Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Garnier Skin Natural Miracle skin cream Anti-aging skin transforming care

Yet another BB cream type product that caught my eye in the drugstore and I decided to test it. I was using it for more than 2 weeks at the beginning of summer instead of my daily moisturizer and it’s about time to report on it.

Price: 12,49€ for 50ml in DI drugstore which I feel is a lot for Garnier brand. Maybe it’s just Belgium high price level and you can get it for a lot cheaper in other countries (which wouldn’t be surprising).

Smell: it smells fresh and fruity and although I think that skincare should not hare perfume I don’t mind it, it is a nice scent.

Colour: at first it has white colour, it looks like a cream. Once you start blending it in the skin, the pigments “balls” pop up and blend with the cream. The colour, when swatched heavily, is warm light shade.

Garnier Skin Natural Miracle skin cream Anti-aging skin transforming care

Texture and finish: it has light cream texture which is not heavy at all, it is lighter in texture than for ex. L’Oreal Sublimist BB cream. At the beginning the finish was dewy but once it soaked in the skin it became semi matt, natural finish.

What it promises: instantly corrects skin imperfections (to deliver unified and luminous skin) and gives skin 24 hour hydration, in long run it reduces wrinkles and dark spots and improves skin quality.

Coverage: when heavy swatched it looks like it has some coverage but in fact once you blend it in the skin there is no coverage at all. It gives little bit of warmth to the skin but it doesn’t cover anything. It is definitely not a BB cream but rather tinted moisturizer (which is what it basically claims to be).

Longevity: I didn’t wear it alone as it doesn’t have any coverage, only under the foundation. It worked well and didn’t influence foundation’s wear at all.

Garnier Skin Natural Miracle skin cream Anti-aging skin transforming care

My experience: I applied it as regular cream; it has SPF 20 so I used it instead of my daily moisturizer. It soaked in the skin quite quickly and left it nicely moisturized and smooth. It didn’t instantly correct my skin imperfections as it didn’t have enough coverage to do so. I used it for more than 2 weeks but it is said on the packaging that the long term effects (wrinkles and dark spots reduction and skin quality improvement) will start to show only after 28 days of use. Therefore I cannot say if it reduces the wrinkles and dark spots or not (well, it didn’t do it those 2 weeks, so I guess it starts working only after the whole month, right?:)).

Final verdict: it’s moisturizing, it has SPF 20 and quite a nice smell. I will definitely use it up but won’t repurchase it since I enjoy more BB creams with some coverage instead of daily moisturizers. All in all, it is a nice product and I definitely recommend trying it yourself.