by Annie Vischer
We’ve done a lot of BB Cream round ups here on Beauty And The Dirt but when your Editor comes back from a South of France weekend raving about one with a high SPF factor, you know it deserves a Beauty Spotlight piece all of its own.
All-in-one products can be a bit hit or miss, but the Vichy Capital Soleil BB Cream SPF 50 (£10.33), it appears, delivers on every level. First of all it’s SPF 50. Wherever you travel his summer, whether it’s Filey or Fiji, this should have all the protection you need.
Then there’s the subtle tint that makes it a BB cream. A gentle dose of vitamin D during the summer can mean that skin looks at its best, so continuing with a full coverage foundation seems like such a waste of beautiful skin. Our editor Krista says, “As soon as I tried this I knew that I would be using it all summer. The coverage is light and creamy, nothing unusual in that you think, but this is all about the sheer luminosity of the finish on your skin, it’s SO nice! When I instagrammed it tanning expert James Read agreed he will be wearing it too. To me this is the perfect summer day cream, it enhances skin rather than covering it too much, You won’t need foundation and I follow mine with a dusting of Liz Earle Bronzing Powder, you won’t get a more perfect glow for your complexion > tell me if you do!”
It’s paraben free, hypoallergenic and infused with a new-fangled ingredient called Metoryl XL, which wards off sun damage, brown spots, and all those other pesky sun side-effects that hint at aging skin. And of course it hydrates and nourishes with a healthy dose of Vichy thermal spa water.