Chanel CC Cream SPF 50

I struggle with a summer base. Being oily and with a myriad of albeit fairly minor imperfections, including age spots, redness, thread veins, blackheads, open pores, it feels like I need something industrial to even out and smooth, for as Gestalt said "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts."

I have attempted mineral powder foundation and often it is okay, but often it ends up as a bit of smeary mess, because not only is my skin oily, it is old and the fine line between matte and dead, glowy and sweaty is gossamer at my age.

I want sun protection, I want some pigment, I want the moon.

I had come across Chanel's CC Cream SPF50 before but dismissed it because it came in the "universal-one-shade-suits-all" misnomer because they are always too dark on me.

However there are now some different shades and I chose the lightest B10 which I have swatched below.

It is quite thick in texture. I would say this is a cream texture. 

It is very pigmented. A little goes a very very very long way - so much so that I am invariably caught out, and am trying vainly to force it back into the tube.



Blended in badly below.

Ingredients below.

What I like is the shade, neutral, thankyou. I like the level of pigmentation which is full. I like the finish which is glowy, but in a glowy skin way rather than a sweaty too rich way. And I like its tenacity - this stuff is there from application at 6.30am to removal at 7.00pm.

I have made the mistake of setting it with powder, but in this incredibly hot spell that is currently in place in UK that is a mistake, I apply, and blot with any blotting papers as necessary. 

Currently £44 for 30mls