Trending in Beauty: What's a CC Cream?

Posted by Alexandra C. | Wednesday November 21, 2012

This past year, one of the major beauty innovations to hit the market was the BB cream. While BB creams had been popular in Asia for a while, they've only recently become commonplace here in North America. BB stands for Blemish or Beauty Balm and it's marketed as an 'all-in-one' product that brightens and offers moisturization and coverage.

Now, if you thought those were great, I'm about to knock your socks off with the introduction of the CC cream! Think of it like BB's older, much cooler brother who drives a motorcycle and plays in a band and...you get the idea.

CC stands for Colour Control or Colour Correction. Like the name suggests, CC creams focus more on dark spots and correcting skin tone. Most have SPF or ingredients like vitamin C to help fade pigmentation. The formula and consistency also promises to be more lightweight than a BB cream. Chicks south of us have already been able to try some of these out. We're pretty excited to get on our hands on them, but here in Canada, we're going to have to wait a while.

Here are a few CC creams we are looking forward to nabbing up:

1. Chanel CC Cream Correction Complete SPF30PA+++ (US$79.99)

2. Olay CC Cream Total Effects Tone Correcting Moisturizer with SPF 15 (US$21.50)

3. Juice Beauty Stem Cellular Repair CC Cream (US$39.00)

4. Rachel K CC Cream Original (C$32.00)

5. Rachel K Mineral CC Pressed Powder (C$38.00)

What do you think of the BB or CC cream trend? Will you be trying them when they come out?

(via totalbeauty,com, beautylish.com, vogue.com, refinery29.com)

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9 Comments

	on December 17, 2012 SueFleming 1,303 said: These sound perfect for me! Love my bb creams, and the cc seems like it will do much more...hopefully get some wrinkle-fading action in there too!
	on December 17, 2012 LissaG 6,010 said: Will be interested to try how these work! Just started using bb's a few months ago and am loving their versatility, so these will be an exciting next step.
	on November 30, 2012 KatelynRose1984 20,704 said: I haven't tried any of the CC Creams yet. They sound pretty interesting though! I'll look forward to reading some reviews from the ladies on here, and then maybe test them out myself.
	on November 25, 2012 midnightsun2288 6,053 said: I want to give it a try.I love the bb cream I use now (garnier)
	on November 22, 2012 shanaz 5,961 said: I swear by my Smashbox BB cream, so I'm definitely looking forward to CC creams!!
	on November 21, 2012 fredamans 12,209 said: The only BB cream I've used, I didn't like much. Maybe CC is what I should try.
	on November 21, 2012 cutie_marlena 3,191 said: I recently tried a BB cream. It was alright. I found that it gave much the same results as foundation (a little lighter though) but I felt more greasy and shiny. I'd definitely like to try a CC cream though because I really want a more even coverage. They seem wayyyy overpriced though. Maybe when they come to Canada we'll get to try them through you guys???? I haven't had a review club offer in a while...
	on November 21, 2012 abc1 166 said: I just started using Olay C C Cream. I find it gives me a more even coverage than any founddation.
	on November 21, 2012 takoda 28,648 said: I don't even use foundation any more. I only use BB Cream because I've found it gives me just enough coverage with out looking to made up. I can't wait to try the new CC Creams. I just read a review that was done for the Olay CC Cream and this person wasn't thrilled with it. I sure hope that's not the case when we get to try it. Is there any chance of a CC Cream review coming up???