Avon: The Rise and Fall of a Beauty Empire
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 เม.ย. 2023
- Avon: The Rise and Fall of a Beauty Empire
Welcome to my latest video about Avon: The Rise and Fall of a Beauty Empire.
For over a century, Avon was one of the most recognizable brands in the beauty industry, known for its iconic "ding-dong" doorbell and a wide range of cosmetics, skincare, and fragrances. The company's sales model, which relied heavily on a network of independent sales representatives, made it one of the most successful direct-selling companies in history.
However, in recent years, Avon has struggled to keep up with changing consumer preferences and increased competition from both traditional brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers. In 2019, the company was sold to Brazilian beauty conglomerate Natura & Co., marking the end of an era for the iconic brand.
In this video, we take a closer look at the history of Avon, its rise to fame, and the challenges it faced in the 21st century. We explore the company's unique sales model, which allowed thousands of women to build successful businesses as Avon representatives, and we examine the factors that led to the company's decline.
We also discuss the impact of Avon's decline on the broader beauty industry, as well as the lessons that can be learned from the rise and fall of this once-great brand. Whether you're a beauty enthusiast, a business owner, or just curious about the history of one of the world's most iconic companies, this video is sure to be an informative and engaging exploration of the Avon story.
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @laurajaneatelier
Vintage Doll Cosmetics:
www.vintagedollcosmetics.com
Earrings:
rstyle.me/+FSFqMp3aSmoRzZ89HR...
Don't Settle Concealer
rstyle.me/+YIe6R5gzJI9hKfDAMh...
Foundation
rstyle.me/+JbfzpJu4SAU7UlZTtT...
Face powder:
rstyle.me/+FeZ7ppwDbElI0IliyB...
Blog:
www.laurajaneatelier.com
#laurajaneatelier #vintagebeauty #history #avon
As a current Avon Rep - I can tell you that we're still around and thriving!! Our product line has evolved over the years. Yes - we still carry a variety of Skin So Soft product but we have sooo much more. We are still in business because we have changed and evolved with our customers.
I still love a number of Avon products! Night Magic perfume is still one of my favorites. I want a new bottle… I’m so careful with the bottle I have!
Can you somehow convince who ever it is that needs convincing to bring back the Electrify Me perfume?!
I still love Avon!
It's lost it's charm..the very thing that made it a success.
2 of my oldest dearest friends sell Avon. Yes, Avon is still going strong.
I love the way the products looked in the 50s/60s. They were absolutely beautiful. I wish companies made the products like that.
I think if they brought back some of the nostalgia it would sell fast ...packaging is everything
I agree , I absolutely love the vintage packaging and have some myself. I would definitely buy anything in beautiful vintage style packaging now . 😊
Women don't where makeup very much anymore so it doesn't surprise me that sales are down.
@@susanbrogan2517 As someone who’s apart of the younger generation it’s the opposite! At my high school and everywhere I go almost every girl my age wears makeup.
@@susanbrogan2517 are you sure about that?
What I remember are the little bitty lipstick samplers! My mom used to let me play dress up with them (supervised of course). They were the perfect size for little hands. I can still remember the sales lady ringing the doorbell and she would literally say: Avon calling! Yes, I'm vintage too.
I too, loved those lipstick samples!
What do you think of their makeup and skin care other than perfumes and bath oil and why is it most people on TH-cam that talk about Avon sell Avon Love your videos!
They brought back those samples 😍
My mother would buy Avon also I like the bubble 🫧 bath and lipstick 💄
When I was a young teen I loved the cute lip gloss tubes, and the little solid perfume compacts.
My mother sold Avon from the early 1970’s until she passed in 2018. I decided to take up her mantle and continue selling in her honor to this day. My sisters and I grew up getting Avon as Christmas and birthday gifts lol. She collected every single piece of the Cape Cod collection, in 6 place settings, which I am now the proud owner of. I don’t make tons of money, but enough to fulfill my Avon habit lol. Ding Dong. Avon calling!
Where can you buy Avon still? Online?
❤❤❤
Nice! I sold Avon from 1987 at age 18 to 2014 when I stopped working. I never made a fortune but. Are enough to keep myself and favorite ladies set up with tons of free goodies!
That's awesome!
Avon needs to bring back all their amazing retro packaging!! At least for a limited time
Definitely. I think that would be so cool. I don't like some of the new packaging.
