For those of you that have been following my beauty loves over the last couple of years: you all know how much I love BB Creams. There is such a large variety out there now and I honestly enjoy trying them out. I love how they all target different things and have different claims, and I also love how they provide great coverage while still being considered skincare. BB Creams really took off in the Eastern beauty scene, and recently has had a lot of hype from US or Western brands. Hydroxatone has one called Anti-Aging BB Cream and so far I think it is the most impressive “Western BB Cream” that I have ever encountered…
“This versatile beauty enhancer looks like makeup but acts like skincare. Provide your skin with the hydration it needs to maintain a more polished, youthful look. And boasting a formula with broad spectrum SPF 40, antioxidants and botanical extracts, apply this cream to help protect your skin from environmental aggressors while smoothing its appearance. Add this multi-action cream to your daily skincare repertoire for a bevy of beauty benefits.
Hydroxatone Anti-Aging BB Cream with Broad Spectrum SPF 40 Sunscreen is your all-in-one multi-tasking perfecting cream . It hydrates, conceals, protects, reduces the look of aging and brightens skin in just one step. BB cream is also known as Beauty Balm or Blemish Balm and is recently among Asia’s hottest beauty products.“
First of all: I like the squeeze-tube packaging. It makes for easily-controlled dispension of product. No fuss, no muss. I also like that there is no glass included in the packaging. I have an upcoming hospital stay (the birth of my daughter) and I for one don’t want to travel with glass in my makeup bag… to be completely honest–I don’t enjoy having glass packaging ever. I am a huge klutz and if something is breakable it will be broken! Kudos on the simplicity of the packaging, Hydroxatone.
I have the color in Medium and I think it is the perfect shade for me. It is my suspicion that the Light, Medium, Tan, Deep Tan, and Dark shades (all of the shades they offer) are pretty true to life. Limited shades in BB Creams are common and the fact that there are 5 choices for Hydroxatone Anti-Aging BB Cream is actually quite good and honestly really surprising.
The coverage is medium to full and can be layered to add more coverage. You can see from the swatches below that it does a great job at perfecting the skin. I have sunspots and freckles on my hand and from the first picture to the last you can see a major difference with just a small amount applied. Some people like to use BB Creams as primers for their actual makeup and I think that this one is actually the one-stop-shop that it claims to be: skincare and makeup.
It provides a nice, natural “lit-from-within glow”. It is very moisturizing, but not so much that it looks wet. It helps me look like a better version of myself. Sometimes products that provide a luminous/dewy finish have a tendency not to last very long on the skin and that is not the case with this product. It lasts my entire work day with little-to-no touch ups. I do keep a translucent pressed powder in my bag to get my t-zone throughout the day, but I would do that with any product so I won’t count it as a flaw for this.
I find that Hydroxatone Anti-Aging BB Cream is really great. It satisfies all of my needs and honestly exceeds my coverage expectation. A 5 out of 5 star-rating is completely necessary for this product. I have no complaints, only praises. Go out and try it for yourself!!!
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