Some ladies dream of having bag closets in their future houses – me? I dream of having glass display-front closets for my makeup and skincare. I’d arrange all of them nicely so that at one glance, I can see what products I have. Then again, I suppose this would take up one entire wall, considering the amount of cosmetics I have hurhurhur.
Anyhoos, here’s another recent addition to my BB / CC cream army, enlisted during my recent trip to Korea in October.
Innisfree Serum CC Cream – KRW18,000
I picked the cover version cos I find that the brightening version has less coverage (duh) and also cos it has a glossier and more dewy finish. I’ve got my overactive sebum glands doing that job for me already.
I say…
To be really honest, I’d all but given up on CC creams, since most of them didn’t have great coverage. But you guys know me, always bursting at the seams with positivity (and the occasional sarcastic jibe), so what the hell, let’s give this CC cream another go.
- It comes with a pump system, so yayness for hygiene.
- It takes about 2-3 pumps to dispense enough CC cream for my whole face.
- The CC cream itself has a nice herbal smell – I can’t quite identify it, but it’s almost quite a typical Innisfree scent.
- It’s not too creamy nor too watery, so it blends pretty quickly and easily.
- At first glance, it can seem rather yellowish, but I was pretty surprised that it blended out into a nice rosy almost-pinkish finish.
- It’s also semi-matte and semi-dewy, with the dewiness only visible from certain angles and at certain spots on your face, i.e. the cheekbones, nose bridge etc.
- It brightens up my skin and covers a lot of the blemishes and redness.
- To cover the dark eye circles, I needed a good 4-5 coats, so stick to your usual concealer or dab a layer of loose powder over the CC cream if your bags are like minim ya’know, my eye bags bring all the pandas to the yard, damn right, it’s darker than yours.
- It lasts for about 4-5 hours before I saw it beginning to fade away around the corners of my nose.
All in all, a pretty good CC cream that is quite close to a BB cream/foundation’s finish. It’s supposed to have some serum in there (and I guess that accounts for the herbal scent), but I haven’t seen any skincare benefits yet though. Waddahell right? As long as it makes me look prettyyyyy.
