Beauty Dish

Review: Avon My Lip Miracle Lipstick

"Let's talk about the power of having it all." So starts Avon's new My Lip Miracle promotion featuring Salma Hayek in the spanking brand new Avon Campaign 20 brochure. Salma is the new face of Avon. The brochure gushes over her acting, directing and social activism accomplishments and in same size print notes that her gorgeous plump lips are covered in My Lip Miracle Berrylicious. And when you see those lips and those comments you think, Wow. I want Salma Hayek's life and lips. You truly do.

The new My Lip Miracle is featured over the first five pages of the brochure, in glossy pages of spring retro navy blue and pea green and mauve. "It's like getting three lipsticks in one! Day to night wear up to 8 hours! Miraculous moisture and shine! Super color stays true all day!" Avon splashes the layout with superlative after superlative. By the time you finish those five pages, you're ready to trash a lifetime of collected colors and buy a truckload of My Lip Miracle, and at the introductory price of only four dollars fifty a tube, you could.

Avon even compares My Lip Miracle to other brand name lipsticks, claiming it is tested and proven superior to Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick, Chanel HydraBase Lipstick, Clinique Different Lipstick, and L'Oreal Endless Lipstick. Shinier, more moisturizing, creamier, and longer wearing, with trademarked Exclusive Intuitive Technology so it knows exactly what you want and what you need!

I chose the My Lip Miracle in Berrylicious as my demo purchase. If I was going to emulate Salma, I wanted to go all the way. You have a choice of twenty colors, layed out in the brochure in warm, cool and neutral tones. I've been wearing the lipstick everyday for two full weeks, applying it once in the wee hours of the morning, and not again - not after eating, drinking, kissing (well I wouldn't have reapplied after kissing if I were so lucky), checking in the evening for color, clarity, and condition of lips.

The lipstick tube is starlight specked navy blue sleek and feels comfortable in the hand. It has a rich feel and weight, and when you remove the top, the underlying tube is shiny robotic silver. The lipstick itself looks lustrous like soaked velvet. It smells fresh, a simple lip color smell. It feels soft and gentle, a kiss of an application, and once it's layered on your lips, you can't tell you're wearing anything. Naked colorful lips. I love the feel. I love the color. I love the way my lips shine and look naked wench wet.

But. To be honest, I'm just not getting the eight full hours out of this lipstick, but I am getting a good five to six hours. Perhaps I should watch how much I eat or quit licking my lips so much. But for those five or six hours, my lips are soft and moist and shiny and colorful, just like Salma Hayek.

This is one Avon product I give two thumbs and two big toes way way up.

Here's the promised photo of my Salma Hayek Berrylicious lips with the big fat blister from my wart freezing escapades at the dermatologist office. You must click on the link to see the photo. Warning! Not for the elderly or pregnant! Not for children! Not for anyone with any sense whatsoever! And if you are male, cute, single, and like Avon Ladies, whatever you do, DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK!!!!

Sigh.

http://www.beautydish.com/wartlips.jpg

I told you so.

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