Clinique Cheek Pop Archives

To me blush is all about making the rest of the face brighter and fresher. I’ve had my fair share of experimenting with blush colours, from baby pink to bright neon pink to purple, to name a few. But my favourite shade of all has got to be a peach blush. For me, peach is more flattering than the pinks that most of us wear out of habit. It warms up your skin, giving it more life, and also counteracts greyness to brighten up dull tired complexion. Needless to say I have quite a collection of peachy, coral blushes that I love to wear throughout the year.

I’ll start with my recent purchase, which is Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso. It is a gorgeous coral peach tone with a hint of shimmer, which I absolutely adore because it gives a slightly strobing effect and makes your cheeks appear fuller and your face instantly brightened. The shade is so flattering and together with the shimmer gives your face an appearance of a beautiful glow from within. Luminoso is what I’ve been wearing every single day for the past 2 weeks and completely obsessed with (I might do a separate review on this soon so watch this space!)

Clinique Cheek Blush Pop in Melon Pop is what I tend to gravitate towards on days that I want to do a quick and natural looking makeup. It is a melon peach tone, which goes on quite sheer but you can build it up to the intensity that you want. I love that it looks almost like your naturally flushed cheek, very natural and flattering (I did a full review on this in my previous post).

Having quite a dry skin, there are days when a cream blush feels more comfortable to wear and sits better on my skin. My current two favourites in the peach tone are Benefit Majorette Cream Blush and Becca Beach Tint in Grapefruit. I’m sure we are all familiar with Benefit Majorette, which was very popular when it first launched last year. It’s an orange peach tone and has a cream to powder texture that leaves a gorgeous satin finish to the skin. The colour is a real pick me up shade that immediately brightens your face and complexion not to mention it has a nice fruity scent that makes it even more pleasant to use. Becca Beach Tint in Grapefruit is a cream blush that you dispense from a tube and has quite a sheer finish but again you can definitely build up the colour to the intensity you need. I always prefer a sheer finish in a blush because that means I am in control of how much blush I apply. The colour is a really flattering apricot peach and again really does a great job in brighten up your complexion.

What is your favourite shade of blush to wear?

A few posts back I talked about my struggle to keep things looking au naturel in the blush department (here). I think almost all of us are somewhat guilty of applying too much blush. It is a kind of double-edge beauty sword; on the one hand a blusher is the most effective way to brighten up a dull face, but applying too much on the other hand, can make you look like a makeup rookie. So it helps when there is a product that gives you a natural, beautiful, believable flush, and saving you from making that embarrassing beauty faux pas.

Clinique Cheek Pop Blush Pop in 08 Melon Pop is my current favourite go-to for a fresh, brightening, natural summer look. It’s a coral pink shade with a slight sheen that gives a lovely natural pinched cheek effect. It also gives a subtle luminous glow, which soften and beautify your complexion. What I love most about this cheek pop is that it goes on very sheer and so it’s designed to be more buildable rather than highly pigmented, which I’m not a fan of because unless you’re extremely light handed, you’re likely going to end up with a bozo face. I always prefer a sheer formula because it means I can gradually build up the colour with a lesser chance of overdoing it.

Melon Pop reminds me a lot of Bourjois Cream Blush in 01 Nude Velvet, which I used to love for an everyday natural look. I think it will work better for fair to medium skin tones but can be too subtle for deeper skin tones (there are other deeper coral shades in the cheek pop range e.g. Ginger Pop or Peach Pop). It also lasts very well on hot and humid days (I would say up to eight hours easily on me), making it very handy for this time of year.

What is your favourite blush this summer?

My Favourite Peach blushes

Clinique CheeK Pop in Melon Pop; My current favourite summer blush