Review (5/5): Provides Great Coverage. Feels Nice On Skin & Looks Smooth!
This comes with an outer product box. It has the same appearance as the tube of foundation - black with white wording. There’s also a little rectangle in the shade, with the shade number and name. The product packaging looks nice. It comes with a product card saying they love to hear from you and 2 samples for hair products (which I thought was odd for hair products with foundation, but whatever 😂) - 1 for “RG II Hair Loss Clinic Premium Shampoo” and 1 for “Sohair Morocco Argan Oil Hair Essence.” I didn’t try either of the samples so can’t say anything for how those work.
The foundation comes in a squeeze tube. When you twist off the main top, there’s a protective seal. I usually like pumps with my foundations. But, I don’t mind this being a squeeze tube. It isn’t messy at all. I just squirt some out onto my brush or sponge, dab it in areas on my face, then blend it out.
They don’t have a large range of shade options - there’s only 2. With BB & CC creams, they’re usually so thin that a shade that’s a little off from you is usually still okay. I got the shade “#1 Light Beige.” I’m pretty pale. I can make the shade work for me, but I do wish it was a tad lighter. See my photos. I did a photo showing a drop of this Bb Cream, then a swatch doing 1 swipe with a small amount on my finger, then took what was left on my finger from the swatch and dabbed it and blended it out. I also show a photo of a swatch of this BB Blemish Cream, where I also show some blended out. Then I compared it to a swatch of L’Oréal Infallible Pro Glow in 201 Classic Ivory and Maybelline 24 Hr Foundation in 102 Fair Porcelain (I tried to use foundations most people might have tried). As you can see, both are lighter than this BB Blemish Cream. The Maybelline is MUCH lighter. I’m pretty pale, but even that one is a tad too pale for me, so I always have to warm it up with bronzer. But, this BB Blemish Cream is definitely on the darker side for me, but I’m able to make it work.
The formula feels nice. It isn’t too thin or runny. It feels nice and creamy. On the product info page it said, “BB Cream Tinted Moisturizer Blemish Balm lets you perfectly blend & build tones from sheer to medium coverage.” Most BB creams I’ve tried are usually sheer to light, not able to go up to medium coverage. But, this actually provides a lot more coverage than I expected with a BB cream! I usually don’t go for BB/CC creams that often because they’re such light coverage. But, there’s times when I want lighter coverage and was looking for a new BB/CC cream and figured I’d give this a try. I’m really glad I did! It evens out my skin tone like I’d expect with a BB cream, but also provides decent coverage too. It doesn’t feel dry on my skin. You can also build it up too if you want, and it doesn’t look dry or cakey. I’d say you can get anywhere from really light coverage (like just evening out your skin tone and maybe covering small, light spots with a thin layer) to good medium coverage (if you build it up some). It builds up nicely enough where it might even be considered full coverage to some, but for me I consider it medium coverage 😂 I can’t build it up too much on myself because the color isn’t a good enough match for me. The more I build it up, the more it doesn’t match my skin. So, when I use this since it’s not really light enough for me, I can only use a thin layer of it. But, I did build it up just to test it out for this review and it looks nice and smooth on the skin whether you’re doing a light layer or building it up.
Overall, I think this is a really great BB cream! It gives you more coverage than other BB creams I’ve tried. I like the squeeze tube. The product feels and looks nice on the skin. I definitely recommend giving this a try if you’re looking for something that will give you light to medium coverage while looking nice, smooth, and not dry or cakey.