Price; Rs.710 / $11.4Qty: 30ml / 1 US ozMy Take on Bourjois 123 Perfect CC CreamPackaging: I only realized this after getting home: Bourjois products are not sealed. What the fudge Bourjois? You sell your products at sky high prices yet you fail to follow such basic hygiene standards. Well, TBS also follows the same standards, LOL. The CC Comes in a tube which has a nozzle opening .the cream is very runny so there’s always product all over the opening, aka, w.a.s.t.a.g.e. The spillage worsens when I travel with it. A pump would have been ideal for this product. Texture: For me, one of the best part of this CC Cream is its texture. It has a very runny texture that is smooth to apply and blends away flawlessly. Before my Real Techniques brushes came along, I always used my fingers to apply it. A little bit goes a long way with this product. I’m stressing this because I’ve seen tutorials where people apply way too much of this product in the first layer itself. Its very easy to just keep layering this product because it blends so easily. It feels weightless on the skin even after layering and its not detectable either as long as you don’t go overboard, its definitely one of those ‘second-skin-like-feel’ products.Coverage:This really depends. It provides medium to full coverage, But, not all places get full coverage. A CC cream is supposed to ‘Color Correct’, that is even out your skin tone. This CC cream has 3 pigments: Apricot for Anti -Fatigue, Green for Anti -Redness and White for Anti –Dullness. When it comes to evening out dark areas, this fails. This makes the more pigmented i.e darker areas of my face appear grayish in photographs. My eye contour, forehead and area around the mouth are all darker than the rest of my face, this definitely has to be topped with a concealer on those areas for fuller coverage and evening out. However, this can be built upto full coverage for spots and blemishes. I had one huge, 3D pimple on my cheek and 2 layers of this CC cream over it and little setting powder fully covered it. It covers most of the redness on my skin perfectly, but the redness on my nose sometimes still shows through. I use both brush and fingers to build up to a full coverage, if don’t have many issues on your face, fingers are enough to give you the coverage you need.Wear time: This aspect really depends on the weather. In the period that I've used this, my skin has changed from combination to normal to normal-dry. In summer season I found that it wears off in two hours or so whereas during cooler days I found that it stays all day, sometimes even without powdering. Some days I put it on and need to powder my face 2-3 times in the day. So, I can tell that for combination and normal skin, this is not a product to be worn in summers without a primer. Claims vs Performance-Bourjois claims 10hr hydration with the 123 perfect CC Cream but my skin doesn't feel hydrated after I've put it. Currently my skin is normal to dry and I feel the need to put a moisturizer before I apply this, which I do, by the way. -The Bourjois 123 CC Cream contains SPF15 which is less for summers but good enough for winters. I find that it doesn't photograph well at all (without flash, I haven’t tried it with flash), it gives a whitish cast around my mouth and under eyes. So if I’m going anywhere where I require to be photographed, I make sure to layer those areas with concealer.-Speaking of color correction, for the most part, it covers redness, but doesn't even out darker areas of my face. -I like that when I layer this over pimples, it doesn't aggravate my allergy! Then again, my skin has not reacted negatively to silicones yet, if silicones do not suit your skin, you might want to stay away from this because it has a lot of them.-It's only available in 4 shades.
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Overall Verdict: 4/5 The Bourjois 123 CC Cream feels like a high end product, and is even priced accordingly. While it doesn't completely even out my complexion, it provides a medium to full coverage. This is a product I would use for the “no makeup makeup look”. Its also very easy to use and you can apply it with just fingers as well. If don’t have many issues on your face, fingers are enough to give you the coverage you need. It doesn't provide hydration as it claims and wear time depends on the weather, to top it off, it doesn't look good in pictures over darker areas of my face. Still, I find myself reaching for this more than my beloved Garnier BB cream, just because it gives a better coverage, is undetectable on my skin and is easy to use. I really wish it had a pump instead of a nozzle. At this price, you might be able to find a medium-full coverage foundation so if your main concern is evening out skin tone/hiding dark circles/acne scars, that would be a better choice. If you don’t have uneven skin tone then this would be perfect for you. I’m not sure how it found fare over scars because I don’t have any.
