Price: $7.99 * Buy At: Walgreens * Size: 0.12 oz / 3.5 g The Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso (05) is a light peach blush with a golden sheen. The Baked Blushes come in a gold compact with a clear lid. The compacts open on the top and bottom. The top of the compact holds the blush and the bottom has a mirror and small brush. The blush is dome shaped, since it's a baked product. Luminoso has a slightly dry texture, but the product is still very smooth. It is very pigmented and looks absolutely beautiful on the cheeks. Luminoso just makes the cheeks look healthy and glowing, great for the warmer months, but it would still work year round. XOX ♥
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Price: $2.49 * Buy At: Kmart * Size: 2.2 g / 0.8 oz The Jordana Touch of Pink Blush (18) Powder is a warm pink with a matte finish. The Jordana Blush Powders come in a circular, plastic package with a clear screw on lid. I absolutely love the formula of these Jordana blushes. They are extremely soft, smooth and buttery, making them very easy to apply and to blend out. In addition to the great formula, they also have amazing pigmentation and don't need to be built up at all. Touch of Pink is a perfect color to give the cheeks a healthy, natural look and I think it would work during all seasons. XOX ♥
Price: $2.49 * Buy At: Kmart * Size: 2.2 g / 0.08 oz The Jordana Blush Powder in Blushing Rose (37) is a mauve with subtle golden shimmer. The Jordana Blushes come in a round compact with a clear, screw on lid. I was blown away by the quality of Blushing Rose. It has a soft, silky texture in addition to amazing pigmentation. The color doesn't have to be built up at all, in fact I have to sheer it out a little to work with my light skin tone. To make this blush even better, it blends out so easily! While this kind of mauve color isn't typically popular in the summer, I think that it looks gorgeous on the cheeks anytime of year. I really suggest this line of blushes to anyone, especially since they are so inexpensive. XOX ♥
Price: $15 * Buy At: Sephora * Size: 3 x 3 g / 0.11 oz The Sephora Collection Bronzed and Blushing Face Palette is a sleek 3 pan cheek palette featuring one matte bronzer and two matte blushes. This trio comes with a medium warm-toned bronzer (Los Cabos), a light cool toned pink blush (Blushing Pink) and a darker warm coral blush (Coral Punch). Due to the nature of the colors, I think this palette is best fit for fair to medium skin. While the coral would work on many skin tones, the bronzer may even be too light on some medium skin tones and the light pink probably would not flatter darker skin. The pigmentation is equal throughout the shades, which is nice to see in a palette. The bronzer and light pink blush blend very easily, but the coral does take a bit more effort to blend into the skin. The packaging is quite sleek and slim, making it perfect for traveling. I had originally thought that the colors weren't very unique, but after searching my stash of blushes, I did not find a dupe for any of the colors. Los Cabos is similar to the popular NYC Sunny Bronzer, but the NYC bronzer has much more of a red tone. XOX ♥
Price: $6.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 6.5 g / 0.23 oz The Nyx Baked Blush in Solstice is a shimmery peachy bronze baked blush. The product has a domed shape and is in a square, black package with a see through lid. I was blown away by how much I liked this product. Solstice has amazing pigmentation, possibly even better than many high end blushes. It also blends very easily into the skin to give a natural look to the cheeks. While Solstice looks shimmery in the pan, it doesn't really transfer to the cheeks, giving sort of a satin finish. With the great pigmentation and blendibility, Solstice can also work as a crease color for the eyes. I think the color of the blush is unique because it can work as a cheek color or as a bronzer. Solstice had a pretty nice wear, lasting 5 hours or more, still very visible on the skin. XOX ♥
