[Aprill]

Ideal Shade Smooth Mineral Makeup by Avon is a lightweight powder foundation that comes in 12 shades and blends perfectly with all skin types for sheer coverage and a flawless finish. Created with Precise-Light Technology, the formula contains light-adjusting pigments so skin looks natural and light. Price: $10.00.

Add sweeps of stunning color and metallic, sparkling finish to your lids with Mineral Eyeshadow Shimmers by Avon. These shimmers comes in 4 shades and have a soft, natural consistency that glides on effortlessly and blends seamlessly, letting you take your look from day to night in a blink of an eye. Wear alone or layer with intensity. Price: $8.00.

[citre]

I have their radiance blush, and I love it! I've yet to try their foundation though.

[Adrienne]

I'm too scare that they just jumped the bandwagon with everyone else. my sister in law ordered a blush so i'll see how that comes out.

[laurie_lu]

According to the ingredients, it 'may' contain the dreaded Bismuth Oxychloride.

Ingredients
IDEAL SHADE Smooth Mineral Makeup
MICA
TITANIUM DIOXIDE
KAOLIN
ZINC PCA
SODIUM HYALURONATE
SODIUM PCA
LECITHIN
UREA
C12-15 ALKYL BENZOATE
SILICA DIMETHYL SILYLATE
WATER/EAU
LAURYL PCA
TREHALOSE
ASCORBYL PALMITATE
ATELOCOLLAGEN
PHENYL TRIMETHICONE
BETA-CAROTENE
POLYQUATERNIUM-51
RETINYL PALMITATE
SODIUM CHONDROITIN SULFATE
TOCOPHEROL
NYLON-12
METHYLPARABEN
PROPYLPARABEN

MAY CONTAIN:

IRON OXIDES
BISMUTH OXYCHLORIDE


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[Stellaria]

Sounds like yet another "everyone wants mineral makeup, so we'll make our usual stuff look like mineral makeup and slap the word 'mineral' on it so they'll buy it" like all the other big-name companies have been doing.

Aside from the "dreaded bismuth oxycloride", I'm more concerned about the urea, parabens, and synthetic "vitamins". Bleah.

[Arielle123]

I have to say that I'm not a big fan of the foundation. I have an eyeshadow around here somewhere that I haven't tried yet but the foundation didn't match me at all in color (though they've added a few more colors recently I believe) and was just all around horrible IMHO. I love avon in general - their skincare and makeup has gotten pretty good for in between drugstore and high end stuff. But personally I can't recommend the mineral foundation.

Everybody's jumping on the mineral bandwagon can't say that it's necessarily a good thing when it's usually not really mineral makeup. At least it's spreading the word though and maybe people will go out there and get 'real' mineral makeup

[laurie_lu]

There is a woman over at the Delphi Mineral Makeup Mania forum who was an Everyday Mineral User and switched to the Avon mineral makeup and claims to like it much more. I've seen pictures of her with the makeup from both brands on and I have to admit the Avon looks better on her.