As this last picture shows you, I won these Infallible eyeshadows (and some other goodies that I will review later) from a giveaway hosted on Make Up By Tess’ blog! (thanks girl!!).
Cost: $8.96 CDN
Where can I buy this? Walmart, Shoppers Drug Mart
MY 2 CENTS
I can’t tell you just how impressed I am with these eyeshadows. They look like a cream shadow but in actuality, they are a pressed pigment. They have a creamy texture, they are incredibly pigmented and rich in color, and they really are infallible (which means incapable of error).
L’Oreal claims these shadows to be waterproof, and after testing, they certainly are! I swatched a few of the shadows on my hand, washed with soap AND warm water, and this is the result:
washed with warm water and soap
The shadows aren’t as rich in color after they’ve been washed but they are still visible and true to their original color.
Since it held up the waterproof test but claims to be easily removed with makeup remover, I put that to the test. I reached from my Avon Moisture Effective Eye Makeup Remover Lotion, put some on a cotton pad and swiped a couple of times at the remaining color. This is the result:
Clean as a whistle!
I’ll never understand why people use the statement “clean as a whistle”, whistles aren’t very clean??
The last test I put these shadows to is a night of drinking and dancing. L’Oreal says that the eyeshadows are creaseproof and can withstand the average woman’s 11,000 blinks. Yea..well..we’ll just see about that.
This is my makeup at the beginning of the night:
The eyeshadow I used is Hour Glass Beige all over my lid. The gold eyeliner is Urban Decays 24/7 Waterproof Liquid Eyeliner in El Dorado. The black eyeliner is L’Oreal Lineur Intense Felt Tip Liquid Eyeliner. I used L’Oreal Voluminous Million Lashes mascara.
This was my makeup after 5 Champinis’ (champagne+hypnotic+pineapple juice) and at 2am:
As you can tell, it’s still very much there and no creasing! I apologize for the quality of picture. I snapped a bunch but as it turns out, nothing ever turns out right when you’re…uhhh…not so sober.
My only issue with these eyeshadows is that I find they apply with better intensity using a finger, or a really dense brush, but this wouldn’t deter me from repurchasing.
SWATCHES
I swatched these without an eyeshadow primer and in dry/wet combinations. The left side is swatched dry, with my index finger, and the right side is swatched wet (drop of MAC Fix+) with a MAC #275 (medium angled shading brush)
(dry/wet) Time Resist White
(dry/wet) Hour Glass Beige
(dry/wet) Forever Pink
(dry/wet) Flashback Silver
(LtoR- dry/wet) Tim Resist White, Hour Glass Beige, Forever Pink, Flash Back Silver
(dry/wet) Purple Obsession
(dry/wet) Burning Black
(dry/wet) Permanent Kaki
(LtoR- dry/wet) Purple Obsession, Burning Black, Permanent Kaki
(dry/wet) Unlimited Sky
(dry/wet) All Night Blue
(LtoR- dry/wet) Unlimited Sky, All Night Blue