Showing posts with label Color Correct Cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Color Correct Cream. Show all posts

Sunday, July 7, 2013

[SKINFOOD] Vita Water Drop CC cream *Floral Water Drop*

After trying [MIZON]'s CORRECT COMBO CC Cream and being positively surprised by its finish I wanted to give another CC cream a chance. To be more exact I purchased two and one of these was [SKINFOOD]'s Vita Water Drop CC cream.
This CC cream is available in two different designs: a blue tube (#D1 Smile Water Drop) and a white tube (#D2 Floral Water Drop). I don't know if there is a difference in the CC cream itself but I got the Floral Water Drop one. Somewhere I was reading that the CC cream in the white tube is good for reddish skin but I'm not really sure about that.
This products are a collaboration with 'water drop sonata'!

Description: Perfect All-in-one CC cream that absorbs in the skin deeply and makes the skin smooth.
It works as skincare + make-up and makes the skin tone brighter. SPF35 PA+++
As already said, the Floral Water Drop comes in a white tube and contains 30g. On the front is a cute print designed by 'water drop sonata'. The tube comes with a pump and has only the korean description on the back.
As the description is only written in korean it's also hard for me to read the ingredients. I still could find out that this Vita Water Drop CC cream contains extracts of Tomato, Celery (300mg), Broccoli, Apple, Carrot, Pumpkin (300mg), Asparagus, Raspberry and more.

As the other CC creams I've used so far had a whitish color, I expected the same from [SKINFOOD]'s Vita Water Drop CC cream. But this CC cream comes in a beige shade with a slight pinkish undertone. I was highly sceptical at first because the color doesn't look like my skintone. Surprisingly, the rather watery CC cream blends in very good and fits my skintone quite well afterwards. My skin feels smooth, looks brighter and less reddish. 
Unfortunately, it has just a sheer coverage since it's supposed to be a color correcting cream. The scent is not too bad and reminds me of a floral/ vegetable scent.
I like this CC cream because it evens out my skin tone, makes it less reddish and smooth. But since my skin often needs a better coverage I will use it mostly in combination with a BB cream or face powder on top. It even doesn't come with a great oil control what makes it a better product for those with normal or dry skin.


Price: around 9,- €/ US$12 
Bought at: eBay (iamlove-shop)       
 
What I love:    
The cute design and that it evens out my skin tone. 

What I don’t like:  
The sheer coverage is not perfect for those with skin problems. 

Will I buy this again? No, I will give other BB creams or CC creams a try.

Friday, May 31, 2013

[MIZON] Flawless Skin CORRECT COMBO CREAM *CC cream*

I'm pretty sure that everybody heard about the BB cream follower: CC cream.
As a BB cream lover I couldn't resist to get one of these new 'Color Correcting' creams to see if they are worth the hype. The Korean skincare brand [MIZON] is a rather new brand for me and because some of their products are quite interesting, I ordered its CORRECT COMBO CREAM (together with some other products from the same brand).
[MIZON] was the first brand who released a CC cream and with 58,000 won (approx. US$40) it wasn't really cheap - I still wonder why its price on eBay is just about US$15?!

Official Website: http://www.mizon.co.kr/

Description: Flawless Skin! Functional Concentrated Multi Cream. Anti-Wrinkle/ Whitening/ SPF25 PA++
Powerful Ingredients Improve Skin Texture And Radiance.

The CORRECT COMBO CREAM doesn't have that colorful and/or cute design we know from products of [ETUDE HOUSE] or [Lioele]. The outer box is black and came sealed with a silver sticker on top. Beside the few sentences on the front there is nothing else written in English, so I had to get the informations from websites.
The tube inside the box is white with black letters and a silver 'pump' on the bottom. Compared with BB cream tubes this one here is very long and rather slim. It contains 35ml what should last for awhile.
Btw, you can get this CC cream also in a container instead of a tube!
This CC cream contains Birch Sap instead of Water! Some other ingredients are Desert Plants, Argan Oil, Moringa Milk Plant, Collagen, Elastin, Ceramide, 40 types of moisture ingredients and more.
The light creamy texture has a whitish color with lotsa visible micro color capsules. These capsules break off on the surface of the skin and change to a beige color, matching ones skin tone.
Before I got the CC cream I was a bit scared that the color won't suit my skin tone because I already tried skin matching foundations/ BB creams before and the colors were most of the time too dark for my pale skin. Therefore I'm more than happy that [MIZON]'s CORRECT COMBO CREAM suits my skin tone perfectly.
I use just one pump and that's enough to cover up most skin blemishes (well, not 100% but still good enough for me)! If you need high coverage you should better stick to BB creams since CC creams even out ones skin tone with light coverage only!!
It also brightens up my skin tone without looking like a dead corpse afterwards and reduce skin redness.
Even though it doesn't contain a strong sebum control my skin looks less shiny after 5+ hours (I don't live in a humid country, though).
I used the CC cream for the last few days and I really love it. I like it even more than most of my BB creams!
Currently I use it together with [ElishaCoy]'s MOIST UP SUPER HYALURONE CREAM, [ETUDE HOUSE]'s Sweet Recipe Baby Choux Base and [TONYMOLY]'s BABY DOLL BB POWDER (mixed with some [POND'S] Magic Powder in 'Sweetie Pink' for better oil-control).


Price: around 12,- €/ US$15 
Bought at: eBay (f2plus1)       

What I love:    
The color, the natural coverage without using a lot of product and the non-greasy formula. 

What I don’t like: 
Absolutely nothing yet! 

Will I buy this again? I'm already thinking about getting a back-up of this CC cream. Would like to try out another one, though, but I'm scared that the result won't be as good as [MIZON]'s. 
Maybe will try [ETUDE HOUSE]'s 'Silky' CC cream, though.