[Review] J. One Jelly Cushion Foundation

Hello loves :) Today I'm giving a review of the J. One Jelly Cushion in no.23. I ordered this beautiful cushion compact from memebox when I was going through my emails and one of memebox's subscription mails had a picture of this cushion along with the new hana cream. I had a vip coupon so I threw it into my e-cart :) Shipping from memebox is quick.

Before we begin, here is a description of the cushion, taken straight off the memebox website:

J.ONE introduces a premium Jelly Cushion that is specially formulated to be lightweight and easy-to-blend while giving the skin full coverage. It seamlessly covers skin imperfections in just a single layer. This makeup cushion is infused with lemon extract, royal jelly extract and sea buckthorn extract to nourish and protect the skin from harsh environmental elements. It also provides superior sun protection with its SPF50+/PA+++ which allows you to enjoy outdoors without worrying about sun damage!

This also came with a refill, so heres hoping I like this foundation! On to my experience.


[Packaging]

The packaging for this is minimalistic, all white with black typing and the J One logo on the front. It pretty much matches the packaging for the Jelly Pack, just compact version. I adore the packaging. And like I said, this comes with a refill!

[Shade]
I think this shade is almost perfect for my skin. Out of all the foundations I have, this one matches me really nicely. For reference, I'm in between NC25-30 in MAC. It is slightly lighter than my natural skin tone, but nothing too crazy. I actually prefer my foundations to be on the lighter side so when I contour it evens everything out.


[Coverage]

Before I put it on!

I found that this is definitely light/medium coverage, but that may be because I don't use a lot of product. I also don't have any blemishes that I need covered however I do have a bit of redness on my cheeks, so I needed to add a second layer to these spots to cover them up.

After! Do you notice a difference?

[Wear]
So for wear, I tried this out in three different ways.

The first day I decided to try this with the J One Jelly Pack underneath as my primer :) I know the actress who created the brand, Ha Ji Won used it as a primer on Get It Beauty so I wanted to test the two products together. This method was definitely my favorite way to wear this cushion. It went on really smooth. I also found that the foundation lasted all day, even through-out my work day. I work in a restaurant, so I can get pretty sweaty as I run around. It held up pretty well until about 10:30 pm, when I finally took it off.

The next time I used this, I was going to try it without any primer. Uh.. that was an awful idea. I wouldn't recommend using this without a primer if you have dry skin. After about 30-45 minutes, the patchiness around my dry areas was RIDICULOUS. It looked so disgusting, and I had to take it off. I still wanted to wear it however, so I tried it with one of my favorite hydrating primers, Marc Jacobs Invisible Under(cover) Perfecting Coconut Face Primer. Again, this cushion went on very nicely and smooth and I didn't need too much. It wore okay, but I noticed after about 5 hours that it wore off completely around my nose.

I wish I had a korean primer to also test this with, but alas I do not have any that has yet made its way in to my collection :/



[Overall]
Without any primer, this cushion sucks terribly for my dry skin. I have never used a foundation that emphasized my dry patches so badly. But somehow, I like this cushion. So far in my korean cushion collection it's my favorite. The only thing is however, I'd probably only wear it with my J One Jelly pack as that seemed to work out best for me.