Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Skin Food Good Afternoon BB Cream: Honey Black tea & Apple Cinnamon - Review + Swatch!

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Skin Food is a Korean brand, that has makeup and skin care products with more natural and organic ingredients. It is available on Ebay as well as Amazon. Good Afternoon is a relatively new line, in which five new BB creams were released, with different tea flavors for different skin types. The two I picked up were in Honey Black tea SPF 20 PA+ and Apple Cinnamon tea SPF 36 PA++. The shade range is limited, with only two available shades, shade 1 being the lighter one and shade 2 the darker one. I have both in shade 1. The packaging is cute, as you can see above, the box the BB cream tube comes in is shaped like a packet of tea. With the tube being simply packed, and convenient.

Good Afternoon Honey Black tea BB SPF 20 PA+ contains moisturizing honey and skin firming red tea extract to keep skin soft and supple.

Good Afternoon Apple Cinnamon tea BB SPF 36 PA++ contains skin-brightening apple and detoxifying cinnamon along with clinically proven skin lighteners to promote a more even and brighter skin tone.

The tube contains 30g and has very cute drawings on the tube front, depicting the flavor of the tea. I have been using the apple cinnamon one lately, because I'm combination skin, and its summer, so I don't need that much moisturizing. The consistency of both BB creams is similar, I do however feel that the honey black tea one is more moisturizing and hence slightly heavier. The apple cinnamon too though is moisturizing, but not as much. The smell of both is true to their name, and more truer for the honey black tea one. The honey black tea one has a strong scent of honey, but it disappears after 5-10 minutes of application. The apple cinnamon one is however mild, but does have a very faint smell of apples.
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Though both of the BB creams are in the shade 1, they have a very slight difference in color. The apple cinnamon one being slightly more yellow than the honey black tea one (not sure if it's too visible in the swatches above). They are however a good match for my skin tone, despite the slight difference. Both are light to medium coverage and don't cover acne scars or under eye circles, but do even out my skin tone. They don't cling to dry patches and are moisturizing. The lasting power of both is decent as well.
Final verdict: Well, to be honest I've been using the apple cinnamon BB cream everyday since I got it. I absolutely love it and it's probably been the best drugstore BB cream I've used. I haven't used many though, other than the Garnier BB creams and the Rimmel Matte BB cream. It's moisturizing with enough coverage and decent lasting time. And is available at affordable prices, ranging from $5-11 on Ebay and Amazon.
Hope the review was helpful!
Have you tried any Skin Food products? Share your thoughts in the comments below. :)