I still have my Little Bo Peep perfume bottle
I don't consider Avon a MLM company because they have products which you actually sell and when I was an Avon Lady, I never had any pressure to "sign people up" or make a sales quota. It was such a wonderful experience for me in the eighties when my Avon Lady left the catalog, I ordered, and then she brought the order over. I loved "Pearls and Lace"! The catalogs were so beautiful....
When I was in my early 20s, I had a colleague who was an Avon lady. She always had the catalogues in her office. We could borrow it and look at the goods. Sometimes I bought, oftentimes I didn't. Still, it was a pleasure to browse through the catalogue since online shopping & websites weren't common in my country then. I'm in my 40s now and I haven't bought from Avon in ages. Ahh nostalgia... 😊
It's a healthy buisness overall,despite having being a "pyramid".
I am surprised how is considered unsaccefull in the states cause in Europe and Latin America is still relevant and everyone ones something from Avon!
Here in Greece they even do commercials in realities and morning talk shows!
I loved pearls and lace.
Or recruiting others, sorry left that part out
Mlm?
Interesting Video. I worked in Avon manufacturing for many years. I am an oldie 👵🏼 . In 2003, 445 of us were made redundant after the manufacturing had been there since the 1950's.
It went to Poland, we were all devastated , it was a big part of our life and town. As a company we were well looked after.
I saw many many changes through the years and i totally agree the skin so soft aged well.The skin so soft cream was given to the British Army for soldiers because it contained deet ( bugs hate it )
You can imagine the hundreds of different bottles i saw daily and knew instantly what would be a hit and not.
It is a shame that a lot of people were and still are "snobby" about Avon and not admit to using it. Even after all these years Avon mascara is my favourite and the perfumes are not all bad some are devine ( until they reformulate it ) that is a whole different story!
In the 1970,s i wore Bird of Paradise it was exactly the same as Estee Lauder Youth Dew. This still smells the same too i still have a few bottles.
The original formula's are always the best and because of my "nose" i know instantly which ones have been changed . ( it has to be done because of the laws ) this is why you see original formulas of Avon on ebay selling for a lot of money. I saw an original formula of 90's Far Away selling for £74 on ebay. And as soon as a perfume is discontinued prices soar. Crazy i know but if you like the perfume i guess people will pay the price.
I still love Avon still use it and still wear the different perfumes. I am in no way advertising it but apart from all the older ones my favourite has to be Avon Far Away INFINITY. Wow the minute i hear of this being discontinued i will by lots ! I get more compliments when i wear this than with any other perfume i own ( including Chanel) it is lovely
Thank you for this lovely trip down memory lane. A very interesting video.
Take care and all good wishes 💐🇬🇧
I also wear Far Away Infinity. It smells so good!!!
@@tiffanyphares5807 It sure does Tiffany and it lasts forever on the skin, like i said i get lots of compliments, if ever i hear it is getting discontinued i will jump back on here and let you know. Fingers crossed it wont 🤞🏼. Take care Tiffany, 😘
: Edit Spelling
Avon is still Alive I don’t understand the title??
I haven't bought it in years but I liked the Skin So Soft cream in the Soft & Sensual scent.
There was I think a marshmallow spray from them my mom absolutely adored. She said it smelled like cotton candy. My great grandma and grandma worked for avon
When I was a preteen my mom had friends who sold Avon and she'd always get us the rollerball deodorants. I always lived for the catalogs and would pour over them and make a wishlist, but my Mom would only get me the flavored lipbalms. Pineapple was my fave.
My Mom always got me the rollerball deodorants too!
I still use their deodorants! Love them ❤
My aunt sold Avon. It was always a treat when she brought my mother's orders to our home. She always gave me some of the tiny lipstick samples. Loved that!
I absolutely loved when my “Avon Lady” came to my home with the new catalog. We became friends, and to this day I have many items that I bought from her in the 80’s. One item is scissors that came with a holder that attached by magnet to the refrigerator. These scissors are still on my refrigerator today! I have had many refrigerators but only one pair of magnetic scissors from Avon!
I was an Avon Representative and then Sales Leader for 19 years here in Australia before it sadly closed in 2018. I loved being an Avon Lady I learnt so much from running a business and meeting so many people. In Australia Avon was using the direct sales model for a very long time and only in the later years did it bring in the Leadership program where you could and develop a team. I feel that Avon is different compared with other MLM's out there. The entry cost to Avon is very low you don't even need to buy a starter kit and levels of achievement for Leaders and rewards / trips and recognition is pretty easy compared with other companies. I tried a few others once Avon closed and it just wasn't the same. If it came back to Australia I would join in a heart beat!
