Archived Post
What's your go-to cheek color combo lately?
What’s your go-to cheek color combo lately? Share!
Kevyn Aucoin Starlight + Kevyn Aucoin Medium Sculpting Powder!
Do you have a question idea? Submit yours here.
Explore Temptalia
We're here to help you make better beauty purchases that you'll enjoy and love! We recommend signing up to take advantage of personalized features like tracking products you own, viewing dupes that you already have, and more!
Here are some useful resources for you:
Compare Any Two
Curious how two shades compare to each other? Type in the shades below to get instant side-by-side swatches!
36 Comments
Comments that do not adhere to our comment policy may be removed. Discussion and debate are highly encouraged but we expect community members to participate respectfully. Please keep discussion on-topic, and if you have general feedback, a product review request, an off-topic question, or need technical support, please contact us!
Please help us streamline the comments' section and be more efficient: double-check the post above for more basic information like pricing, availability, and so on to make sure your question wasn't answered already. Comments alerting us to typos or small errors in the post are appreciated (!) but will typically be removed after errors are fixed (unless a response is needed).
We appreciate enthusiasm for new releases but ask readers to please hold questions regarding if/when a review will be posted as we can't commit to or guarantee product reviews. We don't want to set expectations and then disappoint readers as even products that are swatched don't always end up being reviewed due to time constraints and changes in priorities! Thank you for understanding!
Comments on this post are closed.
We try to approve comments within 24 hours (and reply to them within 72 hours) but can sometimes get behind and appreciate your patience! 🙂 If you have general feedback, product review requests, off-topic questions, or need technical support, please contact us directly. Thank you for your patience!
I don’t really have one! Changing my cheek combo daily is one of my fave things to do each morning!
I have teflon cheeks, every blush seems to slide off or disappear unless I carefully layer it. I use a good cheek stain ( Vincent Longo in Baby’s Boo), then a powder blush ( Tarte Amazonian Clay in pink), then face powder, then another layer of the Tarte powder blush. That’s the only way it will last all day without having to re-apply.
I must try your method. I have a ridiculous time getting blush to stay in place too.
Mehron Lip Cream in Petal Pink (works equally well as a blush!), topped with BH Cosmetics flower blush duo in Iris and then dusted with a little Milani Baked Bronzer on Glow. Golden plum rose perfection!
Cheek contour: MAC blush in Taupe.
Cheek color: I change blush nearly every day. Lately I’m playing with the LORAC Unzipped blush palette, Tarte Tartlette in Celebrated, and MUFE HD Blush 410 (coral).
Highlight: Either Too Faced Candlelight or Notoriously Morbid’s Osteomancy.
I use the blusher in the Dior 001 Favorite palette alone.. Love it so much!
Too faced blush in There’s Something About Berry.
It’s really one product, but I’ve been using the three different blush/highlighting stripes together and separately and its magic. I’m of dark skin tone and I’ve seen variying reviews of this blush, but I love it. I like that it’s buildable because there’s glowy sparkle. love to use it with my smash box fan brush to pick up the deeper shades towards the bottom as blush then use the top shade for a peachy golden highlight.
Chanel Jersey blush with MAC Fairly Precious as the highlighter.
I’ve mostly been using Silk Naturals Heavenly Perfecting Glow. It’s supposed to be a highlighter for complexions far darker than mine. On me it’s a gorgeous, rosy blush with a golden glow and luminous finish without being glittery or making my pores look awful. So that and no highlighter has been my go-to lately.
ooooh…this sounds like something I must try! Love new pale-girl blush ideas:)
Lately it’s been either NYX blush in Taupe or MAC’s Omega (the eyeshadow!) to contour, and then either MAC’s CCB in Virgin Isle for blush and CCB in Pearl for a highlight, OR a powder blush (MUG in Spellbound, MAC Dame or Blushbaby) with Becca’s Pressed Highlighter in Moonstone. A lot of these are new to me as of the past month or 2 and I am SO loving them all!!
Ruby Kisses Bronze Glow powder and Milani Romantic Rose blush
I’ve been going through the process of decluttering and using products I have so I pulled out MAC’s Wonder Woman Pink Power and have been layering the blush portion over MAC’s Ladyblush.
I don’t have a go-to, instead, I try to rotate through my blushes as much as possible so that I make sure I’m using my products. I have been loving my Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette, however. Especially Radiant Light for a nice glow!
I like MAC Mystery eyeshadow to contour, theBalm Pinstripe blush, and Becca Opal highlighter. So subtle and flattering.
Since it’s winter white outside, I’ve been sticking to neutral/minimal colours for cheeks; matte bronzer as a contour/blush in Annabelle Sun Kissed (Canadian company), and Mac’s beauty powder in Forever Marilyn for a subtle highlight.
