L'Oreal 24Hr Infallible Eye Shadow in #890 Bronzed Taupe

Hi everyone!

I am so sorry that this is about a year or year and a half late! In today's blog I am going to be reviewing the L'Oreal 24Hr Infallible Eye Shadow in #890 Bronzed Taupe. I bought this because I wanted to try the L'Oreal version of the Maybelline Color Tattoo eyeshadows to see what the difference was besides the prices. I think the formulas are a little bit different. The L'oreal ones were very fine pressed pigment which gives more pigment while the Maybelline ones seemed to be more creamier ones which were supposed to last longer. Unlike the Maybelline ones, the L'Oreal ones were not compared to the MAC Paint Pots.

**I wrote this down below quite a bit, but I just wanted to make sure that everyone was aware. I tried this product on with and without primer. I noticed that even though the pigment is strong for with and without, I did notice that this product does change color a bit depending on whether you are wearing it alone or over eye lid primer! I want to make sure that is known about this product. I don't know if it's just on me or if it is because I used an E.L.F. mineral primer or what, but just wanted to give a heads up. The color of the product without eye primer appears to be more coppery/tan/brown. The color of the product with E.L.F. mineral eye primer appears to have changed more to a dark brown/purple. Without eye lid primer appears more shiny/glittery while with eye lid primer appears more matte with glitter.

Rating:

Price: 9/10
Packaging: 9/10
Amount of Product: 10/10
Longevity: 9/10
Pigment on fingers: 10/10
Pigment on eye lids without primer: 9/10
Pigment on eye lids with primer: 9/10
Application: 10/10
Blendability: 10/10
On normal/oily/dry lids: 9/10
Overall rating: 8/10
Would I repurchase: 9/10
Total rating: 111/120= 92.5%= A

My personal rating: 9.5/10=95%= A

Comments: I think I bought this product at my local Walmart I want to say between $6.00 and $9.00 because my local Walmart priced the product depending on color. Now they appear to have gone down in price to between $6.00 and $7.00. I think for a 'drugstore' product that price is on the higher end for a single eye shadow. I like the Maybelline packaging better because they use glass, L'Oreal packaging uses plastic. They have a little plastic round thing in the packaging to help hold the pigment in. You get 3.5 grams of product which I think is decent even for the price. You can definitely get a lot of uses out of it, depending on how pigmented you want to wear it. The longevity of the product increases with really good eye primer. I just used the E.L.F. Mineral eye primer for a quick comparison, but I think this product longevity depends on the quality of eye lid primer, the better the eye lid primer the longer this product will last, the lower quality of eye lid primer the less likely the pigment will last. I noticed that once this product is on the eye lid it will last until you wash it off, but the pigment fades quickly, but the faded color still stays, if that makes sense. I hope so. The pigment when I swipe it on my finger is excellent. With two circular motions around the pan the pigment really shows on the finger. On my right eye I just put the L'Oreal eye shadow on with nothing underneath and on my left eye I put the E.L.F. mineral eye primer with the L'Oreal eye shadow product over it. The one huge difference I can tell is the color difference when looking at the two is that the right eye with no eye primer looks more tan/brown color and the left eye with the eye primer it looks more dark brown/purplish. Both sides are very shimmery. I think the pigment of the eye shadow without primer is very good. It is highly pigmented. I think the pigment of the eye shadow with the primer is very good. Both sides to me seem fairly pigmented. Something I did notice about this product is that the color of the product does vary depending on whether you are wearing it alone or with a primer which is why I did not give the pigment the full 10 points. Most of the time the actual pigment color does not change, but for some reason with this product it appears to. The application of this product is super smooth! I don't think you have to rush applying this product because even though it does dry onto the skin a little bit. Once you apply the product it will be difficult to get it off unless you use a makeup remover cloth, but it doesn't appear to dry on the brush for application. It's not a product you have to work quickly with that dries quickly. Although, a bit of a heads up that once you apply it to a location getting it off might be a bit tricky, but I think a makeup remover cloth should be no problem. I think that this product is easily blendable. The product is super smooth and might actually be too blendable. I think this product would be very good on normal and dry eye lids because of how smooth the product is it should glide over dry areas. I would be a bit careful and I would recommend using a good eye primer underneath for those with oily eye lids like mine because the initial pigment will slide off easily. Unless you are going for the faded, I may or may not be wearing eye shadow look, then a really good primer is your best bet! The overall rating I gave it an 8/10 because the color difference between with primer and without primer is pretty huge and because initially when you put this product on, it is super pigmented, but seems to fade out over time, at least on me... The product appears there, but less pigmented so looks more faded out. It looks like I put two different products on each lid. One good thing about that is then it's like you have two eye shadows in one. I didn't find anything too offensive about this product so I would more than likely repurchase this product and try out some other colors.

Sincerely,
Marina