Was there anything better

I remember my mom getting those from the Avon lady! I haven't thought about those in years!

I don't remember the lipsticks but thank you for the trip down memory lane! 
My Sweet Honesty teddy bear is long gone 


But I still have the Lavender cologne bottle!

I loved those too! One of our neighbor women was an Avon lady and she would give the young girls in the neighborhood some of the lipstick samples. We thought we were so grown up! It was almost as good as when my mother put lipstick on me for Halloween. I made sure I was something that would require lipstick because I loved the smell of it, and the way the metal tube made a little clinking noises as she was putting it on me. I promised myself that when I grew up, I was going to have one of those and wear it every day, all day long!

*******As a small aside, does anyone else remember when cosmetics came in metal containers? By the time I was an adult and able to purchase, I don't remember there being any metal lipstick tubes anymore. I did have metal tubes for mascara. In fact, for whatever reason, I still have held on to two of the metal mascara tubes. One of them just had an end like a screw with small threads on it to hold the mascara, no brush at all. ******

Those samples were so awesome!

Oh yeah. I LOVED them.

My mom was the Avon lady. Memories!

My mom was teacher. Her school  had a school carnival every year. One of the booths was a makeup booth and  lady would give us little Avon lipsticks. Such a wonderful booth.

I had the whole set in a little blue plastic case...and I loved those things so much that they were "too good" to use.
Problem was I ended up basically never using them and finding them at the back of a cupboard somewhere 10 years later and throwing them out.

I do remember there being some particularly lurid shades of orange and pink though.

I remember getting a vague of those from my grandma!!

Looks like you took us on a trip down memory lane ! 

I took my 91-year old mama and two of her friends on a cruise last year. We did the spa services several times. On mama's first visit, she had a facial and came out with some really pricey new cleanser she'd been suckered into buying. Her rationale? "I need to start taking better care of my skin." Y'all! At 91! We had a wonderful laugh over that experience!

BFF used to sell Avon and would order me in lipstick samples all the time. That was *fun*!

Man did I love those things. The distinctive smell, all the pretty colors, like jewels just waiting for me. My mother had them under the front bathroom sink and I can remember reaching into the darkness and feeling for the container, pulling the lid off, and hearing the Hallelujah chorus in my little mind. There was something very playful yet soothing about opening and closing them and putting them back into their little slots. I would never wear any of those colors today... but, for a time, they were a window of possibilities that I just could not resist.