I haven’t reviewed a tinted moisturiser in a while so let’s make a juicy little comeback with this lovely luxurious one; the Code8 Radiate Beauty Balm. Code8 haven’t called it a tinted moisturiser but that’s pretty much what it is – light to medium coverage in a nicely hydrating base. I don’t know whether the Beauty Balm name is a nod to the BB cream trend, but then I feel as though the BB/CC/DD cream fad has died down a little (thankfully, because nobody really had much of a clue what any of the letters stood for and even fewer people cared) and that now we are left with the slightly more descriptive product names.
Good grief, I do tend to get all agitated when it comes to describing types of foundation. From full-on bases to lighter tinted moisturisers, from sheer complexion enhancers to BB/CC creams with “benefits”, the primary purpose of all of these products is to offer some degree of coverage, yet there are so many different names for what is fundamentally the same kind of thing. I’ve had products labelled as foundations that have been sheerer than products labelled as complexion enhancers and I’ve tried CC creams with fuller coverage than Estee Lauder’s Double Wear Foundation. Go figure.
Anyway, I’d call Code8’s Radiate a tinted moisturiser – one with the added benefit of argan seed oil for an antioxidant boost and broad spectrum sunscreen, SPF15. You’re probably not going...