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Tom Ford Lovelust or Chanel Jersey!
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I’m using MAC Trip the Light powder in Highly Illogical the most. On my skin tone it’s a plummy blush with subtle sheen.
That is such a fantastic shade! I’m a total Trekkie so I got all 3 and they’re all fabulous.
I LOVE Highly Illogical! it is truly a beautiful color. I should have bought backups when they were on sale.
I’ve got 2 that are my easy go-to’s because they can fit nearly every look I do: UD Rapture and MAC Sweet Visions! Both have luminosity and are buildable. This doesn’t mean that I don’t use all my others, but these 2 are perfection!
Nars Goulue is an up and coming favorite! Especially with red lipstick!
Oooh, I forgot about Nars Goulue. I love that blush also, Nancy. I have to use it sparingly as I am about the color of paper but that is true of most blushes I wear. Thank you for reminding me. I will get it out and wear it this week.
I’m the same- hella pale but it looks great with a light hand. I also love the name as it is the name of one of the main Can Can dancers at the Moulin Rouge and she has a really interesting history.
pixi Sheer Cheek Gel. So natural, but lasts all day.
Marc Jacobs Air Blush in Flesh and Fantasy. I also really like LInes and Last Night from the same line.
My two go-to blushes are Mac’s breath of plum and Lancome’s rose fresque 🙂
My go-to blush is Charlotte Tilbury x Norman Parkinson’s Colour of Youth cream blush but lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with Tom Ford’s Wicked and Chanel Coco Codes.
That CT blush was my go-to all summer! Whenever I go for a cream blush I reach for that one.
I don’t have a “go-to.” This winter, I’ve been wearing NARS Almeria, Urban Decay Rapture, and Tarte Exposed a lot. This last month, I’ve frequently been wearing Medusa’s Makeup Dangerous Liaison.
mac dainty!
Mac Sunbasque…not just currently, it has been my go to for years now !
MAC Sweet Sentiment (LE from a few years ago).
Urban Decay Indecent!
As if I just have one…
Hourglass Mood Exposure
Becca Flowerchild
Tarte Exposed
Essence Babydoll
Cargo Bali
Clinique Nude Pop
MAC Modest Blush (LE)
MAC Cosmic Force
Catrice La Vie En Rose
NARS Orgasm
Benefit Hervana
Too Faced Papa Dont Peach
These are my current blush I have in constant rotation!
Clinique Cheek Pop in Ginger Pop!
Right now I am inlove with Charlotte Tilbury Love Glow, Daniel Sandlers Watercolor blushes and by Terry blush Glacé. Tey are just so beautiful and natural looking on the cheeks.
Nars sexual content (right) is my fool proof option that I apply with my fingers!
The left side though is not working for me as a separate blush
Lately I’ve been reaching for Urban Decay Easy (Gwen palette) and Rapture often!
Yes!!! UD easy is a great blush. It was my go-to all summer!
It really is! I actually emailed UD a few days ago and suggested that they add Easy and Hush to the permanent lineup. Here’s hoping!
Great idea! Maybe I should do the same. Perhaps if they get multiple requests to make Easy permanet, they may listen….fingers crossed!!
Laura Geller baked blush in Pink Grapefruit
Nars Outlaw.
Cosmic force from MAC! Great when I wear colourful eyeshadows or when I am in a rush.
Impossible to over do it, and with my fair skin, that is perfect.
I also use Rapture from UD a LOT ?
Cosmic Force is great!
Tom Ford Wicked or Ravish.
Been on a blush hunt to get a few more options. Picked up two by Hourglass — Diffused Heat and Mood Exposure. How did I over-the-moon LOVE them just last week, and this week, I’m like, “meh”? Compared to the TF they are a weak tea. Am I really that fickle? I dunno, I think the comparison of wear and overall look between TF and Hourglass just makes them not hold up. Now stuck with two not cheap blushes.
NATS Taos, such a nice warm terra cotta with a little bit of shimmer!
TAOS is beautiful. It was my first NARS blush purchase. Essence magazine did a story on the shade – as the one most universal skin tone flattering shades. It has just the right amount of shimmer.