But that was one of the reasons why Avon's sales suffered. They introduced the MLM component, which caused sales reps/leaders to focus more on growing their team while their own sales suffered. Also, the $10 start up fee attracted a lot of individuals who simply weren't suited to the "job." Mary Kay which costs upwards of $100 to start will get people who have a genuine interest in sales.
@@darkangel15221 I live in Australia - Avon was free to Join here. Also here in Mary Kay you could join for $49 so completely different market too.
does anyone remember Honeysuckle? in 1970? I had a whole set as a Christmas gift, beautiful packaging, bath oil, talc, the scent filled the house, gorgeous.
Yes, I loved that scent!
Yes! 😊
Yes, I had the stick perfume, loved it. One of my favourite flowers. I did two stints as an Avon lady, in the early 70s in England and late 90s in Australia.
My favorite!
Yes in the 1970s Avon came out with many beautiful floral fragrances.
I loved that they were using black models in their advertising. I was an Avon rep when I was 18 (I'm now 55), and I never made a penny. I spent every single penny I made on buying the products!!
Skin So Soft is fabulous, and is amazing at preventing bug bites!
Love ❤️ skin so soft I would put that on before doing yard work
Still my only bug repellent!
😅🎉
Me too!😂
Avon rep really don't make money on bonus points.
Very interesting video.I really enjoyed it. My grandmother, Kathleen Cole,sold Avon in the early 1980s until she became ill in the early 2000s.I used to go with her to deliver her orders.She won 12 Ms.Albee awards The statuettes were gorgeous. They were always styled in late 19th century and early 20th century clothing.She was always a top seller in her district. She passed away in September 2006 at the age of 88. I loved Granny very much.I spent a lot of time with her as a child and as a teenager in the mid to late 1980s. ❤❤❤
When I had braces in the 70's, my momma would buy me the little Avon girls perfume pins as my reward for an exceptionally tough orthodontist appointment. I still have some of them❤❤
I used to love Avon but over the years I believe most of the formulations for scents changed. I started wearing Sweet Honesty when it came out and I was in high school (yes I’m that old.) I enjoyed many of the scents in the 70s and even 80s but most of the newer scents are heavy and smell like either bug spray or old lady perfume and pretty much send me in an asthma attack. I love the vintage iconic look of Avon.
Because of a certain association called the IFRA being a-holes since 1973. They are almost always responsible for a lot of reformulations in major perfume companies.
you can get a refund if you return it to your rep within 28 days (uk rules)
I have some cute shoes from Avon
Sweet Honesty was my go-to perfume as a girl, too!!
Sweet Honestly was my favorite scent growing up in the 70s.
Avon brings back memories of my youth and seeing my mom getting her order of Avon! Great video!
Thanks for watching
Avon still makes quality products. I agree that the packaging isn't like the old days, but really nothing you buy now is.
My mother was an Avon lady back in the 70s and 80s. She was mostly a stay at home mom/wife, but she enjoyed her time out and about and made many life long friends in her customers. I would help her to get the orders together by setting everything up on the counter in our kitchen and gathering the products as she called them out. It is a sweet memory for me. Thanks for the video!
In my country (Philippines) Avon may have fallen a little but the women's underwear, perfume, cosmetics and skincare is very much a best seller here. Although considered still an MLM but here, it's very focused on selling that's why it has become a true direct selling company because people here sell Avon instead of actively recruiting. I myself have been a fan of a few of thier perfume and skincare. It's considered a pre-teen to teen makeup essential since mothers would buy thier daughters thier first makeup and would continue to thier young adulthood.
Nowadays you can still order from an Avon lady but it is accessible through online shopping. I don't know the situation in other countries but here's in mine.
I couldn't help but notice, how in the older pictures those ladies absolutely look like every day ladies, including a variety of noses and faces and looking gorgeous!
I was an Avon Rep while I was in University and I had the easiest territory EVER! My “route” was my entire girls’ dorm, plus the one next door. It was a great way to make some decent money while keeping my crazy university schedule (total disclosure, this was the early 80’s). I grew up with a Nana whose only scent was an Avon classic scent: Bird of Paradise, and an Auntie who used Skin-So-Soft in her bath every single morning, so it seemed like a great job. I did love their jewelry and still have quite a few pieces from Avon.
