Monday, March 7, 2011

Hot Trend for Spring: Bright blushes (Review and swatches)

Hello my loves! Hope you're all doing well today :)


As seen on many runways, fashion shows depicted future spring makeup trends included bright lips and bright blush. Blush is something I have never really been into for a number of reasons. Ok...that's a lie. I have WANTED blush to work for me and have lusted over it for ages. I would tend to overblend it into my bronzer leaving my face orange. it was not a good look; i ended up wearing just bronzer and highlighter for a long time which is a look I still love and do often. After much trial and error, practicing, and CC I realized that although I still love the just bronzer look, I adore/need the pop of color that blush brings to my face. In an upcoming post, I will show a few blushes I have come to fall in love with, but the one that everyone needs to try and get a hold of is Pout's Apricot Totty.


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The color is a gorgeous bright vivid peach coral with a hint of pink, but definitely on the coral side (vs. pink-coral). It brightens up my face and makes me look healthy, tan, etc. It is such a gorgeous and complex color that I apply with a blush brush (I just use one from Lancome, but it's an ordinary blush brush, not duo fibre stippling blush). It is quite fragile and as you can see, I dropped mine and repressed it (and did an absolutely horrendous job at it LOL) :( I've had this blush for about a year and a half (!) and just started using it now. It lasts all day,as well! :) Although I do not use a skunk (duo-fibre) brush to apply it, I still use a quite light hand with my blush brush and build up the color using that as I can always add more.


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Swatches on my NC25-30 skin:
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What are some of your guys favorite bright blushes?

18 comments:

  1. That blush looks so pretty! My favourite bright blush would probably be MAC's Dollymix, I love it :) xxx

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  2. Looks so pretty!!!!

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  3. yes this is SO pretty! i really want to try some new, briiiight blushes asap!! i have my eye on some pretty MUFE ones!

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  4. thats a purrty pink! I Love MAC springsheen/NARS Orgasm (very similar)

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  5. Beautiful colors!! Great products! Love your blog ;) Following!

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  6. Love that color! Where is Pout sold?

    iplaywithcolors.blogspot.com

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  7. I love that colour!! it looks gorgeous! It would look great with a summer tan! xoxo

    http://www.blushmebeauty.blogspot.com

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  8. Hi Erica! Thank you so much for saying hi on my blog - I really appreciate it :) And wow you look super gorgeous! I think you do an awesome job with your blush/bronzer contouring (from your blog header pic). I really love bronzer. I don't contour I actually just put bronzer on pretty much most parts of my face (hollows, sides of forehead, a bit over the nose, jaw line etc) and blush really helps add some nice warm colour for sure. Right now I have a ton of blushes - nothing from "Pout" as I have not heard of this brand? But MAC Sunbasque works great if I bronze up to a NC35, and if I stay in my normal NC30 range, Cargo blu ray highlighter/blush (discontinued) was a really nice girly pink.

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  9. I LOVE bright blushes, especially in the winter x

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  10. Nice blog, I love blushes and use them everyday. I like your bright blush color a lot I've never heard of it, thanks for sharing. My favorite for years has been Nars in the color Orgasm. :)
    I might have to blog about it because it's a spring trend. Thanks

    -Dale
    www.savvyspice.blogspot.com

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  11. Wow what a lovely color. I picked up a Physicians Formula blush the other day, i made a post about it. It's pretty vibrant and it smells wonderful!

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  12. Love this colour! Perfect for Spring/Summer x

    Bows and Pearls

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  13. One of my favorite bright blushes is from Dior - I can't remember the name though. I only bought it once because it was crazy expensive! Anyway, nice review here. Great blog too x

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  14. I love bright blushes! The one I have now is M.A.C. but I can't remember the exact color, haha. Love it!

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  15. Totally and beyond in love with your blog. It's my new crush. My name's Anna, I'm a stylist and visual merchandiser in LA. I'm 23 years old and moved to California after graduating back in south with a degree in visual merchandiser. I've been lucky enough since moving out here to work with some of LA's most respected designers. I'd love if you visited my new blog for multiple posts a day on all things fashion. I'd love the support. I'm following you, I hope you'll do the same. Thanks so much.

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  16. This is such a lovely colour.. they used to sell pout here but not anymore =(

    Bright blushes are my favourite! I love bobbi brown apricot, MAC her blooming cheek and Sleek Scandalous! =D

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  17. super cute post! love your blog
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