MAC - Superslick Liquid Eye Liner - On The Hunt

This is a black liquid eye liner that goes on really well (even on my oil... I mean skin).

The colour intensity is great and the brush is easy to use.

BUT it irritated my eye lid and made it swell :(


Price: 1/5 ($37 for 1.8mL)
Scent: 2.5/5 (nothing strong)
Effectiveness: 4/5 (lost a point for the eye lid swelling)


***** This product could be reviewed thanks to the raunchy, informative and gorgeous Miss Smut Buttons! *****

Purple Prairie Botanicals - Shampoo Bar - Cedarwood & Tea Tree

This was a free sample! :D

I had never used solid shampoo before!
It smells really nice, the cedarwood is the main scent (which I freaking love!).

It leaves your hair SUPER clean, squeaky clean!
If you want your hair CLEAN clean, try this!

The only downside was my scalp didn't like being THAT clean, I had bad dandruff afterward.
In retrospect my scalp may have liked a conditioner afterward.

Price: 4.5/5 ($5.50 for 226.8g)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 4/5

Purple Prairie Botanicals - Organic Olive Oil Lotion - Frankincense & Myrrh

This smells AMAZING! It is herbal and spicy.

It contains olive, sunflower, coconut, frankincense, myrrh, orange, and rosewood oil.
It also has witch hazel, black willow, and rosemary extract.

I really wanted to love this, but my skin on my torso didn't agree with it. 
But you better believe it was all used up on my legs!

It absorbed well and left my legs well moisturised.

Price: 3/5 ($15.89 for 237 mL)
Scent: 5/5
Effectiveness: 3/5

Thursday Plantation - Tea Tree Hand & Body Lotion

Like Toula's father in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' who thinks Windex is a panacea, my alleged father thinks tea tree oil cures all.

I usually just tell him that he expects too much of a simple oil and leave it at that.

Then recently I got a little bit of a dry patch on my leg and figured why not use this for a test?

The Thursday Plantation hand and body lotion smells strongly of tea tree oil, but also contains a number of other botanical extracts as well, including witch hazel, macadamia and honeysuckle.
It is a good viscosity for a lotion as well.

I put it on my dry skin for three days and... It tore my skin to shreads! :(
It became red, itchy, weeping and sore.

I think the problem may be that this contains too much of the oil... and that the oil is NOT the magical cure-all you think it is, father!

A better treatment for dry skin/burns/eczema:

Soooo much better!

Price: 3.5/5 (RRP $13.30 for 200mL)
Scent: 1/5 (I think it is stinky)
Effectiveness: 0/5

Lux - White Impress

Not all beauty products come from boutique stores or pharmacies, some come from $2 stores.
That is the origin story of this bar of soap.

It is a 'whitening' soap which is not usually sold in the Australian market. It smells like soap and some fragrance I can't identify but know I don't like. Lily, it may be stinky lily.

I wanted to like this, it was a bargain at $6 for four bars, but it left me itchy. It did clean well, perhaps too well, as my skin felt stripped of moisture. But to be fair, I can't use most bar soaps, they are too harsh for my skin.

I tried to soften its blow by putting it in a sponge. The theory was only the lather could then reach my skin. In practice it took a lot of effort to produce lather and I threw it all in the bin.

Sometimes, you get what you pay for.

Price: 5/5
Scent: 0/5
Effectiveness: 1/5

Berrisom - Oops - My Lip Tint Pack - Pure Pink

I got this from Memebox (before they stopped shipping to Australian customers) and thought it was a fun idea.

A peel off lip tint, how fun!

But there were two issues to this novel lip stain:

1) If it gets on your teeth, it will stain your teeth as well.

2) Want to know how I got these marks?

It irritated the sides of my lips, making them red and dry. It took a while for my lips to recover after this.

So I can't recommend this, as I found it to be irritating and bad for the health of my lips.

'I want lasting colour on my lips' Solution:

Universal Beauty Lip Tint works really well and is non-irritating.

Price: 4/5 ($8.36 for 15g)
Scent: 0/5 (like off vanilla yoghurt and plastic)
Effectiveness: 1/5