21 Light Beige

By Em Em 3 years ago.

Easily applied and blendable medium-full coverage with luminous finish. The greyish neutral tone is perfect and sadly rare in these fair shades. It's 0,5-1 shade too dark, but still manageable. A tad tricky to fix for transferproofness and powder products like bronzer and blush. If one doesn't mind a slightly sticky touch, then it's no issue at all. Will stay decently put for 7-8 hours, longer in cold weather, but in summer time it will melt and get oily faster. I fix it with Urban Decay's All Nighter, which is a must for me. Does not clog pores more than any other, despite having SPF.

By Sonja 8 years ago.

The number 1 reason I love this is the colour. Even though it might still be a little too dark for my very fair skin (I'm planning on trying #13), I have never seen a foundation that matched my grey-ish, olive undertones so well. Also, considering this is a BB cream and not intended to look like a full-coverage foundation, I think the coverage is absolutely perfect (and pretty high for a BB cream), and all that while still looking and feeling extremely natural. I also love the skincare benefits and high SPF/PA (UVB/UVA protection). On the negative side, I'm not at all fond of the dewy look which a lot of Korean foundations and BB creams including this one have; additionally, I think this highlights the fine lines on my forehead in a very unflattering way (they're not even wrinkles, I'm only 18 years old). Good news is that both of these problems can be fixed with loose translucent powder, which is why I rated 5/5.

By Heather 8 years ago.

Looooved this, I have oily skin but in the dry Canadian winters I need to use something a lot more forgiving than my normal matte foundations, and this has been perfect so far. It sinks into the skin sooo well, I feel like it never comes off on my hands or my phone. It doesn't do too much to mattify, but a light dusting of powder will do the trick. This doesn't cling on to any dryness and it doesn't separate when your oils come through. You can apply this with your fingers but my favourite way is to use a sponge because it's faster and looks more natural. I use the second shade, 21 light beige for my NC15 complexion, which is light enough but is a touch too pink for my taste, although I'm so pale you can barely notice. That being shade, I'm usually too dark for the lightest shade in a collection so the fact that the second lightest shade is perfect for my winter skin tone suggests that porcelain peeps would absolutely love the lighest shade, 13 Milky beige.

By Elisa 10 years ago.

The finish is beautifully luminous, would recommend to dry/dry combination skin. There is a great selection of very fair/light shades, which is nice to those of us with fairer skin tones. 21 light beige seemed slightly too light for my fair, yellow-toned skin at first, but actually was quite forgiving and blended to suit my skin tone.