You need a BB cream now if you’re done wasting time and cash on primer, foundation, sunscreens, and serums just to prep for makeup. Make the ultimate switch and find the best BB cream for you on this list.
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24 Excellent BB Creams to Take Your Best Pick From
What Is a BB Cream and Why Is It the Only Makeup Base You Need?
BB creams (or blemish balm) are more of a skincare product than makeup. It can cut your morning beauty routine down by half, benefit your skin, and won’t leave you looking like you’re wearing a mask.
Ever since the boom of Korean BB Creams, they became an instant hit with makeup junkies (us!) and beauty experts alike. Since then, BB creams have grown into a category which encompasses CC (color corrector) and DD (dynamic do-all) creams, but BB creams continue to be the most popular product.
If you haven’t given blemish balm creams a try or are planning on switching to another brand of makeup, take a look at these 24 awesome BB creams to help guide you in your journey towards the perfect look!
1. Stila Stay All Day 10-in-1 HD Beauty Balm with SPF 30 – $22
Stila’s Beauty Balm reduces the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles, and dark spots.
While BB creams do not provide the same coverage as foundations (they’re lighter), this one from Stila promises to reduce the signs of aging and fine lines.
How? The 10-in-1 HD Beauty Balm is made up of tiny microspheres which reduce the appearance of wrinkles by 84%. It even has SPF protection!
2. Dr. Jart+ Premium Blemish Base with SPF 45 – $35
Use Dr. Jart+ Premium Blemish Base to achieve an evener skin tone.
Do you have an uneven skin tone? Let Dr. Jart’s Premium Blemish Base with SPF 45 fix the discoloration in your skin.
This beauty balm contains arbutin, soy, Vitamin C, and licorice—ingredients to help smooth out the texture of your skin, as well as boost the renewal process of your skin’s cells. With regular use, Dr. Jart’s promises to even out your skin tone and polish your skin.
3. Clinique Age Defense BB Cream Broad Spectrum SPF 30 – $38.50
Clinique’s Age Defense BB Cream is a good makeup primer.
If you’re looking for a beauty balm that doubles as an amazing primer and gives you medium-to-full coverage, the lightweight formula of Clinique’s Age Defense BB cream may be the one for you. It contains Vitamin E, caffeine, and seaweed extract—ingredients working together to cover signs of aging.
It’s also great for ladies with oily skin. Using a concealer with this beauty balm will give you even smoother skin and long-lasting coverage.
4. Maybelline Dream Fresh 8-in-1 Beauty Balm Skin Perfector – $7.37
Maybelline’s Dream Fresh BB Cream is affordable yet offers the same skin benefits.
Blemish balms don’t have to be expensive. There are awesome drugstore brand BBs with the same coverage and benefits as their higher-end counterparts.
One perfect example is Maybelline’s Dream Fresh BB Cream. This skin perfector will not only cover your blemishes but will also moisturize your skin and provide the flawless finish you’re looking for.
5. Diorskin Nude BB Creme SPF 10 – $43.95
Diorskin Nude BB Creme is designed for women with rosy skin tones.
When Dior launched its Snow BB creme line, it was intended for Asian women. Dior’s next line, Hydra, was intended for English women. Their newest line, Dior’s Nude BB creme, is a little less specific and intended for women with rosy skin tones.
This line offers three shades, each one providing decent coverage, sun protection, and moisturizing properties to leave your skin hydrated, flawless, and perfect.
6. Rimmel 9-in-1 Skin Perfecting Super Makeup SPF 25 – $8
Rimmel’s BB Cream offers a matte finish.
Another affordable blemish cream you can find in drugstores is Rimmel’s 9-in-1 BB Cream.
This product offers a matte finish, is easily blendable, and comes in three shades to match your skin tone. The bonus point is its affordability!
7. COOLA Rosilliance Mineral BB+ Cream with SPF 30 – $52
COOLA Rosilliance Mineral BB+ Cream features all-natural and all-star ingredients in rose stem cells, acai fruit oil, and plankton extract.
