If you're a fan of affordable beauty products and tools, such as I am, you will no doubt be familiar with e.l.f. Cosmetics - November brand of the month over at RY.com.au - who kindly sent me a generous haul of goodies to put to the test! RY (Recreate Yourself) is an Australian beauty site bringing you the best in cosmetic, hair and skin goodness, and I've worked with them before when they kindly introduced me to The Ordinary skincare.


Hailing from another three letter initialism, NYC, e.l.f. Cosmetics (Eyes Lips Face) have been bringing their super affordable yet good quality offerings to beauty lovers since '04 when we were all about baby pink super glossy lips, shimmery blush, thin brows and bronzer for daaaaaayz.

I have picked up a few products from e.l.f in the past and have had good results. In particular, I like their brushes and think their quality punches well above the price point.

So let's have a look at what I got sent . . .


First things first, the Tone Adjusting Face Primer. I am a recent convert to the practice of priming regularly and although this looked significantly like wasabi on application . . .


. . . there was no burn as I applied to my face for a colour-correcting siky finish.

The rest of the face base includes this Foundation Palette that allows you to blend a custom shade, whatever the season, with the excellent Ultimate Blending Brush.


Moving on to the eyes, the surprisingly pigmented Best Friend eyeshadow duo gives good colour pay-off while the Mineral-Infused Mascara and Precision Liquid Eyeliner are pretty reasonable options given the price. The Eyeshadow "C" brush is just the right texture and shape for blending around the eyes.


More face action with the Contouring Blush and Bronzer duo in St Lucia which packs a pigmented punch and requires a light hand on application (lesson learned!). The beautifully shimmery Baked Highlighter in Pink Diamonds sweeps nicely onto the cheeks and the double-ended Day To Night Lipstick Duo in I Love Pinks (so true) is the perfect product to keep in your work drawer to take you from desk to dusk.


Finishing up as the name suggests with the Beautifully Bare Finishing Powder, a light translucent offering in a sturdy compact complete with applicator sponge, and Makeup Mist and Set Spray, both ideal as we come into the sweaty season.


Here's the face I threw together using all of the above. It was very rushed, and if you saw my Instagram post that day, you understand:


This Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend, you can hit up RY.com.au for a number of deals on your favourite products so I suggest you check it out post-haste.

Have you used e.l.f. products before? Thoughts and feels?

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These products kindly gifted for review by RY.com.au. All thoughts, feels, images and $10 Kmart canvas prints are mine. For more information on working with Almost Posh, please see my PR & Media policy.

At the start of the year, I had grand plans of doing a monthly "never say never" challenge, but in the immortal words of Powderfinger, this life turned out nothing like I had planned.

So let's talk jumpsuits. I assume I was dressed in romper suits as an infant and have vague recollections of a lime green playsuit type affair sometime in the early 90s but that's the last time I wore any kind of all-in-one legged garment.

The term jumpsuit always conjured up images of tight disco-style shiny arrangements or 80s shoulder-padded Dynasty numbers so I kept myself well away from those kind of style shenanigans until they started reappearing in recent years in a more subdued form.

My thoughts then changed to be more along the "yes, all well and good but not flattering for someone 161cm tall with thighs / mum tum / mum bum" but my friend Claire changed my mind in the ensemble she rocked for Australia Day last year that was indistinguishable from a dress. In the spirit of Never Say Never and thanks to some ASOS voucher credit, I took a chance on this one.

I was concerned as there were no size 12s left so I took a gamble on the 10.

Bad move. I couldn't even get it done up at the back, never mind the hot mess at the front.



In a moment of madness, I took another gamble on ASOS's jumpsuit selection but I feel like I may have done a bit better . . .





Verdict: Never Say Never!

Do you have an opinion on jumpsuits? Would you wear one ever / again?

So we're a week into November and I'm only just getting around to bring you the Style Cost spend for October.

Not going to lie, last month was hectic. I had my birthday, a number of events including the Spend-Less SS 17/18 launch and I resigned from work. So things have been a bit chaotic lately and I have had very little motivation to get organised / dress nicely / take photos because, well, stress.

Being my birthday month, I was tempted by plenty of special retail offers, some I took up, some I did not. Some I took up and then took back when they weren't right.

The first pop was two dresses from Little Party Dress, whose wares I have been admiring on fellow bloggers for some time. I got the Kenzie Paparazzi print and the Megan in navy floral and got 10% off my first purchase.



Yeah, that's a compression sock on my ankle. I jumped down the stairs racing to answer the phone and blew my ankle out. As I mentioned, chaotic, stress etc.

I bought a couple of dresses from eShakti but I'm not sure what to do about them yet. I haven't worn them, haven't photographed them so I'm just pretending they don't exist right now. Bear with me.

As I mentioned, I went to the Spend-Less launch and came home with no less than four pairs of new shoes kindly gifted which was very pleasing, as you can imagine.


I got a Mimco $15 birthday reward and used it during my styling session at Rundle Place with muh girl Jenni from Styling Curvy on two pairs of earrings, the Rock Solid hoops and the Sweet Dream drops in rose gold (surprise surprise). These ended up being $40 each after the reward and my $20 booking fee redeemable on products. I also won a $10 voucher for Rundle Place. Yay!

Also with a birthday 15% off, I went to Best & Less and picked up an $8 top off the clearance rack. I haven't worn it yet and I'm not sure if I will but I think it just hasn't been warm enough since to think about it.

I grabbed a dress from ASOS to wear for my DJ turn on Halloween. I'm not sure if I'll wear it normally so it may end up in the dress-up box but it was $93 marked down to $45 so that was good enough. By the way, my hair is still goddamn green.


Finally, my friend Ali from Philosophy Australia sent me a STUNNER of a top that I cannot wait to wear, except it's gone back to being criminally cold in Adelaide (I am literally in front of the heater right now) and it's sleeveless, so I'll have to be patient.

I must apologise for the slapdash nature of this post and hope I can bring you the quality you've come to expect from Almost Posh next month, however given I could soon be without income, the only thing I'm looking for at the moment is a decent interview outfit.

Monthly totals

Items acquired: 13
Total RRP ticket "value" - $802.66
Total paid - $292.31
YTD spend - $2,166.76
YTD "value" - $5,083.02

How's your life treating you at the moment?