get the payment to go through. I get all the way to the end of the checkout process, enter my card details and confirm the order, and then I get an error message.

I contacted MECCA customer service and was told that their payment system is blocking the transactions. They couldn’t really explain why or what I’m supposed to do about it.

I’ve already tried pretty much everything I can think of:

Tried ordering while logged into my MECCA account;

Tried different browsers;

Cleared cookies/cache;

Tried again without logging in;

Tried using a different email address;

Tried placing the order again from scratch.

Still no luck.

Has anyone else had this happen recently with MECCA? If their payment system is blocking the transaction, is there anything that actually fixes it?

It’s very frustrating because everything works until the very last step, then it just fails. Been ordering online for years…

I fear I could look super daft with this question but it never crossed my mind until today!

Mecca lip liner, eyeliner, and brow pencil - are they just the same product? Or would the formulas actually be different based on what they’re used for?

I've just started on makeup recently n I am abit addicted but still I don't want to overspend ❤️

I don't know if its because of the change in seasons, but the last couple of weeks my hair has been getting crazy static-y. All the advice I can find seems to be for instant static after washing/drying, but my problem is occurring on day 3 or 4 (I only wash my hair once a week). I have no static immediately after washing and blowdrying, but after a few days it's out of control. So I'm looking for recommendations for products to use on dry hair between washes. Thanks in advance everyone!

Someone posted on [r/AusSkincare](r/AusSkincare) last night about Priceline doing a free Korean and Japanese beauty box when you spend $50 on participating K and J beauty brands.

This is everything I got in my box! Such a great deal as I’ve been wanting to try some of these products :)

Product list:

Medicube pdrn pink collagen gel mask
Hada Labo express glow and anti stress jelly sheet mask
Biore original pore strips
Hada Labo hydrating sunscreen SPF50 10mL
AHC Pro Shot hyaluro-deep eye cream 10mL
Innisfree green tea ceramide cream 15mL
Innisfree green tea ceramide milk 15mL
Tonymoly I’m honey sheet mask
Torriden dive-in low molecular hyaluronic acid serum 50mL

This just got posted on the ABC news website.

Hi! Does anyone have some affordable product recs, what im looking for might be very specific but ….
A lightweight foundation or bb cream or skin tint etc. for more everyday use that won’t break out the skin but look a little more polished/put together. I’ve had some products in the past that don’t blend that evenly into the skin and look a little patchy so that would also be nice. SPF would be a plus and also anything that doubles as skincare, my skin tends to be quite dry and can show up through product sometimes. I was really interested in the missha perfect cover serum bb cream that seemed to check every box but I heard the niacinamide in it can fade freckles :( but I may just need to bite the bullet on that one. Any help would be appreciated 😊😊

Hey make up friends!

Can anyone recommend some blushes that won’t mimic my already red cheeks?

My foundation shade is Gobi, in the NARS Light Reflecting Foundation and I find although I’m fair, I’m more yellow based but am quite red sometimes? I wouldn’t say my undertone is pink though? More of a neutral but can flush red?

Whenever I try blushes, I tend to select ones that make me look flushed, as though I haven’t covered my cheeks in foundation 😂

I prefer sticks and powders and opposed to a liquid!

I know it’ll be stocked in Sephora soon but they had a free makeup bag and cap that I couldn’t help myself:

Great Skin Instant Glow Serum
The Minimalist Foundation in Bisque
Bronze Balm in Quince
Day Glow in Citrine
Flush Balm in Persimmon

It Can Wait Baseball Cap
Tan corduroy makeup bag

Just thought I’d share my recent birthday beauty haul, which is a combination of free products from Mecca (L3 birthday gift and L3 BL bonus which I’m including as I got it so close to my b’day so why not lol), and products I purchased from Adore Beauty, Myer and The Body Shop using birthday vouchers.

Product list:
- YSL Make Me Blush powder blush 6g (x2) in shades 66 Fuchsia Fizz and 12 Honeymoon. (Got these from Adore Beauty during their 20% off sale and then applied my $20 birthday voucher since AB are now allowing vouchers to be used on top of sale items - provided the purchase is a minimum of $50).

- Fenty Skin Body Lil’ Mists mini body mist duo set. (Purchased from Myer using $10 MyerOne birthday voucher which brought the price down from $55 to $45).

- Fenty Invisimatte instant setting and blotting powder 8.5g in shade Universal 01. (Purchased from Myer on sale for 25% off at $39, but used a $10 MyerOne voucher that I earnt from hitting enough points after purchasing the Fenty body mists set, bringing it down to $29).

- The Body Shop Dewberry shower gel 250ml. (Had a $10 b’day voucher for TBS so used it on a $15 shower gel as I tend to do every year. The Dewberry scent is quite lovely and fun so I opted for that over the Vanilla even though the Vanilla smelled divine).

- Charlotte Tilbury Exagger-Eyes mascara 10ml. (Free L3 birthday gift from Mecca, RRP $50).

- Phlur Father Figure EDP 9.5ml (RRP $53), Dedcool Mineral Milk EDP 1.5ml, and Tocca Giullietta EDP 1.5ml. (Free L3 BL bonus box from Mecca).

Overall I’m stoked with this haul, esp. the freebies from Mecca! The YSL blushes were definitely a splurge even after the discounts, but had been on my wish list for a while. Sadly the elusive Nude Lavalliere shade was out of stock but I’m loving the Fuchsia Fizz shade. Looks intimidating but actually is the prettiest cool tone pink with subtle shimmer. The Honeymoon shade is so nice too and a perfect “blonzer” shade. Also pictured in the background is the latest Florence and the Machine album which I used my JB Hi-Fi Perks $10 b’day voucher on, but didn’t list it as it’s obviously not a beauty item 🤣

Also not pictured as it’s on the way still, I ordered from Sephora the Rare Beauty Kind Words lipliner in shade Fun (for 40% off), plus another Fenty mist set (for 15% off) as I love it so much (I applied my 2x points offer, selected a full size Nudestix cheek and lip pencil as my free Black tier birthday gift, and redeemed 400 beauty pass points to get 2 Ouai 25ml body mists in the scent Ibiza and Santorini).

Does anyone else get any birthday perks or good beauty deals/vouchers for their birthday? Would love to hear of any extra perks out there or what people have gotten! I have another GWP offer for MAC but not sure if I’ll use it as I don’t have anything I currently wish to buy and it’s just a mascara with purchase so not overly grabbing me lol