*I am lucky enough to know people overseas that send me things. I also have friends and family that travel, so I harrass them make sure they bring me back goodies.
I’ve been holding out on you guys. I’ve been hoarding this little gem for quite a while now and am glad to say that these L’Oreal Color Infaillible eyeshadows finally made it over here.
Now, before you guys start thinking that I don’t check my spelling in the title, let me remind you that this is “foreign” beauty – as in this one came to me from France. (*of course, that didn’t stop me from spelling it the Americanized “infallible” everywhere else before I caught the difference on the lid.)
The texture is a cross between a cream and a pigment, with the color pay-off of a pigment, especially when used over a primer.
These are available in a range of colors at your local mass market stores of choice for around $8USD.
Have any of you already grabbed one (or more) of these?
Up until a couple of years ago, I had no idea what a face primer was, nor what it could do for you when applying makeup. Well, I have come to learn *plenty* about them now & want to make sure that you do, too.In the video I mention the following primers, and tried to touch on their price points, but I did so with out any notes. I’ll list them here, with links for more details on them, and will list their current SRP:Avon MagiX – $10 (on sale now for $7.95) (*bought this myself)Tricia Sawyer Skin Balancing Water Primer – $34 (*bought this myself)Sally Hansen Natural Beauty Luminizing Face Primer – $10 (on sale at CVS for $7.99) (*bought this myself)Stila Hydrating Primer SPF 15 – $34 (*PR provided)Cover FX Clear Prep FX – $39 (*PR Provided)Peter Thomas Roth Un-Wrinkle Primer – $38 (*PR Provided)Two Faced Shadow Insurance – $17 (*bought this myself)L’Oreal Double Extend Beauty Tubes Mascara – $10.95 (*bought this myself)Cover FX Mint Glaze FX Primer – $22 (*PR Provided)I also mentioned, but didn’t show:L’Oreal Studio Secrets Professional Magic Perfecting Base – $13Urban Decay Primer Potion – $18I also wanted to mention one that I had forgotten to show in the video, the Clinique Redness Solutions Daily Protective Base SPF 15. This is a primer that not only sets your skin for your foundation, it does so by correcting the redness in your skin, with a green tint, if that is one of your problems – $17.50 (*PR Provided)Just so you know, I have only touched on the brands, and availability, of primer products that are out there. I just wanted to at least let you know how much of a variety there is, and how there is definitely one for you and want you need it to, if you decided to start using a primer. Please let me know if you use any of the ones I mentioned or if this compels you to try one – I’d really like to know.
(And, you know there are more pics on my Facebook page, if you just haven’t seen enough.)
At the L’oreal Technical Center
We all sat gathered around the large tables to listen to the speakers of the day.
Waiting to start
I’m pretty sure that Meredith was twittering, Amber was checking her mani and Dina was looking busy while we waited.
Introduction lady
So, yeah, I’m so bad that I cannot remember this lovely L’Oreal representatives name. She greeted us and introduced us to our first speaker.
First speaker of the day
Patty Slattery, AVP of Education and Technical Services at L’Oreal, answered our haircoloring questions. She’s good.
Dina setting us straight
Dina being very emphatic about what we should do now, while Amber is all “uhm hmmm”. Meredith is doing a fine job holding the model’s hair.
Amber cleaning up
Amber was cleaning up a drip, while Dina keeps on applying haircolor to our hair model.
On the other side
On the other side of our station was Nancy, from The Informed Makeup Maven, and her lovely haircoloring partner for the day – who has some kickass highlights, I must say. Both of them were home haircoloring virgins.
At the next station over Michelle, from All Lacquered Up, and Nancy, from Beauty411, work on their model. I’m not going to point anything out, but Michelle was *working* that cover-up.
Overhead shot Overhead shot of all of the madness that was bloggers coloring hair.
Dina and Meredith coloring I’m pretty sure by this time that Dina and Meredith were getting delirious, while working on the hair model.
Stepping in One of the great advisors at the L’Oreal Technical Center stepped in and showed how to really get in there and color hair. He’s fast.
