Makeup How To

Flirty Flushed Cheeks

1. Even out your skin tone. Using a foundation brush, like Cle de Peau Beaute Foundation Brush, apply a liquid foundation from the center of your face (where your skin should be the lightest), working your way outward to the perimeter. A liquid or cream formula creates a smooth base that the cream blush you’re about to put on will glide over and fuse with. Model Lizzie Power used Cle de Peau Beaute Radiant Fluid Foundation.
2. Apply cream blush to the apples of your cheeks. Clean off the foundation brush you used in step one and run it over a cream blush formula. Then smile and blend the color on the rounded part of your cheeks first, and then outward toward your temples. Lizzie used Maybelline Master Glaze Glistening Blush Stick in “Pink Fever.”
3. With a large, fluffy brush, dust on a bright powder blush. Choose a bright powder blush that complements your cream blush, and apply it with a fluffy blush brush (don’t worry if it’s too bright; you’ll make it look more natural with the next step). Lizzie used the UBU Super Softy Brush to apply Mac Cosmetics Powder Blush in “Full Fuchsia.”
4. Diffuse your cheek color with concealer. Draw an outward-facing flag shape with a cream concealer pen on each side of your nose, with the flagpole part alongside your nose. Lizzie used YSL Touche Eclat. Next, with the clean foundation brush used in steps one and two, blend the concealer over the innermost edges of the blush. Then, with whatever concealer that’s still on the brush, lightly sweep the rest of the formula over your cheeks to create a “lit from within” flushed effect.
Pro tip: When there is a pop of color on the cheek, it’s best to keep the rest of the face seemingly bare. Choose soft or nude lips, neutral (if any) eye shadow, and a subtle application of mascara.

Tools you’ll need:

1. Liquid foundation
2. Foundation brush
3. Cream blush
4. Powder blush
5. Blush brush
6. Concealer pen