I used to love the unique perfume bottles more than the perfume most of the time. I really liked Haiku, Sweet Honesty, and Timeless. I still have a perfume bottle in the shape of a black cat that used to belong to my mother. It held Cotillion perfume. Remember that one? 😊
Yes, Cotillion was from 1933 to 1953 , it was in production for exactly 50 years. 💐
I loved Timeless. I wore in my 20’s and 30’s.
Sure do!
My grandmother had several of those shaped, glass perfume bottles. I remember a cologne she had that was in the shape of a horse head.
Haiku and Far Away smell so good. I love how light and clean they both smell.
I grew up on a farm and I remember the Avon lady coming to our house. I loved watching her showing my Mom things from her sample case. She'd always give us a little lipstick sample. I still use Avon.
Avon used to have a mineral bath in the 70s that was wonderful. It turned the bath water a lovely deep green. 19:05 19:05 19:05 As a kid I would put seashells around the edge of the tub and pretend was a mermaid.
Avon could make a comeback if it brought back some of the vintage products and containers. Look at the success of Bésame or Vermont Country Store. Vintage style products are hot sellers.
Yes, I think many people, women and men, have wearied of the new, newer, newest attitudes of today. There seems to be an increased longing for the familiar, and for the quality that usually accompanied it.
I agree..Vintage is hot..as it should be. I don't get that same charge ..looking at the brochures..anymore.
Avon left Australia about 5 years ago. It was a very sad day when I could no longer buy my SOS bath oil, 2-in-1 shampoo and Little Black Dress.
Hi Kate from NSW, Australia. I LOVED Avon & bought it religiously for years & years. It was such a sad time when they decided to leave Australia.
And I love the SOS bath oil too…💄💋♥️
Little black dress! That takes me back!
In the 80s I loved Avon jewellery- I had matching big pendant earrings & brooch set. Looked really glamorous with my Alexis Carrington suit jacket, got lots of compliments on them.
I❤Dynasty! Thinking that would be a good show to binge watch!
😂
My mom sold Avon in the early 80s. She used to take the catalog to work at her hospital to sell to her coworkers.I remember packing up each order in the white Avon bag. I remember also the tiny little lipstick samples. I loved Avon. Such nostalgia.
Avon is still a major brand in Brazil, advertising on major TV channels. Around here it was bought by a national brand, Natura, and remains firm and strong in perfumery, skincare, makeup, etc...
My granny worked for Avon for years, she made it into the circle of excellence countless times.. i miss seeing the latest catalog on her dinning table. 💅💋💄
Skin So Soft was the best mosquito repellent ever
My aunt sold Avon in the 90’s and my late grandmother loved her some skin so soft. Avon is really big in the African American community with Boomers and Gen X.
Avon lady calling…
I think in the 50’s & 70’s Avon had the best stuff! I wish they’d bring back old products 😮😅❤
My mum was an Avon lady in the 80s. I remember she had a full case of different eyeshadow samples and mini lipsticks. I experimented with them in my teens.
Her favourite perfumes were Imari, Pearls and Lace and I think one was called Pavi-Elle. I also remember Night Magic and Timeless
Fun fact about skin So Soft - I’m highly reactive to mosquito bites but also have very sensitive skin. We would try the Deep Woods spray but it irritated my skin and didn’t keep mosquitoes away. But Skin So Soft for whatever reason worked the best to keep them away from me. I think there were many who discovered this about it but they never marketed it that way because it would have had to go through more testing and certifications I believe.
Night magic and timeless are my favorites ❤❤
😂 my mum had the exact same case!
I can still smell the scent of the tiny lipsticks! Loved them!
How did the Avon lady get pregnant?
Max Factor.
@@hamishanderson6738 haha
I loved Avon. Our Avon lady was our next door neighbour. I will never forget her.
Avon Fan Here! I sold Avon as a young adult and now I still buy it from a real, live Avon lady! I love their beautiful and inexpensive costume jewelry, Best! I get tons of compliments for years from my Avon jewelry sets and people are shocked when I tell them it's Avon. Their costume jewelry rarely turns color if you take care of it and store them well. I still wear a bracelet with matching earrings from 1978. I'm also a buyer of their skin care and some of their cosmetics. I like only 2 or 3 of their perfumes on me but I'm very picky about perfumes and colognes in general. I hope to see a resurgence in Avon in the future. I don't care for the collectables anymore but I use to buy all kinds of collectibles and neat gadgets from them, in the past.
