BB cream: protection and colour for your skin.

The “nice face” effect goes beyond work days. With the good weather, we tend to spend more time outside, not to mention days on the beach, at rivers and swimming pools. Even though we should never neglect our skin, on days like this we need to protect it more than ever from the sun's rays. That doesn’t make it incompatible with looking after our appearance and giving our skin a nice touch of colour.

Over the winter months we have most likely become addicted to moisturising creams with colourand with summer just around the corner we are not going to dispense with them, but rather we will carry on using them but with the added solar protection of BB Cream Colour, that we now need more than at any other time of the year.

One of the things we worry about most with our skin, particularly when we reach a certain age, is the appearance of blemishes. Melasma and age spots are the two most common problems caused by over-exposure to the sun. Dermatologists recommend that their patients not only keep their skin hydrated, but also that they protect it with high SPF cream.

BB cream: that “nice face” effect without the need for makeup

Can you imagine mixing your favourite moisturiser with your makeup foundation That is what we get with BB creams with SPF protection, apart from not having to apply a third product to protect us from the sun. In short, BB creams are a very complete 3 in 1 product! Furthermore, there is a huge array of different colour tones available that will adjust to the natural colour of your skin, avoiding the dreaded “mask” effect that we get when we apply a cream to our faces that is a darker colour than the rest of our skin.

In addition to moisture and colour, BB creams have a high sun protection factor which is very important to avoid blemishes and premature ageing of our skin. We do need to take into account though that these creams do not completely cover our faces, like makeup does, but it only unifies the tone and covers up any imperfections, and therefore if we want a more sophisticated look, we will have to complete it with a little corrector and blusher.

How to use BB cream with sun protection step by step

Unlike moisturiser or colourless sun cream, BB cream needs to be applied a little more carefully in order to unify the colour of our face. Take note about how to apply it properly!

1. To start applying BB cream we first need to make sure our face is completely clean and dry.
2. We place a few drops of cream on our fingertips and rub it around for a few seconds to warm it up and make it easier to spread, and then we can apply it to our face.
3. The right way to apply BB cream is to spread it outwards from the middle of our face, paying special attention to areas such as nasal creases, the area around the eyes, neck... and right back to our ears even!