Too Faced Baby Love!
Mac Sincere or Chanel Jersey.
Wet-n-Wild Apricot in the Middle or NARS Goulue. I think Goulue may be too intense for my skin tone, though. I have to use a very light hand.
MAC Sweet As Coco or NYX Mocha
TheBalm’s Instain Blush in Houndstooth! 🙂
MAC Breath of Plum. On my skin, depending on eye make-up or if I apply bronzer/contouring or not, it looks either more plum either more pink so it’s very versatile.
In powder blushes, Surratt Beauty Barbe a Papa is trying to knock Hourglass Ethereal Glow off its perch at the top.
In cream blushes, which I use a lot this time of year, Bite Beauty Multistick Lotus is trying to knock Make Up For Ever HD Blush #210 out of the top spot, and Gelato is getting used a surprising amount, too!
I’m pretty consistent with blush and prefer a workhorse option that just mimics my natural flush. Right now I’m using a custom blend color from 3 Custom Color and waiting on my cream duo from Tom Ford. I also love the Bicoastal duo from last summers collection, but my preference is for a cream formulation. I prefer the way it blends into the skin.
Tweak from Illamasqua
Right now I seem to be wearing either MAC Breath of Plum, The Balm Cabana Boy or Make Up Geek Puppy Love.
Hourglass ambient blush is luminous flush (I think that’s the name!)
RMK 04 Coral Beige (‘Mix Color For Cheeks’). The gorgeous formula blends into my skin and imparts a beautiful, brightening flush. It is my go-to blush. I am ever-grateful to Sonia from Sweet Make-Up Temptations for the introduction.
I am ~NC25, with a warm yellow undertone.
Lately, Illamasqua Chased and Dior New Red.
Aromaleigh Lakshmi
for everyday its tarte exposed, for a night out always something from the new nars unfiltered 1
I can’t wait to get my hands on the NARS palette!
Clinique Cheek Pop in Pansy.
NARS sin! Iv been wearing it almost every day! It’s the perfect berry with goldenough shimmer.
Easy. NARS Orgasm. It’s one of the few blushes that I actually hit pan!!!
I have NARS Deep Throat, and It was my first time hitting pan on a blush too!!
Right? Who doesn’t like Nars Orgasm? I hit pan on mine too.
Either Hourglass Mood Exposure or Tarte Exposed.
Tom Ford Wicked or Chanel Golden Sun
I love Chanel blush any shade.
Armani’s original powder blush in #2 or NARS Orgasm. I haven’t been wearing my new palettes enough to have fallen in love with anything yet.
Bobbi brown cream blushed rose. It gives me a natural flushed,dewey look. I don’t usually wear heavy foundations or powders.
I use Nars Orgasm or Tarte Exposed. Both work well with my medium/neutral coloring.
La Femme Blush in Russet
If I really had to narrow it down to one then I’d have to go for NARS Impudique. I’m a big fan of shimmery blushes and I was using MAC Blonde MSF all the time but recently Impudique caught my attention and I’ve been using it most days. It’s a lovely, pigmented formula with gorgeous gold shimmer and I just think it gives such a beautiful glow. ?
Tom Ford 06 Wicked, Chanel Ribbon Blush and Hourglass Luminous Flush.
Circa Ultrasuede Cream Blush in Imperia. Actually, they’re all superb but that’s the only color I have. Soft, blends beautifully, good lasting power and it’s a cream but just a beautiful wash of color. Beautiful on aging or mature skin or even younger skin. Just a beautiful product. Love it!
Available online at http://www.circabeauty.com or at your local Walgreen’s. $13.00 bucks. Yep, $13.00 bucks.
Too Faced Papa Don’t Peach
I’ve been going back and forth between NYX Mosaic Blush in Spice and ColourPop Cruel Intentions!
Clinique Heather Pop. Although, I just bought a Marc Jacobs blush after everyone here has been raving over them. I’ve only used it once, but it seems very nice.
Natio’s Blush Palette in Sunkissed – a mosaic of peachy shades. Just beautiful.