My favorite fragrance from Avon is To a Wild Rose. It was my first fragrance gift and came from my Grandmother when I was 10.
Thank you for this lovely stroll down memory lane!
Over the years I have used Avon products and once (way back when...) I was an Avon Lady
in the late 1960's; as a young-married woman who wanted to earn a little extra money and
to get to know my new neighbors.
The one product that I have not seen (in any form) since Avon stopped selling it was a plastic
(relatively-short) handled powder-puff with a resevior (screw-off top) for bath/body powder.
The powder-puff was removable and could be hand-washed. It came in several colors (that
changed over the years) If one stored the powder-puff in a ziplock plastic bag it was ready
for whatever scent you wanted in powder (without the perfume in the powder fading).
Some people had the powder-puff in colors that matched the color-theme of their favorite
perfume's bottle.
I wish that someone, somewhere, would make that powder-puff product again!
(perhaps with the option of a longer handle for those of us who are older/less
flexible to powder our entire body). Also with packages of replacement powder-
puffs that fit the powder-er item. The puffs did wear out and were a unique five
to six inch diameter.
I think the reason why Avon is forgotten now (as you mentioned aswell in the video) is because ordering cosmetics nowdays on the internet is so easy and accessible. It was different in the older days.
But I still buy some of their stuff to this day. Especially their bubble baths or their body lotions. I like their perfume varieties because they are super affordable. The cosmetics.. not so much. I prefer other og drugstore companies like MaxFactor, L'Oreal, Revlon.
Same here, I still buy some of their products. The bubble bath is a staple in my bathroom, I like some of their newer lipsticks too. No so much in love with the rest of their products tho. The makeup is particularly bad, you can find better stuff at lower prices in other brands.
I always buy the argon oil, O2 perfume, deodorant, the make up is really overpriced
Their nail polishes were good. I still have Apple Cider. Bit thick now just ok for toenails.
@@taniacummings9207 Yeah the nail polish is good too
@@Andreea25890 I like their packaging it looks nice but they need to step up their game with the makeup
One of my best friends growing up had a grandmother that sold Avon and she would give us the tiny samples and testers to put in our dresser drawers. So I loved it from a kid but now Avon has lost their minds with these prices! And since my friend's grandma passed away I have had a hard time finding someone that sells Avon. I don't like ordering online and I used to love to look at the catalogs.
Are you in the UK?
This is why they are having trouble got away from their roots!
I sell Avon. 😊
@@lizedgar7205 where are you? I would LOVE to see an Avon catalog and I need some Skin So Soft.
@@miraclesblessings5044 I am in Southeastern Georgia, currently. I don't have the money to order catalogs right now, but, when I'm able to, I can definitely let you know 🤗
What ruined Avon for me was when they started discontinuing all their old beauty products. For many years I was a regular customer, but I don't buy from them anymore.
You've got it exactly right. I have loved Avon since I was a child in the 1950s. The 1960s and 1970s Avon products maintained their high quality. Avon's Charisma was my signature scent from 1976 to 1980. In 1980, I brought a bottle of Charisma and the quality had declined so, that I never bought it again. Avon discontinues its best perfumes too soon and replaces them with new fragrances that don't smell nearly as good. Bath and Body Works used to offer great fragrances and products, but they are going the way of Avon with replacing their best fragrances with new less than mediocre aromas. I think Bath and Body Works is now dumping two or three of their better fragrances in a vat and mixing them together as a means of coming up with new products. It's not working most of their new products actually stink.
Yes, B&BW has definitely declined in product quality since the late 90's/early 2000's. I used to love their SAS events and looked forward to hauling fragrances and candles, but that time has sadly passed. I barely pay attention to SAS but the last time I looked, candles and fragrances were so expensive it was ridiculous!
@@DarlingNikki2 Bath & Body Works also brings out many the same scents of most everything & relabels & renames them to get us to buy " new " ! 🤨
@@cynthiajohnston424 Yes, I started noticing that a few years ago and it was very annoying. They're at least labeling products as new look/same scent.
I sold Avon for a couple of decades, and still love it today. My all time favorite scent is Ariane....i think thats the spelling, but such a clean scent. I also love Sweet Honesty and Odyssey!
My Aunt Betty always bought Avon products. She didn't drive so the fact that it was a door-to-door business worked out great for her.
Great video, Laura! I'm from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Avon is still popular here, but not like the 70's and the 80's.
