Avon Shimmer Tips Mascara

I personally found this product very dissapointing. I ordered it around christmas time, after seeing it in the avon brochure. The girl modelling the mascara had long dark lashes with lots of little silver sparkles at the end of the lashes. Imagine my dissapointment then, when I applied the mascara to my own lashes and saw.... NOTHING! It is very similar to a clear mascara in that when applied over your own black or brown mascara, it gives a kind of gloss to your lashes, but as for sparkles or, indeed "shimmer tips" I remain unconvinced. The price of this mascara was £7.00, which I normally wouldn't dream ...  Read the complete review

I love Christmas. It borders on obsession. I start to get twitchy for Christmas CDs in about August, and I've had most of my Christmas shopping this year done since September. This isn't because I'm super-organised. It's just because I get so excited. I can't help myself, and it's the same every year. So I was pretty darned excited to see that there was a ton of sparkly Christmas-y make-up in the latest Avon catalogue, and ordered up a ton of the stuff. Included in my haul was a gold Shimmer Tips Mascara. Now one of the problems with Avon make-up is that there is so little information in the catalogues about what you're actually getting. Imagine my ...  Read the complete review