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EPISODE 120./ Welcome back to another Wedneday and another product trial! This week we're discussing our trial of the Danessa Myricks Colour Fix 24 hr cream colours! With claims to be a hybrid cream colour and long wearing paint, will this be our new holy grail eyeshadow primer, or is the hunt going to continue? Listen in to find out! If you enjoyed this week’s episode and you’d like to support ou...

EPISODE 119./ Let’s start this weeks episode with 5 minutes of finger nails and 5 minutes of peri-oral dermatitis, shall we? You didn’t ask for our life stories specifically. but we assume that’s why you’re here! In news this week. Estee Lauder has partnered with Uber Eats for BEAUTY DELIVERY SERVICES. We discuss the new Vieve glow multi tasking highlighter. Zara Beauty has launched with a delight...

EPISODE 118./ SURPRISE, it's US, on a WEDNESDAY! How excited are you? Here marks the beginning of our first ever dedicated episode for our weekly product trials. This week, we trialled the very new, Mecca Cosmetica Every Day Face Oil. We discuss the claims, ingredients, price, and our thoughts and feelings after trialling this product. If you enjoyed this week’s episode and you’d like to support o...

Happy Monday pod fam! Sorry speech path’s about Alex’s bilabial plosives this week. She got a lip flip.  In beauty news this week, it’s another week and another recycling beauty program as Lush announces their new buy back scheme in conjunction with teracycle. Clean beauty has come to Sephora Australia, beauty is launching at Zara, Sarah’s Day got married and Ultra Violette have teased their...

EPISODE 116./ Starting off this episode a little chaotic off the back of our very first hate mail and a VERY happy engagement to friend of the pod, Armadale Liv!  In beauty news this week, Sunday Riley has been certified as a B Corp, more retailers have joined the TerraCycle beauty recycling program and we discuss the top paid beauty influencers and their reported income per post, per platfor...

Hi fam! Show notes below are a collection of our ramblings and planning for this episode. There's a lot to get through so we won't be providing links but hopefully product names will help you find things :) Bridie : Gift for my mum: loves homewares, is about to build their dream home on the water, loves cooking (not baking) and enjoys a nightly wine 👏🏼💞 > The book I mentioned this week! Juli...

EPISODE 115./ Good morning everyone! (gooood morning Lisa and Alex). We have some important news for you all… Things around here are going to be changing.  We had a catch up with our friends at Acast this week, and we’re keen to get our listener (that’s you)’s input on the updates we’re planning to make to our show! Please tune in to provide us with your feedback - we do this for you and woul...

EPISODE 114./ Happy Monday everyone! Not a heck of a lot of beauty news circling around the internet this week, so we’ve got a little to cover before jumping into a beauty breakdown and a review of the Vieve eyeshadow sticks.  In beauty news, you’ll recall a mini saga last year when it was realised that SPFs out of Korea weren’t performing to the standards they were claiming. Krave beauty rel...

EPISODE 113./ This week’s episode feels like a blast from 2019’s past with the resurfacing of allegations against Beauty Influencer, James Charles for his predatory behaviour against minors. In beauty news we touch on our opinions regarding these allegations, also where the heck Tati Westbook has been, and why some influencers just can’t be cancelled.  Also in beauty news we discuss the impen...

EPISODE 112./ Happy Easter Monday! We hope your bellies are full of chocolate, and your tinned tomatoes only purchased whole.  This week there’s LOTS of beauty news to get through, followed by a snack related ‘I can’t believe you didn’t know that’, our product trial, faves, and snacks.  First up in beauty news, ultimate cool girl Jen Atkin has announced that her and her partner are havin...

EPISODE 111./ We’re high from our shopping spree and keen to tell the world what we spent all our cash on!  Before recording this week, Lisa and Alex hit Chadstone Shopping Centre to take advantage of the Sephora VIB Sale and then of course popped into Mecca to take a sniff of some of their newest fragrances.  This week in beauty news, Colourpop is launching a range with Lizzie McGuire,...

It’s been a chonker of a week for Lisa and Alex, between an anniversary trip away, simultaneously, momentarily despising our partners and Lisa looking the most beautiful she’s ever looked in her life (so far cause wedding hasn’t happened yet), we have a little to bring you up to speed on!  First up in beauty news this week, Rihanna has trademarked the name Fenty Hair to obviously bring hair c...

EPISODE 109./ Hello pod fam! Happy new week and another new podcast episode.  Lots of beauty news to cover from the last week, but firstly, we’ve gotta talk about Lisa’s Youfoodz hunger strike cause it’s the cause of her crazies in this episode.  Kicking off news with another beauty Youtuber pregnancy announcement. Congratulations to Zoella on the announcement of her tiny baby prodigy an...