The mini magazine was wonderful. Their prices were honest and realistic. Women would revisit the magazine often, so they would have plenty of things to chat with the Avon Representative. Today’s prices in cosmetics is highway robbery, and Avon has proven that success is possible, without gauging consumers. The news about its main office closing in 2023 in New York, is such sad news to me. Imagine something as big as Avon, growing so big, it could take on the needs of big Apple in the 60’s. Phenomenal.
Avon's prices are now outrageous Nothing like how reasonable their prices were in the past. I will NEVER pay $17.00 for a lipstick!
As an Avon rep, I invite anyone who would like to see what Avon offers now to contact me. I have a personal online store and will give you the link. Some classics are still available along with so much more. Thank you for featuring vintage products. It's nice to stroll down memory lane. 🙂
What is the link?
Some of the first makeup I bought for myself in 6th grade was Avon's Raspberry Frost lipstick and nail polish with allowance and babysitting money. I opened an Avon catalog recently and couldn't believe the prices. Pricing is well up there with high end makeup, but come on, it's Avon!
I used babysitting money for avon too! This video is bringing the nostalgia on hard!
Agreed that now Avon is way OVER-priced. Such a shame.
I have been retired for a few years now, but l remember when l worked in offices there would always be one colleague who sold Avon products. I recall buying cosmetics, scents, jewelry and clothing items on a monthly basis. It was fun going through the catalogues and comparing our choices with other employees .
I was just talking about Avon perfumes yesterday because I bought a small bottle of Tom Ford's Velvet Orchid because it smelled vintage to me. My parents had an antique store when I was a kid. There were these bottles of perfume that didn't really have anything left but the bottle was from when Avon started and were of a woman in a beautiful long dress, and the lid or top was the woman's upper body, that you would take off, and there was a screw top underneath.
I like all those fancy bottles they use to make in the past more like figurines. I do have a small collection of them.
Love Sweet Honesty and Candid. I remember my Mom having a rollerball of Timeless. I loved looking through her purse as a child just to look at her lipstick and perfume.
Omg I loved Avon! One of my mom's friends would come to the house when I was a little girl. She was an Avon lady. When she handed me my first tiny little lipstick tube sample, I was hooked. That was 35 years sgo. I wish they would have kept the formulations the same.
I had a lot of fun as an Avon lady but now you can’t do it as a hobby or for the discount. They were bought by LG a few years ago and none of the new skincare or makeup is “Avon” anymore. Plus they put Skin So Soft in CVS stores!
What!!! It's at CVS?? You just made my day 😂😂.
It also doesn't smell the same as it used to. I used to love it.
You are absolutely correct. Avon couldn’t keep up with the times, and the quality of the products have deteriorated. When women started getting more opportunities in the workforce and e-commerce became big, Avon didn’t shift its business model, and it was left in the dust. They made a bad decision with lowering their quality because e-commerce gives people access to higher-quality items at a more affordable price point.
Loved Avon back in the day.
? The products are even better now.
I just saw today. Natura purchased avon back in 2021. They also purchased body shoppe and aesop. Now Loreal bought aesop from Natura two days ago.
I love that the 1st winner of America’s Next Top Model left Hollywood & is now an Avon lady who is a top seller ❤❤❤
My aunt used to be super into avon and got me a bunch of avon products for birthdays/holidays so it has a special place in my heart. My family has a bunch of the vintage decorative perfume decanters. It's kind of sad to see the company not evolving.
Agreed, it is very sad and tragic to see Avon going down the drain.
I used to buy a lot of Avon, but stopped after they discontinued, my favorite useful items, and re-branded everything to be higher end. If I found a lipstick, I liked, I better buy 100 because it would soon-be gone. As soon as I turned my head I found a face cream I liked that was reasonable, same thing happened. I just got pissed and stopped buying from them.
Dorothy from Oz, what would you like to see come back from Avon? I am an Avon Representative, & I can ask & find out if we can be able to get your favorite products again. 🤗
I agree. It really frustrated me how they kept discontinuing my favorite products. I still buy some things from them. I don't like how they have rebranded a bunch of their makeup. I miss the makeup remover lotion. It was so good at gently removing eye makeup. I also miss the Magix primer.
Avon was/is also an mlm- and it’s failing because money isn’t made by selling products alone - the big money is made by having a ‘ down line’. With social media and most Avon sellers selling on social media pages - it saturated the market and makes it harder to recruit to establish that down line to make any extra money worth the trouble selling it.
