Product Review : L’Oreal Infallible Lip Gloss

October 15, 2008

If you like gloss and want to spend about $8, try this one. It’s ON SALE at Zellers this week, $2 off.

It is creamy and chocolate malt-smelling on application. It soon goes from creamy to bonded with your lips, but still comfortably. There is something different going on here about the way this gloss fuses with lips, like a flexible coating.

Does it last 6 hours? Don’t make me laugh. But for a gloss, it’s very very good. Surprisingly (how often can you say that about a beauty product), not only does the shine last but so does the pigment.

The colors are nothing like on the website. The L’Oreal website is a pain, with too many pages that take too long to load. I hope this link takes you there directly. The site shows 16 colors on the Infallible Never Fail 6Hr Lip Gloss page. There were 8 at Zellers. I bought Coral Sands first.

Sangria above, Coral Sands below

Others have said it’s too sticky and separates if you apply a layer over the first one – I didn’t notice either. It’s not goopy and doesn’t create threads if you touch it with your finger/cup/fork. The one step application and ability to re-apply any time are two of this product’s strongest points. You can put another product over or under this one and it behaves well.

Maybe by “sticky”, women mean that you can feel it like a layer of adhesive on your lips, and that is so. I think it’s a good thing. How else is it going to last 6 (ha!) hours? You know how other long-wearing product roll and crumble when you rub your lips? Not this stuff. It is so stuck that you can rub for 30 seconds and it will not move. And it still feels perfectly fine. It must be some sort of sealant technology.

Coral Sands on L, Sangria on R.

The angled, triangular, sponge applicator would have no influence on a decision to rebuy but it works well enough. Actually, the pointed tip makes it easier to draw a precise outline for a darker color like Sangria.

It is a little more light and a lot more sheer than it appears in the tube. Coral Sands is a pale peach, slightly pink. On fair skin, especially with yellow undertones, it would be great. On me, by itself, it’s too light and washed out. On a Spring woman, beauty.

I went back for Sangria. I saw it described in as a sheer earthy plummy color, sounded nice… It is nice, but too rosy red for me. What was I thinking? It’s made for a Winter, just a nice lip color. Here it is:

Sangria on a Winter woman.

It’s a good thing I have daughters. I can give them all the colors I should have known better than to buy.

Oh well, we made to Wednesday. For this, we deserve 2 of anything.

(Update Nov. 08 : In reading Emily’s Living Cruelty Free blog yesterday, I noticed that I made a mistake in thinking L’Oreal is cruelty-free. In fact, they’re not that at all. This product is not good enough to excuse buying it. If I had it do to again, I would have passed. Your decision.)

Posted by Christine Scaman | Filed Under Makeup