Approving Dina Dina was giving her approval to our station mates for their job well done for first-timers.(*Seriously, help me out here – who is this adorable blonde?)
The makeup station We had a chance to get our makeup touched up and the MUA’s were set with the stash of L’Oreal products.
Dina getting touched up No, not in that way, silly, but getting her makeup touched up during a break.
Victoria Stiles getting a makeup touch-up Makeup Artist Victoria Stiles had her makeup touched up by this gorgous MUA, who I remember worked the OCC Makeup booth at The Makeup Show back in May. Just adore her look.
Meredith getting touched up, too Meredith had her makeup touched-up during a break, too.
SEO tips and tricks Stoney deGeyter, President of Pole Position Marketing gave us a presentation on how to build our sites visibility.
How to work with PR Beth Mayall, Total Beauty EIC, and Lauren Donner, Assistant VP, Tractenberg & Co., discuss some of the right and wrong ways to interact with PR agencies.
L’Oreal Dining Room Menu We had the chance to lunch in the L’Oreal Dining room and here were our choices for the day.
Lunch in the L’Oreal Dining Room Man, this salad was good – thankfully – since that was all I was able to eat before I had to leave and go to the Ports 1961 show. Uhm…I mean, go to the restroom.
Chatting during lunch All of the lovelies chatting during lunch.
Smiling Kitiya The lovely Kitiya, from Mischo Beauty giving me a smile during lunch.(*If you look close you can see the iphone charging on the vent by the window – that damn plug-in was on the floor under that vent.)
Evening cocktail party At the end of the summit, L’Oreal treated us to a cocktail party to mingle with company reps and eat nommy little treats. Of course, the big treat waiter kept stopping by, so that made it even nicer.
Meredith and I Here is Meredith and I, just mere hours before she kissed a pig and got its H1N1 cooties. (*at least that is how I am telling the story).
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Kristen and Sarah, from the Total Beauty team Kristen and Sarah were so sweet during the summit. Side note, Sarah was the one that picked out my gorg Tiffany necklace. She’s got good taste.
Yeah, I’m not sure if that word exists, but, it means what it means. The latest thing to come around, and help a girl like me, who might or might not have a problem with too many lip products in their purse at one time, is mix your own color glosses.
First up is the L’Oréal HiP Color Presso. This dual-chamber gloss allows for you to dispense a single color or both colors mixed in whatever ratio you want. However, you have to press down on each side simultaneously to get both colors out at the same time. AFTER you have figured out how to open the darn thing. Seriously. It took me several minutes messing with it to figure out how to pop the lid open, and then it broke off. Ugh. So, yeah, downside to that one. Now, it must be said that the glosses themselves are not bad, it’s just the delivery system that fails. Oh, and it retails for $13, which is a bit much for a drugstore gloss, to me, esp one that’s such a pain to use.
Next up we have Avon’s SpectraColor Lipstick. This is also a dual-chamber package, but in a round, contained tube, with a selector dial on the bottom. This selector allows you to choose between 7 different shades of color, ranging from the individual light color, 5 shades of mixture and the dark individual color. Once you have selected which color you want, you click the bottom of the tube and it is dispensed thru a vented, slanted top. But, be warned, when it comes out, it looks like a greasy mess, but it is not. It is just a glossy finish “lipstick”. I say that with quotes, because I found this to wear so much more like a lipgloss than a lipstick. While it can be buildable, it still has that lipgloss feel to it.
I really like the ideas behind both of these. And, while I prefer the delivery system of the SpectraColor, I like the flavor (yes, flavor) of the Color Presso. But, Avon’s price point of $9.50 (on sale for $7.99 right now) makes a world of difference to me. Either way, at least we are starting to have options of different colors in one container to keep in our little pocketbook (yes, I said pocketbook because I am old) as we go from day to night, instead of toting around all of our favorites.
Have I overlooked something I should try? Do you know a secret that you want to share? Or have a product you think I should really try? Send me an email with info for consideration.
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