For women looking for a formula that’s as light as a feather, the COOLA Rosilliance Mineral BB+ cream (we love you!) is the one for you. Its tinted moisturizer formulation is incredibly light on the skin and will give your skin the model-like glow we all envy.
Despite its lightweight feel, the COOLA does not sacrifice its coverage and beautiful matte finish. According to user reviews, this is one of the lightest blemish creams which provides the best coverage for discoloration.
8. Estée Lauder DayWear Anti-Oxidant Beauty Benefit Creme SPF 35 – $49.98
Estee Lauder BB Cream helps keep shine away.
The Estee Lauder DayWear BB Cream keeps shine and oil at bay while moisturizing your skin with super anti-aging ingredients, hyaluronic acid. Best of all, this beauty balm doesn’t have a matte finish which can enhance the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Instead, it offers a dewy and glowy finish perfect for those with dull and dry skin types. Another major plus, this BB cream is formulated with antioxidants like Vitamins C and E.
9. No.7 Beautiful Skin BB Cream – $39.90
No.7 BB Cream has something for each skin type.
This BB Cream offers something unique by addressing your skin type rather than the skin tone in normal, dry, and oily skin. No.7 Beauty Balm has a nutrient-enriched formula promising to cover blemishes and protect the skin depending on your skin type.
10. Hydroxatone Anti-Aging BB Cream with Broad Spectrum SPF 40 – $27.46
Hydroxatone anti-aging BB cream is designed to hydrate, brighten, and even out the skin tone.
It is designed to provide flawless coverage for light, medium, and tan skin tones and helps cover fines lines and wrinkles. The benefits of this balm include brighter, healthier, and younger-looking skin.
11. Dr. Jart Premium Beauty Balm SPF 45 – $32.99
Dr. Jart Premium Beauty Balm is designed for women with sensitive skin.
If you have sensitive skin, you’re probably wondering what’s the right BB cream for you. While most women with sensitive skin can use most types of BB cream as long as it’s hypoallergenic, the safest option might be Dr. Jart’s Premium Beauty Balm with SPF 45.
This product has zero fragrance with high water content to keep your skin cool and protected from any irritation or redness. This is the best product for sensitive skin or during the summer!
12. La Roche-Posay BB Creme – $29.99
La Roche Posay BB Cream is hypoallergenic.
The La Roche-Posay BB Creme is another good product for women with sensitive skin. This product is made with thermal spring water which is good for conditioning and soothing of the skin.
While it doesn’t offer serious coverage, you’ll enjoy its oil-free and creamy texture.
13. Garnier Miracle Skin Perfect Daily All-In-One BB Cream – $16.99
Garnier Miracle Skin Perfector is great for daily use.
For women who love Garnier’s skincare products, this Garnier BB cream will not disappoint.
The Miracle Skin Perfector is made with mineral pigments leaving your skin flawless and smooth. If you use makeup on a daily basis, this is a great product to replace your foundation with.
14. Bella Terra Mineral BB Cream 3-in-1 Matte Finish – $45.99
This may be one of the more expensive BB creams on this list but with only pure and highest quality minerals used in the product, you may have the best BB cream in your hands.
Not only are we obsessed with Bella Terra’s natural finish, but we also love the dewy and subtle glow even with light coverage. This product also contains Vitamin A, a vitamin essential to reducing the signs of aging on your skin.
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15. Clinique Acne Solutions BB Cream SPF 40 – $64.84
Clinique’s Acne Solutions BB Cream is probably heaven sent to ladies with oily and acne-prone skin. Its buildable coverage is not heavy on the face.
In fact, it even eliminates excess oil on your skin, while giving you a matte finish. Now you can wear makeup as often as you want without worrying about oily skin.
16. Pacifica’s Multi-Mineral BB Cream – $15.99
In essence, Pacifica’s beauty cream is a great moisturizer primer perfect for those with even skin tone and love a sheer natural finish. It also has a 100% vegan formula suited for those with a sensitive skin type.
It has all the good stuff in antioxidant ingredients and hyaluronic acid, and none of the bad stuff from parabens to phthalates. But, if you are either fair or have an oily skin type or both, I wouldn’t suggest this one.
