Sephora Shame on You Colorful Blush Review & Swatches
Shame on You
Sephora Shame on You Colorful Blush ($14.00 for 0.12 oz.) is a light-medium pink with strong, warm yellow undertones and a flat, matte finish.
- Semi-sheer, buildable coverage
- Drier, almost chalky-feel, firmer in the pan
- Picked up decently with a brush, blended out without much effort
- Looked flatter/slightly dry on skin
- Prone to fading (six hours of good wear, faded faster than typical for powder blushes)
FURTHER READING: Formula Overview for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
Top Dupes
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Formula Overview
$14.00/0.12 oz. - $116.67 Per Ounce
The formula is supposed to have a "superfine texture" with "buildable" coverage that is available in both matte and shimmer finishes. The consistency was thinner and almost chalk-like compared to the prior formula, and while I think it applied and looked better on my skin than it looked, the matte shades were quite flat on skin and would benefit from an additional product to breathe life back into the skin.
The pigmentation ranged from shade to shade but was typically medium and buildable, which was reinforced by the texture itself being a bit firmer overall. I tested eight of the 13 shades I purchased for wear, and they lasted six to seven hours on me, which is shorter than typical for powder blush on my normal-to-dry skin. I would describe the wear as more prone to fading, and they seemed to disappear faster than most blushes (even as they did fade evenly).
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Ingredients
Mica, Kaolin, CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide), Calcium Carbonate, Zinc Stearate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Boron Nitride, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Wax, CI 77491 (Iron Oxides), Magnesium Myristate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, C13-15 Alkane, Lauroyl Lysine, Aluminum Hydroxide, Ethylhexylglycerin, CI 77499 (Iron Oxides), CI 15850 (Red 7 Lake), Sorbic Acid, Tocopherol, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Tin Oxide, CI 15850 (Red 7), CI 19140 (Yellow 5 Lake), CI 42090 (Blue 1 Lake), CI 77007 (Ultramarines), CI 77492 (Iron Oxides), CI 77742 (Manganese Violet).
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Love this shade, but not that “dry, dusty” finish. Although it may potentially work on my combination skin, I’ll use a dupe that I believe is in my Nars Afterglow Blush palette instead.
Considering how powdery you described it, it looks really nice on your cheeks, Christine. I find this an easy pass. I have been haunting older posts looking for blushes that I have wanted and forgotten about. I just watched a video where the influencer used Chanel’s LE Fantesie De Chanel Illumination Powder. I didn’t realize it was LE until I started looking for it. I found it and read your review. I am so stinking close to paying the exhorbitent price to get it on the secondary market. It looks so beautiful. I am on a hunt to find a really good dupe and have the list of those you provided. If I can’t find one I like I feel I will be shelling out the money!!
It’s the ‘dry and dusty’ that gets me in this series of blushes. They even look that way in the pan.