I'll never go topless again!!! (Avon Glimmersticks Eye Liner)

Member Name: michaird

Product:	Avon Glimmersticks Eye Liner
Date:	09/12/02 (195 review reads)
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Advantages: Never have to sharpen it, Can get the thin eyeliner look or the smudgy kohl pencil look, Usually on special offer, I've never lost a top yet

Disadvantages: Not the best staying power

There's nothing worse than stumbling drunkenly into a night-club toilet, falling unceremoniously into the cubicle and puking your last three days food and the entire evenings drink into a toilet bowl which hasn't been flushed for most of the evening, yet it has still been used.

While it may be a waste of alcohol and possibly a recently eaten curry (which didn't have carrots in it when it went in, yet predictably it has as it comes out) it also makes you feel a hell of a lot better. You get up, regain you balance, pull your skirt from out of your bum crack and are ready to face the world again.

Almost.

Undoubtedly you look a mess, scraggy hair, blotchy face and smudgy eyes. You know the one; you've been there, haven't you?

And so you reach for that tiny little purse you carry, you know the one. It'll fit a mobile phone, lose notes and change, a credit card and astonishing amounts of make-up. From this tiny little tardis of a purse you will pull out:

Little fold up brush, hair fixed

Foundation and powder compact, skin fixed

Concealer: Smudges under eyes fixed

Lipstick: Lips fixed

Eyeliner: hang on, where's the top? Oh no I don't believe it, I've lost the top and its gone all over my bag. You pull out your last ten-pound note to find a great big blob of eyeliner smeared across the Queen's face. It's blunt. You try to use it but the wooden part of the pencil practically rips your eye open during your clumsy, drunken attempts.

Don't you just hate that?

So do I, that's why I have my glimmer stick.

It comes in a long thin plastic case that tries to be elegant but just misses the mark in a collection 2000 kind of way. There is a small band around the end of the case that tells you which colour you're using, useful if you have different colours like I do. The top clicks on firmly, the most notable thing about

this product is that I have never, in all my years of using it, lost a single top. I have never split the top either. Considering the bottom of my make-up bag is a graveyard for pencil tops, this is impressive.

The stick itself it quite soft and kohl like yet the narrowness of it means that if you like the thin defined look of a hard eyeliner you can get it, if you like the smudgy kohl like effect that is also easily achieved. Personally it depends on my mood and whether or not I have my glasses on.

It goes on quite easily and doesn't smudge (unless you want it too). My main complaint with it is that it doesn't seem to have a lot of staying power, it will almost certainly need reapplying at some point during the night. I have found this to be a flaw with most eyeliners though and don't feel it detracts too much from the product.

You see, where this eyeliner wins out is in the fact that it's a twist action stick. Instead of fumbling around with a pencil sharpener (the shavings from which you almost always just shake into the make-up bag to collect at the bottom with all the old pencil tops) this stick never needs sharpening. When you feel it is getting a bit blunt simply twist out a little bit more. This is what makes it so good for a drunken stupor, as there's no danger of ripping your eye with the shard of wood sticking up from a blunt pencil.

The full price is £5.00 each, Avon are currently running a promotion on their site at £2.99 each. I personally have never paid full price for it, I don't intend to either.

It comes in eight shades:

Blackest black: for the vampy look if you're pale like me.

Green velvet: a kind of grass green, doesn't really appeal to me.

Saturn grey: a silvery grey, again doesn't appeal to me.

Crystal blue: Quite an ABBA blue, not me either.

Cosmic brown: Mid brown, I use this one most often for subtle effect.



Starry night blue: purple tinted blue, quite dark too. I use this one to bring out the green in my eyes (tone down the grey and dead donkey brown hues)

Fiery black: no doubt called fiery as it a charcoal black

Bronze: a copper pink, I can only think this would make your eyes look as if you were ratted, I'd rather get the look by actually getting ratted,

They last quite well and I usually lose them before I run out. I occasionally stray and buy other eyeliners but at the end of the day I always come back to this product due to its superior convenient design

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