Avon Big Colour Eye Pencil

I love make-up. I'm not sure I'll ever be able to explain just how much I love it. I'm not the kind of girl that can't leave the house without a face full of the stuff; I am the kind of girl whose idea of a fun night in is to sit in front of a mirror with my entire make-up collection and systematically try all of it on. To give you a rather worrying insight into life chez louiseypees, around once a fortnight I am to be found in my slobbiest pyjamas, comfiest slippers and a headband over my scraped-back hair... with a full face of make-up, incorporating quite dramatically different looks on each eye (and occasionally each half of my mouth), doing the washing up. As my ...  Read the complete review

In brochure five from Avon for 2009 we see the all new and improved Big Colour Eye Pencils. They are basically the same as before, a dual-ended shadow and highlighter eye pencil, only now they are waterproof and in a different range of shades. Shades include: Blue Azure with Frosted Ice (blue and ivory) Burnished Copper with Golden Glamour (bronze and pale gold) Plum Passion with Angel Mist (purple and lilac) Green Dream with Hint of Mint (forest and mint greens) They each cost £7 although they are presently on offer for £5 each in the current brochure. I had been disappointed with the previous incarnation of this ...  Read the complete review

I bought this eye pencil from the Avon book because it had some really nice colour options and it looked like it would be handy and easy to use. It cost £5 when I bought it, but they've since repackaged it and it is now £7 for a dual-ended one. The pencil is just like a big chunky black crayon or pencil crayon, with a see through plastic lid. The lid pulls off and is easy to fasten tightly enough so that it won't come off in a make-up bag. Because the pencil is chucnky you will need a large pencil sharpener to use with it, rather than the normal sized cosmetic sharpeners. The pencil is very easy to use. The tip is quite rounded, so you can't achieve ...  Read the complete review

I'm a sucker for make up and like to buy differently designed products a lot of the time for the quirky aspect and I like it that Avon do come up with some unusual ideas that none of the other make up companies clock onto. The idea of these Big Colour Eye Pencils is a wicked one but its a shame the pencil does live up to it. They are a chunky pencil that have 2 complimentary colours, one at each end. One end is to be used to highlight your eye area and the other end is your actual eye shadow. I only brought one and I'm glad I did because they don't do what they're supposed to and it's hard to achieve a well made up look with it. I have got the ...  Read the complete review

I bought the double-ended version of this pencil as I liked the colour options-I have Plum Passion and Angel Mist. Angel Mist is a shimmery lilac colour and the Plum Passion is at the red end of the plum spectrum. My main problem wth this product is that the two colours do not go together as a base and shader! In the brochure it looks fine but try it yourself and you look like you've picked up the wrong colour! However, waste not want not I have now decided to use the product in a different way which I find infinitely more useful: it is my standby for when I have woken too late in the morning and have very little time to do my make-up. This is due to the ...  Read the complete review