Dawn, I sell Avon, I don't look for recruits, I sell Avon, because, I still love their products. 🤗 I try to help customers get their favorite products back 🤗
Loved the Avon jewelry… my great grandmother was an Avon lady. My favorite products were the Lip dew and silicone glove hand lotion. I grew up with Avon products all over the house. My China in my China cabinet is the cape cod collection from Avon. Thank you for this video, it brings back memories.
👉Talking about Avon and its history and products would probably take many more videos.
You just barely touched the tip I grew up with Avon along with my Mom.
You didn't talk about the collectable perfume decanters, The makeup which was a HUGE part of the company, the shoes, clothes, There is SO MUCH.
My Mom and I both were sales ladies serveral times in the 80s 90s 00s ect.
It was SO EXCITING to receive the orders write out the receipts, deliver and collect the money.
I LOVED the new product catalog for the reps.
All my profits would go back to buying the newest Avon products.
I had a job and sold Avon for the discount on EVERYTHING and getting my hands on the new merch😅
I will ALWAYS love Avon because it reminds me of both my parents who were fans of this company.
My parents are gone but I hold dear to the memories around Avon products, selling, buying, collecting.
I remember Here’s my heart, Topaz and Occur fragrances.
My dear aunt Lois had the most lovely kit of little white lipstick samples and other samples. She wore pixie collars and was just the epitome of Avon sales women. Great memories 💁🏼♀️
Avon was gorgeous when I was a little girl in the 60s the soaps were my favourite and yes the packaging was lovely too , they had a peach range of items I loved so much I was actually thinking about old Avon the other day and I was surprised when I seen this on my you tube page thank you for sharing this it took me back I’m 62 now .
I have my first smell, good product with Avon, for my 16th birthday, my sister-in-law bought me a small jar of perfume body cream “ charisma “ the bottom part was a glass brown basket, the top was a kitten sitting on it, I kept that for years, really used it, but I loved it, did it suddenly disappeared, I don’t know what happened to it . When I was a young adult, I bought a lot of Avon products, I don’t anymore, I haven’t seen an Avon representative in at least two decades, I’m glad you’re still going strong, I really enjoy the products that I’ve bought
I still use the Ultra lipstick from Avon. This product are very quality, more then something from luxe segment now. My highly recommendations.
Also, I loved how feminine & beautiful their products were! I also miss the days when women were at home raising the kids, cooking & cleaning. I absolutely LOVE being a mother & homemaker!❤️ It’s the best & most gratifying job I’ve ever had.
Same!!!!🙌🥰
Me, too! Loved it while I could do it.
When I was a kid I loved the Avon mini perfume and lipstick samples my Mom got with her orders.
I think they should back the vintage bottles and fragrances.
I sold Avon in college lmao. When my mom’s friend found out (she also sold Avon) she was piiiiiiisssed and said she was gonna report me for “stealing her customers” lol
Avon was such a big deal in the 60’s and early 70’s. I still remember my grandma baby sitting me and getting a visit of her Avon lady who gave me those tiny lip sticks in the white containers samples. My Grandma spent perhaps thousands on that stuff because her house was full of avon bottles and jewelry and products everywhere !
I was 5 in 1968 and LOVED those tiny white lipsticks my mom got from her Avon re
Ahhh the 80s and 90s skin so soft bottle is pure nostalgia to me. It reminds me of being at grandmother's house.
I loved Avon in the mid 70s! Memories 💕💕
My grandma loved Avon. I remember all the cool gifts she used to buy for all us granddaughters. In the 1990s Avon was a client of the company I worked for in NYC. The offices were very nice and the outside of their head quarters was impressive.
They should bring back the vintage packaging and the 1970s quality and 70s perfumes.
Amazing video wao thanks thanks and thanks 🙏🏼
I remember my mother's Avon lady coming to our home back in the early 1960s. I loved it when she came to our house and showed us her products and left us the mini sample lipsticks. We had the little white clock with the face which held bubble bath. Later, in the early 1970s, I continued to receive Avon products in my Christmas stocking which my grandmother bought for me including Topaz, Honeysuckle, and Apple Blossom and little sachets. We also had Skin So Soft bath oil which I loved as well as the tall pink bottle of bubble bath. I still have some of the perfume containers with fragrance in them. And then in the 1990's, a co-worker would bring catalogs to work and I bought various holiday decorations and even a dress through those ghost parties. Today, Topaz and Rare Gold remain two of my top favorite fragrances of all time.
