Clarins UV PLUS HP Day Screen High Protection SPF 40 UVA-UVB/PA+++ Anti-pollution Beige Review

WHAT IS IT: Clarins UV PLUS HP Day Screen High Protection SPF 40 UVA-UVB/PA+++ Anti-pollution Beige

THE PRODUCT(S):

Clarins UV PLUS HP Day Screen High Protection SPF 40 UVA-UVB/PA+++ Anti-pollution Beige: The high performance day screen developed for city dwellers in order to maintain beautiful-looking skin. Triple protection: anti-UV, anti-pollution and antioxidant in a silky-smooth, fine and lightweight texture. Apply after your moisturizer and before make-up. Slightly tinted, it is ideal for everyday and will leave your skin smooth and matte while boosting a very natural-looking radiance.

The color of this product resembles milk-tea as compared to the name "beige", while despite looking slightly thick and creamy is actually quite lightweight.

It gives a light coverage on my bare skin before I slapped on concealer and foundation powder to set the product in place.

VERDICT: This product actually has a really light floral scent to it, and luckily it isn't overly cloying at all. Some products, as you, my readers are already aware of, may smell lightweight but ended up lingering on to the point of nauseating. While soemtimes, the scent could be a heavyweight, but yet, the scent fades away gradually upon application and throughout the day. I personally find that the scent doesn't linger on the skin at all, and I didn't catch a whiff of the product that I have already meticulously applied onto my skin.

But because the product itself, being lightweight despite looking all thick and creamy, actually has a really watery and runny consistency. So, I sort of ended up having a little too much poured (or rather, oozed out) when all I wanted was a little. As certain beauty products only need a little to go a long way, so it's a little exasperating to have a huge blob oozed out like armageddon is a little too much.

Upon application, the product itself isn't sticky at all and it glides onto my skin evenly without being uneven. As my own skin-tone is more of the fair/ghostly variety, I find that it doesn't provide enough coverage on old blemishes that are a tad darker. Whereas lighter blemishes and old acne scars are somewhat easily covered well enough to not stand out, in terms of overall coverage.

Although I did notice that around mid-day, my face started looking a little streaky and oil spots started showing up on my T-Zone, in which I had to re-powder my face all over again. I typically don't wear BB or CC cream at all, due to my work as it will ultimately made my skin looked streaky, which simply meant that there's an application of something on my face. Makeup isn't supposed to do that, and the products applied underneath your "final" makeup regime shouldn't even remotely does that.

In short, folks who have a skin-tone close to this product with light blemishes and acne scars will probably find this a better coverage for their skin. whereas fair/ghostly skin-tone like mine will have to do a little "extra" work to keep all those blemishes and acne scars well hidden from plain view.

VERDICT: ✓✓

WHAT I THINK: Lightweight and easily applied, but it doesn't provide enough coverage for my skin issues that are already in existence.

WHERE TO REDEEM SAMPLE: Clarins was previously hosting a Christmas giveaway during 2012 and after many days of trying and trying, I finally won this Clarins UV PLUS HP Day Screen High Protection SPF 40 UVA-UVB/PA+++ Anti-pollution Beige. Unfortunately, Clarins didn't host any Christmas giveaway in 2013 at all :(

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