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Say hi to a few members of L’Oreal’s newest long-wearing lipstick line, Infallible Le Rouge. From the left to the right: 812 Opulent Organza, 421 Charismatic Coral and 130 Enduring Berry ($10 each).
L’Oreal says these new lippies offer 10 hours of color and feel comfortable on the lips. Find them in 30 shades now at drugstores, grocery stores and lorealparis.com.
Now here’s something I can honestly say I’ve never seen before: kidney bean-based beauty. Each of the eight new L’Oreal Paris Studio Secrets Professional The One Sweep Eye Shadow Palettes (say that five times fast!) comes with a kidney bean-shaped brush designed to grab its three coordinating shadows in one fell swoop.
Team L’Oreal says that a single swipe of the contoured brush picks up the perfect amount of each color for your lid, crease and brow bone. Just slide the loaded brush horizontally across the area from the inner to the outer lid to distribute all three shades evenly, one atop the other, from lash line to brow bone.
Natural for All Eyes Palette on the left; Playful For Blue Eyes Palette on the right
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As much as I love a good bargain, budget beauty doesn’t always deliver. With some drugstore beauty products, you just don’t know what caliber of quality you’re gonna get.
The HiP Eye Shadow duos we looked at last week from the new L’Oreal Midnight Muse collection showed a lot of promise, and you showed a lot of interest, so I took two of them (Enchantress and Darkwave) out for indoor test drives today.
Now I know why these HiP shadows have so many fans. 🙂
The matte and high-shine shimmer shadows in both duos are easy to blend and exhibit very little fallout. These are top-shelf drugstore beauty products. We’re talking glass case material here, like the kinds of products that deserve their own display at the very front of the beauty aisle.
The L’Oreal Midnight Muse HiP Studio Secrets Professional Shadow Duos, clockwise from bottom left: Moon Goddess, Luna Noir, Enchantress, Dark Wave
It’s not like I needed another reason to swing by the drugstore, aka my home away from home, but these limited edition $8 L’Oreal HiP Studio Secrets Professional Shadow Duos gave me one anyway.
Here are four of the six HiP (High Intensity Pigments) Studio Secrets from the Midnight Muse collection that arrived on counters in September.
Clockwise from bottom left: Moon Goddess, Luna Noir, Enchantress, Dark Wave
I love their names…Moon Goddess, Luna Noir, Enchantress and Dark Wave. Don’t they sound like a coven of witches (BOO!)? 
Clockwise from bottom left: Moon Goddess, Luna Noir, Enchantress, Dark Wave
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L’Oreal wants you to “millionize your lashes,” and I guess they’re just assuming you’ll know what that means.
Go on, millionize them! I dare you. 🙂
If you’re confused, so was I when I heard the slogan for L’Oreal’s new Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara ($9).
Would I grow a million new lashes if I used it? Because if so that sounds like potentially too many… Or would my lashes grow in volume by a million times?
And why stop at a million anyway? Why not billionize your lashes? Let’s face it… A million just doesn’t go as far as it used to.
Overlooking 1) the silly slogan that doesn’t tell me anything about the product and 2) the fact that I’m a total word weirdo who obsesses over turns of phrase, I really tried to keep an open mind when I took Voluminous Million Lashes Mascara in Black out for a test drive.
The first thing I noticed about it: great brush. You know how some mascara brushes just don’t know when to stop? They grab too much product. Well, this one gets it right. I don’t even feel like I have to swipe it against a paper towel to remove any excess before applying.
How is that possible, you might ask? The Clean-Sweep Wiper System, BAM! The brush passes through a “web-like structure” and comes out of the tube loaded with the right amount of product for a single layer.
