Color Code Confessions: L’Oréal’s Correcting Palette—Worth a Spot in Your Bag?

If you’re looking for something to tackle blue-ish circles, redness, and lackluster skin—without busting open three separate concealer tubes every morning—meet the L’Oréal Paris Infallible Total Cover Color Correcting Kit.

This kit looks cute and seems handy, but for anyone with mature skin, dryness, or ethical concerns, the real-world picture’s a bit less rosy.

What Do These Shades Actually Do?

You get four slim little pans in a palette that’s about the size of a library checkout slip—easy for your bag, but you’ll chew through the most useful colors fast.

• Peach brightens undereye circles—on paper. If your skin’s super fair, it goes orangey unless you blend it with the skill of a master restorer at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Light discoloration is okay, but hardcore shadows will not vanish.
• Yellow counters blue tones and perks up pale or tired spots. For ghostly complexions, it can work, but without foundation on top it’s not exactly “natural.”
• Green cuts down redness on minor blemishes or gentle rosacea. But if your nose is rivaling Rudolph or you’ve got inflamed breakouts, don’t expect miracles—you’ll still need a separate heavy-duty concealer.
• Purple is sold as a brightener, but honestly, save your elbow grease. It barely makes a difference (unless you want a faint lavender tinge).

And a note for my fair-skinned, dark-circle crowd: you’ll use up the yellow and peach in no time and the pans are tiny.

Performance & Daily Reality

This palette is billed as a creamy, pro-level multitasker, but that’s only half true. The formula flips between silky and oddly dry, especially if your house is anything but climate-controlled. Using your fingers or a damp sponge works better than the included “sponge” (which is about as precise as using a marshmallow to write a check).

Here’s the rub for older or easily irritated skin: layer a little, and dark spots peek through; build it up, and it collects in every wrinkle. It doesn’t have the hydrating, flexible feel I’d want for touchy undereye skin or redness-prone cheeks, and it tends to slide or fade long before dinnertime unless you top it with a full-coverage foundation and powder.

Between the less-than-generous quantity and the speed with which you’ll swap out the main shades, this is not a kit to buy if you crave a single, dependable, everyday corrector.

And if your sensibilities are as strong as the scent of an old library stack: L’Oréal’s global reach includes markets with mandatory animal testing. No vegan label here, either.

Should You Try It or Pass?

This palette earns points for travel—quick school pickup run, vacation bag, or “I just want to experiment with color correction for the first time” scenarios. For those small jobs, it’s genuinely handy.

But if you’re fighting chronic under-eye shadows, redness, or you want a solution that pampers mature or delicate skin, this won’t be your forever favorite. It’s simply not that hydrating, the texture’s temperamental, and the refills come too soon.

Final tally: good enough for a curious beginner or as a temporary fix, but folks after serious coverage, lasting results, or a cruelty-free routine should keep browsing. Think of it as a sample chapter, not your new favorite novel.