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July 2020 | REDONLINE.CO.UKIs there anything quite so pretty?
Innovative textures breathe life intoa make-up staple. Here’s what to do...
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or sculpting, for brightening
and for general prettifying,
there’s nothing more useful
or more beautiful than blush.
Even the most blush averse
(though there are none of those
on Red’s beauty desk) can get behind
one of summer’s loveliest looks. For
the Hermès S/S 20 show, make-up artist
Dick Page mixed cream blush with satiny
lipstick to create a transparent cheek
polish, blending it out into a lightweight,
peachy sheen. The effect was less
Pre-Raphaelite flush and more outdoorsy
freshness – perfect at a time of year when
many of us like a barer face than usual,
and certainly a less powdered one.
While not custom-blended, the creams,
gels and barely there balms on these
pages are just as sheer as Page’s
see-through patina, and though they
may lack the staying power of powder
blush, they make up for it with gleaming
real-skin finishes, melting in seamlessly
without showing up dryness or fine lines.
Every make-up artist has their signature
trick. Page applies blush with a large
fluffy brush over minimal base (‘keep the
skin as bare as possible, with just a light
wash of foundation or concealer to even
out the tone’, he says). For Kenneth Soh,
a make-up artist known for creating
a covetable soft-focus glow, it’s all about
buffing on blush in two distinct layers:
one underneath and another over the top
of your foundation for a ‘soft, edgeless
finish’. He also prefers a fluffy brush, and
likes to place cream and liquid colours
not high on the apples but a little lower
and further in. ‘Try the lower and inner
parts of the cheeks, closer to the nose
and down towards the sides of mouth.
It’s a ruddiness I associate with healthy,
Scandinavian living,’ he says. MAC
director of make-up artistry Terry Barberwear
cream
blush