Can I just say that if I hear another company that claims to have 24 hour wearability I may just eye-roll into another dimension? It’s not that we, as consumers in the beauty-verse don’t want a long wearing product, but advertising a foundation to be able to be worn for 24 hours isn’t really something I like. For one, no one in their sane, skin loving mind should want to wear a foundation for 24 hours. My pores are literally shrieking at that thought. However, like with any “rules” there are exceptions. Certain people need a foundation that lasts (nurses, commuters, teachers, professionals, people who have customer facing jobs, etc.). Even then, I imagine the most someone would want from a foundation is a 16 hour wear product that withstands everything; pollution, gusts of wind, sweat, hair whipping the face, clothes rubbing the face, meals, kisses, stress. Again, the list goes on.
I mostly find that its the foundations that don’t claim or push the “24 hour wearability” on us that tend to be most successful (for me) at withstanding what life throws at us. Enter the L’Oreal Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation. Real quick, let me put the definition of ‘infallible’ below, just to give you an idea of the beauty claim L’Oreal is trying to make here.
infallible: incapable of making mistakes or being wrong; never failing; always effective.
via google search
You can imagine the hype the foundation has to live up to just by the name. No pressure of anything (actually, LOTS of pressure), but I really expect a lot out of this product. I’m writing this intro before I have applied the product, just to give you guys a sense of what I am feeling.
beauty claims
Via their website, the product is a “breakthrough longwear foundation with breathable-skin technology”, “provides medium-to-full buildable coverage that lasts all day and allows the skin to breathe”, contains “three oil absorbers resist sweat, water, and transfer”, and “goes on smoothly to give a fresh, healthy-looking complexion that lasts”. It also comes in 30 shades ( a decent shade range, but could still have more shade options for those on the deeper end of the skin spectrum).
packaging
The Packaging is pretty standard. Comes in a square bottle (30ml/1.0 fluid oz) and has a pump, which is great for hygiene. Labels and what not also follow the L’Oreal infallible line, back from the Pro-Glow and the Pro-Matte foundations. The price via the website is $14.99.
Swatches
I noticed that when I pumped the product out it was not thick, actually more on the runny side, as you can see here.
application
So as you can see, my skin is pretty “clear”, I do have some breakouts on my face (thank you hormones), they tend to be pretty red and noticeable. I also have some pretty noticeable spider veins (?) at the ripe old age of 27 on my cheeks. My skin type is pretty combo — oily in the T-Zone and normal everywhere else, however right now I have been experiencing some dry skin over all because of my face washes, but its been normalizing. Before applying the foundation I moisturized and used a primer, everything will be listed below.
The first layer didn’t really do much for me. Didn’t wow me or even really make me like it. It was just, “yes, this is a foundation.” In fact I kinda hated it. My skin has been doing this odd thing lately where the foundation has to “meld” into it, I’ve yet to find one where hugs the skin and looks like skin. It looked flaky on my face, and immediately clung to my zits and dry areas, despite prepping with two moisturizers, the Angel Veil primer, and some Cover FX Moonlight Glitter Drops.
I soldiered through and the next layer was more satisfying. After that layer I spot concealed and it was more satisfactory. One big pro I noticed was that it did in fact feel very weightless, and I could have built it up more but decided not to. I still got the medium to full coverage. Some skin imperfections peaked through but it wasn’t anything I was too worried about.
I also noticed that it did dry down completely, and that doesn’t always happen for me, there’s usually a tacky feeling to all my foundations, even when I use a light powdering. I don’t like to cake my face down like I used to. I also like that, over the day it looked better, I’m not sure if its my natural oils working with the foundation or if its just one of those foundations that looks better as it sets more over time.
4 hour check in
6 hour check in
I feel like at the 6 hour mark it looked okay, more on the good side but you could definitely see more texture peaking through than with natural lighting as opposed to flash.
10 hour check in
full products used:
- Sephora Hydration Cream
- L’Oreal Lumi Glotion in Medium
- NYX Angel Veil
- L’Oreal Infallible Fresh Wear Foundation in 445 Vanilla
- Tarte Shape Tape in Light Sand
- Maybelline Fit Me loose powder in fair
- Anastasia Beverly Hills DipBrow in Medium Brown
- Jaclyn Hill Eyeshadow Palette
- Tarte Sex Kitten Liquid Liner
- Ardell Lashes in 814
- Maybelline Great Lash in Black
- Becca Khloe Kardashian face palette
- Hoola Bronzer
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Lip Palette
side note:
I also wanted to note that I did not use any setting spray or Mac Fix + which I love using because it does melt your makeup together (but that’s another post for another day.).
overall
Overall I would give this product a 7/10. Is it 24 hour? Definitely not. Had I jogged in this or sweat at all, I don’t think it would have withstood that, big point off for that, since it claims to be sweat proof. I DID like that it was extremely skin like in feel and I was able to build it up, had I wanted to (I only used two layers). After finishing my makeup it did look really pretty. It really broke down on me by the end of the night at the 10 hour mark. All of my other face products worked well on top. I do believe had I worn some setting spray it would have lasted longer. I’d probably reach for this for days where I’m running errands for only a few hours. I don’t like that it accentuated these small bumps I have on my face more and more as the day went on. I’ll keep working with it, but I more than likely will mix it with another foundation for more durability. I think if you have really oily skin it could break down more, rather than if you have normal skin it’ll last.
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