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L.A. Girl Cosmetics had a 40% off everything sale for Black Friday and while I seriously don’t need anymore makeup, I wanted to swatch and review some things for you lovelies. First starting with L.A. Girl Pro BB Cream.
If you need a refresher on what BB Creams or CC Creams are, check out these posts. But in a nutshell they typically are multi-tasking products that combine the worlds of both makeup and skincare. They’re pretty much souped up tinted moisturizers.
Official description:
An all-in-one skin beautifier! This essential new addition to L.A. Girl’s HD PRO series simplifies a basic skin and makeup regimen into a single tube. Indulge your skin with this powerful multitasker. HD PRO BB Cream primes, moisturizes and enhances skin tone.
This product was formulated without parabens and fragrance-free to pamper sensitive skin and lavishly nourish skin with added Vitamin B3, C and E. The silky formula covers a wide range of skin tones offering eight shades.
-Smooth, youthful-looking skin
-Primes
-Moisturizes
-Enhances skin tone
Shades
Medium/Deep: a coffee with a lot of cream shade—should suit anyone around MAC NC40/45 or NW35
Deep: a coffee with a little cream shade—should suit anyone around NC50 or NW40-ish
Dark: a coffee with a slight touch of cream shade—should suit anyone around my shade NW45/47-ish
There’s 8 shades in all which is pretty impressive for a BB. I only have the three mentioned above.
Note: BB Creams are typically more neutral in undertone so they typically work whether you have cool or warm undertones—but some may find that they need to color correct with either concealer or powder.
It doesn’t appear as if this helps improve skin tone over time (though it does contain Vitamin C—just not sure if the amount is enough to be effective) like some BB creams and most CC creams offer, but I do love the texture and super lightweight finish. I don’t have major skin discoloration issues—just some occasional dark spots left over from the occasional pimple—right now I have a few on my forehead and on my chin and underneath my eyes and my lids are darker than most of my face. L.A. Girl Pro BB Cream gave me a better overall even skin tone but the texture wasn’t “heavy” enough to completely cover my dark spots—for that I would still need concealer but no biggie for me. If a fuller coverage is what you’re looking for, you don’t want a BB Cream—or you just want to use it as a base for your foundation.
The wear on this was great—I of course had some oil breakthrough (and will probably have more when it’s warmer out) but it’s nice for just a quick and easy makeup look—which is weird because I don’t do many of those kind of looks—I’m either not wearing makeup at all or full-on…lol. I do plan on taking this with me to Grenada though along with my Cover FX posse…lol.
What I love most about this is that it feels lightweight and has decent coverage. Some BB Creams can be too heavy on my skin and then still do nothing at all to cover even slightly. This was much closer to a light foundation.
I’m wearing L.A. Girl Pro BB Cream in shade Dark and set it with L.A. Girl Pressed Powder in Dark Cocoa (then I later read that L.A. Girl suggests setting this with their HD Pro Setting Powder—I’ll try to review both as soon as I can).
Bottom line: Great shade selection and a must-try if you’re looking for a lightweight coverage option. This doesn’t appear to be one of the more intense BB creams with extra skincare benefits but if that doesn’t matter to you (I personally would rather have my skincare separate from my makeup) then go for it.
Price and where to buy: $7 each at lagirlusa.com.