I’ve been limiting myself to using my Nars Steven Klein face palette, and I find myself mixing Blasphemy (cool baby pink) and Robotic (similar to Deep Throat but a bit lighter).
Tarte exposed is forever a go-to. Also, Chanel Affinite cream blush. The day Chanel discontinued that formula was a sad day indeed!
Mac sweet as cocoa
Hourglass – Mood Exposure
My go to blush currently is MAC’s Taraji Glow and the blush from the Nutcracker Sweet copper face compact.
My All time go to is Tarte’s Exposed. It is the one I wear if I am in a quandary about what will go with an eyeshadow look
Another that has become one I reach for more than a couple times a week is Tom Ford’s Frantic Pink. When I first saw it in the pan I wasn’t impressed but it is beautiful applied on the cheeks.
For reference I’m an NC15 skin tone. My go-to blushes lately:
Kjaer Weis Cream blush in Embrace
Stila Convertible Color in Peony
NARS Blush in Sex Fantasy
Lately I’ve been wearing MAC Sweet vision or Mac Taraji Glow. They are great winter colours for me. If I’m not wearing one of those two, I’ve been using Mac highly illogical over whatever other blushes I use.
Tom Ford Love Lust. I hit pan last week. I’m thinking about getting a back up. This is by far my favorite blush ever!!!
Clarins Illuminating Cheek Colour in 03 Miami Pink and I like MAC Mineralize blush in Petal Power – my two current faves.
Bobbi Brown – Desert Rose. It’s discontinued and can’t find a dupe but I love it!
So I too rotate between my blush stash.
NARS Unfiltered II – I use all of the shades
NARS Orgasm – powder and Illuminator
NARS Deep Throat
NARS Goulue
NARS Adoration – using less since I picked up Unfiltered
BECCA Beach Tint Soufflé in Fig
BECCA Pamplemouse with Rose Spritz
Hourglass Luminous Flush – using less since I picked up Unfiltered
It Cosmetics Cheek Stain in Radiant in Rose
I received a nice compliment today on it.
Tarte Dollface & Dandelion by Benefit.
Benefit Dallas. I’m trying to Project Pan it as I have a back up. Have hit sizeable pan but it wants to go on forever.
these days i’m either nars exhibit a (when you use a light hand it actially appears even more natural than a pink or peach) or nars madly (my ride or die, “flattering on steroids”)
i’ve been reaching for taj mahal a lot too recently 😛
One of two Laura Geller or a Bobbi Brown shimmer.
ELF Merry Berry and MAC Sweet Samba.
Too faced love flush blush in I will always love you ?
Current go-to! Golden peach with a hint of shimmer.
Milani Luminoso for sure
Mac Persue your passion (le)
For the last few months it’s been Tarte Risqué, I need to rotate that color out and a new one in from my collection.
Pearlescent pink WetnWild and Fantastic Plastic pink! Physicians Formula also.
Tarte Exposed
Well, my go-to is So Susan Jello Shot Lip and Cheek gel in Hangover. I never use it on my lips, but it’s the perfect blush for me – sheer warm red. I get compliments whenever i wear it.
Runner up is, of course, Nars Orgasm. Who doesn’t like that?
But when you ask about go-to’s, I always first think about what I’m currently using. Right now, I’m using a shade from the Rickycare Strobing Kit as blush. This kit has 6 shades and the 2 darkest are my current bronzer and blush. I’m not much of a highlighter fan, so the lighter shades don’t do much for me, except sometimes I use that pale gold as an eyeshadow.
Peony Peach by Malley
Rock & Republic Shameless
When in doubt, I either go for a bronze-like shade or a peachy/coral shade. So I’ve been using a Calvin Klein bronzer palette as a blush. There are two shades (one cream, one powder). For the coral lover in me I reach for Clinique Peach Pop!
Urban Decay Rapture and Hourglass Radiant Magenta! Both have a hint of shimmer/luminosity while still being subtle. Both perk up my fair completion and never look overdone.
My go-to blushes are Nars Douceur, Nars Luster, Tom Ford Frantic Pink and Armani 503
MAC Taraji Glow