AC ON TOUR: First Impressions

Recently I posted about finally being able to find the AC on Tour contour palette in Big W after every priceline I attempted to find it in was sold out!
A much more affordable (and easier to access for us Australians) version of the ABH contour palette, the colour pay off is amazing! Its almost too good and with my first go, I was a little heavy handed and ended up with a very dramatic result!
The Top row are the highlighters: 

•  Matte Pale Cream with pale pink undertone
• Matte Yellow
• Champagne shimmer

The bottom row are the shading colours:

• Matte medium warm brown
• Matte ash brown
• Matte dark warm brown

 Below is the before photo. I would usually do a cream contour with my Kryolan foundation however for the sake of an honest review I have used my Australis 16hr wear foundation in natural fawn and set with Mac studio fix powder in NC30 only.

Right is the after photo. Can you see what I mean by pigmented? You should have seen it before I blended! This palette has some serious colour pay off and im in LOVE! 

Above I used the bottom centre brown, the yellow & the champagne. 

The matte brown I used was slightly hard to blend at first, It took a little love with a Mac duo fibre brush to really work it into my foundation. However the colour is a perfect dupe for natural shadow and looks amazing in person and on camera. I added a little of the far right bottom shade (deep warm brown) to help blend and act a little like a bronzer. 

I went on to shade my nose, chin and hair line and overall this palette is really amazing and I can see why its sold out everywhere, I will absolutely be buying another! 

Last Image: Mac Blush in blush baby added 

Individual colour review:

Matte pale cream with pale pink undertone

Very pigmented, I would love to use this to set under my eyes during the day. It takes out the "ashy" finish some of my less-fabulous under eye products have.  

Matte Yellow 

Hands. Down. My. FAVE!

I used this to set my under eye area and it was GLOWING, I wouldn't recommend for day time however as its very strong and left me very very light. But for a night time, I can tell this is going to run out very quickly!

Champagne highlighter 

Beautiful, but subtle. This colour makes a gorgeous day time highlighter or brow bone highlighter but for night time I would use something a bit more pigmented.

Matte medium warm brown

I can see myself using this colour the least. Not because it isn't nice, simply because if I'm pale ill use the centre brown and if i'm tan and need a warmer colour I would use the far right. I see this as slightly unnecessary for my skin tone however for somebody else it might be amazing. 

Matte ash brown

Second fave out of the palette! Perfect contour colour, looks exactly like shadow! Has zero warmth and (once blended) works perfectly. Absolutely ADORE!

Matte dark warm brown 

Very similar to a bronzer. Its also very warm so I wouldn't recommend using only this colour to contour as it may look a touch orange but mixed with the ash brown its amazing.