Price: $18 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 5 g / 0.18 oz The Pop Beauty Blush Beam in Bare Beam is a shimmery highlighting blush made of five different shades. The first shade is a light neutral pink, the second shade is an orange, the third shade is a peach, the fourth shade is a peachy pink, and the last shade is a champagne. The texture of the product is pretty smooth, and the color glides onto the skin easily. All of the colors are quite shimmery, but I do not experience too much fall out. I think that only a few of the colors in the Blush Beam could work as a blush, but the way that each color is in a small strip, it's difficult to just pick up that one color. You could pick up one color with a small highlighting brush, but I would typically just swirl all of the colors together with a blush brush. When mixed all together, Bare Beam gives a subtle peachy glow that would be great to give the skin a dewy look for spring or for summer. (The rightmost swatch in the photos is all of the shades blended together) You could also easily use this product for eyeshadows as well, since eye brushes would fit nicely in the small strips of color. Any of these shades would make a pretty, shiny lid color. XOX ♥
Price: $25 * Buy At: Sephora * Size: Shadows 11 x 5.44 g / 0.19 oz, Bronzer 3.12 g / 0.11 oz & Blush 1.5 g / 0.053 oz The Too Faced Candy Bar Pop-Out Makeup Palette is an iPhone sized palette that consists of 11 shadows, a bronzer and a blush. The palette comes in an adorable chocolate bar phone case, that fits the iPhone 5. Overall, this palette is just okay. The shadows have average pigmentation and do need to be built up a little. The two large shadows have a better formula in my opinion than the nine little shadows. You could get a complete look out of the shadow options, but there isn't a completely matte brown to use in the crease. The biggest let down of the shadows was the sage green which was still sheer even after being built up a lot. Another downside to this palette is that the small shadows are quite small and can be difficult to get your brush in. The blush has pretty good pigmentation, but the bronzer is absolutely awful. It is so dry and hard and it took so much layering to even get the barely-there swatch in the photos. Honestly, the phone case is my favorite part. Although the hard, snap on case will not protect the phone at all, it's absolutely adorable! I would also like to point out that unlike Too Faced's Chocolate Bar Palette, this one unfortunately does not smell like chocolate. XOX ♥
Price: $15.50 * Buy At: Cosmetic Company Outlet * Size: 0.21 oz The MAC Powder Blush in Cream Soda is a light peachy apricot blush with a satin finish. This blush was limited edition and came out in MAC's Archie's Girls Collection for Spring 2013. I just bought this, and since my local Cosmetic Company Outlet store had this, I'm sure other ones do to! The MAC Powder Blush in Cream Soda comes in a durable, white plastic compact with an Archie's Girls picture on the front. Some people think the packaging is cute, but I'm not really a fan of comics. The blush has a very smooth, soft texture and applies very nicely to the skin. Cream Soda is very pigmented and a lot of product comes off on a brush. Being a satin finish, it does have a little bit of sheen, but it looks pretty matte on the cheeks. Due to the light color, I would only suggest Cream Soda to fair to medium skin tones. I don't feel that it would show up very well on darker skin. XOX ♥
Price: $7.99 * Buy At: Ulta * Size: 6.5 g / 0.23 oz The Nyx Baked Blush in Sugar Mama is a light apricot blush with visible shimmer. The Baked Blushes come in a square package with a clear lid. The blush is baked, so it has a domed shape. Sugar Mama is very pigmented and a lot of product comes off on your brush when you dip it in. I don't typically like shimmer in my blush, but I think that the shimmer in Sugar Mama is subtle enough, and it gives more of a glow than sparkle on the cheeks. Since this color is on the lighter side, I would suggest this color for people with lighter skin. Sugar Mama is easy to blend and lasts most of the day on my skin, with or without foundation underneath. XOX ♥
Price: $5 * Buy At: Nyx Website HERE * Size: 4 g / 0.14 oz The Nyx Powder Blush in Coral Dream is a warm pink blush with a matte finish. Coral Dream is a new shade to the powder blush collection. Coral Dream is pretty pigmented, so I think it could work on all kinds of skin tones. Since I am pretty fair, I like to apply this blush with a fluffy brush that isn't super dense. Coral Dream does blend out pretty nicely, but it does take a little bit of work. It applies evenly and doesn't look patchy on the cheeks. The wear of Coral Dream will depend on your skin type. I have dry/combo skin and use a setting spray and Coral Dream lasts on my cheeks most of the day. XOX ♥
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