This was given to me a long time ago but I haven’t gotten around to reviewing it mainly because as my first BB cream, it did not fit my skin very well. I know there’re a lot of people out there who love Skin79 so don’t get too upset when I say I didn’t like this very much. For reference I’m NC25, with warm undertones, normal skin type and I live in a country with temperate weather.

Read on to see what I found it’s pitfalls to be!



Basically… It’s a BB cream that has whitening and anti-wrinkle properties. It comes in a press down container with a cream cheek blush included.

The Good stuff… It has a sight powdery/flowery scent that isn’t too strong and fades fairly quickly once applied. It blends fairly easily and doesn’t dry too fast. It sets in about 30 minutes but is still a little moisturising to the touch (feels like sunscreen). Has light to medium coverage depending on how you build it. It lasts quite a long time (9am-6pm) and I didn’t experience any excessive oiliness with this product (just the usual – “it’s 5PM, how matte do you expect to be.”). The cream blush is pretty good, but I don’t really use it since I have my own blusher that I use.

Issues… It’s the wrong shade for me, it has a grey undertone which goes on with a white-ish cast and unless you’ve got fair skin it’ll look like you have a floating head. The only way to get over this is to use the tiniest amount and only then did it not make me look like a ghost. Down side of this method of application is that you only get a very sheer coverage, it barely covered my freckles and all it did for my spots is tone down the reddness – you could still see that they were red but they weren’t so crazy. At best I would be only using this as a colour corrector or primer under my BB cream.

Swatches… 1. Skin Food Peach Green Tea #2. 2. Etude House Precious Mineral W13 3. Skin 79 Oriental Gold 4. The Face Shop power perfection *Excuse the blueness of it all – it was getting overcast and towards the evening.

It’s definitely one of the lighter BB creams I have and it would’ve worked fine if it wasn’t all grey undertones. The differences in colour between the Power Perfection BB and the Oriental gold BB is not obvious in the picture, but the Power Perfection is a lot more pinkish than the Oriental gold BB. Click the image to enlarge.

In a nutshell…

Love: long lasting, didn’t make me oilier than usual, scent is pleasant and light and blends fairly well.

Do not love: Grey undertones, can only use very little at a time so it doesn’t do anything for coverage.

Who should buy it? If you’re fair (NC/NW20 or less) and have cool undertones to your skin, this will work well for you. (See Tiffany’s review for this product, it worked very well for her!)

Rated: 3/5

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