I love a satin-to-luminous finish, so something that gives a glowing finish but doesn’t look overtly shimmery or sparkly. I find the addition of some finer shimmer ensures that it’s very easy to blend out while allowing for any manner of intense highlighters to be layered on top!
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I’m gravitating to blush/highlight hybrids lately“““““““(my corgi pup, George, standing on my keyboard)
So I prefer a light shimmer finish. I also gravitate to satin and super sheer mattes. I like my cheeks to be subtle but have light playing over them. I frequently layer products.
I have oily skin so I need matte everything as far as face products go. I don’t like any shimmer/glow. It just looks like a mess on my skin type.
I’ve been gravitating more towards a shimmery finish. For some reason the mattes and satins seem too flat on me lately. Adding highlighter on top isn’t the same as using a shimmery blush. Not sure why that is.
My favourite finish used to be MAC’s Sheertone Shimmer – I love the subtle dewiness that finish would bring to my cheeks. I like some of the Mineralize blushes for the same reason – they buffed to a gorgeous sheen. Then along came the Extra Dimension blushes and my heart filled with love for them too. I also very much like Becca’s Luminizing Blush (I have the shade Foxglove and it’s so pretty and flattering). I got it at Winners (part of the TJMaxx consortium in Canada) for a really reduced price but even at full price, it’s a gorgeous blush and were I ever to see Dahlia or Camellia, I’d grab ’em!
I have Camelia and love it. It’s available at Beautylish.
I found Snapdragon at TJ Maxx. I love the finish.
I like matte and satin because my skin is oily already, and even despite that I still want to use highlighter. I don’t want it to be a disco ball all over the place, I guess. ?
I haven’t been wearing foundation lately, so I like cream or creamy hybrid type formulas. When I wear foundation, lately I prefer matte blushes.
Definitely satin finish and skin-like, satiny mattes! Anything too shimmery *can* sometimes make me look greasy because I do still have an oily t-zone. But flat mattes can look too dull and dead, though.
I’m a matte girl all the way. It’s not just th fact that my pores are on the larger size (the kind that are emphasized by any tiny shimmer), I always think mattes flatter me more.
As little as two years ago, I would have answered a soft, pale matte would be my ideal. At some point, and due to a post here on the blog, I purchased Ciate Summer Love and it changed my entire blush life. Now, I much prefer a satin/shimmery blush. I don’t worry too much about pigmentation unless it is so pigmented and doesn’t blend well, to boot. I always swirl off blush on my wrist before going to the cheek as I have made many mistakes applying too much pigment and then having a seriously hard time blending it out. I enjoy every level of shimmer as long as there isn’t discernible glitter. I also love layering blushes to get a really unique effect.
Definitely luminous and satiny, I find that more shimmery blushes will easily start emphasizing the texture on my cheeks! They give such a pretty youthful glow, too.
Fine shimmer (nothing frosty) and duochromes. Though in actual practice, I think I use mattes just as frequently. It all depends on what other makeup I’m wearing.
I love shimmer and super glowy blushes. They make my heart so happy.
I adore duochromes, which means shimmery.