Holika Holika Aqua Petit Jelly BB Cream SPF20 PA++

Shade: 2
Contents: 40ml
Price: HK$198

According to Holika's webpage:

 

This product contains over 70% healthy aqua. The moisturizing jelly texture on your skin is enriched with moisture, soaking into your skin and clarifying the skin, a new moisture technology BB cream. Jelly BB makes moist and bouncy jelly skin. Jelly texture spreads evenly and is perfect for covering up facial blemishes. This is a water based range of make-up. It is able to minimize pore size.

  

Benefits:

• Moisturizing
• Minimizes Pores
• Good for Covering blemishes

 How to Apply:

Take an appropriate amount and apply a small dab to your cheeks, forehead, and chin. With the tips of your fingers spread bb cream evenly throughout your face. To avoid bb cream from caking, let sit for 5 minutes before building bb cream up for more coverage, and before apply any loose powders to set it with.

 

Ingredients: Water, Titanium Diioxide, hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Dipotassium Glycyrrhizate, Acrylates/C10-30 AlkylAcrylaate Crosspolymer, Dimethicone, Sorbitan isostearate, Methyl Methacrylate Crosspolymer, Sodium Hyaluronate, Mentha Piperita (peppermint) Leaf Extract, Codium Tomentosum Extract, Enteromorpha Compressa Extract, Macrocystis Pyrifera Extract, Ecklonia Cava Extract, Gelidium Cartilagineum Extract, Laminaria Japonica Extract, Mentha Arvensis Leaf Extract, Mentha Rotundifolia Leaf Extract, Imperata Cylindrica Root Extract, Caviar Extract, aloe Barbadensis Leaf Juice, Triethanolamine, Steric acid, Sodium Acrylate/Sodium Acryloyldimethyl Taurate Copolymer, Aluminum hydroxide, Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Isohexadecane, polysorbate 80, Pentaerythrityl Tetraisostearate, Butylene Glycol, Hydroxyapatite, Agar, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Glycerin, PEG-8, Sodium Chondroitin Sulfate, Glyceryl Caprylate, Atelocollagen, Carbomer, Disodium EDTA, Methylparaben, Chlorphenesin, Propylparaben, potassium Sorbate, Sodium Benzoate, Frangrance(Parfum), Iron Oxides (CI 77492), Iron Oxides (CI 77491), Iron oxides (CI 77499).

 

My Opinion:

 

I had this product for quite some time and I have noticed in holika's webpage that they come in a different container now, and I'm not sure if they still have the same formula.

It took me so long to review this product, because I'm just unable to decide if I like it or not. Let's see, I love the texture and the coverage (low), it evens out my skin tone, it feels very watery and light on the skin and it smells amazing, a really clean scent, but what I don't like about it, is that it doesn't blend when my skin is not at its best.

When my skin is hydrated and exfoliated it looks amazing, otherwise it won't blend, it would look like a layer of product on top of my skin and it clings to any dry patches, please note that I don't even have dry skin.

Another issue would be the amount of product to apply, you really need to try it out yourself, because if you apply too much it would look cakey, this is not a buildable product.

Holika Holika Pore Cover Mousse Starter

Contents: 100ml
Price: Won12,900

According to Sasa's webpage:

Holika Holika Pore Magic Cover Mousse Starter SPF30 PA++ is a pore cover, makeup base and sun screen. The mousse-type product is to be used before makeup application. By tightening and covering wide pores, it helps make a clean and even skin textures. By blocking UV rays and reflecting the light, it maintains clean and bright skin tone. Smart Oil Balancing Powder makes fresh skin condition by controlling excess sebum and oil.

Pore Magic Cover Mousse Starter SPF30 PA++ contains hot-spring water, which has abundant mineral ingredients, and jojoba oil to moisturize the skin without sticky feeling.

 

My Opinion:

 

I've got my bottle several years ago, and the version that I have does not contain SPF, but the new version comes with SPF30, and this is how the new version looks like.

 

 

I had this in my drawer for 2 years and have never use it, honestly I don't even remember why I got it. I've recently started to use it and fell in love with it, the reason why I've never use it is because I have a bunch of primers that I always forget to use, honestly I don't really like to wear primers unless they have SPF in it, and this one does not. I just don't like too much product on my face.....

 

Back to the product, this primer has a mousse texture, something like the shu uemura (which i didn't like), and it's very light, when is dry, you won't even feel it on your skin, although you can't feel it, you will certainly notice how it blurs out your pores, I was AMAZED.

 

You only need a tiny bit of product, but it's very hard to control the amount that comes out from the can, I'm still trying to figure out how to control the amount, and I have wasted alot of products.