{"id":14300,"date":"2014-05-07T08:30:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/?p=14300"},"modified":"2014-05-07T08:52:55","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T00:52:55","slug":"bobbi-brown-cc-cream-pale-nude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2014\/05\/bobbi-brown-cc-cream-pale-nude\/","title":{"rendered":"See! See! Bobbi Brown now has a CC Cream too!"},"content":{"rendered":"
With CC Creams now being the norm, it ought to come as no surprise when the big brands start releasing their own versions of what is popularly termed “colour correcting” creams. To be honest, with some products, there is scant difference between a BB Cream and a CC Cream. Both are tinted, both are used all over and while brands try their utmost to tell us that they’re different, lets face it, they’re basically the same thing.<\/p>\n
So when Bobbi Brown<\/strong> released their CC Cream, I raised a sceptical brow. I do like the Bobbi Brown BB Cream<\/a>. It’s one of the better versions I’ve tried out there (I don’t use Korean brands, it’s a personal quirk because I dislike that grey cast that makes me a relation to a decaying zombie) But CC Cream?!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well Bobbi Brown takes great pains to tell us that their CC Cream<\/strong>, which comes in 3 shades globally and 2 shades locally, is more of a colour correcting PRIMER\u00a0than a face base. Now, that sort of honesty I can live with. There are 3 shades available – 01 Pale Nude (pink for fairer skintones) 02 Warm Nude (yellow for medium-darker skintones) and 03 Golden Nude (brown for dark skintones). In Malaysia, we only get Pale Nude<\/strong> and Warm Nude<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The thing is, to be perfectly honest, unless you already are compelled to use a makeup primer daily, I don’t quite see the point of this product. There, said it \ud83d\ude1b I have found a use for it, but I can’t say in all honesty that it’s a must have.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Don’t get me wrong. I don’t think this BB CC Cream to be a bad product at all. But being someone who just doesn’t use a primer at any time unless I absolutely need my makeup to stay fixed to my skin for hours and hours, I just can’t justify the use of this CC Cream. If you are a regular primer user then you may appreciate this more.<\/p>\n The shade I have is 01 Pale Nude<\/strong>, which is an interesting pink coming out of the tube.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The pink-lilac shade is a known skin illuminating and brightening shade. So if you have a fair skintone and feel like it’s looking a bit dull and you want to brighten it somewhat, this is the shade for you. It comes out of the tube a bright pink but once blended, as you can see in the picture, it blends out into nothing.<\/p>\n Can you tell if the area with the blended CC Cream looks better or brighter? I can’t. On the upside, unlike many primers out there, it doesn’t feel like you’re slathering a layer of heavy silicone on your skin and it actually feels pretty comfortable on.<\/p>\n I think Pale Nude CC Cream on its own for me (and for most people) would be considered a waste of time BUT what I like is to wear it under powder foundation. You see, I have all these lovely powder foundations, but because I have drier skin than most, I find powder foundations drying. This CC Cream therefore, keeps my skin feeling comfortable while allowing me to wear powder foundations or just general light powders for a very natural, translucent base.<\/p>\n Let me demonstrate. I have here a series of before\/after images showing you how this Bobbi Brown CC Cream looks when I wear it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the bare skin picture, it’s just skincare and sunscreen. I have my pigmentation on view which I’m quite used to be now, as well as some uneven skintone around my nose and some spots. Texturally, I’m happy with how my skin looks generally.<\/p>\n With just a thin layer of the Bobbi Brown CC Cream in Pale Nude all over there is a little bit of brightening effect which you may notice, but there is no coverage. There isn’t meant to be any. What the CC Cream does is to trick the eye to colour correct your complexion. In this case, it makes it look brighter.<\/p>\n