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BB cream doesn't take its name from the perfect baby complexion you can achieve with it, but the play on words is quite apt. It actually stands for "Blemish Balm cream". Used by dermatologists in the aftermath of plastic surgery to hide scars and redness, BB cream eventually went beyond the medical realm to become viral.
Which makes sense, after all: it's so quick and easy to conceal imperfections and even out skin tone. Because that's precisely its strength: its "2-in-1 product" aspect. In just one application, women can finally have a perfect make-up base.
But its benefits aren't just cosmetic. In fact, BB cream is also a moisturizer that illuminates and nourishes the upper layers of the epidermis. That's why it's been such a runaway success, because it's practical and effective. And since then, numerous derivatives have come out: BB creams dense enough to be foundations, others with UV protection...
But how do you choose? Simple: take THE BB cream, not its derivatives (Clinique offers a thunderbolt, for example). Because the original version is perfect. It has no real texture or tint (and yet it covers), it moisturizes and protects the skin (UV index 15), and why? Because it was originally designed to be able to mask the marks associated with plastic surgery micro-interventions. In other words, marks that are often intense and damaging to the skin. In other words, it's a treatment, or a... Balm.
Well, that's exactly what the second B stands for...
Which makes sense, after all: it's so quick and easy to conceal imperfections and even out skin tone. Because that's precisely its strength: its "2-in-1 product" aspect. In just one application, women can finally have a perfect make-up base.
But its benefits aren't just cosmetic. In fact, BB cream is also a moisturizer that illuminates and nourishes the upper layers of the epidermis. That's why it's been such a runaway success, because it's practical and effective. And since then, numerous derivatives have come out: BB creams dense enough to be foundations, others with UV protection...
But how do you choose? Simple: take THE BB cream, not its derivatives (Clinique offers a thunderbolt, for example). Because the original version is perfect. It has no real texture or tint (and yet it covers), it moisturizes and protects the skin (UV index 15), and why? Because it was originally designed to be able to mask the marks associated with plastic surgery micro-interventions. In other words, marks that are often intense and damaging to the skin. In other words, it's a treatment, or a... Balm.
Well, that's exactly what the second B stands for...