After latching on to the discovery that women did not need bricks and mortar for a fulfilling shopping experience, door-to-door salesman David McConnell decided to sell perfumes, rather than books, around the hoods of New York back in 1886. Avon Ladies of the noughties have included Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Hudson and Patrick Dempsey (who's out to prove you don't need ovaries to sell perfume). The Glazewear Liquid Lip Colour gives shiny lips with enough anti-oxidants and vitamins A, C and E to appease even the most jaded of lips. Maybe we need to cut the skinny-leg wearing sex some slack. It was after all a gent, who created "a company that best understands and satisfies the product, service and self-fulfillment needs of women."

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