I also dislike buying foundation because when I run out I have a hard time finding the one I just used. Probably because I don’t use it very often and it takes me a while to go through a bottle, it seems like when I want to buy exactly what I just used up it’s been discontinued. Or they’ve changed the bottle and I don’t know what it looks like. Or I don’t know if my color was Sandy Beige or Softly Neutral. And you know how it is when your makeup has been sitting in your makeup drawer for a while – the name of the brand has rubbed off, the little itty bitty sticker that has the name or number of the shade is long gone... (Which, by the way, is an advantage of shopping Avon with me. I can tell you exactly what you bought, even if it was six months ago. =))
Anyway, I always end up at the drug store staring at a the 50 brands of foundation, each with 75 shades, and have to take a wild eyed guess as to which one is the one for me. And, inevitably, I choose wrong. And rather than trudge back to the store to try to return it and get the right one I end up with yet another bottle of wrong makeup sitting in my drawer. (Oh! Another advantage of shopping Avon with me – we have a 100% money back guarantee even if your product has been used. I mean, how else do you know if you like it if you don’t use it, right?)
So, the point of this little tirade is that I just bought and tried Avon’s IDEAL
SHADE Custom Shade Foundation Lotion SPF 15. I love it! Love. It. First, there are only three shades to choose from: Light, Medium and Medium Deep. I chose the medium because with summer coming, I will get some color on my face. It’s a little weird at first. It comes out of the tube white and will then change to the color that is right for you. How awesome is that?!? No standing in the makeup aisle guessing!
So I put it on two different ways. First, the way I do with my regular foundation, using a damp makeup sponge to move it around and even out the application. The next time I did it the way I do my tinted moisturizer, putting some on my hands, rubbing them together and then rubbing them on my face (sophisticated, huh?). I’m not sure one way is better than the other except that you probably use less product doing it carefully with a sponge.
In the end, it totally came to a color that looked natural for me!
This foundation is sheer, much like the tinted moisturizer and I like that. But if you’re trying to get more coverage, then another one of Avon’s foundations is probably better for you. The Custom Shade Foundation is more matte than the tinted moisturizer so I didn’t need to use any powder to dampen any shininess.
Also, as I said in my last post, I’ve been trying Avon’s new Anew Solar Advance Sunscreen Face Lotion SPF 45 on my décolletage to see if it can help improve the texture of that skin which has been abused like crazy over the years.
Well, I’ve used it 3 or 4 times now and I have to say that the skin in that area is softer. It’s in such bad shape, though, that I’m not expecting miracles. But the sunscreen does have a nice fragrance and isn’t sticky or oily or anything else that you don’t want your sunscreen to be.
Oh, and just a reminder that Mother’s Day is just around the corner. May 8th, to be exact.
Until next time…
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