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These are the only two blushes you will ever need. One is pink. The other: coral. Both are Dior and appear in the pan to be two terrifying and off-putting shades of neon. Have faith! Both look absolutely fucking luminous on the skin. If I could only have one blush for the rest of my life, it would be the pink one, but get both if you can. Don’t bother with the other reddish, purply colors—they all end up looking like inferior versions of the pink. A make-up artist once taught me to do a light wash of blush with a thick powder brush over whatever eyeshadow you’re wearing to tie the face together and to add blush just above the ball of the nose where you put your contour for that super-cute, kawaii-looking button-nose. Highlighter on the tip of the nose always. Maybe you already know these tips, but learning them lowkey changed the way I did my make-up forever.
Jun 22, 2023
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Someone sent out the bat signal asking me how to get the Sabrina blush look. I am here to do my civic duty.
After a bit of research, I’ve determined the exact blushes that are most often used on Sabrina. I will also briefly explain the technique.
Sabrina is most often sporting these blush tones: plum, cool pink, or a warm dusty rose
You’ll want to start with a liquid or cream blush and top it with a powder blush. Pick something like a soft pink- something that would mimic your natural flush. The makeup artist technically uses something that’s a blush/highlighter. Using this as a base under the powder blush will give it a more lit from within look.
The balance in her looks is super simple and natural skin, not much on the eyes, with the blush and lip being the focal point. So keep those things in mind when going after her look.
Sabrina’s actual blushes:
- Armani fluid sheer glow enhancer (shade 8)
- Armani luminous silk glow blush (shades 51, 51 and 60)
Good alts:
- Patrick ta blush duos- cream and powder in one compact! (She’s a doll, oh she’s different, just enough, she’s giving)
- Milani baked blush (dolce pink)
- L’Oréal infallible blush (15 legendary berry)
- NARS liquid blush (dolce vita, insatiable)
- NARS powder blush (dolce vita, dominant, infatuated)
May your spirit be merry and your cheeks bright.
Aug 27, 2024
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If you wear foundation or a skin tint put highlighter on underneath and be GENEROUS
If you don’t wear foundation something liiiike the Chanel baume multi stick or the westman atelier stick in like the almost clear color (sry these two are expensive but I think worth it!)
Liquid blush is also good - the new huda beauty one, the new lawless cream blush, and the rhode pocket blush or whatever, simi haze Sun flush is also sooooooo good like maybe if you just do one go with that it’s so easy to use and the colors are perfect
Powder lasts longer tho and smudges less and if you want that I’d say go with the simi haze bronzer I think? Idk it’s in a red compact
Jun 26, 2024
I’ve always been a blush girlie, but I never knew where to place my blush. For awhile now, i’ve just started putting it everywhere coating my cheek it. The look has been dubbed “boyfriend blush” by tiktok but inspiration for me was taken by Devon Aoki blush look. However, i don’t always use orange or bronze blushes, I switch it up to rosy pinks from time to time like the picture i added.
I just want to look like the sun planted a huge kiss on my cheek !!
Jun 18, 2024
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Ever heard of it?! You need it more than you think you do! Start with spools of 1.5 inch “double-faced” satin (I’ve linked my favorite Amazon brand) in the specific colors of: black, crimson, turquoise, goldenrod/marigold, and sort of a icy, slate-gray, periwinkle blue. A deep, wine-red burgundy in .5 inch velvet and an Easter-y, baby pink (or blue or yellow or lilac!) in .25 inch satin will also come in surprisingly handy. Use for beautifying hairstyles, presents, and bouquets of all kinds. Giving someone a single flower is made a thousand times fancier just by tying a bow on it.
Apr 8, 2021
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I’m saving about $2,000 a year on buying my press-on nails from Etsy instead of getting them professionally done anymore. Let that number sink in. And I’m having so much more fun this way, too! Some women have knitting. Others scrapbook. The hobby that enriches my silly little life with arts and crafts is gluing the most beautifully painted bits of plastic onto my fingertips. I’d suggest you buy two sets in the same sizes so that if one nail falls off, you can replace it. Two sets of the same design will create a manicure that lasts just under a month—I shit you fucking not. And here’s the kicker! After you decide to take them off you can still use them again someday. To sand off the dried glue from previously worn nail sets, you’ll need this $10 electric nail file from Amazon. I also like to organize my nail sets in this clear, $8 bead organizer, also from Amazon, so get that, too. To find great nail sets just type into the search bar on Etsy “press on nails…” and then whatever else you’re looking for. “Press on nails y2k.” “Press on nails French tip.” “Press on nails floral…” Etc.
Jun 22, 2023
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When I finally got on antidepressants and stopped self-medicating my depression with an life-consuming addiction to amphetamines, I bought, like, 200 bottles of perfume. It wasn’t that before I got on proper medication, I couldn’t smell. It was just that when I was in the thick my depression, smelling something lovely just didn’t bring me any joy. It was too slight a pleasure—like listening to rain or baking cakes—to affect me. The only way I was able to afford 200 bottles of perfume was Dossier. They make dupes of iconic scents at price points of $29, $39 and $49. Their candles are great, too! My favorites are the Diptyque Do Son dupe, the Baccarat Rouge 540 dupe, the Love, Don’t Be Shy dupe (it’s Rihanna’s signature scent!) and, since I live in Florida now, I also love the Le Labo Santal 33 dupe because people chase me down the street to ask me what it is. It’s so sweet and heartwarming watching Floridians smell Santal 33 for the first time. But obviously I wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that perfume back in New York. Being seen as an offbeat and eccentric weird is too essential my fragile sense of self.
Jun 22, 2023