Kyle Kerchaert: Wait, [gasps] it's happening!
It's happening.
It's doing the thing.
It looks orange.
This is looking like it's going in a bad direction.
Nico Reyes: Today we're gonna be testing out this
Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing BB-Gel.
Now, this is a BB gel
that will supposedly transform
from a straight-up gray color
into your skin tone,
which sounds like some dark magic to me.
To see if this color-changing
BB gel is actually worth it,
I'm gonna have my two friends
Kyle, who has lighter skin,
and Marisa, who has deeper skin,
try it out with me to test how well it adapts
to our very different skin tones.
And, of course, I'll also do
an eight-hour wear test with this product
to see if the oil-free formula
actually lasts on my very oily skin.
I'm really hoping that this actually does anything
to cover up, like,
my dark circles, my discoloration, my acne.
A little something would be good.
I just can't see
how, or why,
or how. [laughs]
Hmm.
I don't see anything happening.
Does my hand look more beautiful and unified?
So, let's start applying to the actual face.
I'm gonna do half my face first
to see if I can tell a difference,
and then do the rest.
Oh!
That is gray!
And also way too much!
I put on too much!
It also says to apply this like a moisturizer
and not like a foundation,
so I won't be using any tools or anything.
I'll just use my hands.
I can see a difference in my face.
I can clearly see that this side of my face
looks different than that side.
What?
It is the most minimal coverage
you could get on planet Earth, probably,
but it's, like, just enough to where
I feel like it makes me look a little bit more...
better.
[laughs]
All right, I have a clean makeup wipe right here,
and I'm just gonna, like,
wipe all this BB gel off my hands,
but just so you can see,
like, what's going on right now,
like, there is pigment.
There is color in this thing.
I don't understand how, but it's happening.
I think it might just be all one color,
and they're advertising it as being
adapting to more than one skin tone.
I don't think that's true.
But is that, like, is it bad that I like it?
I like it.
I think it's pretty good.
Who knows what I'm gonna be thinking eight hours from now,
so I'll see you guys at my check-in.
Kyle: I don't struggle too much with hyperpigmentation
or discoloration in that sense;
however, I have
supersensitive skin and I have eczema,
so if it can tone down the redness
and unify in that sense,
that'll be a huge plus for me.
What?
Wait, it's so oily feeling.
And, wait, [gasps] it's happening!
It's happening!
It's doing the thing!
It looks orange.
This is looking like it's going in a bad direction.
My whole face is about to look like this.
So I'm sorry ahead of time.
[groaning] Oh, no.
I don't know if it's just becoming clear.
[laughs]
I think, like, what they're getting away with here
is it's such a sheer formula
that it's just gonna turn clear,
and then you're gonna be like,
"Oh, it changed color."
I can, unfortunately, see it happening.
Oh, no.
The more I rub it in,
the more Donald Trump-like I become.
I feel like this goes without saying, just, you know,
based off of this whole situation,
but if you have fair skin,
I think you're gonna wanna
steer very clear of this product.
I'm skeptical if it's even a color-changing product
in the way that it can adapt to different skin tones.
I feel like it's just changing into this middle color
on the bottle, which is, like, a very mid-tone,
orange-ish tan, and it's trying to pass that off
as being adaptive to your skin tone.
I think we're all just turning
into the same one orangey color.
Marisa Palmer: So, if this is, like, the skin tone
that's supposed to match my skin tone,
it is just, like,
the every-black-woman color,
I feel, they just threw in there,
because there's nuances to foundation.
And this is just, like,
I can already tell.
Very orange.
It's not gonna work.
I'm a dark and lovely girl.
This is not my shade.
Mm-mm.
[disappointed music]
Come on!
Like....[laughs]
Let me try this on my face
to see if it actually works or blends,
because I'm very confused at this point.
I'm very confused.
It is turning a color,
but whose color?
Not mine!
When I'm looking at the monitor,
it looks like
I put
white lotion on my face,
and then
just didn't let it blend out.
Like, I literally look ashy.
I look very gray.
Nico: It has officially been eight hours,
and I feel like, at this point, I can barely tell
that there's anything on my skin.
The tint has pretty much entirely faded,
at least I think it has.
I'm sure there's gonna be some, like, leftover residue
when I use a makeup wipe to take this all off,
but, literally, it just looks like my skin.
It's not great,
because already this is, like,
a very divisive product,
and now it's just like, why even wear it?
Because it just looks like I have nothing on my skin,
so what's the point?
I could just wear moisturizer.
After chatting with Kyle and Marisa and wearing
the Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing BB-Gel
for eight hours, I feel like I can finally say
that I think that this thing is not worth it.
Out of the three of us, it really only worked on me,
so I don't think it's adapting to different skin tones
like it claims to,
or, rather, unifies.
There was very little unifying
happening with this product.
And at the end of the day,
the color was pretty nonexistent
and all of my acne scarring and my redness
was kind of on full display,
so I doubt that it lasted even more
than a couple of hours on me.
Maybe the eight-hour thing might just be referring
to the moisturizing factor,
and if that's the case, I don't really think
it did a great job of that either.
I feel like if you have my skin tone
and want something so light
to the point where it's almost nonexistent,
you might really like this,
but for me, I'm gonna say that it's not worth it.
Marisa: Mmk, let me see what it looks like
on my phone.
[laughing]
Producer: Oh, my God!
Marisa: Oh, my God!