Give Me Glow Hey Honey Dream Blush Review & Swatches
Hey Honey
Give Me Glow Hey Honey Dream Blush ($14.00 for 0.34 oz.) is a darker yellow with strong, warm undertones and a matte finish. Too yellow to be orange but quite dark for a yellow as well.
- Opaque pigmentation (use a very light hand!)
- Finely-milled, silky consistency, not powdery nor stiff
- Applied evenly, blended out well
- Long-wearing (8.5 hours)
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
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Formula Overview
$14.00/0.34 oz. - $41.18 Per Ounce
The powder blush formula is supposed to have "extreme color payoff that blends with ease." The brand goes as far as to state that "all is needed is one to two very light dips in your pan."
The blushes were very pigmented with a smooth, finely-milled texture that felt silky, thin but not clingy, and actually blended out quite well. If you're going to have an incredibly opaque formula, blendability is what saves it, and it was especially noticeable (and critical!) given that the finish of the range was matte. Pigmented, matte blushes can be hard to blend without putting on translucent/setting powder underneath, but these blended out well over bare skin as well as on top of foundation.
While pigmentation and opacity can be needed for certain shades to show up on deeper skin tones, these were definitely extremely pigmented as marketed--a very, very little could go a long way and still yield nearly opaque coverage. I would recommend these for people who are comfortable using more pigmented products, tend to layer their blush, or have no issues diffusing and going back in to soften color if necessary.
Most shades in the range lasted around nine hours before it seemed visibly faded with a few shades lasting longer or shorter.
Browse all of our Give Me Glow Dream Blush swatches.
Ingredients
Magnesium Myristate, Nylon-12, Boron Nitride, Kaolin Clay, Talc, Titanium Dioxide, Silica Microspheres, Mica (77019), Copernicia Cerifera (Carnauba) Wax, Zinc Stearate, May +/- Iron Oxides, Red 7, 27, 33, 40, Yellow Lake, 5, 6, Blue Lake 1, Chromium Oxide, Ultramarines, Manganese Violet, Isododecane, Dimethicone, Phenoxyethanol.
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This is an interesting color. It wouldn’t work on my skin tone. These kinds of super opaque blushes are a bit trickier for me to use also.
VERY unique! I kinda like it, which is a bit odd since I doubt that it could or would sit nicely on my neutral olive undertone. Yet, it’s drawing me in.
I brought this blush thinking it would be a good warm toned nude on me. But Unfortunately the color blends in with my skin tone so well it doesn’t really show up. I’ve been using it with my cool toned blushes to warm them up. I found out that adding a yellow blush as a topper can make some of my blushes more warm and wearable for me.
I don’t think I’ve seen a quite such a yellow blush before – and if it works on some skintones, well that’s great for the brand to do.