Watermelon Glow Niacinamide Sunscreen.

"This gives you a glow like nothing else but it's so lightweight it doesn't feel greasy. It has niacinamide as well as sun protection so it's really good for things like hyperpigmentation or post blemish redness or purple marks. This is really excellent for that and it does smell phenomenal. The niacinamide does tend to pill up if you use this with other products, but if you use this alone it's really good. I have to exfoliate my forehead, but I will continue testing it."

"This launch was really exciting to me because it's an Asian style sunscreen that's actually approved in the US and stocked in Sephora so people in the US can actually go and try the sunscreen before buying it. The downside of a US sunscreen is that their sunscreen ingredient options are a bit needs improvement, so it was really great to see Glow Recipe take on this challenge of trying to make a US approved sunscreen that actually feels nice and lightweight. I really really wanted to like this but it did the one thing that is like a complete deal breaker for me, it peeled up on my skin pretty badly and the pilling was very visible, it was very like white and gray. This sunscreen does not peel on everyone, there are lots of people who love this but it does seem to peel up on a good portion of people. I tried so hard to make this work, I tried it on bare skin right after washing, I tried it after 15 minutes, after an hour. Then I saw on TikTok someone say that it worked on their skin after they moisturized it really well so I tried it over six different products with really different formulas and it didn't work. So by that point I was pretty depressed and I gave up. Every time I tried it it was fine when I first put it on but then after it's set, after maybe about five, ten minutes if I even brushed against it then it would pill and you could really really see those pills. I don't know if it's like my skin or the humidity here in Sydney or just some other curse, I'm sure there's some product out there that would stop this from pilling on me but I have not found it and I am too sad to keep going. I'm also the sort of person who puts on makeup right before leaving the house so if a sunscreen pills a lot then it is probably not going to work with my extreme lifestyle. Otherwise this is pretty nice, it's not really as lightweight as the Asian sunscreens I've been trying but considering that it does only use US filters I think they did really well. There was some white cast but not as much as I expected for an untinted sunscreen with 12% zinc oxide. It is a bit shiny but dewy skin is sort of part of Glow Recipe's brand and it is actually quite hydrating which is pretty impressive. I would recommend trying a sample on your own skin before buying the full tube because who it pills on seems to be a bit all over the place."