Kevyn Aucoiin medium or Anasatasia fawn to contour. Highlight, I have been using my new Cle de peau pink luminizer because it’s new and lovely. But, I love highlighters and love changing them around .Blush, I tend to be reaching for Chanel malice and Jersey along with mac “Make you mine” a lot lately. Although, the Mac is frustrating me because it won’t wear long on me,like a few hours.That is annoying me because I love the shade and it’s in a multi-pan . So, I can’t take it with me until I buy a small Z palette.
For my super-quick, easy, reliable, always works cheek combo I use Hourglass Ambient Lighting Powder in Radiant Light like a bronzer/contour powder and Incandescent Light as a highlighter; if I’m doing a cool look that day, I use Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in Ethereal Glow; if I’m doing a warmer look, I’ll use Incandescent Electra or Luminous Flush from the Ambient Lighting blush palette — I use Mood Exposure from the palette for plummier looks, warm or cool. I like to switch up cheek products daily, but if I don’t have time for blending, just need to get out the door fast looking reliably good, these products have never failed me.
One of the new Clinique Cheek Pop shades, Heather Pop. It’s a super-easy muted pink that really goes with everything.
I change my blush color daily to match the rest of my makeup, but when I use highlighter, it’s generally theBalm Mary-Lou Manizer!
I’m using one of my go-to blushes at the moment, MAC Dainty Mineralize Blush, paired with MAC Lightscapade Mineralize Skinfinish. I’m also using the Please Yourself Mineralize blush that came out with one of their collections recently (the name escapes me), also with Lightscapade. I always go back to their Mineralize blushes since I love shimmer. I’m all about glowing cheeks! 🙂
EL Bronze Goddess matte bronzer, with a pop of color from NYX Pinched.
Highlight: MAC Soft and Gentle
Bronzer : Benefit Hoola
Blush : The Blam (burgendy) + MAC Love Joy
I don’t really have a go to combo. If I am going to contour I will use a very small amount of BB bronzer and one of my 3-4 blushes.
MAC Pink Swoon with MAC Shell Pearl. I randomly put them together last week and wore it four days in a row. It’s amazing.
Oooh, that sounds lovely. Not sure I’ve tried that combo but I will now! Thanks for the idea. 😀
Charlotte Tillbury filmstar bronze and sculpt. And CT First Love blush. Being extremely fair it gives me definition and just enough flush/pop.
When I’m in a real hurry, and I need a “swipe & go” product, I use one of the Maybelline Master Hi-Light powders-this week, it’s been the pink one. It provides a hint of color, and a nice highlight, and requires minimal effort.
On days I have a bit more time to do a more sculpted look, I just grab my MAC custom 12-pan palette, which includes Pink Cult, Animal Instincts, & Blushbaby for color, Sculpt, Shadowy, Harmony, Taupe, Taupe Shape, & Next To Skin to contour, & Accentuate, Emphasize, & Light Sweep to highlight. It’s very simple & basic, but everything coordinates together, and works for my coloring, as well as any “look” I do. It took over a year to put the palette together, and lots of editing the “list”, but I finally narrowed it down.
When I have time to really work on a look, I don’t have a “go-to”, and enjoy taking the time to figure things out!
Magnolia makeup soul glo highlighter or MAC petal power to highlight with MAC gleeful blush
Maybelline dream bouncy in hot tamale or NYX cream blush in boho chic
Mac Restores Dazzle Cremeblend Blush (from Shop MAC Cook MAC) or Shiseido Camellia Compact + Bobbi Brown Bronzing Powder in Natural 1 or Mac Skinsheen Bronzer Stick in Tan Tint or Mac Lush-Light Bronze (try to finish up).
FORGOT! Highlighter Laura Mercier Matte Radiance Baked Powder Highlighter 1
When I am really in a hurry I use the maybelline combo they launched in the summer Tropical something. The bronzer is subtle, maybe too subtle but the blush perks me up.
By the way I don’t own anything by Kevin Aucoin… but this weekend by coincidence I have been reading about his life and achievements, also about his early and sad death. I am making a mental list to get some of his powders and maybe the ” sensual enhancer” that every expert raves about. I mean.. with that name alone, how can I resist?
MUFE HD Cream Blush in #410 Coral + NARS Daydream
I love how soft and feminine this combo looks. And the color lasts all day.
At the moment I’m on a bit of a mission to make an actual dent in a blush, so I chose one that I can use a lot of, LOL! Hence: Benefit Dandelion…
i love the MAC Kelly osborne mineralized skin finish…i could just wear that because for some reason the lighter shade in that duo is pink! i bought a back up & compared & the back up is more brown. wish i had bought more! love that duo!