Undereye concealer could also be dead, however blush remains to be having its finest summer time ever. Particularly, cream and liquid formulation appear to be reigning supreme. The newest launch to hitch that royal courtroom is Hourglass Unreal Liquid Blush, and, people? I’m pledging my loyalty to its crown.
If I’m being trustworthy, this wasn’t a tough promote. Liquid is my most popular blush format and Hourglass stays certainly one of my favourite luxury makeup brands. However the product far exceeded my already-high expectations.
There are, for my part, two intertwined “finest components” of this blush: the sheer method and the distinctive packaging. It is available in seven shades—Scene (heat pink), Whim (vibrant pink), Imaginative and prescient (rose), Second (a peachy beige), Future (coral), Think about (terracotta), and Craft (a deep berry)— and, as promised by the press launch, these things is actually buildable. The primary swipe of coloration (I’m keen on Whim) goes on so sheer that it actually seems like I simply stepped out into the solar for a minute and bought slightly flushed. By swipe two, the colour is way more concentrated. There’s no query that I’m sporting blush, nevertheless it nonetheless blends seamlessly into the remainder of my make-up.
“This method is unbelievable,” says New York Metropolis-based make-up artist Karol Rodriguez. “The end is just like the feel of a blurred lip; it’s gentle and velvety.” They have been additionally impressed with how evenly the method goes on, regardless of being “such a pigmented and liquidy blush.”
The packaging performs an enormous position in why this blush is very easy to layer. The small glass bottle—virtually the form of a diner salt shaker—it is available in has a gentle backside that you simply press to dispense the blush a single drop at a time. Rodriguez concurs that the part makes this additional particular. “Uncommon Magnificence’s blushes have been criticized for being too arduous to make use of as a result of they’re ‘too pigmented,’ when really it’s the quantity of product that the doe-foot dispenses,” they inform me. “Customers are inclined to over-apply so it’s tremendous sensible to have a liquid blush that dispenses such a small quantity to start with. You’d must deliberately press and maintain down on that gentle backside to launch greater than a face price of blush, which is ideal for many who are typically heavy-handed.”
