SKIN CARE REVIEW - CLINIQUE SUPER CITY BLOCK (Broad Spectrum 40 SPF) - 5th step of my daily skincare routine

Hi, guys! I’m gonna introduce you to one of my addiction and savior at the same time.

TA-DAAAAA.

This is CLINIQUE Super City Block (Broad Spectrum 40 SPF).

This thing contains 40 SPF which is good and will protect your skin perfectly from the bad UV (I hope UV A and B at the same time, cos some sources wrote that SPF’s only protects us from UV B and PA+++ protects us from UV A. UV A can cause aging to our skin bcos it will breaks collagen and damages the pigment balance, while the UV B can cause skin burn. Sadly, the “PA+++” isn’t exist both on the packaging and its box, but the other sunblocks from Clinique clearly stated about the SPF and PA+++ on the packaging. So I concluded that this sunblock doesn’t contain PA++). Also, this daily protector is oil free and you could use it as a primer before you put your make up on.

I love using this product as my 5th daily skin care routine. It protects my skin and makes my skin looks more even in color. It does conceal some of my dark areas, both dark spots and skin burn areas (but don’t expect that it will conceal perfectly cos it’s not made for that). I found out that my powder stick more perfectly unto my face when I’m using this product, so this sunblock helps to stick the powder unto your skin better than not using anything. So I’m considering this product as a primer, and you don’t have to use another primer products afterwards. Although after you applied it on your skin it will really makes your skin looks like wearing a thick make up, but don’t worry, all you need to do is just wait until it set and your true skin color will be appeared.

I’ve been using this product for several months and it does really showing some progress. Like, I’m using this to avoid dark spots darkening caused by the UV and it does help me to reduce the darkening process, and it showed too to my skin as a whole, that it really brighten day by day. It might not brighten my skin, but this thing is protecting my skin while the brightening process (by the brightening serum and brightening face mask) is working under my skin.

So I recommend this sunblock as your daily protector ;) I hope it will help you on deciding whether you should try this product or not.




I wrote this almost 2 years ago on Tumblr (somewhere in between 2015)~

PS: I currently still have some of this (the 25spf and 40spf) but decided to kick out this product from my daily routine since months ago. Why? Because every time I use this stuff, my face looks darker than usual (not permanently darken, only when I put it on).