Avon Anti-Frizz Lotus Shield: I Tried It, With Pictures!

by Grace Gold (Subscribe to Grace Gold's posts)
Posted Aug 11th 2010 at 7:00AM

Writer Grace Gold before (left) and after (right) treatment. Courtesy Photo

It was a swampy and hot 90+ degree day in New York City, the kind that makes steam drift up from the black asphalt streets and your hair fall flat and frizzy after sopping up the gummy humidity.

And I was beginning to wonder if Avon realized what they had gotten themselves into.

I was invited to try a blowout with the brand's new Lotus Shield Anti-Frizz Treatment at the last stop of Avon and Cosmopolitan magazine's Frizz-Free Revolution Tour, which had visited Houston, Miami, Atlanta and Philadelphia in a glass-enclosed "salon on wheels" to bring sleek strands to the masses.

Avon Lotus Shield Frizz Control Spray. Courtesy Photo

Global stylist advisor Tippi Shorter -- who has glamourized the locks of Rhianna and Beyoncé and had just flown back from doing Alicia Keys' wedding hair in Corsica -- was on hand to talk frizz.

"The more damaged your hair, the more chance it has of swelling in humidity," Shorter told me. "Fighting frizz successfully is all about creating your own cocktail of products, and starting the process while you're washing your hair in the shower."

Shorter says the Lotus Shield serum essentially acts like a weightless leave-in conditioner that should be applied to wet hair. After three to four uses, Avon claims your blowouts will hold up to humidity as high as 97%, as well as last at least a day longer than usual after three to four consecutive uses.

Inspired by the natural protective shield of the lotus leaf, the product doesn't actually contain lotus. Instead, it harnesses a water-resistant technology that causes moisture to pool like droplets against the surface of hair instead of absorbing and saturating the strand.

After squeezing a dollop of the product into my hands, I gently finger-tapped to feel the consistency and was surprised as the clear serum whisked away to sleek-feeling nothingness. There was no sticky or tacky after-feel left in its wake either.

And most amazingly, a blowout followed by flat ironing to seal in the product on one of the muggiest days of the summer (and in an open-air mobile salon to boot) left me with touchably soft and frizz-free locks that are still resisting the humidity two days later as I write this.

I would offer to share the love, but you're going to have to get your own bottle -- otherwise you'll need some serious claws to get this little gem out of my beauty bag now.

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Clara, 8-11-2010, 9:24AM

Your after looks so smooth, soft and bouncy. I'm a fan of anything that will not be heavy on the hair and still tame the frizzies.

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Paula, 8-12-2010, 2:32PM

This is a wonderful product, I am using it and even better I sell. It so if you need to order check out my website. www.youravon.com/pmiller4134

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jillian, 8-12-2010, 2:33PM

I think one starnd of hair looks different. she had no frizz to begin with..just wave and its still there

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GET REAL, 8-12-2010, 2:37PM

But she looks so much younger and carefree in the 1st pic. Long hair isn't as much of a problem as short hair which literally grows fat. And why is she worried about her hair? She has more pressing issues regarding her looks.

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kIT8DOG2, 8-12-2010, 2:51PM

Wow Get Real, not nice. You must be the most beautiful person on the planet. How lucky are you! Tardo... Anyway I also use an Avon product, that I cannot live without its also Advanced Teniques Daily Results..Clear bottle with a green top....
.I put it through my hair wet and again after its styled. Its does not give you a greasy look. And truely smooths the hair, makes it shiney too. However unlike her above, my hair really frizzes. Puffed out and is unbearable. Her hair just looks flat and almost dirty in the first picture. Which seems to be her problem, as my poofs. In the second picture it looks clean and healthy. Washed and product used. Bravo Avon. I'm gonna call my representitive today and try out this new stuff.

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rachel, 8-12-2010, 3:27PM

Oh please!!!!!!!!!!! it's the same damn hair......someone just tossed the hair in the "before" pic to make it look messy!!!!!!!!!!! take it from someone who is plagues with frizzy hair! those pics are and insult!

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kitdog2, 8-12-2010, 4:03PM

You're right. Absolutely. But let me tell you the product I use really does help. But not on the worst days. I have disgusting frizzy in humid gross weather too...I can flat iron it to death and sometimes it still frizzez. Flat hair is not frizzy...its flat...use a better shampoo maybe or get a perm.

gemmaortez, 8-12-2010, 9:08PM

I think the texture of the hair is noticeably different in the before and after. I use Frizz Ease right now and am not too happy with it, I feel like it builds up.

rachel, 8-12-2010, 4:09PM

hey kitdog....tell mw what products u use because i have run out of steam.....glad to know someone else is realistic!

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sabino, 8-13-2010, 2:25AM

I have been a hair designer for 35 years and help design hair products just as long.

Everyone has this idea that doing less to your hair will save it from damage. The truth is that hair is susceptible to damage daily regardless of Lorraine Massey’s hair products and techniques. Leaving conditioners in the hair or shampooing hair with conditioners is one of the worst things that you can do for your scalp and hair. Conditioners and alike, only fill the empty holes in the hair shaft for 2 to 3 hours until they dilute in moist climates or dissipate in dry climates. Think of a conditioner like spackle on a wall. It fills the holes but if there is nothing to lock it in, it becomes dry and powdery. Any hair product that is water based will not protect the hair, besides, hair is dead and can not be repaired or changed for any length of time.

Moisture is the key to healthy hair. While hair products can’t deliver what Mother Nature has provided, it can be locked in with the only non-water based product named Lok and Blok. To learn more and finally get rid of the frustration that you have faced for years with dry, brittle frizzy hair go to www.gotfrizz.com Learn what hair and hair products can and can't do.

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Vanessa, 9-06-2010, 3:41PM

I have course thick hair. left to dry on its own it is like horse hair.
SUNSILK SHAMPOO-CONDITIONER-LEAVE IN CREME- ANTI POOF!!!
Then blow dry and hot iron. If it wasnt for sweating every morning from my work out it would last a few days.
NO BULL!! TRY IT!!

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