Review and Swatches: L'Oreal Nude Magique Anti-Redness CC Cream

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Today's review is on the L'Oreal Nude Magique Anti-Redness CC cream..

L'Oreal Nude Magique Anti-Redness CC Cream,
picture from: http://www.lorealparis.com.au/cosmetics/face/nude-magique-anti-redness-cc-cream.aspx

I have been sorely disappointed with L'Oreal BB creams (hello, orange) but was hoping for some improvement with their redness correcting CC cream. Unfortunately, history repeated itself.

Your morning dose of beauty snark

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I thought I'd address why I am reviewing Smashbox when there are so many more affordable BB creams out there? Simple. I went into pharmacies, department stores and Mecca Cosmetica and swatched every BB cream I could find. This is the only BB cream that matched my skin.

In that process, I came across two notably poor performers that are usually celebrated in the blogosphere.

Variations on a theme_sparkly purple eyes

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While I'm on a purple eyeshadow roll, here's another look I did using the Napoleon Perdis Loose Eye Dust in Violet Femme and L'Oreal Color Infallible Purple Obsession (plus fake eyelashes and Make Up Store glitter eyeliner in soft pink).

Sparkly Purple Birthday Eye Look

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As promised, you get to see why I wanted the L'Oreal Color Infallible in Purple Obsession. I used it for this look (a birthday look for me). I spent ages finding exactly the right shades of purple for this look and I was very happy with how it turned out (got some nice compliments on my makeup, too- always a plus!).

Review: L'Oreal Color Infallible eyeshadow

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In a break from the Naked Palette series, here's a non-Urban Decay review :-)

I'm having one of those bad technology days and no matter what I did, I couldn't take a decent photo of the eyeshadow itself, so here's a stock photo of L'Oreal's Color Infallible eyeshadow in 05 Purple Obsession.

Picture from:  http://www.lorealparis.com.au/cosmetics/eyes/infallible-eyeshadow/05-purple-obsession.aspx