Review: No7 BB Cream

No7 BB Cream for Normal/Dry Skin £12.95 - available here

Hello beauties! Today I want to review No7's BB Cream. I've had this product for a few years now and I think I've finally come to a firm viewpoint on it.

Firstly, I love the fact that they do three versions. A Dry/Very Dry, Normal/Dry and Oily/Very Oily. Now I've only ever tried the Normal/Dry one but last winter my skin was the absolute driest it has ever been and every foundation I had looked flaky and dull. This was the only base product I had which didn't, it actually helped me look a little more healthy. The point I'm trying to make is, even when I had, what I would call, very dry skin, the Normal/Dry formula worked fine for me and was moisturising enough, which makes me wonder how much difference there would be between the one for normal and dry skin and the one for dry and very dry skin. Either way, I'd recommend trying them all on the back of your hand, and if there is a helpful No7 assistant around, ask if they wouldn't mind applying some to your face so you can see how it works with your skin.

Another thing I think is great about this product is the coverage. You wouldn't expect much but actually, it offers the same coverage that some light foundations do. My face scars so damn easy, but this makes my skin look a whole lot more even. Obviously it doesn't cover every scar and imperfection I have but it's a darn sight better that I would have thought.

It doesn't really have the texture of a BB Cream, it's definitely more like a tinted moisturiser but it's so bendable and creamy that I don't even use a brush with it (that's really saying something for me, I hate applying base products with my hands). Due to the fact that it's so quick to apply and because I know that no matter how dry my skin is, it will give me a natural looking glow, this has become a kind of fall back for me, a product I can always rely on to perform well.

I would say it gives a natural glowy kind of look to the skin but I've never found it to look oily. I usually set my T-Zone with powder, and in the summer my entire face, and it removes a bit of the glow but still allows you to look healthy. It also lasts pretty well on my skin, in fact I went to the gym with it on today and it stayed put pretty darn well!

The only bad thing I have to say about it is the shade selection, I wouldn't even go so far as to call it a selection seeing as there are only two shades! The lightest shade matches me perfectly after I've fake tanned, so when I haven't it is a fair difference. It isn't unbelievably obvious that my face is a shade or two darker because I highlight the crap out of it with a light concealer but still, it would be nice to not have to do that.

Despite the colour matching problems, I do genuinely think that this is a marvellous BB Cream, if you can get one of the shades to work for you, I would really recommend trying it out. I don't know what the other two formulas are like but if they're anything like this one they're amazing.

Final score: 4/5

I hope this has in some way helped and I'll be back with another post soon!

Have a fabulous day,

Nikki x