This product was born as a moisturizing cream with a very light texture with the addition of a small pigmented part. The BB Cream evens out the complexion, but in a very natural way: it constitutes, in fact, the evolved version of the colored cream and is proposed as an alternative to foundation in the beauty routine. The BBs should be applied, making sure to blend the product well starting from the hairline, without neglecting the neck, as you would do with a foundation avoiding streaks or spots of color, with a cat’s tongue brush or a blender. The BB creams cannot fail to be inside your beauty bag, just read the various BB cream reviews on the various blogs and the various comments from beauty bloggers and makeup artists.
- BB Cream is a cream that smooths out the complexion of the face and minimizes small imperfections.
The origins of BB face cream date back to the 1960s when, in Germany, the need arose for a cosmetic product that had protective, calming and above all regenerating properties after aesthetic medicine treatments, camouflaging any scars and redness of the skin. A few years ago, then, from Korea to Japan, from the United States to Europe, the BB creams had a great success given the great demand for a perfecting cosmetic. In Europe, the formula of the colored cream, which later became Beauty Cream, has been evolved and has also been used for the body and legs.
But what exactly are BB creams and how do they work?
The Blemish Balm, balm for imperfections, is a cosmetic product for the base of the face that usually combines a treatment with makeup such as a nourishing cream with a foundation. BB Cream, due to their nature of simplifying and speeding up the daily makeup gestures of skin preparation, and for the pigments that are activated upon contact with the skin, have the innate ability to adapt to the skin tone by making it uniform.
BB Creams also help cover small blemishes such as spots and pimples, illuminating the complexion. As we said, the BB Cream is a hybrid cosmetic product that cannot replace the normal cosmetics you use during the day but performs various functions by helping “normal cosmetics” and “traditional makeup” to work at their best and in more effective way. The best BB Creams usually consist of a moisturizing base and have small pigmented microspheres inside, in different quantities depending on the need by the formulator to make the product more or less covering, which dissolve at the time of application, coloring the cream. Collagen or hyaluronic acid as anti-aging, sunscreens to protect yourself from harmful sun rays, vitamin C as an antioxidant are just some of the substances that can be added to a BB to make it functional.