Australis Velourlips Matte Cream

I love love love the velourlips range. My favourite shade is doo-bai but you HAVE to scrub your lips before you apply so all your dead skin doesn't get in the way of a smooth application. I found this a liiiiittle bit annoying as I can't put it on when I'm out an about, but still is my go to for long wear lippy.

I love the Australis Velourlips Matte Cream! I love this product because I am a matte girl not a gloss girl! I have this product in three shades: Nycee, doobai and shanghai :) I wear shanghai and nycee pretty much everyday! I love the matte formula of these! It goes on nice and smooth and stays on all day! The only I guess 'bad' thing I have noticed about this product is that if you put on a thick layer it will start to flake! It rolls up and gathers in the inner part of my mouth and sometimes gets in mouth if I put on a tonne of layers!

They do have a wide selection of colours and came out with five new shades! (which are all beautiful) They have nudes, pinks, oranges, reds, purples and two darker colours that came out with the new collection :) So there's a colours especially made for every skin tone!

They are reasonably priced so if you're following a lipstick trend you wouldn't have to break the bank!

I wouldn't recommend this product to people who have crazy chapped, dry lips! :)

Australis Velourlips Matte cream Lipsticks aren't perfect. They have their flaws and their issues. So why do I have three, bought within a week of each other? Easy.

THE COLOUR!!

These insanely pigmented, bright, gorgeous shades are knockout. I have MA-LI-BOO, SHANG-HI and TO-KI-O. I'll go through each for you.

MA-LI-BOO was my first one, and an impulse buy the day before I was due to go to Melbourne for a short trip. I put it on and instantly wanted to take it off. My lips felt odd. Tingly, and a little numb. I actually thought I was reacting. Then, I looked in the mirror. Cue instant Instagram selfie - oh my god. The colour is amazing. This is a very bright Barbie doll pink, with depth and sex appeal. It's girly but still sassy and sexy. Amazing colour, and the matte finish works perfectly with it. I took it off, moisturised my lips heavily and tried again in a couple of hours, with a much better application feeling for the same awesome colour result. Since then, I've worn it numerous times and always get comments and compliments on how bright, pretty and bold it is.

Now that I'd figured out how to 'do' these, when I realised they cost about half the price in Aussie I picked up two more. I chose SHANG-HI and TO-KI-O because not only are they in my colour family of faves, I have a huge connection to Asia (and Tokyo in particular) and they appealed to me through their names.

SHANG-HI is a darker berry pink. It tends towards red, but is still very much a pink, and is a much less bold statement colour than M-LI-BOO while still being dramatic and gorgeous. I've worn this out for a formal work dinner and been complimented on it, as well as to work and out shopping.

TO-KI-O is out there. It's a dark lavender purple - gorgeous if you suit purple tones, but quite unusual as a lip colour. This is not one I'd wear to work, but would definitely rock on a night out.

All three dry to a matte finish. This means that - and hold on to your seats here - they don't really transfer to your wine glass or coffee cup. They can also handle a light amount of food, though a bigger meal tends to fade them out a bit more quickly. The lasting is always a good thing but even more so with these because they *are* quite drying, and reapplication makes that worse. I definitely wouldn't recommend repeated reapplication - and make sure you've got a great lip balm handy for afterwards.

I don't buy in to the whole 'beauty is pain' thing, but when minor fleeting discomfort yields stunning lips, I can live with it. By the way - they smell divine. Vanilla-berry, if I had to name it.

Go easy if you've sensitive skin, but do give them a try. I'm in love - with my own lips <3

There was so much hype about these lip creams that I had to go out and try them for myself. I picked one up from kmart in the shade ny-cee and it was the most beautiful shade of red. It was absolutely stunning. As soon as I got home I tried it on and I instantly fell in love.

The packaging is very simple but the actual product looks and feels like it's high quality. The pigmenation of these lip creams is amazing. They apply wet then dry into the most gorgeous matte shades. Once they've dried, they're not going anywhere. It's like a lip stain. You can eat and drink whatever you like and these lip creams do not budge or smudge. I was so impressed. They are quite hard to get off so I do recommend using makeup remover to get it all off. I use the maybelline eye and lip remover and it works wonders.

They don't apply patchy and you don't need a million coats to get the coverage you want. 1 layer will do it (2 layers max) depending on your preference.

