How many cheek products do you use in a look (on average)? Just one? Three? More than a handful?
I usually use two — a blush and highlight!
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I use two as well: blush and contour with bronzer.
I use two as well – a cream and a powder blush!
Me too! Once in awhile, I’ll throw in highlighter.
i’d say 1.5 – usually it’s 1, but occasionally i get excited and use 2 🙂
Three! I use bronzer to contour (Smooth Harmony from MAC Heatherette), blush (Love Joy- Nars), and a highlight (Albatross – NARS). I can’t leave the house with bare cheeks anymore!
I usually start with the Dame blush by MAC, and end up adding some Clinique posy blush to it, because it always seems too pale ;).
3: a peach blush, a rosey blush and a clinique blush in aglow I use as a highlight
3 usually blush, contour & highlight. My current favorites are Her Own Devices for contour, Sweet Joy eyeshadow for highlight & Bite of an Apple for Blush
3 -a bronzer (for contouring),a blush and a highlight …but sometimes 2 only (a blush and a highlighter)
I usually use a blush only but sometimes I add contouring powder too. I rarely use a highlighter.
Just one for me!
highlighter, contour powder, Base blush, and another color for apples of my cheek.
me too! sometimes I will skip the “apple of cheek” blush, though. But I always contour.
I usually use 3 a cream blush a powder blush and a highlight
I seldom use cheek products – only a bit of powder blush sometimes
I try to use three. Bronzer, Blush and a Highlight. My NC30 skin looks it’s best with this combination. Sometimes if I’m in a hurry I just throw on MAC Coppertone, Gingerly or Trace Gold Blush and it takes care of the pale face syndrome 😉
I use two too! 😀 A powder blush and a bronzer! 😀
Usually three, a blush and bronzer and also a high lighter.
3 – a bronzer, a highlight and a blush.
Mainly blush. I will apply a contour powder when I have time.
All i need is blush & a highlighter 🙂
Just One – Blush. 🙂
usually one or two. at the most three. sometimes just a blush, usually a blush and a highlight. three would be two different blushes, a darker and a lighter one, and a highlight.
I have just started using my By Candlelight MSF or Trace Gold Blush as a highlight over my blush and it just looks so lovely!
two maximum. bronzer and blush or highlight and blush or cheekstain and blush on top. if its one, its usually benefit’s dandelion, or MAC’s softdew beaty powder seeing as its bronzer and blush.
Always two- highlighter and blush!
Usually two, a contour and a blush or bronzer.
Hmmm usually between 2-3. A bronzer for contour, blush and a MSF on top of blush.
I usually use only one blush, but sometimes I use two..I haven’t tried a highlighter yet!!
Usually two, a contour (or bronze, depending on the day) and a blush (peachy pink).
I don’t highlight, ’cause I haven’t found the way I like it on me…
It depends – if I use cream blush, then I usually put powder blush on top, plus a highlighter. Sometime I even top that off with a MSF ;)So I’d say, usually 2-4 cheek products in one look 🙂
I usually use 2 blushes and a contour color, so that’s 3. Sometimes I’ll use 1 blush and 1 highlighter. I absolutely love layering blushes, I think it gives a lot of dimension to the face.
Usually two (blush and highlight), but it depends on the blush, if it’s shimmery, then I don’t highlight as well.
I use one, but it’s a duo. So I guess it’s the equivalent of two!
Usually around just one product and thats a blush. If I feel like it sometimes I would use a highlight and a contour
two: bronzer all over my cheeks and blush on the apples
for special occasions i’ll also use a highlight and a contouring powder
For everyday, minimal makeup, I’ll usually just swipe on some blush. When I feel like making an effort, I use a blush or two and a highlighter like Benefit High Beam, and if photography is going to be involved I add a contour shade. Right now I’m loving Oh So Fair and Bite of an Apple from VV used together, it looks so fresh and healthy!
I like to use 2, a blush and highlight, but with my rosacea, sometimes I am afraid to put on a blush. I don’t want to look like I am wearing too much blush halfway through the day. I need to find a better solution…I love blush!!
two: a blush and a contour. rarely an highlight.
If I’m in à hurry (which I usually am), just blush:-)
same here BLUSH & HIGHLIGHT 🙂
Day wear/ office work : only blush MAC Gingerly/Margin
Party/Night outs: Blush wit Highlighter Dior Amber Diamonds 🙂
Hey Christine..wats diff between Chanel Rouge Coco and Rouge Allure lipsticks…im looking fr the more moisturising formula among the two.Thanx.
I have started using three recently… a highlight and two blush colours.
Usually three: Bronzer / contouring, blush and highlighting. In special ocassions separate bronzer and contouring with different products, and when I´m hurry, only NARS the multiple in South beach at the cheekbone
I only use one: blush!
only blush, but i recently found a sculpting powder suitable for my fair skin, so i think i’m going to use it also 🙂
Ooh, what is it? I’m pale too and bronzers/sculptors usually just make my face look dirty!
which are the one you use for your lip swatch photos Christine? those are amazing
Three! Bronzer, blush and highlight.
