And some photos with the eye makeup.

Formula of these seems a bit wet. If you apply small amount you can see that the pearls provide a very finely milled pearl finish with some added small shimmer. The more you apply it the more intense it looks. I have to say that it looks very natural and gives a nice shine. 

I compared it to some other highlighters. It's similar to P2 Glow Up! Highlighter in 021 High Beam when it comes to shade, but P2 is a lot more metallic, shinier and has a definite warm gold sheen to it. theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer is a lot more intense  and metallic. Shade is obviously very different, because this one is yellow gold. Avon Face Pearls are the most subtle looking of them all.

They are pigmented, but very light in color. It's something for very light to light skin tones. It might even work on medium skin tones. It gives a slight bit of pink sheen to it (which is a bit cooler), but mostly it's very white. It's almost pearly shiny, not in that obvious metallic way and the shimmer is very small.

The staying power is average. It fades through the day. By the end of the day, it looks very mixed in with the skin and just slightly noticable. 

Face Pearls are for those that like natural, but still shiny in a non obvious way finish of their highlighters. It's on the cooler side. The shade is very light and perfect for fair skin tones. Since I am a highlighter freak and I love warm toned highlighters, pearls obviously didn't impress me that much. I also like a really obvious highlighter, which this one is not. It's very natural and a lot less shiny than most of my highlighters. It's a very good natural looking highlighter, just not after my own taste. 

Avon Angled Face Brush

Face brush comes with a matte black handle with shiny, but not metallic LE design on it. The bristles are white, but brown colored at the tips and synthetic. The regular price of it is 8€. 

Bristles are cut in an angled way, which means this is great for applying highlighter and contour. It also says to be used with blush, but I like my blush applied with a rounder or flat brush, not an angled one. 

The bristles are extra soft, which is always a win in my opinion. I personally adore soft brushes and am always on a search for more really soft ones. This is definitely one of the softes brush that I own. It's still dense enough that it nicely picks up the product and because of the shape does all the work for you. Size is perfect for fitting in the contours and highlights of the face.

It applies highlighter in a nice C shape.

I also really like it for contouring, because you can create fairly sharp lines, but still blend them out a little. 

Brush is definitely a winner in my opinion and I would love to try some other brushed from them. Especially powder brush.

Here is also makeup look where I used all the products mentioned in this post.

You can get all the products in Avon's regular range in any Avon campaign. 

* Products were sent to me by Avon. 

Primerjala sem jih z drugimi osvetljevalci. Kroglice so podobne P2 Glow Up osvetljevalcu v 021 High Beam, vendar je ta bolj kovinski in ima očitem zlat sijaj. Če primerjam z theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer, je ta veliko bolj intenziven in kovinski. V odtenku si sploh nista podobna, saj je ta tipično rumeno zlat. Avonove kroglice so najmanj očitne izmed vseh.

So dobro pigmentirane, vendar je odtenek zelo svetel. To je zagotovo nekaj za zelo svetlo do svetlo polt. Mogoče celo za srednjo. Daje rahel roza sijaj (ki je bolj hladen), ampak podlaga je zelo svetlo bela. Gre bolj za bisernat sijaj in ne tisti očiten kovinski. Bleščice so zelo majhne.

Obstojnost je povprečna. Skozi dan zbledi. Ob koncu dneva je precej pomešano s kožo in izgleda zelo manj intenzivno kot ob nanosu.

Kroglice so za tiste, ki želijo precej naraven a tudi sijoč videz z ne očitnim kovinskim finišem. Je bolj hladen in zelo svetel odtenek primeren za vse svetlopolte. Ker sem sama obsedenka z osvetljevalci in ker obožujem osvetljevalce s toplim podtonom me seveda ta ni preveč navdušil. Meni so tudi bolj všeč očitni osvetljevalci, ta pa je precej naraven in veliko manj sijoč kot moji drugi osvetljevalci. Vsekakor je to dober dokaj naraven osvetljevalec, ki pa ni po mojem okusu.

Avon kotni čopič

Čopič ima mat črno držalo s svetlečim dizajnom omejene kolekcije. Ščetine so bele, ampak pobarvane na rjavo na konicah in sintetične. Redna cena čopiča je 8€.

Čopič je zame zagotovo zmagovalec. Z veseljem bi preizkusila še kakšne druge njihove čopiče, sploh čopič za nanos pudra v prahu.

Na fotografiji lahko vidite kako izgleda makeup, ko uporabim vse tri izdelke.  

Vsi izdelki so na voljo tudi v redni Avonovi liniji (niso omejeni samo na omejeno kolekcijo). Izdelke lahko kupite tukaj.

*Izdelke mi je poslalo podjetje Avon. 

If you don't have any empty BB cushion case, you can buy it from sites like Ebay. They sell some empty cases of other BB cushion brands and I think there are even some DIY empty cases for the purposes that we're doing today. It's also a nice way to recycle your old, but used up cases. No need to throw it away. Plus you'll be making your own BB for a fraction of the price. 

