Lover of All Things Beauty
This comes in a nice outer product box. It is made in Italy. Ingredients are listed on it. It is cruelty free (leaping bunny certified), gluten free, and vegan.
It’s in a really nice tube. Its thick plastic tube with a clear frosted bottom and a white top. It has a nice look and feel to it. Doesn’t feel or look “cheap” at all.
Being a “dewy” blush, I honestly wasn’t expecting it to be too pigmented. Boy was I wrong! First, the doefoot applicator is one of those chubby ones. So, it picks up quite a lot of product when taking it out of the tube. I did 1 dot of it on my arm to take a photo for a swatch and swiped it with my finger and used what was left on my finger to blend out some to show the color more sheered out. I was able to do all that with just 1 TINY dot from the applicator!
I got the shade “Inner Glow,” which was described as “pink.” It looked like a neutral possibly neutral leaning cool toned pink. I’m very fair with very cool undertone and muted skin. It’s hard to find good blush shades that work well with my cool toned skin. Anything with even a little warmth will look even warmer on my very cool toned skin. With pinks, that usually means they’ll end up looking anywhere from peach to orange to red (depending how much warmth they have). This definitely ends up leaning SLIGHTLY warm, but not too warm where it turned into a peach, orange, or red on me. It looks like a true pink when applied, just a slightly warm toned pink. I wish it didn’t have the warmth it has, but I still really like it.
For use, this says “for a natural look” to apply a small dot on the back of your hand using to doefoot applicator. Then apply it to your cheeks using brush/sponge/fingers building up the color to desired pigment. I always usually apply some to the back of my hand and pick it up with my brush, disperse the product evenly on my brush, then apply it to my cheeks. It’s always been the best way for me to apply it and have more control on how much I apply and it always seems to blend out better. But, most brands suggest applying it directly onto the face using the doefoot applicator. So I was surprised when I read the use instructions for this and it actually said to apply it to the back of your hand. I liked they said that. It’s definitely the way to go with this in my opinion! At least until you figure out exactly how much you like to apply.
This blends out really easily. Being dewy, I was a little worried it would lift my foundation up some. But, I didn’t have that issue at all. It also applied over my set foundation really well (I don’t set it with powder, but I do let it dry down before applying blush to try to cut down on my foundation being lifted when applying a liquid blush). For testing purposes, I did also try this after applying powder to set my face and it worked really well on top of powder as well!
It builds up easily too. It’s really pigmented so I don’t need much. But, it’s easy to get a natural look like they said when picking the product up from the back of my hand. If you want it to be even more “natural” looking and are worried about it being too pigmented, you can use a damp sponge instead of a brush or apply it with a brush and then go over it with a damp sponge to lessen it if you feel like it’s too much, but I found I never needed to do that with this blush. I was able to get good pigment where it showed nicely without looking like it was too much. It spreads out and blends in well, so even though it seems really pigmented at first, it’s really easy to work with!
This has really great lasting power. It stayed all day long without fading much. I still saw it at the end of the day when I went to remove my makeup!
I really like this! The formula is beautiful. It feels like a high end formula, and it should for the price! I thought it was pretty pricey when I first saw it, especially because I never heard of the brand and I’m a BIG makeup lover so I know a lot of the more known and not-so-well-known brands. But, it’s made in Italy (where a lot of higher quality makeup products are made). It has good ingredients. It has nice packaging. A little goes a LONG way so this will last a while! I hope they come out with more color options that will work for my cool toned skin. I’d definitely pick them up (like a lavender or purple!). If you’re looking for a high quality, easy to work with liquid blush, I’d recommend this!
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