Your Guide to Skincare, Makeup & Essentials
Blush for deep skin tones has a reputation problem, and it’s not really the fault of deep skin. It’s the fault of formulas that were never built with enough pigment to survive contact with rich melanin in the first place. A blush for deep skin tones is a cheek color formulated with high pigment concentration … Read more
Here’s a confession every fair-skinned person has made at least once: you swipe on a blush that looked perfectly innocent in the compact, and thirty seconds later you’re staring at a mirror wondering if you got slapped. That’s the thing about blush for fair skin tones — the margin for error is razor-thin. A shade … Read more
Here’s the cruel irony of oily skin: the same glands that make your T-zone look like a glazed donut by 2 p.m. also chew through blush faster than anything else in your makeup bag. You sweep on a gorgeous flush at 8 a.m., and by lunch it’s slid south, gone patchy, or vanished into a … Read more
Here’s a confession: I used to think blush was blush. Swipe some color, call it a day. Then I hit my forties and watched a powder formula I’d worn for a decade suddenly cling to every line around my cheekbones like it was trying to map my age for the world to see. That’s the … Read more