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What's your current favorite blush and highlighter combination?
Chanel Jersey & Estee Lauder Modern Mercury.
— Christine
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You saying Chanel reminded me: Chanel’s latest tweed duo blushes aren’t really worth the splurge. I ordered the Cherry Blossom (?) shade and the bright red-pink tweed (the reason I bought it) is just an overspray. The rest of the blush is a pale pink which doesn’t even show up on my Light/Medium skin. I even dug into the powder down to the pan to make sure. I felt so cheated! I hate when brands do that.
Oh ugh ?! Thanks for taking one for the team .. Overspray is hateful!!
Chanel camelia de plume and UD Rapture ?
I’m using Bobbi Brown face&body bronzing duo – the telluride side as blush with hourglass mood light on top and a touch of Looxie ever after for h/l
Nice.
This summer I’ve loved the becca Chrissy palette. I also love Hourglass Mood Exposure with champagne pop over it.
I don’t have a go to since I don’t wear highlighter most days but I have loved Cargo Bali with NYX Duo Chromatic Chromation Highlighter in Twilight Tint and Lancome Blush Subtil in Miel Glace with Milani Baked Blush in Rosa Romantica
I picked Cargo Bali too! I never see Cargo getting love on these boards.
The pink blushes and gold highlighter in Lorac’s Beauty and the Beast blush palette. I think that was the standout of the B&tB release.
Milani Romantic Rose blush with Kat Von D Thunderstruck eyeshadow single!
That reminds me I need to try Thunderstruck as a highlight!
That’s my favorite Milani blush also so beautiful! For highliter also the Milani small roses design highliter so natural it is very light and fine (forget the name and Amber and the next too Lol!). Went crazy. I have all their blushes went crazy for the rose design and baked blushes also except the dark brown. The baked ones gorgeous too!
Fair w/cool undertones:
Blush: Nars Dual Intensity in Adoration (R – hot pink)
H/L: Dior LE Glowing Gardens (now is permanent #02, pink)
They’ve been my ‘current’ favorite combination ever since we all met. They’re a seasonless combination for me. Both are HGs.
Mac pinch me and dose of colors fuego
Dior Rosy Glow and Rose Diamond Shimmer Powder (long discontinued, which is a shame). To tell the truth, I don’t think the Rosy Glow blush needs anything else at all but I decided to dig out that old shimmer powder just for the heck of it a few days ago. It’s very pretty.
It changes weekly, but the revolving highlighters are Laura Mercier Matte Radiance, Estee Lauder Modern Mercury, or MAC Soft and Gentle, Oh Darling or Whisper of Gilt.
Blush: MAC Telling Glow
Highlighter: MAC Pinch Me, which is also a blush but works better as a highlighter for my skin tone.
My most used blush/highlighter duo this spring/summer is the Ciate Glow to Illuminate blushes. I have 3 now and have pretty much worn them non-stop. My favorites are Summer Love and Masquerade. The blush is swirled with highlighter.
That’s my favourite kind Deborah!
Ah, I’ve got 2 combos that I’ve been hitting hard recently! Either: MAC Oh My, Passion with CP Here Kitty Kitty, or Essence Satin Love with DoC Mírame. One or the other on most days.
Essence heat waves blush and Becca blushed copper .
I concur with Deborah’s comment:) Since Ciaté London came up with their Glow to Illuminate blushes, I’ve been using them almost on a daily basis (I have Summer Love and Date Night). As they are swirled with highlighter, no need for a separate one.
In the past couple of weeks I’ve been using the Hello FAB Mango Butter Multi Stick in Rosé. It’s a cream-to-powder that can be used on the lips and the eyelids sa well. It’s a very natural blush with a subtle highlighter. I used it only on my cheeks and I apply it with my fingers.
True, if I use a shimmery blush, I don’t use a highlighter. For ex, Hourglass Mood Exposure. I find that to be a blush and highlighter in one. Those Ciate blushes look nice
Hourglass Mood Exposure is such a gorgeous shade Erica ! I checked it out two weeks ago in Sephora and I have my eyes on it (still debating between the full-size or the mini version). It has a subtle shimmer that I find so flattering. And no need for a separate highlighter, as you said 🙂
You should get it. My daughter and I refer to it as a “miracle blush” bc it seems to be a blush, highlight and contour in one?
I will get it Erica, thank you! It is really a gorgeous, high quality and multifunctional blush 🙂
Not sure the last time I used a single blush without mixing in something else! Right how its:
Chanel Golden Sun….topped with a bit of….Tarte Paaarty (got it as my Sephora bday present and love). I’ve used this every day for the past month at least.
Laura Mercier Matte Radiance in 01 (Not sure why they call it “matte.” Plenty of sheen for me.)
Clinique Heather Pop and MAC Extra Dimension Double Gleam.
Natio Blush and higlighter Sunkissed – all in the one beautiful mosaic peachy shades.
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Tarte Mirage and e.l.f. Baked Highighter in Apricot Glow.
UD Rapture and Looxi Beauty Pandora.
Essence Satin Love with Catrice Champagne Campaign
Glossier Cloud Paint in Puff with either Becca Pearl (liquid) or CP Lunch Money. I love liquid/cream products so much, especially since I stopped wearing foundation. I also just got the Bite Champagne Discovery Set the other day, and I really like the multistick in cashew!
Bobbi Brown Bronzer Natural 1 with either 14 Fluid Sheer or Bronze Goddess Luminous Liquid Bronzer. Also Shiseido Camellia Compact that has everything, blush and highlighter
Cargo Bali Blush and Huda Beauty Mykonos Highlight (from the Summer Solstice palette).
2nd choice (for days when the purply tones of the above aren’t working with the rest of my look: Benefit Galifornia Blush and Maybelline Master Chrome Highlight.
Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Paaarty and Urban Decay Afterglow Highlighter in Sin.
Currently, I’ve not been using highlighter at all!
Urban decay’s X-rated with Tarte’s sunlight skin twinkle.
Milani Luminoso & Becca x Jaclyn Hill Champagne Pop.