The blush craze continues with these versatile blushes featuring a hybrid texture (half-cream, half-powder) that can be applied to bare skin or over makeup. So easy to use, they don’t cake and often offer a blurring effect as an added bonus (this spring’s biggest makeup trend). They’re available at both specialty stores and mass-market retailers.
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Estée Lauder was undoubtedly one of the first to offer these effortless blushes with a hybrid texture—somewhere between powder and cream—that glide on so easily. This is also true of its new refillable Sculpting Powder Blush (€57, seven new shades), designed for mature skin, which doesn’t smudge, doesn’t settle into fine lines, and offers a smooth, blurred finish thanks to soft-focus powders.
Its buildable shade delivers an irresistible glow from morning to night (12-hour wear). Enriched with limnanthes seed oil, red raspberry seed oil, and apricot kernel oil, the formula melts into the skin, offering an instant blur effect.
The result is ultra-natural, even, and comfortable. Very easy to use, the creamy powder texture glides on with the comfort of a cream and the simplicity of a powder, for flawless application.
Another “cloud-like” blush with an ultra-soft feel that transforms into an airy powder: Cloud Paint Plush Blush by Glossier (6 g, €29.90).
Easy to blend and build up as desired, it can be applied with your finger or a brush. Its innovative texture delivers a soft, matte finish that’s buildable and long-lasting, while minimizing the appearance of pores.
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