TIOT: Avon Platinum

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I love the polishes from Avon's Brushed Metals line, they are a textured polish with a ton of sparkle! Today I have Platinum from that line, a gorgeous light blue. These polishes to dry pretty quickly so you can't spend a lot of time on the coats, I find it's better to do 2 quick coats, everything gets evened out that way.

One thing I really like about this line is even though it's a textured polish it's not super textured. You can feel that it's not smooth, but at the same time it does not feel rough. It looks rougher than it feels, does that make sense? The other thing I like so much is like I mentioned above it has so much sparkle to it.

I do like to add my NYC quick drying top coat over it just to make it even shiner.

Clean up, as you can see, does leave little bits of 'glitter' on you, but after showering or washing your hands a couple of times it goes away. I just love it LOL

Haul: Collective Avon

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It has been a while since I have shared items that I've purchased from Avon with y'all, so I am doing a collective haul of the items I have got over the last few campaigns. All but two of the products are brand new items Avon has came out with in the last month or so. I will tell you my first impressions of the products then do a review on them later on after I have used them a little more.


Up first we have Skin So Soft Aroma Therapy 48 hour moisturizer. I got one in each of the available scents, Energizing and Calming. So far I really like these the few times that I have used them.

Next we have a new line of face products from Avon called Avon Elements. I purchased the Avon Elements Moisture Boost, a daily facial moisturizer. I think it does a great job of moisturizing and I also really like the scent it has. I also picked up one of the Skin So Soft roll on deodorants, I have been selling Avon for 7 years now and this is the first one of these that I have tried!

I also picked up another Brushed Metals polish, this one is in the shade Lilac Quartz, but it looks so much like the Textured Topaz one that I featured on the blog. Not very happy with the fact that they look way too much alike. In the brochure this one actually looks like a lilac color. Avon has also came out with their own version of a flakie polish called Opal Top Coat. I'm not sure how I feel about this product yet, I'm going to have to test it quite a bit more before I make a final decision.

Looks gorgeous in the bottle!

Lilac Quartz; Does this look lilac at all?

Lastly I picked up a couple eye products, the first one is a GlimmerSticks Eyeliner in the shade Nocturnal. The best way I can describe this color is a grayish purple. I also got one of the Extra Lasting eye shadow pencils in the shade Topaz Shimmer, and I'm not too happy with it, only because in the book it is shown as a light taupe color and what I got looks nothing like that, it's actually a coppery brown.

GlimmerSticks Nocturnal 

Swatch of GlimmerSticks Nocturnal and Extra Lasting Shadow Stick in Topaz Shimmer

Have you shopped Avon recently? What new products do you want to give a try?

Review: Avon Brushed Metals Polish

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One of Avon's newest collections is the Brushed Metals Collection. It makes me think of the textured polishes that other brands have out. The Brushed Metals do have texture to them and look amazing out in the sun, looks like crushed up gemstones. The color that I have is Textured Topaz. In the following photos I used only one coat, but I think I should have used two because I can see a few 'bald' places on one of my nails.

I really like this polish, it is the first textured polish I have had. It goes on great and has a decent wear time and dries pretty fast, which is always a plus. My pictures do not really show how sparkly it is so I am adding a short video to showcase the sparkle. The video does not show it off as good as it looks in person, the best sparkle I was able to capture was when it was out of focus.

Have you tried the Avon Brushed Metals Polishes?

Also I have a little poll up in the right hand corner of the blog. Would you please take just a second and vote in it? I would appreciate it very much.