03-05-2025
Vanity Fare: Get a beautiful, warm glow with these blush products
A blush can help enhance your complexion, sculpt the face, and bring a radiant, natural flush to complete any look. Photo: Anastasia Beverly Hills
Blushes are the ultimate multitaskers in your makeup kit – sculpting, brightening, and bringing instant life to your complexion with just a few swipes.
Whether you're after a healthy glow or a just a tiny hint of colour, the right blush can elevate your entire look and tie your makeup together effortlessly.
A vibrant effect
Anastasia Beverly Hills' Blurring Serum Blush is a serum-enriched, hydrating liquid blush with a blurring, soft-matte finish.
Enriched with niacinamide and pomegranate peels extract, it delivers buildable vibrant colour in a gel-like texture that grips to the skin, creating a 'flushed-from-within' effect.
Ideal for all skin types, it is available in five naturally-flattering shades.
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Natural matte finish
Rare Beauty's Soft Pinch Matte Bouncy Blush is a bouncy, buildable putty that blends like cream and blurs like powder.
It gives the cheeks an airy, cloud-like flush with a weightless, natural matte finish that won't settle into creases, emphasise skin texture or dry you out.
Enriched with cacao seed and a nourishing blend of pomegranate, papaya seed and rose hip oils to keep skin hydrated, it is available in seven shades.
Dreamy flush
Huda Beauty's Blush Filter Liquid Blush collection adds three new vibrant hues: Bubble Gum, Sunset Lychee and Intense Guava, all designed to give your skin a dreamy, flushed look.
Lightweight and easy to apply, the product is buildable and blendable, giving your skin a soft-focus, 'filter without the filter' finish.
Apply three small dots onto targeted areas using the peanut-shaped doe-foot applicator and blend with fingertips for a natural, airbrushed finish.
Hydrating and dewy
Patrick Ta's Major Headlines Double-Take Creme & Powder Blush is a compact with two complementary blush formulas that give you full, bold colour.
A pigmented, weightless powder is paired with a hydrating dewy cream designed to layer together for a bold, dimensional finish.
To use, apply the powder blush onto the apples of your cheeks and then layer the creme over the powder to add radiance to your skin.
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Seamless, natural look
Maybelline's Sunkisser Highlighter Blush is a multi-use product that can be applied as a blush, highlighter or bronzer.
Available in seven shades, this ultra-buildable and highly pigmented formula is meant to help you achieve a seamless, natural look.
Infused with vitamin E, it keeps your skin moisturised and radiant and its plush dot applicator applies just the right amount of product, allowing you to build and blend to perfection.
Use one shade for a soft glow or mix and match different shades to create dimensional makeup looks.
