Price Differences

For us girls living in Australia, maintaining beauty at a reasonable cost can be a fairly tricky thing to do considering our inflated prices. To all my international followers, I'd love for you to read this so you can see just how difficult we have it over here!

Let me also just add that everything I write here is in now way an attack on the products or companies! I love the companies and products VERY much, and this is just a little rage about how much it costs us in comparison to everyone else in the world!

I've given you just two examples of basically identical websites, one with the U.S. pricing and shipping, and one with the Australian pricing and shipping. 

Firstly, Jurlique. I am in love with Jurlique, and in now way do I actually blame them. (Without getting too much into the whole idea of this, but the price inflation is due to taxes in place by our government, not the company themselves.)

As you can see here on the left, the Herbal Recovery Gel 30ml goes for $48US, whereas on the right, you will see us ladies here in Australia are paying $72AU for this product. Let me just remind you, Jurlique is an Australian company. This product is apparently produced only a few short hours away from where I live. How can this even be justified?

I know that the exchange rate is constantly changing, but as I sit here now, the exchange rate is as follows:
AU Dollar: $100
US Dollar: $95.52

Not a huge difference, certainly not over $20 worth of difference. 

My next example for you is MAC. I love MAC. I crave MAC. In no way do I blame MAC for this price difference!
As you can see here, the US website is currently selling their 190 Foundation Brush for $33US. Already pretty expensive for one brush, am I right? But look at the Australian website. $75AU for one brush? That's just laughable.


A few other examples that I have noticed:
Egyptian Magic Cream 
$37.20US vs. $72.00AU

Stila "In The Moment" Palette
$39.00US vs. $80.00AU

Smashbox "Be Legendary" Lipstick
$19.00US vs. $28.95AU

O.P.I Shatter
$8.50US vs. $19.95AU

Too Faced Natural Eye Collection
$36.00US vs. $59.95AU


This is just a taste on the kind of price difference us ladies from down under are finding with our products. I'm not meaning at all to attack anyone - the companies, or our government, I just wanted to share just how disappointing these price differences are to us girls who are just trying to be fashion forward with the rest of the world. It's a very expensive task to be up to date with the latest make-up (let alone fashion, but let's not even go there!) and unfortunately there is far too much ignorance for this very troublesome trend to be fixed.

It is unfortunate that our government is also trying to add a tax to online shopping, trying to save our Australian shops. So I really just want to spread this message to all the girls out there who are completely fed up with paying over $70.00 for a single brush whilst someone else out there is paying less than half of that! We shouldn't have to put up with this - especially not when we are TRYING to buy local (ahem Jurlique) and are punished for it!



Just wanting to add again, in NO way am I attacking these brands. Love them, will continue buying them, just unfortunately not from Aussies, I'll be looking overseas for these products.)