My grandmother an mother loved it an she was buying it till she passed in 2017😊
You missed an important fact about Skin So Soft, it became really popular for anti misquote use. We always had a bottle on our boat-it works! Plus you smell great.
There's just so much nostalgia associated with Avon. Even though I don't wear a lot of makeup now, my aunt sold it when I was a child in the 1970s. I had some of the pretty perfume bottles, and I still have a ceramic unicorn that contained bath additives (if you say "bath salts" now, some people get a completely different idea.)
True -- who wants to take a bath in salt?
Um, people use bath salts as drugs now. I think that’s what’s she’s implying 😂😂😂
My mum was an Avon Lady... I used to help pack and sort the orders
Avon was a staple for my mother and the teenage me. Avon brought a wide variety of cosmetics, perfume, and skincare products to rural areas where access to stores that carried quality beauty products was difficult.
Avon moisturizers are excellent!
If Avon went back to a great product and unusual packaging and slightly lower prices than what is on the market I believe it would be successful. People in American need a pleasant nonpolitical uplift .
My mom was an Avon lady in the early 80's. It seemed so glamourous. I loved your documentary, thank you for the time you put into it! 💖
I grew up in Fairfield County in Connecticut and my uncle Billy worked for Avon throughout my childhood. I remember one Christmas I was five years old and my aunt Patty his wife gave me a red lipstick. I remember thinking she got this for free. Anyway I was too young for him to talk about the company but looking back I wish I had asked him more questions. Great video and thank you
Thanks for describing some of those iconic Avon products/fragrances at the end. The musky smelling ones sound amazing and now I want to try them! I have always had parakeets as pets, so I have displayed a set of parakeet themed items. One item is an Avon perfume box called "Island Parakeet" with a brightly colored parakeet on the box! 🙂
Grandma used to save the tiny tubes of lipstick samples for me and my sister. Mom has a holiday perfume bottle from the 1980s, shaped like an angel; it's part of my holiday decorations, but is currently MIA.
Grandma always wore Odyssey perfume
I just happened on the video and really learned a lot! Sweet Honesty was the first perfume I wore, back in high school in the 1970s. My mother was an Avon Lady for a while in the late 60s/mid 70s. Her favorite fragrance was Timeless. The most elegant of her customers wore a fragrance body cream called Occur, which came in a black jar - I remember that she always smelled so beautiful.
@Deborah, Occur was one of the loveliest perfumes that I’ve ever had. I used to love the matching talc too. I had loads of compliments.I was so sad when it was discontinued and I really miss the lovely variety of talcs. Great memories but I feel saddened that I will never get the chance to experience those lovely products again.Edit: I loved Timeless too.Very elegant and expensive smelling like Occur.
I owned so much Avon products growing up in the 60's and 70's. They were some of my favorites!
My mom loved the cameo creme perfume. In navy blue cup like with cameo in beige. And bought my dad a 1920 car perfume bottle. Ahh🎉
I am almost 70. I still use Wild Country (1967). I've tried many colognes, but I keep coming back to W.C. for my fall/winter fragrance. Gosh. It's been 40+ years and I am wearing it still!
Lovely walk down memory lane! I never cared for Avon perfumes, but the packaging was fabulous. They also came out with some good skincare in the 90s. They should reissue some of that lovely packaging.
I loved all of the different bottle shapes. I never used their products,but my great aunt helped me with my Avon bottle collection. I just loved their creativity.
Avon May have gone into decline in the USA since the sale of the North American arm to LG, but over here in the United Kingdom Avon has gone from strength to strength in recent years. They have really gone back to their roots of quality products like the Power Serum which has sold amazingly and many new fragrances launched.
I remember bathrooms would be decorated with Avon items . I had an Avon locket with the creme perfume inside . It was like a tiny personal treasure
There was always an Avon catalog in the teachers lounge 💐 so many memories
Night Magic lives up to it’s name smell wise. I called it the “Guy Getting Perfume” in high school. When you want to get his attention, walk by him in the cafeteria with this on somewhat fast to create a breeze.
Timeless and Far Away were such a nice scents, that would stay on the skin the entire day. In the late 90's, I remember when the items could be purchased in a few stores here in Texas. Love the video 😍
My grandma used to get little pins that had solid perfume in them. I had a scented purple pen that was also a bracelet, and the kitty and fishbowl decanter of Sweet Honesty. I sold Avon in 2009/2010. I love Skin-So-Soft!