Ooh! A BB Cream thread!
I adore BB Creams, but I'm JUST light enough to squeeze myself into some of the Asian BB creams, and even then I have a limited (NC 35/ 40-42 is the closest I come to). I find that BB creams work way better for me than normal foundation. Anywho, my mom recently hopped onto the BB cream bandwagon when she told me she needed something to wear on her face when she didn't want to wear her MAC studio fix fluid. She's an NC 45 and she tried the Maybelline BB Cream in deep. She doesn't use brushes or anything like that because she's just getting into makeup (and isn't a junkie like me, heehee) but she told me it was easy to blend into her skin and it felt very light. I've used it in Medium and it was orange on me... but I expect that because most foundations turn me orange.
If anyone is my skin tone or darker, there's a Korean brand named Missha that is one of the few Asian brands that has a BB cream that caters towards darker skin. The name of the BB Cream (they have quite a few of them) is called Perfect Cover, it comes in a red tube and the darkest shade I think is 31. I think it would do better off with skin tones darker than NC 42. Also, if you want to have the benefits of a BB Cream but they don't have your shade, you can also use the BB Cream as a primer. As long as the shade isn't too light and doesn't have the grey overcast (a lot of Asian BB Creams do, the undertone is usually either grey or yellow), you can get their darkest shade and use it to even out your skin. I use Fairydrops BB Cream in Orche to do this because it has AWESOME coverage but I can only wear it in the wintertime because it's very light. In the summertime I use a tiny bit of it to even out my face and provide some coverage, then use a concealer of my skin tone to cover up anything else.
In other news, I think I'm going to try the smashbox cc cream next. Anyone have a review or opinion on it yet? Its fairly new and I haven't made my way to the mall in some time.
