Make Up For Ever B316 Artist Face Color (Blush) Review, Photos, Swatches
B316
Make Up For Ever B316 Artist Face Color – Blush ($23.00 for 0.17 oz.) is a bright, medium pinky coral with warm undertones and a mostly matte finish. The matte finish never looked flat or dry on the skin and seemed to look natural but not shimmery or shiny on the skin. It had rich, opaque pigmentation that applied evenly to the skin and blended out with ease. Worth noting, the denser formula tends to accommodate heavier handed folks or moderately dense blush brushes but feathery brushes (like a fan brush) do not pick up product as well and often applies product unevenly. It wore well for nine hours on me before fading slightly.
Overview of the Formula
The formula is supposed to have “intense color payoff” with a “long-lasting finish.” The range is split into three types–Highlighters, Sculpting Powders, and Blushes–that is easy to determine by the first letter of the shade name (H for Highlighter, S for Sculpting, and B for Blush). There are three finishes–matte, shimmer, and pearl but was less obvious. In fact, the majority of the “matte” shades were more like semi-matte or natural matte where there were no distinctive shimmer particles but they seemed to take on the natural finish of the skin, which gave the “mattes” a particularly seamless finish on the skin but might be dewier on oilier skin types than desired. None of the 34 shades available were frosted or metallic except three of the highlighters (H100, H106, H312).
The pigmentation ranged from medium to opaque, depending largely on the shade, though they were always buildable if they were not opaque in a single layer. Some of the deeper, more matte shades were less forgiving and took more effort to diffuse and blend, even when I used a lighter hand or a more feathery brush. The texture was smooth, velvety, and moderately dense without any powderiness or dustiness in the pan. The formula has lasted between eight and ten hours on me.
You can view swatches of all of the blushes, all of the highlighters, and all of the sculpting powders in the Swatch Gallery.
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
Top Dupes
- MAC Painted Canyon (LE, $24.00) is darker (95% similar).
- Anastasia Scorching (PiP, ) is cooler (95% similar).
- Viseart Ablaze (Blush) (PiP, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Zoeva CR010 (P, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Guerlain Coral Blush (LE, ) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Tom Ford Beauty Flush (Discontinued) (DC, $60.00) is less shimmery (95% similar).
- Pat McGrath Electric Bloom (P, $38.00) is less shimmery, warmer (90% similar).
- Chanel Foschia Rosa (430) (P, ) is warmer (95% similar).
- ColourPop Playoffs (LE, $12.00) is less shimmery (90% similar).
- Dior Corail Bagatelle (763) (LE, $43.00) is less shimmery, more muted (90% similar).
Formula Overview
$23.00/0.17 oz. - $135.29 Per Ounce
The formula is supposed to have "intense color payoff" with a "long-lasting finish." The range is split into three types--Highlighters, Sculpting Powders, and Blushes--that is easy to determine by the first letter of the shade name (H for Highlighter, S for Sculpting, and B for Blush).
There are three finishes--matte, shimmer, and pearl but was less obvious. In fact, the majority of the "matte" shades were more like semi-matte or natural matte where there were no distinctive shimmer particles but they seemed to take on the natural finish of the skin, which gave the "mattes" a particularly seamless finish on the skin but might be dewier on oilier skin types than desired. None of the 34 shades available were frosted or metallic except three of the highlighters (H100, H106, H312).
The pigmentation ranged from medium to opaque, depending largely on the shade, though they were always buildable if they were not opaque in a single layer. Some of the deeper, more matte shades were less forgiving and took more effort to diffuse and blend, even when I used a lighter hand or a more feathery brush. The texture was smooth, velvety, and moderately dense without any powderiness or dustiness in the pan. The formula has lasted between eight and ten hours on me.
Browse all of our Make Up For Ever Artist Face Color - Blush swatches.
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Oh, I love this!!! I’m going to need all of the shades!!
Yay!
I love it! I have Pinched. I need to put it back into rotation.
You definitely should!
This one is on my IMATS wish list. 😉
Woohoo 🙂
Pretty!
It is!
Will B316 be part of my trio I’m mentally putting together? There is a pretty good chance it will, since getting another Nyx Pinched might prove very difficult. Mine is ancient and has areas of “hard pan”, so…
Keep us posted on what your trio ends up being!
Wow, that is bright and pigmented!
It is! 🙂
What brush do you like to use with this?
I cycle through about dozens of cheek brushes – there’s no particular one that I use with them, just opt for a more standard blush brush, nothing feathery like a fan brush.
That’s a lovely shade!
Love this shade! I think I’m going to start with the scultping shades and add a few bronzing shades along!