Have you ever layered two blushes together? What are some of your favorite combinations?
Kevyn Aucoin’s Starlight is a blush/highlighter on me, but I often use it as a blush and then layer something like Tom Ford Love Lust over it for more color.
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Yes! I especially like to put a little bit of My Pretty Zombie’s LSD blush over a softer pink blush. Makes for a really cool evening look.
My favorite duo is MAC Well Dressed and Immortal Flower! Both apply sheerly so mixed together I get a nice even color.
I always blend my blush into my contour, in a gradient. I also do the same with highlighter. I don’t layer products in order to change color/finish, but for the sole purpose of blending out lines, and transitioning from one product to another.
Once. shu uemura soft mauve and lancome tangerine tint
All the time. I seem to have teflon cheeks, so I have to do a blush stain (Vincent Longo) or cream blush (MAC), with a powder blush on top (Tarte) so it will last all day.
I’ve layered blushes together when that’s how they come, like the Charlotte Tilbury blushes or the new NARS Dual Intensity blushes.
=O Now why haven’t I tried that? I’ve used two different kinds of blushes to kind of sculpt the cheeks before but not an actual layer.
Oh yes yes! I love layering a warm pink and bright orange for custom perfect peachy pink glow! 🙂 Especially with cream formula this works really well!
What are some of your favorite combos, Divya? Thanks!
Yes, I do this once in awhile. Especially if I need to either punch a color up or dim it down a bit once I’ve already applied the first shade. And I also sometimes mix 2 of them together to customize it, too.
Incandescent Electra over Luminous Flush or Incandescent Electra over Mood Exposure. All from the Hourglass blush palette.
Incandescent Electra over MAC Melba. My favorite combo.
Nope, never tried that! I never even thought about it.
If I really want staying power I’ll sometimes use a cream blush over my foundation then use a power blush after I’ve set my foundation. Works wonders when I need my makeup to stay in place all night 🙂
No, never.
I have layer Mac Trace Gold on top of Sincere ad Gingerly for a glow.
I layer powder blush over cream ones for maximum staying powder all the time! I generally pick ones that are similar colors, though, so nothing too exciting really. Like Revlon’s Flushed with a little e.l.f. Pink Passion over the top just so it doesn’t fade over the course of the day.
Kevyn Aucoin creamy glow #4 with Stila convertible in peony. Gives a great tan-peachy glow.
Yes .. my two favs are Mac peaches first, then Milani Luminoso over peaches 🙂
Monica.
Generally no, because I can be heavy handed with one anyway 😀
Lately I’ve been layering Becca Rose Gold pressed SSP over Hard Candy Fox in a Box Smooth Talker and i love it!!
i love layering benefit sugarbomb over clarins instant light blush in coral something 🙂 sadly the clarins one is discontinued 🙁
Yes, always. My favorite is combo is to add NARS’ orgasm over pink or peach blush.
Exactly! 🙂
I’ve layered powdered blush over a similarly colored cream blush for extra staying power. I’ve also layered a lighter shade to tone down one that was too dark or bright.
Oh gosh yes. If I don’t put powder over cream blush I wind up looking like a ghost by the end of the day because it has all evaporated. Once I started doing that, I realized I could be playing with colors more. Every time I mix it’s something new. I can use different blushes to pink up things that are too coral or vice versa. And I have a pinky bronzer that I sometimes use as a blush, but then put a pop of pink right on my cheeks so I don’t look too brown. Layering is fun!
I often layer blushes. I put on a layer of a light neutral blush all over the cheek area and pop it with a brighter shade. I also layer Becca Beach Tint in Grapefruit with NARS Orgasm for an all day and all weather peach cheek.
I layer lipsticks and eyeshadows, but never thought of layering blush.
I usually only do if I get a color on and it’s not quite what I want. I should though because I have a few blushes that are too pink or too bright or too whatever for my taste at the moment and layering them with another might actually help me to get some use out of them again! I use to do it a lot with Nars Penny Lane and something over it when I worked 12 hour shifts. But, now I work from home and Penny Lane is discontinued. So the one Penny Lane which I have remaining I use very seldom because I love that blush even though it barely shows on me..I think the name mane me love it honestly,lol.
yes! sephora’s marsala blush compact, i took the darker shade in the contour & the lighter shade & blended the two. Also for Hourglass blush palette, i mix some of the colors together to get different looks
I just did today! ColourPop Prenup wasn’t enough on its own for me today, so I added a little bit of MAC Whole Lotta Love Pro Longwear.
As I use the NYX Sunkissed mosaic blush palette I swirl all the colours together to create the blush I like. Sometimes I emphasize one colour more than another for the effect.
Always 🙂 Stila convertible color in peony and fushia:)
Often but I couldn’t say which ones because it’s an impulse with me. I also apply cream blush if I’m wearing a liquid/cream foundation and add a powder blush over the finishing powder sometimes.
I like to layer powder blush on top of the cream blush. It makes the cheek color last all day long!
What I always use is a Japanese brand called canmake. Its blushes are all cute colors!
i love putting ethereal glow a tad higher than my normal blush to help highlight or i’ll add rockateur to a matte blush to give it a bit more oomph =]
I love mixing the two matte colors in the NARS holiday 2014 cheek palette. I forget the name of it, maybe ‘virtual domination’…not sure.
I do! And I love it! I’m an artist and I love to use glazing techniques, so I have various blush colors that would be odd on their own, but I’ll overlap them on my face, either completely, or I’ll let the colors peek out at the edges in very sheer, pure tones. I have everything from pale blue to pure yellow. My favorite recent combination is a true orange with a wash of a super-sheer clear purple over the top. I think it makes a much more interesting look then a single color, and the glazing effect approximates the way skin has translucency and a wide variety of colors.
I would add that the combo I mentioned above creates a kind of warm tan color, leaning orange. But because the eye detects the layers without really distinguishing between them, visually it’s much more interesting than the exact same orange-tan color would be if the two pigments were mixed together beforehand.