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New Avon Lipsticks – Lava Love & Perfect Red

July 22, 2013

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This month Avon are relaunching their entire make-up line, and from what I’ve seen of it so far it looks -very- exciting!

The new lipstick shades were all very tempting, but I settled on Perfect Red and Lava Love.

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The first thing to note is the new packaging which is much more stylish than the old curved tubes. The Lipsticks are now squared with the same thin silver band, and rather handily have a clear end so you can quite easily see the shade.

The formula is very creamy and easy to apply, and has a lovely glossy finish, my only complaint as a whole is that Perfect Red is not really very red!

 

Avon lipsticks swatch

 

Lava Love is a gorgeous orangey red, perfect with a simple winged liner for every occasion. I wore this at the Dakesis photo-shoot yesterday and it looked great in the test pictures – I think this might be my new go-to on-stage red!

Perfect Red is far too brown to be considered a red at all in my book, it is still a lovely shade but not one I think I will be digging out very often.

 

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These lipsticks will be launching on the next Avon campaign where they will be available online or from your local Avon lady!

 

Totally hellbent for…er lipstick duh!

– Gem

 

 

Nails, NOTD

NOTD – Avon Opalesce

July 11, 2013
Avon opal Nails

Photographed in natural sunlight

 

I’ve been wanting to try out a flake-glitter topcoat for a while, and when I saw this blue tinted one from Avon I simply had to try it.

There’s two coats of Avon Speed Dry in Fast Time Teal as the base (one of my favourites as you can see from how much I’ve already used! I love fast dry nails, as I really can’t stand waiting for them to dry!

The Avon Top Coat in Opalesce didn’t seem to have much pay-off by way of glitter at first but when I pressed the brush down a little firmer I got way more flakes off the brush and onto my nails!

I used two coats of the top coat to get a half jelly look!

Avon nails varnishes are available online or from a local Avon representative.

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Totally hellbent for blue and glitter ALWAYS

– Gem