Its light coverage wouldn’t do much for your fair skin. For those with oily skin, you’ll have no use for its luminance.
17. SHISEIDO Sports BB SPF 50+ – $38
From normal, oily, dry, or combination skin type, this blemish balm is what you need. It is especially essential during winter and summer for your outdoor lifestyle.
With SPF protection of 50+ formula and excellent coverage that doesn’t easily wear off, SHISEIDO Sports BB is a travel must-have.
18. purlisse BB Tinted Moisturizer Cream SPF 30 – $35
When it comes to dull, uneven skin tones and dark spots, you need a customizable beauty blend. purlisse BB tinted moisturizer cream will give you the finish you need with added radiance in its matte-meets-dewy finish.
It is also a light formula that glides flawlessly and is effortlessly blendable. You might say this is the holy grail of makeup creams with multiple benefits across the board, from coverage and SPF protection to skincare.
19. Marcelle BB Cream Illuminator, Golden Glow – $27.54
This hydrating beauty balm will give you a lovely healthy glow with its illuminating formula. Marcelle has two other BB formulas but we love the Golden Glow a little bit better for its universal shade.
You will love it, too, for its versatility. It’s great for a wide range of skin types including sensitive ones, plus it’s a tinted moisturizer that evens out and corrects skin flaws.
20. Physicians Formula Super BB All-in-1 Beauty Balm Cream SPF 30 – $9.49
For a drugstore brand, Physician’s Formula truly outdid itself in this BB cream creation. It held itself committed to its credo of formulating safe and effective products at a reasonable price.
Among the drugstore beauty balm cream brands, Physician’s Formula ranks on top even outperforming some high-end brands. The lightweight cream evens out the skin tone, minimizes pores, and protects with SPF 30.
But, if you have very fair skin, better test it first before you drop it on your shopping cart. It tends to give out an orange shade for those with very fair skin.
21. Andalou Naturals Perfecting BB Beauty Balm Natural Tint SPF 30 – $15.96
Let those years add up but not the signs of aging by ditching foundation for BB cream. You don’t need that thick mask on your face that doesn’t help at all and could potentially make it even worse.
Here’s the perfect BB cream for you formulated with natural age-defying and antioxidant ingredients. With SPF 30, you have added protection against the sun’s harmful rays which speeds up aging.
22. Burt’s Bees BB Cream SPF 15 – $10.31
With a drugstore price, you have nothing to lose from the Burt’s Bees Blemish Balm. You have nine clinical benefits to gain instead including SPF protection, antioxidants in noni extract, and a correcting and moisturizer formula.
A tinted moisturizer with three flattering shades to choose from depending on your skin type and shade, you have yourself a great deal here. Pick the best shade for you and enjoy a flawless finish with confidence your skin is protected and corrected over time.
23. Dr. Med. Christine Schrammek Blemish Balm – $10.23
Dr. Christine Schrammek is one of the top trailblazers and leading experts in makeup and skincare. So, it comes as no surprise, Dr. Christine Shrammek’s blemish balm cream is one of the best BB creams out there.
It’s recommended by dermatologists and makeup artists alike. It has a natural formula perfect for those with an acne-prone skin type.
24. SKIN79 Super Plus Beblesh Balm Triple Function Pink BB (SPF30/PA++) – $23
Wrinkles, fine lines, and dark spots are all signs of aging we all wish we can do away with. Somehow, Korean beauty brands seem to have found the elixir reversing these signs of aging.
This fantastic beauty and blemish balm for one works overtime and effectively to give users a dewy and youthful glow. It isn’t just makeup, but also skincare built into the formula.
Watch this video for the top 5 best BB and CC creams according to EMAN and how to use both:
Are you ready to ditch your foundation yet and make the switch? You can always keep both around. If you want something suitable for everyday use, there’s no question BB creams are the way to go.
Not only will they replace your moisturizer, sunscreen, primer, and makeup, they’ll leave your skin looking healthier than ever before too!
Which of the BB creams from this list is your favorite? Don’t forget to comment below and share your thoughts with us!
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on March 19, 2017, and has been updated for quality and relevancy.
