Actually, let me back up.
Meet "Cheeks and Balances", the combination cheek color and highlighter from Hard Candy:
This color is called "Cheeky Pink", and it's a nice pinky light highlighter, with a deeper pink complementing blush, with a little light shimmer running through it.
The formula is nice enough. Goes on smooth and easy. Not terribly long lasting, but not awful. Easy enough of a product to use - truth? My husband went as a woman for Halloween, and needed to be able to do his own makeup, which is how I ended up owning this. Swipe, and blend so there's no obvious lines. Easy. No strange scents or random discolorations to speak of.
If you can draw, you can do this. Swipe:
Blend until there's no obvious lines:
And get on with your day!
I've never been a super fan of this product - as you probably guessed from the title - for one simple reason.
Just by using it properly, you're gonna mess it up. You're either using this as a highlight and contour product, in which case, your contour is way to high and way to pink (or purple - yes really, or whatever other random colors this comes in). Or, you're using this as a blush, in which case, the highlighting portion of the festivities is completely lost on you, cause you end up blending it away.
That said, I think that this product is about the best they could do at this sort of thing. The intention - as far as I can tell anyway - was never to make a perfect highlighting and contour product, which is good because they didn't. Sometimes, when you want to multitask, functionality is sacrificed a little. So you get a nice blush. You could do worse.
I recommend this product, so long as you keep your expectations realistic about what you're dealing with - good cream blush at a nice price point, check. The perfect multi-tasking highlight and contour? Nope. Keep looking.
Later, my lovelies!
Amazingly, I don't seem to have ever talked about blush before (it's my first time!)! But in the meantime, here's another post you may enjoy!
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