EPISODE 108./ Hello! Happy Public Holiday Monday to everyone! We hope that you’re out enjoying a long walk on the beach, or with your dog whilst listening to us today. Please give your pooch a pat for us.  In beauty news this week, Ultra Violette has landed on British and EU soil, officially launching in Space NK! In Youtuber chat, Estee Lalonde is celebrating her 10 year anniversary on YouTu...

Episode 107./ Kicking off this week’s episode with the good stuff. A recap of Alex’s Liberty Belle facial! Plus also an introduction to Lisa’s newest foster, Charles.  In beauty news this week, Katie Jane Hughes has launched a beauuuutiful brush collaboration with Spectrum, Deciem have become a billion dollar company, and BECCA has left the building! It’s clearly the end of an era if Becca -...

EPISODE 106./ What a wild last week we had! Whilst Alex suffered through Melbourne’s snap lockdown, Lisa was living her best life up in QLD.  This week in beauty news, we’re giddy with excitement that Milk Makeup is coming to AUSTRAAAALIAAA. Finally. Known best for their kush mascara, cream bronzer and cool-girl attitude.  Lisa got deeeeep into the Lydia Elise Millen hair saga and brings...

Happy Birthday, Lisa and Happy Monday, pod fam! Lisa predicted the future because hey-ho, it’s a shit show in lockdown land again this week!   This week in beauty news everyone is SHOOK about Gigi Hadid’s chaotic evil beauty routine. Let’s just say that she starts with Ceramidin cream followed by a serum … make it stop. We’re obsessed with the packaging (not the contents) of the new Marc Jaco...

EPISODE 104./ We decided to start this week by catching up our new listeners on the back story of us! We chat how Lisa and Alex got into beauty, where we met, and why we decided to start the podcast.  If you don’t care to hear about how Lisa and Alex met, and why we started the podcast, skip forward to: 13:28.  In beauty news this week, there are two new celebs who’ve been appointed as a...

Episode 103 ./ We’re jumping right into beauty news today because there’s lots to cover!  Firstly, It’s Alex here and let me start by correcting myself that for the WHOLE section about Auric Beauty i referred to the platform it launched on as ‘magic dust’ … my auto correct must have screwed me because it’s magic DUSK. I’m embarrassed, let’s move on.  Second most important beauty news is...

EPISODE 102./ We know we’ve done a lot of random rambling of late, so as the title suggests, this is a jam-packed ep with LOTS of beauty chat.  Starting with a little bit of a beauty news segue, we’re excited to kick off this weeks episode with a little chat about a new Australian skincare/dermatology consultation service called QR8. We are very excited to see developments in the tailored com...

EPISODE 101 ./ It’s 2021 and we’re back and better than ever (in our opinion, anyway).  Let us start by bringing you up to speed on our little holiday break and events over chrissy before jumping straight into beauty news!  To catch you all up on Beauty News, we’re starting with the Nikki Tutorials documentary. Whilst we’re glad this mini series exists, we do wish that 1) the eps were lo...

EPISODE 100./ Hello and WELCOME to our LIVE episode! If you're listening here in podcast land, you must have not seen (or don't care about) the video of this live episode over on Instagram at @allbasescovered.pod. If you can't bare the sound, and you'd like to see our faces as we chat through episode 100, please come and watch, and chuck us a follow too! Support this show http://supporter.acast.co...

EPISODE 99./ HAAAAAAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALEX!  Please hold as we begin this episode with the sounds of rustling wrapping paper as Alex opens her birthday gift from Lisa. Don’t worry, garden chat is very much going to be covered once we get the festivities out of the way.  Also please pause whatever you’re doing RIGHT NOW so that you can subscribe to our YT channel. If you DON’T subscribe to...

EPISODE 98./ HO HO HO and a HAHAHA we're back with our FINAL Xmas instalment. Here are our holiday gift options by KK-suitable price point (up to $50) and some additional gifts for those men in your life that you keep complaining are difficult to buy for! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/all-bases-covered . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

EPISODE 97./  The countdown is on! Only a couple of episodes remain until Christmas!  It’s an influencer heavy news week this week with the most exciting news of all being that Lisa and Alex’s best friend (lol) Allana @allanarama has FINALLY gotten engaged to dejan. Of course we already knew because we’re her nearest and dearest friends, but you didn’t … and now you do. Hooray. Also in n...