FURTHER READING:
Formula Overview
for details on general performance and characteristics (like scent).
These are the dupes the editor has pulled but not yet rated and officially entered.
- ColourPop 25/8 (P, $8.00).
- Dior Rayonnante (330) (P, $46.00).
- Clinique Melon Pop (P, $21.00).
- Hourglass Infinite Flush (LE, $40.00).
- Charlotte Tilbury Seductive Beauty (Cheek Swish) (LE, $40.00).
- Hourglass Luminous Glow (LE, $40.00).
- Benefit Shellie (P, $29.00).
- Estee Lauder Lover’s Blush (P, $34.00).
- NABLA Cosmetics Truth (P, $26.00).
- bareMinerals Kiss of Pink (LE, $25.00).
Formula Overview
$5.99/0.24 oz. – $24.96 Per Ounce
The formula is supposed to give a “bright, healthy glow” with a “highly pigmented bake texture” that is “blendable” and “lightweight.” The texture was smooth, finely-milled, and best of all, not at all powdery yet picked up evenly with a blush or highlighting brush and delivered even coverage to bare skin. It was easy to blend out and diffuse on my skin while having semi-opaque to opaque, buildable pigmentation.
I felt that it was a nice enough blush option, especially for those who want something that is relatively easy to work with and easy to diffuse on cheeks, but the color range was disappointing in two ways: 1) lacking in depth/range, and 2) four or five shades were very similar applied (and even more heavily swatched), so having eight seemed unnecessary in that case.
Browse all of our Essence Pure Nude Baked Blush swatches.
Ingredients
Mica, Zea Mays (Corn) Starch, Octyldodecanol, Octyldodecyl Stearoyl Stearate, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Tropolone, Caprylyl Glycol, 1,2-Hexanediol, Tin Oxide, Xanthan Gum, CI 15850 (Red 7 Lake), CI 77491 (Iron Oxides), CI 77492 (Iron Oxides), CI 77891 (Titanium Dioxide).
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