0-1 but highliter makes my face look plumper than it already is and I am generally ruddy. 1 cream blush is all i normally need unless i am going out dancing or something where I want to look crazy.
It really depends on my mood of the day. Most of the time I would say none! lol but as I have to use two mac product that I hate when I am in the mood for it I use two: Mac Fleur Power blush and my mineralize skin finish natural in Dark (two dark and two orange) on top so the blush appears more natural.
nowadays i use three: blush, contour and highlight!
2 just like you: a blush and a highlighter!
Same as you…two…a blush and highlighter.In Summer,though,I usually add bronzer.
I usually only use one: a blush or a MSF
I always wear bronzer and a blush, but sometimes I’ll mix 2 blushes
Three : Main colour, highlighter and shading/bronzing
benefit georgia for all over, benefit dandelion on the apple of the cheeks, benefit hoola/ 10 for contour, bobbi brown pink blush (from denim & rose pallete) on top dandelion & sometimes top it off with benefit 10 highlighter. i do this almost every single time.. everything in moderation is key. lol
I use two, a blush and lightly contour with a bronzer
Just one, any of my 3 MAC blushes. I need to buy myself a nice highlighter.
3. Blush, highlight and contour bronzer.
Wow, answering this I realise how much I use! A contour, a cream blush, a powder blush over the top, and a highlight. phew!
I use Mac Refined Golden bronzed and whatever blush of my choosing that day 🙂
It depends on my mood; I always contour and after that is highlight. I always have a “natural flush” on my cheeks so I don’t feel the need for blush… in fact, I try to cover it up more.
Normally just blush. I don’t have a highlighter, bronzer or anything.
usually three: two blushes (I use the darker one to sculpt and the lighter one on the cheekbones + for blending out the darker) and a highlighter
I use 3 products, contouring powder/bronzer, blush & highlight… But I don’t do contouring every day.
I usually use three; a pale blush across my entire cheekbone, a highlighter, and then either a darker color to contour or a brighter color on the apples of my cheek 🙂
Usually just two, blush and a highlighter but I do like to layer blusher so sometimes three! Four if I can be bothered with bronzer!
I usually only use a highlight, Since I have naturally rosey cheeks.
One or none. 😀
I have quite rosy cheeks and lips naturally, so if I do use blush it’s a very neutral-y pink shade. Anything more than that and I look awkward.
If it’s a special occasion I’ll also highlight and contour, but that rarely happens…./:
2, blush and highlighter
Just one. But now I am not really using blush anymore but just a luminizer…
two! blush is the first, second is either highlight or bronzer
I use one! Just a blush.
Two, A blush and a shimmery highlighter/bronzer 🙂
Haha I use so many: at least two (2) blush colours, bronzer, contour, and a highlight!
Just one!
just two for me! a blush and a bronzer. i’ve been wearing my MAC sun & moon mineralize blush pretty much everyday. and my bronzer of choice is NYC’s bronzer in sunny.
I have been using 3-4 products I use the blush from curella de vil in vv as a contour and a blush for colour and then Petticoat as a highlight. Someone u want more shimmer and I put a cream bronzer from the to the beach collection. o^_^o
3 – blush, contour and a highlight. Sometimes 4 if I use two blushes.
I use two. Blush with a bronze as a contour
3 blush, contour & highlight
I use 4! I’ll use bronzer to contour, a natural pink blush for all over my cheeks, a berry blush for the apples of my cheeks, then lastly I use highlight powder.
2. Blush and bronzer.
Usually I only use blush.
I use a highlighter only for the big events and going-outs, and a blush in a contouring color only in the summer.
On a daily basis just blush. I was using a highlight regularly for awhile then I just got out of the habit of it.
& I only contour on special occasions. I love how all 3 look I just don’t feel the need to do it daily.
Every day I only use blush but when I feel a bit down I use an highlighter…always makes me look better!
Two normally, a blush and a highlight but if im going out at night i’ll bring it up a notch and use 3, contour, blush, and highlight.
Just one. I’d admit it – am too lazy =)
a blush, highlight and contour
Usually just a blush but if I feel like it or on a special occassion then I would add a highlight.
1 (blush). I don’t use a highlight with blush very often…sometimes I just use my highlighter as blush for a more natural look. I don’t really bronze or contour either anymore because I’m lazy 😀
I’d have to say 2.. either mouse blush and powder blush or mouse blush and bronzer.
Mostly just one. Occasionally I add highlighter and contour.
First I put on theBalm’s Mary Lou Manizer, which is a champagne colored luminizer. Then I put a blush on top, usually NARS Deep Throat, MAC Well Dressed or Clinique Aglow depending on the day
I hava too many blushes I love blushes and I think its very important for a good look