I cleaned out the whole case and at the end I sprayed and cleaned it with some alcohol. I have this Brush Cleaner spray bottle filled with alcohol. You can read how I made it here. This will kill all leftover bacteria. I obviously also cleaned my puff and the actual sponge cushion with soap and let them air dry. 

You'll need some sort of bowl to mix your BB in. I used glass bowl, because it's the easiest to clean. Spatula is to help you mix it all together without touching it and putting in additional bacteria from your fingers. 

After that you take your favorite moisturizer or multiple moisturizers and you add them in. Then you'll add foundation. I also added white foundation to make it lighter, because most of my foundations are a bit too dark for my current skin tone. I also added a bit of liquid highlighter for some luminosity (you don't need to do this, if you don't want it to be dewy). You can also add sunscreen, but since my moisturizers have SPF in them, I didn't add any additional sunscreen. I might add this in in the summer, when I'll need some more protection. 

The ratio of these depends on what kind of BB you'd like to have. If you want it to be high coverage and more on the matte side use small amount of matte or lightweight moisturizer and add more foundation. You'll get higher coverage. If you're looking for something moisturizing and lighter coverage add more of the moisturizer. You can also add liquid highlighter to add additional dewiness. It's all up to you. 

I personally mixed it so that I got lighter medium coverage with some dewiness from my very moisturizing and glowy face cream and a touch of liquid highlighter. 

When you mix it all up, try it. If you don't like it, add more of what you think it needs.

When you're satisfied with your mixture pour it in the case. Make sure to fill it about two thirds. If you fill it up too much you'll get spillage from sides of the sponge. 

Whatever is left in the bowl scrape it out with the cushion that's in the case. No need to waste product. Then you slowly press the sponge into the case and it's ready to be used.

You'll need to press puff onto the cushion to saturate it and transfer the BB to it. Then you just apply it on your face. It's all so easy and fool proof. You just dab it in the cushion and onto the face. So easy. It blends on itself and no need for brushes or mixing up the right shade or using moisturizer before. 

This is optional step, but if you'd like to make it more personal, you can print out sticker to put on top of the case. I made this hearts leopard print design and wrote my blog's name in the middle. I printed it on a sticker paper (you can get these in most stationary stores) and then I applied transparent foil over it (the one that we used to use in school to wrap text books in). This will protect your sticker from water and other dirt. Your print will stay intact and you'll have your very own BB cushion.

Isn't this the cutest thing ever? Ever since I tried BB cushion, I thought of doing my own version with my favorite foundations. It's so practical to carry around and use for touch ups. It's also the easiest way of applying your base and the puff that comes with it does all the work for you. It blends beautifully. It also means that you have one product to put on in the morning instead of three - moisturizer, foundation and SPF. 

Obviously this is by no means my idea. I've seen it in multiple videos and blogs, but I just wanted to share this idea with you and my version of it to inspire you and shorten your morning makeup routine.

I've also added a bit of demonstration. On the left side is my skin without BB and on the right side is my skin with the BB. On the bottom photo is how it looks like with my complete makeup look.

This looks a lot more orange in the pan than it does on the skin. If you take a glance at it, you would think another orange blush, but it's much more dimensional on the actual skin. 

The base of it it's pretty pink, but golden sheen on top of it makes it look coral. It's such a unique shade and the golden sheen on it is everything. 

Mary-Lou Manizer is my favorite highlighter of all time and it's a light golden champagne shade. Hot Mama has a darker and more yellow golden sheen on top of it, but the formula of gold sheen seems very similar to Mary. It's finely milled and it gives a beautiful sheen rather than glittery look.

Texture is a tiny bit wet, which means it stays on like crazy. It's one of the most long lasting blushes that I own. I can wear this the whole day and at the end it still looks exactly the same. 

It's also crazy pigmented so be careful when applying it. You need the tiniest amount on the brush. Sometimes I struggle to apply just a light flush, because I almost always overdue it. 

It gives the cheeks a very natural healthy flush of color and makes them stand out a bit more, because of the gold sheen. You could probably skip highlighter with this blush, if you don't like it to be too glowy. The glowy sheen makes it look very fresh and dewy looking which I really like.

Obviously you can also wear this on your eyes and it works great there too, but I always use it as a blush. 

I usually go for peach blushes and I very rarely use pink. Hot Mama is the perfect coral addition to my collection. I have nothing that's the same color. The one that comes closest to it, it's blush shade from Makeup Revolution Ultra Sculpt and Contour Kit in Ultra Fair C01. In the pan they look exactly the same, but once swatched, this one is even more gold, peachier and lighter. Hot Mama is a lot more pigmented and the gold sheen is not as obvious. Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso has the most similar finish, except that Hot Mama has a bit more sheen to it and more glow. 

I absolutely love the finish of this blush. Gold sheen is everything to me. If the base would be a bit peachier, I would probably wear it all the time. But because it's pink based, I like to pair it with more brighter lip colors and not so much with my very neutral makeup looks. It's crazily pigmented and stays on my skin the whole day. I think the price is good for the amount you get, but is on a bit more expensive side. If you love coral shades and adore highlighting blushes with golden sheen, you'll definitely love this.

*Product was sent to me for review purposes.