I can't quite pin point the scent of these velourlips but they smell yummy. They remind me of some kind of lolly but I can't quite put my finger on it. I am a sucker for anything that smells good so that does make me love them even more. But when things smell good enough to eat, who wouldn't.

I have recently added a new one to my collection, it's in the shade shang-hi. The colour is absolutely beautiful. It's a pink berry shade which does take a little getting used to if you're not quite used to dramatic colours.

Australis have done incredibly well with these lip creams. I can't wait to add more to my collection.

I can't contain my love for these liquid lipsticks. Velourlips are beautifully pigmented matte lipsticks.

I find these matte liquid lipstick are highly pigmented with a beautiful range of eye catching colours. They apply to the lips with ease and dry go a extreme matte formula.

Velour lips are kiss proof with it being able to last all day even through eating and drinking the lipstick will not transfer..

The product comes in a simple tube with a dough foot applicator with perfectly fits any lip shape.

The scent of grapes also makes this liquid lipstick more appealingl.

After hearing alot of hype about these, I had to go out and get one. I purchased this in red and this product is to die for! Good pigmentation and staying power, definitely money well spent. Am quite keen to purchase other colours but Farmers are always sold out. The colour doesn't budge so it stays all day which is good, it also means you need a good makeup remover to take it off at the end of the day.

I would recommend not trying to reapply once the product is dry, it tends to clump and isn't the greatest feeling on your lips.

I love the Australis Velourlips Matte Lip Cream. The pigmentation is awesome and I find them easy to apply. They go on smoothly and dry to a nice matte finish. They can be a bit drying but if you use lip balm first they are comfortable. They last a decent amount of time too, but do need to be reapplied after a few hours. The packaging is secure and easy to have in your bag at all times.

I purchased Velourlips in both Mal-i-boo and Tok-i-o as I was wanting to add more colour in my lip collection (I mostly just had tinted balms) and I definitely found it in these!

These are my first matte colours. I've only ever had cream formula lipsticks in the past. I thought my lips were soft and smooth before applying but once on I discovered a dry patch so it's really important to exfoliate first!

My second and subsequent applications I rubbed some coconut oil on my lips then scrubbed some sugar granules into them. After cleaning it off they felt really soft so I applied lip balm and then the velourlips. This was a much better and smoother application.

The applicator is good, but I find it a little difficult to get clean lines around the edges of my lips. This will probably get easier with practice I think. The scent of the formula is nice, a little hard to pinpoint but the closest I can get is probably grape lollies. I didn't think it was too strong until my husband said I went past in a grape scented cloud!

I find that they come off after eating pretty much anything and I haven't been brave enough to attempt re-applying without the exfoliation etc so I don't tend to wear it anywhere that food will be involved.

I love my velourlips, I plan on getting another one in a more nude shade as well. You can see me wearing Tok-i-o on my beauty space photos.

I'm absolutely in love with Velourlips! I was given BAR-THA-LONA and SHANG-HI, and I fell for their colours immediately that I had to get another and ended up buying myself DOO-BAI.

BTL is sort of like a coral pink red. And it's so lovely. If you're going for a summery, pretty look, definitely grab this colour. It really pops out. SHANG-HI is a magenta pink and it is absolutely divine. Definitely my favourite from the three, and I got countless compliments when I wore it out. DOO-BAI is a classic dark maroon, leaning towards oxblood, but definitely not as dark as BUDA-PASH. If you want to try out something daring and vampy, but are a bit too shy of BP's darkness, I definitely suggest going for DB!

Of course, all of these come on wet then dry fast. And they all last relatively long. I remember swatching it on my hand when I first checked them out in Farmers. I swatched in the morning and even after countless rubbing and washing my hands throughout the day there was still an evident mark of the swatches. However, after eating and drinking it does tend to fade around the center of the mouth. Not to the point where it's too obvious, but the great thing is you can always reapply over the faded parts and it won't feel clumpy or messy unlike some liquid lipsticks out there.

It's probably obvious by now, but I highly recommend Velourlips. For the price, you cannot go wrong with these.

Update: I ended up giving away DB to my friend who had been really wanting it, and since I never usually opt for dark colours (I still have yet to feel more comfortable with darker tones!) thought I'd let her have it so she could put it to good use.