BB and CC cream for redness

IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream has the best record, with 48 of 48 shoppers saying it covered or toned down their redness, and Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer follows at 41 of 42. The other four run from 91% for IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream down to 80% for IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow, the weakest record here. Each record counts just shoppers who said they have redness.

  • 225 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Sep 2014 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Did it cover redness? What shoppers with redness said
  1. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream 48 said either way
  2. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer 42 said either way
  3. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream 22 said either way
  4. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream 17 said either way
  5. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream 38 said either way
  6. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow 20 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for redness showing through. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Best record IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream 48 of 48 say it covered or toned down their redness See price & reviews on Amazon

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points reviewers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1 IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Cream

Best for a skin-like look

48/48 say it covered or toned down their redness

More shoppers with redness stated a result for this cream than for any other here. Shoppers say it looks like skin in 31% of its 59 reviews, though 5% call it greasy and 5% say it oxidizes or darkens.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 31%
  • Lasts all day 14%
  • Shade stays true 7%
  • Fine on dry skin 5%
  • Fine on mature skin 3%

What buyers complain about

  • Greasy 5%
  • Oxidizes or darkens 5%
  • Cakey or heavy 3%
  • Too dark 3%
  • Hard to find a shade 3%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 26 of 26
  • Sephora 22 of 22
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination12 of 12
  • Dry8 of 8
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light15 of 15
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Say it covered or toned down their redness10 of 10
2 Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

Tarte

BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer

Best for keeping shine down

41/42 say it covered or toned down their redness

Reviews call this matte tinted moisturizer skin-like (22%) and say it controls shine (11%). On the downside, 5% say it ran too dark and 4% call it too expensive.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 22%
  • Controls shine 11%
  • Lasts all day 9%
  • No breakouts 4%
  • Light enough for fair skin 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Breaks skin out 5%
  • Too dark 5%
  • Too expensive 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 16 of 16
  • Sephora 25 of 26
  • Brand site 2 of 2 shown, not counted
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination15 of 15
  • Oily5 of 5
  • Dry4 of 5
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light18 of 19
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 4
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Say it covered or toned down their redness15 of 16
3 IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream

IT Cosmetics

Mini CC+ Cream

20/22 say it covered or toned down their redness

Staying power earns praise in 23% of its 22 reviews, and 9% say it looks like skin.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts all day 23%
  • Looks like skin 9%
  • Fine on dry skin 9%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 20 of 22
By skin type (from reviewer profiles)
  • Combination11 of 13
  • Dry6 of 6
  • Oily3 of 3
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light16 of 17
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 5
Acne-prone reviewers
  • Say it covered or toned down their redness9 of 11
4 Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream

Maybelline

Dream Fresh BB Cream

15/17 say it covered or toned down their redness

Shoppers describe this sheer-tint BB cream as looking like skin (24% of its 21 reviews), though 14% say a shade was hard to find.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 24%
  • No breakouts 10%
  • Lasts all day 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to find a shade 14%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 15 of 17
  • Brand site 1 of 1 shown, not counted
5 Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream

Clinique

Moisture Surge CC Cream

31/38 say it covered or toned down their redness

Of its 45 reviews, 11% call it greasy and 7% call it cakey or heavy, though 22% say it looks like skin.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 22%
  • No breakouts 7%
  • Fine on dry skin 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Greasy 11%
  • Cakey or heavy 7%
  • Clings to dry patches 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 9 of 13
  • Sephora 22 of 25
  • Brand site 12 of 13 shown, not counted
By skin tone (from reviewer profiles)
  • Fair to light4 of 5
  • Light-medium to medium3 of 3
6 IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow

IT Cosmetics

CC+ Nude Glow

16/20 say it covered or toned down their redness

Its 4 misses mostly said their redness still showed through, some because it went on too sheer. Reviews first posted on the brand's own site were more positive, at 5 of 5, and we show them but don't count them.

What buyers praise

  • Looks like skin 22%
  • Lasts all day 22%
  • No breakouts 9%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 16 of 20
  • Brand site 5 of 5 shown, not counted

Where these numbers come from

The 6 products ranked here carry 41,314 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for redness showing through and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Sep 2014 and Oct 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream Ulta and Sephora (59 reviews counted)
  2. Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer Ulta and Sephora (55 reviews counted)
  3. IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream Sephora (22 reviews counted)
  4. Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream Ulta (21 reviews counted)
  5. Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream Ulta and Sephora (45 reviews counted)
  6. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow Ulta (23 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

Which BB or CC cream covers redness?

IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream has the best record at 48 of 48, followed by Tarte BB Blur Tinted Moisturizer (41 of 42) and IT Cosmetics Mini CC+ Cream (20 of 22). Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream (15 of 17) and Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream (31 of 38) come next and sit close enough to treat as a tie. IT Cosmetics CC+ Nude Glow trails at 16 of 20.

Does a BB or CC cream get rid of redness?

No. Makeup covers redness but doesn't treat it, and the records on this page show how well each cream covered shoppers' redness. See a dermatologist about redness that burns, stings, spreads or doesn't settle.

Does Clinique Moisture Surge CC Cream cover redness?

Usually: 31 of 38 shoppers with redness said it covered or toned down theirs, while 7 said the red still showed through. That puts it fifth, just behind Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream.

Which of these creams are sold on Amazon?

All 6 are sold on Amazon by the brand or Amazon itself. IT Cosmetics CC+ Cream is the best pick sold on Amazon at 48 of 48, and it is also the leader.

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