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5 Cool-Toned Pinks for Spring
What are your favorite cool-toned pinks? It can be such a fun color to wear, because a lot of the blue-based pinks have a brightness to them, which I think is perfect during late winter/early spring when it can be gloomy and gray outside.
- NARS Gaiety — cool-toned, cotton candy pink with a matte finish
- OCC Mannequin — a pale, cool-toned pink with a matte finish
- Hourglass Ethereal Glow — a soft, cool-toned pale pink
- MAC Pink Nouveau — a cool-toned, blue-based light-medium pink with a satiny finish
- Milani Delizioso Pink (10) — a cool-toned, light-medium pink with a matte finish
I love cool-toned pinks! Nars Gaiety and MAC’s Pink Nouveau happen to be my favorite cool-toned pink blush and lipstick! I also like MAC Snob, MAC Candy Yum Yum, Nars Desire, and Nars Angelika. 😀
I’m not at all surprised to hear you rock Snob! 🙂 I bet it looks great on you!
Thx Christine! I looove Snob! 😉
Mine choices – 2 blushes (MAC Dollymix and Bobbi Brown Pale Pink) and for lips, Guerlain Champs Elysees.
Dollymix is a classic for a good reason 🙂
I look better in warm pinks. Are you going to do a top five of those as well? 🙂
Maybe!
These are the colors that look the best on my daughter! Brown hair and eyes…soft pink undertone to her skin! So helpful for me to see someone else curate choices for her (these are NOT my best colors!). Thanks!
Cool pink isn’t the best color on me either! Half the time my yellow undertones swallow the blue undertones up.
Is there a cool pink that you really love on your daughter?
She adores The Balm Frat Boy blush and Urban Decay Peroxide gloss (the old ones). I also like Mac’s Let’s Skate paint pot …but she thinks it has too much glitter/sheen. We also have an old Stila eye shadow with no name on it…a matte pink. I’m learning! I have a yellow undertone too. I’m light – hair and eyes…but my skin veers a little darker in tone. These pinks are new to me!
I like how while glitter is typically associated as a “younger” product, your daughter doesn’t like it, and you do 😉 I love breaking rules!
I get a lot of grief for my glitter addiction…from my kids. But makeup is supposed to be fun and I only glisten in one place at a time.
Smashbox also has a lipstick in Posy Pink..
Sorry to keep going…the Too Faced Secret to no makeup set, Smashbox Posy pink lipstick and the Hourglass Ethereal Glow you list (a rare cool pink I can wear well too).
Thank you! 🙂
I have a hard time with blue-based pinks, but I’ve had excellent results with Dior’s Rosy Glow Healthy Glow Awakening Blush(looks scary hot pink in the pan) and Estee Lauder’s Pure Color Lipstick in Crystal Pink.
What does the Rosy Glow palette look like once you apply it?
Rosy Glow definitely leans cool on me, but I like how it looks. MAC says I’m NW, but Sephora says I have yellow undertones.
Sounds like you might be neutral, then 😉
Is it a super bright pink applied or something a lot softer?
Yes, neutral sounds most accurate. Rosy Glow is medium cool pink on me, neither bright nor soft. It’s only bright if I apply too much!
Very nice! Thank you!
Yes, neutral sounds most accurate. Rosy Glow is medium cool pink on me–not soft or bright-unless I apply too much. There was a learning curve when I first got it. You have to apply a little and then wait for it to “show up” otherwise, it’s easy to overdo.
MAC’s coloring system is usually opposite of everything I’ve ever heard about my undertones. MAC says I have yellow/warm undertones, and matches me at NC20…I’m sure it’s really confusing to most people.
I think it’s the lighting at MAC. I was matched as NC30, yet every foundation I own has the word “ivory” or “porcelain” in the name… When I bought/wore the NC30, I had customers & coworkers asking if I was okay, and I couldn’t figure it out until my break, and I looked in a mirror (I bought the foundation right before work, and it looked fine at the counter).
sephora thinks everyone has yellow undertones. I don’t trust their color matching system as far as I can throw it
These look so pretty all together. Especially the Hourglass blush!
They do look nice all lined up!
Love them all especially MAC pink noveau..
I love the color! I wish it was a little more flattering on me, but that doesn’t stop me from wearing it!
What do you like to wear with Pink Nouveau, Tabitha?
I love how its a cool toned yet bright pink but not too in your face. I haven’t tried Pink Noveau yet but I have it on my list to swatch when I next visit the MAC makeup counter.
I’d most likely pair it with a gold eyeshadow, a thin layer of black liquid eyeliner and maybe a small amount of Bourjois Delice De Poudre Bronzing Powder instead of a blush.
That sounds like an amazing color combo!
I love cool-toned pinks on my cheeks so much. On my lips, I need something warmer because my lips are a bright almost coral color. It’s too bad because these colors are so lovely.
Nice! What are your must-have cool pinks, J? Always love hearing faves!
I need to check out Pink Nouveau. It looks really pretty! I wonder if Gaiety would work for me. I love the color! Just hope it isn’t too light and too cool
Pink Nouveau would pop on your skin tone!
My choice for a beautiful cool pink is Dior’s Allégresse :).
Awesome pick!
Love NARS Gaiety. Pink Nouveau is a pretty choice too but the shade doesnt really work for me!
It’s a tough shade for me to wear, too!
Ah, cool pinks, the only pinks I can wear. 😛 I’m very fond of MAC Dreaminess lipstick, though MAC’s formula is unfortunately not the kindest to me. NARS Angelika is also a favorite bold blush.
NARS Angelika is a gorgeous cool pink!
I want Ethereal Glow as a wallpaper for my bedroom! 😀
LOL!
I want to try the Milani Delizioso. I don’t have anything truly “cool”-toned, so it’s different enough, but still within my preferred range. My pink blushes are pretty much definitively neutral. As for pink lipsticks, they just don’t work for me, and no matter how expensive they are, they all end up looking really cheap on me.
Hopefully it shows up in your area soon Amy!
I am not fond of cool pale pinks but recently I tried kryolan lip n cheek in lotus n it did made me look younger 🙂
I do love shades like nars desire a lot 🙂
Desire is nice on you!
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Okayyy now am gonna love it even moreeeee
Hooray for cool-toned pinks!! I love them so much (because they like me!). I think my skintone is actually nearly neutral, but I’m so transparent that all the blue veins have to match with something, LOL!
LOL!
Pink Nouveau is one of my all-time favorite lipsitcks – I need to pull it out again! Although I typically wear warmer-toned blushes coming into spring & summer, I have been obsessed with MAC’s Pink Swoon lately.
It’s such a fun shade! So nice in the spring/summer.
I think The Balm instain blush in Lace looks like these blushes.
I think that’s a cool-toned pink but I haven’t reviewed it!
Dear CHRISTINE : Cool toned pinks look best on me as well. What are your favorite cool toned pink lip glosses? I’m pretty new to this site and I want a new cool candy pink gloss . Thanks for any good suggestions !! ….
What price point are you looking for? Shimmer, cream, sheer, opaque?
I love Sleek’s “Pixie pink” blush. I wear it mostly in the winter or summer.
Will have to check that out!