"Had something in my eye and went to bathroom to see what it was," said MontyC on yesterday's Blather. But when she got there, she was in for a little bit of a shock: "all I could see was how RIDICULOUS my blusher looks!," she wailed, adding "I just stood there thinking ‘I sat through a meeting looking like THIS?!'"
Oops!
Glamazon sympathised with her plight. "Have you ever noticed that blush is the worst thing to get wrong as you can’t correct it?" But I think I may know how. And I know this because I frequently wear waaaaay too much blusher. It's BAA time, girls - Blusher Abusers Anonymous.
I loves it, y'see. It's so pretty and uplifting and nice and I just can't resist. I am especially adoring Benefit's Coralista at the moment. Oh wowee zowee, (yes I am a Pavement fan), this is norjus. It's orange, it's sparkly, it buffs on oh-so-easily and it even smells good. I amazed myself with my love for it, but there you go - beauty is endlessly absorbing. As are my cheekbones, if my liberal application methods are anything to go by, so I had to develop some tone-it-down strategies.
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I've got two. Want to know what they are? Check after the cut!
- Powder is your friend. Swish a fat, soft powder brush into some loose powder and tap off the excess well, so that there's barely anything on the brush. Now, take it to your cheeks and semi-firmly buff it over the excess blusher. This tones it down a little and blends it out onto the cheeks, so it's not so in-yer-face, and tends to work well to take down powder blush.
- If you've used a cream blush, my fix is to pump a little foundation onto the back of my hand, run my MAC 187 through it and then lightly swirl on my cheeks with a light circular motion. The small bit of coverage you get is enough to take the hookerish edge off your cheeks, without caking your makeup.
Anyone else got any blusher-reduction tips? Dish in a comment!
