Few things bring more joy than a bottle of whipped cream. The sugary coating it leaves in your mouth? The fun of watching it puff out of the bottle into a white, airy cloud? But one of the unfortunate things about being an adult is that you can’t exactly indulge in that experience every day. At least, that was until I recently found myself clicking around Sephora’s website and stumbled onto the skin care equivalent of Reddi-Whip: Laneige’s Fresh Calming Mousse Moisturizer.

More and more skin care products are relying on foam as a delivery method because of the sheer joy and gimmick they bring to the traditionally laborious category. Which is exactly why this whipped-cream style moisturizer was love at first sight. It wasn’t quite practical for my typical routine—I usually look for moisturizers with sunscreen in them to buy me a few extra minutes in the morning, where the Laneige instead packs “nutrient-rich deep sea water” and antioxidants from lychee peel extract to ward off free radicals. The hearts wants what it wants, though, and I decided that I loved this moisturizer, foam-unfelt.

Look at it. Tell me you don’t too.

Reality didn’t disappoint, though it wasn’t quite my fantasy. Like a can of whipped cream, you give the bright pink bottle a shake before you pump out a squirt of moisturizer. IRL, the mousse isn’t as voluptuous as it seems online. There’s a certain room-temperature deflation to the white cream, but I suspect it’s from the moisturizing factors that help it do its job.

As I spread a few globs of the Mousse Moisturizer all over my face, I was half-hoping it’d help me start every day looking like I’d just been pied (for the ‘gram, and my own delight), but that’s not the case. The mousse absorbs within seconds of rubbing it in, and leaves behind a wet, dewy sheen. The glisten sinks in a minute later and imparts a velvety texture to your skin, which made spreading on my mineral sunscreen afterward easy—no small feat.

By the time I figure out what I’m wearing 15 to 20 minutes later, my skin feels reliably plump and moisturized. If squirting whipped cream down my esophagus is a 10 on the happiness scale, I’d put this moisturizer at eight and a half. One point docked because my skin loves heavy, intense hydration, so it hasn’t replaced my ceramide-packed night cream, and a half point lost because I really did want the pie-face thing.

Laneige Fresh Calming Mousse Moisturizer, $29, sephora.com

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