Review (5/5): I've found the BEST BB CREAMS from Korean beauty brands & this is no exception!!
So, I'm recently 50 (I'm wondering how long I'll keep adding recently to my age??) and during 2020 I fell in love with Korean skin care and Korean BB Creams. This one gets high marks, and it's a bit different than the others I've tried.
I ordered the lightest shade since I'm VERY fair and it worked perfectly. That's one of the things I love about BB Creams in general, they provide coverage but they also seem to work with your skin tone rather than masking it. This applied beautifully with a brush and my fingers (my preferred method). I'm assuming it would work with a damp sponge, as well. On me that tends to look cakey for some reason, so I don't generally go that route. It worked well over multiple moisturizers and both of my favorite sunscreens. I use a primer occasionally and had no problems with application when I did. It goes on smoothly and blends out easily. It's a very light formula and feels like I'm not even wearing makeup. It doesn't have a high amount of coverage. I would call it a buildable medium, as far as that goes. Now, here's where it differs from the other Korean BB Creams I've tried.....it dries down to a very satin, skin like finish. Most others end up with either a dewy or slightly luminous finish, which is fine. This is the first one I've found that doesn't. It's definitely not a matte finish, though.
It wears really well. I can get a full 10 hours of wear out of it, whether I set it or not. That's another thing about the way this drys down, if you tend toward dry skin (I do) then you can get away with not powdering this one if that's your preference. When I do use powder I go in pretty lightly, and usually just in the areas where my pores might be having a particularly "showy" day with a blurring powder. The bonus that seems to come with most Korean beauty facial products is the SPF. This is a PA+++/SPF 50+. Now that doesn't mean I skip my normal sunscreen, cause you're never gonna convince me that what you get in foundation or BB Cream is adequate protection.....but I will never say no to MORE protection. EVER.
This is a beautiful BB Cream that works really well on aging skin, so I imagine it would be a dream on younger skin, perfect or textured alike. One other thing I noticed is that at the end of the day I still hardly noticed I was wearing makeup. And when I washed it off my skin felt and looked pretty good. It wasn't dried out and didn't have that worn out look that I've gotten used to seeing after a full day in makeup. Definitely a keeper!!