Review: Etude House BB Rice Set

OMG, I’ve been neglecting this blog for one entire week!! Sorry girls…I have been just too tied up with work and stuff. I have 2 papers and 1 report pending. Hopefully all these madness will end in June and my life can be back to normal.

Anyway, let me squeeze in one review today. This is about the BB Rice set I purchased in my first Gmarket haul. I know, this is way overdue. =P




This is the set and its packaging. The set contains a BB Rice Cream and BB Rice Compact. The main reason I got this initially was for the compact. I wanted to try out a BB compact and when I saw this set, I thought why not since it was such a good deal.

Let me go through each item. First up, the compact.




This is how it looks like. Excuse the dirty state. This just shows how often I use it! I do. =)

It has a nice mirror and a puff. I won’t bother with the puff though, it’s completely useless. I don’t use most puff which comes with the product anyway. This puff in particular, cause the powder to be cakey on my face, which is eww. So I opt for brushes as usual. I usually swirl a kabuki or flat top brush on this and pat on my face lightly to set the BB cream, whichever I’m using on the day.




Now comes the BB cream. It’s a really small tube of 20ml, which also means great for travel. Let’s see how it looks like on my hand. Following pictures show the BB cream on my hand, spread out and finally blended.






And then how about on my face?

My bare face on the left and with the BB cream on the right.


This is how it looks like after setting with the BB compact.


My Thoughts

The BB cream is really light and runny. It reminds me a little of the Missha M Perfect Cover BB Cream, only that this is a lighter version of it. Coverage is minimal, but still manage to even out my skin tone. As you can see, my pores are still visible on scrutiny. In the case of bad skin day with blemishes, I don’t think this will be enough to cover. So concealer will be required.

Like most BB cream, the swatch of this one on my hand shows pretty obvious that this is slightly too dark for my skin. But again, on my face, it blended into my skin tone one it sets into the skin nicely. So, the shade is not a problem for me.

Due to its lightness, it is really easy to blend. The easiest BB cream to blend so far for me. As usual for BB creams, I use only my fingers to blend. It gives a nice healthy glow on my skin which I like, even after setting it with the compact. But also because this is so light, at the end of the day, when I remove my makeup, there’s very little makeup base left on my face. Not entirely disappeared, but I definitely could see how little is left on my skin.

As for the compact, I don’t really have much to comment about other than it works just like any other ordinary compact. It makes the BB cream stays all day. Not this BB cream though since it is so light. But I’ve tried this with other BB creams and it does help them stay. Nevertheless, I have to say I still prefer to set foundation or BB creams with my HG powder, MAC MSF Natural. The finish this compact gives is still not as smooth as I like with the MAC one.

All in all, I like using this set when I’m rushing and on the day when I’m in the I-look-like-I-have-no-makeup-on mode. Nothing ground breaking about this product but for that price, I have no complain. =)

I got the set from Gmarket for 10,000 Won (US$8.90). Good deal eh?

FINAL VERDICT: 3/5

That’s all for this entry. Hope you like it and hopefully I’ll be back posting more often.

Have a great day and thanks for reading! =)