Review: Avon Vixen Lipstick

Hi! Today I bring you a review/swatch post of a lipstick I am very fond of.

I ordered this lipstick because it looked like such a beautiful color and, surprisingly, it turned out to be very similar to what they had in the little magazine thingy.

I've had bad experiences with ordering lipsticks from Avon and Oriflame and Yves Rocher and such because they looked like something in the paper and turned out to be much lighter or much brighter in real life. But this time I sort of took the risk cause it looked so beautiful in the picture, I had to have it.

This lipstick is from the Hollywood collection, which I believe is limited edition, and its name is Vixen.

The shade Vixen appears to be a deep dark red in the tube but transfers as a deep reddish purple color rather.

It has a very glossy finish and that leads it to transfer a bit less opaque than I would like. 

It has no shimmer to it and you can achieve a good pigmentation by layering it over a lip pencil or by applying multiple layers of the lipstick itself.

After about an hour on the lips, it starts to lose it's glossiness probably because the lips absorb the moisture in it.

This lipstick is, overall, a good lipstick if you're going to do a vampy look or just want to do some autumn makeup, it's perfect for that.

It definitely stands out in a simple makeup, just a wing of eyeliner, mascara and this lipstick will give you a glamorous look just like that.

If you have the patience to work with it to build up a smooth opaque finish, I would totally recommend it.

If you're more into those lipsticks that give you an opaque coverage with one layer, you should forget about this one, it's not at all for you.

I would also not recommend this if you have naturally chapped lips. It would emphasize that and make it look very unattractive. 

I think that this lipstick would be a close match to MAC's Lingering Kiss but, again, I don't have that lipstick, so this is just a guess.

That's it for this week's post, I hope you have enjoyed it.

I hope to do a look next week but I'm not sure who I should inspire it in. I think it's a bit too soon to start doing christmas looks already, so an inspired look it shall be.

Love,

Anna