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theBalm Balm Beach Blush Review, Photos, Swatches

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Balm Beach

theBalm Balm Beach Blush ($21.00 for 0.20 oz.) is a muted, medium pink with strong, warm undertones and a matte finish. It’s the type of color that pairs well with a lot of looks so long as your skin tone is light-medium or fairer (it shows up as a subtle color on my skin tone, and I’m light-medium to medium). I did find that the color darkened just a tad on the skin, but if you are drier, you might get truer-to-pan color.

The consistency was soft, smooth, and slightly firmer in the pan, though it wasn’t too stiff to use. It had good pigmentation, somewhat buildable though never quite opaque, that went on evenly and blended out without issue. On me, the color started to fade after eight hours of wear.

Ingredients

MICA, DIMETHICONE, SYNTHETIC WAX, CAPRYLIC/CAPRIC TRIGLYCERIDE, BORON NITRIDE, PTFE, KAOLIN, SODIUM DEHYDROACETATE, ISOEICOSANE, POLYETHYLENE, SILICA, HYDROGENATED LECITHIN. MAY CONTAIN / PEUT CONTENIR [+/- TITANIUM DIOXIDE (CI 77891), BISMUTH OXYCHLORIDE (CI 77163), IRON OXIDES (CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), CARMINE (CI 75470), MANGANESE VIOLET (CI 77742), RED 7 LAKE (CI 15850)]

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Makeup Look
On face:
  • Guerlain Lingerie de Peau Foundation
  • Laura Mercier Loose Setting Powder
On eyes:
  • LORAC Black Tie Attire Eyeshadow Palette
  • Sephora Black Lace Contour Eye Pencil
On lips:
  • MAC I Get So OOC Lipstick

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Dani Avatar

I love that you reviewed this this week! I have been obsessed with the balm desert bronzer/blush since it came out this summer. It’s my one and done bronzer blush, or I can wear it lightly as a blush. It is so pigmented. A complete HG product for me. I somehow didn’t know about this balm beach blush until I went to go reorder a desert blush. I was super excited because it looks like a perfect flush color. Since it’s winter (I live in utah), I am at my winter white..which is a solid nc20. I have to layer this about 3 times before I get the color I want/need. I was very surprised. I will say, thay once it’s there, it wears for a long time…and I like the finish. I may reorder it because I love the color, but it’s definitely not LOVE like the desert blush.

patty Avatar

The balm desert is an outstanding product. I too ordered it when it came out and got another one. It is HG. The texture is perfect. The color is perfect and unique. It works beautifully. And it doesn’t have talc. It is like a high end product but cheaper and with a better formula (since most high end use talc).

Ginny Avatar

I bought this during a flash sale and I like it. Very easy to wear, looks natural and not powdery. There’s not really anything special about it, it’s just a nice, wearable blush (for lighter skintones).

AB Avatar

I must try this out — I’m quite fair, and warm toned so this could be spot on. I had seen many saying good things about this product and this brand, but it wasn’t until this review that I realized how specifically this particular blush best suited for fairer folks.

CeeBee Avatar

I’ve had this for a few months now and I actually use it quite a bit. It’s one of those goes-with-everything shades that you can’t really mess up and I like to layer different toned highlighters over it for a bit of variety.

It’s not terribly exciting or different but it certainly works for me 🙂

Pami Avatar

I got this online when it first came out. I was hoping it was like my beloved Illamasqua Naked Rose (it’s so hard to tell online), but in a more portable form for my makeup bag, but it’s definitely much warmer and peachier – they’re not even close! I still haven’t tried it. It might surprise me, as that sometimes happens, but probably not. I would have returned it, but I very rarely return anything.

Jade Avatar

I just spied this at the brand new theBalm kiosk at Life Pharmacy today! I instantly jumped on here to compare dupes (great way to delay the purchase and really evaluate if I need it or not!!). I have similar but not very close, think I’ll be getting this one 🙂

andrea Avatar

hi! is it comparable to the Mac melba blush or something special (creamblend)? or they are more comparable to frat boy of the balm?. thanks!

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