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Let’s take a look at the neutral eye shadows from L’OREAL’s new Infallible Eyeshadows. I'm giving them some big love due to the quality and longevity!

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So I picked my favorite shade, or what I thought was my favorite last week from L’OREAL’s new Infallible Eyeshadows, and I might have spoken too soon.

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I am all about L’OREAL’s Infallible products. They just stay like no other so when I saw that they now have Infallible Eye Shadows in an array of colors, I jumped to try them. I mean, isn’t that what makeup is all about? Wearable colors that stay put? Anyway, the first one I laid eyes on was 88 Midnight Blue and I’m dedicating one whole feature to it as it’s love.

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Another day, another L’OREAL PARIS Infallible Collection! These Infallible Le Rouge lippies are some of my favorites right now and they are quite different from these in a few ways. First they are really moisturizing that I can feel it when I smack my lips together. It contains Color Fix technology, which is a flexible polymer that gives it greater adhesion that won’t flake. And it doesn’t!

They claim 10-hours of lasting color but I wouldn’t go that far but yes on a couple of moisturizing hours, which in my book is worth it. Color picks L to R: #312 Ravishing Red, #423 Perpetual Peach and #138 Forever Fuschia. $9.99 @ drugstore.com.

Disclosure: A sample of this item was provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes.

The more lip glosses I try the more I realize how kind of amazing these are at staying on lips. So of course I have to wonder what took me so long to discover their, L’OREAL PARIS, Infallible Never Fail Lipcolour Compact. Uh-maze-ing! Not only does the color stay on for hours but it doesn’t flake or smear off. I think we’ve all tried something like this by now and most seem to stay for a little while but eventually come off and usually by flaking dryly off. These did make my lips a little on the dry but that’s after I took it off after wearing it for 8 or so hours, so that was ok in my book!

If you’re not familiar with how these work, one side is the color and it’s like a paint and not thick and waxy at all like a lipstick. The other tube in the duo is a clear chapstick-type of glosser, they call a conditioning topcoat. So when the color needs to be refreshed, just reapply the topcoat, not the color again.

Dare I say that I think they are better than these? I think they just might be!

And the container acts like a mirror. Nice added bonus!

They just came out with their Stars Never Fail Lipcolour Compact Collection ($11.99 @ lorealparis.com or drugstores nationwide) and I’ve got a set to giveaway to one lucky reader. The colors are: Beyoncé (Beyoncé’s Red), Andie MacDowell (Andie’s Rose), Diane Keaton (Diane’s Tuberose), Eva Longoria Parker (Eva’s Caramel), Kate del Castillo (Kate’s Plum) and Linda Evangelista (Linda’s Beige).

Speaking of sprays, how about two made just for strands?

L’OREAL EverPure UV Protecting Spray ($8.99/8.5oz @ drustore.com). If you color your hair and you’re hitting the beach this summer, this is a must-have product! It’s sulfate-free (duh, would hope it would be) and contains UV filters to keep the sun from changing your hair color.

This product contains Methyl Parabens, which is considered by some as an ingredient of concern. Read more here. Read my ingredient disclaimer here.

PHYTO Phytomist ($26/5oz @ drugstore.com) – made just for dehydrated hair, which can happen from coloring or perming (perming?? Like pantyhose, will the perm ever come back into fashion?!), this uses botanicals to help prevent oxidation. FYI, it has silicones in it.

Disclosure: One of these items was provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes. One I bought.

Makeup primers are all the rage and more lines are coming out with them for the face and eyelids. And now that’s it’s starting to get hotter around the globe, there’s no time like the present to try one out to keep your makeup where you put it. Here are two that are sticking around my face these days.

SMASHBOX Photo Finish Lid Primer in Golden Nude ($20 @ sephora.com) from the Naked Beauty Collection is beautifully tinted in a shimmering nude shade. And this one is not just about helping your shadow stay on the lid longer. It also has ingredients to keep the skin moisturized and to help diminish lines on the lid. How do they fit all of that into this little tube?

L’OREAL Paris Studio Secrets Professional Magic Perfecting Base ($12.95/.5oz @ drugstore.com) has got quite a buzz on it and it seems to be moving to the top of a lot of beauty buff’s must have list. And I think I pretty much agree. It really creates a smooth canvas on the skin prepping it for foundation or powder and makes my skin oh-so-soft.
The only improvement is that I am not really partial to sticking my looks-clean-but-is-probably-not finger into the jar every time to get some. Yes, I could use a little scoop but I really seem to like mine in a tube or wand.

Disclosure: Samples of these items were provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes.

I love trying out a new way to put on makeup. Take L’OREAL’s new True Match Roller Perfecting Roll On Makeup ($14.99 @ walgreens.com) for example. It comes with a roller that rolls the foundation around your face. Think of it as one of those roller brushes that is used to roll paint out on a wall – it picks up the paint and then rolls out an even amount on the wall. That’s exactly what this one does! And you can roll on your coverage as little or as much as you want but I'd say one swipe give you about a medium. How I’ve been using this one is to roll it out over my face and then using a brush to get it in the crevices. Available in 12 shades.

Disclosure: A sample of this item was provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes.

Here we are at the end of our on-going Spring Color Picks feature. So have you added any of the suggestions like Coral, Turquoise, Tuscany, Violet or Tomato Puree to your makeup routine? Here are some more recs for Tomato and Turq. What’s great about turquoise is that sometimes it’s on the green side and sometimes more on the blue side. The two nail polishes here really depict that.

From L to R clockwise:

MAYBELLINE NEW YORK Color Sensational Lipstick in #635 Very Cherry ($7.49 @ drugstore.com)
GIVENCHY Phenomen’Eyes Waterproof Mascara in Water Turquoise ($29 @ sephora.com)
ESSIE Nail Polish in Turquoise & Caicos ($8 essie.com)
SULA BEAUTY Paint and Peel Nail in Haze ($9 @ sulabeauty.com)
CHINA GLAZE Nail Lacquer in Italian Red ($6.50 @ salons nationwide)
LUSH Ickle Baby Bot Bath Bomb ($3.95/2.1oz @ lush.com)
DIOR Addict Ultra Gloss in Little Red Dress ($26.50 @ sephora.com)
JOSIE MARAN Eye Shadow in Bali ($20 @ sephora.com)
DAVINES Wizard No 9 Structuring Mist ($26/8.45oz @ folica.com)
L’OREAL Infallible Plumping Lip Gloss in Plumped Red ($9.99 @ drugstore.com)
ERNO LASZLO Blue Firmarine Treatment Bar ($39/5oz @ ernolaszlo.com)

Disclosure: Some of these items were provided to Cybelesays.com for review purposes. Some I bought.

L’OREAL Infallible Plumping Lip Gloss in Plumped Tawny ($9.99 @ drugstore.com) is a tawny beige with just the slightest iridescent glimmer and has become my goto gloss when making my eyes the center of my look. 

I tried some of these w/o the plumping when they came out and this new one contains a plumper that they say you will feel the tingling when applied. I didn’t feel anything nor did I notice any plumping. I was looking to this for color only and that’s what I got, which is fine with me!

And I gotta say, with all the crappy stiff, low quality, applicators out there, these angled heart-shaped ones are really pleasant. Thanks for the extra step, L’Oreal.