Beauty Dish

Review: Avon Bust-Sculpt

Review: Avon Bust-Sculpt Contouring Cream

Avon sent me a preview product a few weeks ago called Bust-Sculpt. It arrived with my regular order in a 5 ounce shiny lavender tube. I picked it up and stared at it for a while, unsure why it was in my order box. After organizing the paperwork in my boxes, I figured out that Bust-Sculpt is brand new, not even in the catalogs yet, and will be introducted with great fanfare in Campaign 19. Avon is gearing up for a big seller. They handed out tubes at the Home for the Holidays expo last weekend, along with a glossy page extolling Bust-Sculpt's incredible virtues.

I don't know why Avon didn't go ahead and promise a Lexus, Brad Pitt, and immortality to every Bust-Sculpt customer because - goodness gracious - they promised everything else. According to the flier, Bust-Sculpt employs an "Exclusive Virtual Bra Technology that forms an invisible network for additional support to the bust area to firm, sculpt, and improve your curves," resulting in a firm bust in just four weeks. The flier boasts impressive statistics of satisfied firm-boobied test subjects and cajoles Avon Representatives into ordering Bust-Sculpt bundles so that crazed customers hungry for bodacious ta-tas will have this product in their hot hands immediately.

Well. This is all and good for Avon, and I'm sure they'll sell a zillion tubes, as American women are rarely satisfied with the firmness and size of their breasts. But does it work? I decided to open the tube and try it myself.

I'm not posting before and after shots of my chest for the sake of this review. I took a before shot, in a demure pink Avon camisole, but decided it was just a smidge beyond my comfort level. You'll have to live with my description of what happened.

The Bust-Sculpt lotion is white and creamy and smells a little like Vaseline. The instructions tell you that the stimulating botanicals in the cream works instantly to revive a tired bosom. You apply the thick cream in an upward motion, once a day. The first time I spread the cream on the underside of my breasts, ready to sweep upward, I noticed an odd swelling sensation, just short of tingle. I spread it up and up and up but I had to end up spreading it in circles to get it to absorb into my skin. I wondered why the upward motion was necessary and worried that all the circles would do something strange to my breasts. I didn't see a difference the first day, but they felt almost swollen, and more firm in the way that a balloon with more air is more firm than a ballon with no air at all.

Over a couple of weeks the Bust-Sculpt continued to supply the same sensation. In all honesty, when I look in the mirror, stark naked, with the critical eye of a media-saturated woman, I can see a teeny tiny difference in the firmness and size of my breasts. They are a teensy weensy bit larger, and a smidgen firmer. They weren't that small to start, so perhaps smaller breasted women will have better results. And as far as that Exclusive Virtual Bra Technology goes - Ya Right. There's no way in heck I can get away with wearing no bra, with or without the Bust-Sculpt.

Overall, the Bust-Sculpt provides an interesting sensation and a small amount of firming and smoothing and enlarging to the breasts. I personally won't continue using this product, only because I think my ta-tas are just dandy the way they are, thank you very much.

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