RSSTrue Summer’s Cool Rose Blush
December 13, 2009
NARS Outlaw might well be it.
NARS Outlaw blush.
I’ve had this issue on my Product Search list for months.
90% of what’s out there can be canceled for being too brown or peach. The defining premise of this skin tone is that any amount of heat causes unattractive results.
I zeroed in on Estee Lauder Fresh Plum awhile back. It has a soft colour deposit. It’s not as blue as Lancome Aplum, my Dark Winter personal favorite (though it could be improved on with a breath of brown, just enough to turn it mulberry).
True Summer skin is usually not colourful. By December, Fresh Plum’s dusty softness doesn’t perk it up enough. Bronzer looks crazy on True Summer skin in the hands of real-world women because it adds heat to skin that inherently has none.
MAC Breath of Plum is too pink.
Most of the Rose Somethings out there are too warm. The trace of peach they add just ruins it. It looks coral.
What I wanted was a cool, fairly light Summer red-rose.
Here are a few other contenders:
MAC Breezy blush.
MAC Mineralize Gentle blush.
MAC Mineralize Love Thing blush.
The wonderful Karla has swatched the NARS product for you here.
I am asked if other Seasons can wear the makeup colours I suggest. Because the cosmetic industry offering is disorganized and random and unevenly weighted and I’ll just stop there, you pretty well have to. Soft Summer can wear Outlaw too. Dark Winter could try it ; on my skin, it appeared as a cool coral red.
NARS make beautiful blush. It is to be applied lightly. The shimmer is not enough to get in the way.
Any True Summers who try it, PLEASE let us know what you thought!
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How about a creme blush suggestion for old lady true summer skin?
Would Revlon Berry Flirtatious be too bright?
Jaycee -
Avon makes a cream blush in a stick that has quite a few cool, soft pinks and roses.
“I am asked if other Seasons can wear the makeup colours I suggest.”
What about those shades like Nars Orgasm for blush or Clinique’s Black Honey lipstick that are touted as universally flattering colors? Is there really such a thing? I’ve tried to wear Orgasm but it turns fuchsia on me. (Don’t even get me started on Black Honey.)
I find NARS outlaw a bit too red and dark, but use it with a light hand. Kevyn Aucoin NEOLITA blush is the same color, but sheer and buildable, and works better for me. MAC Coygirl, and YSL # 16 blush variation work well, too, imo, for true summer.
I think the appropriate blush color makes all the difference in the world. But here’s what I can’t understand: makeup companies make so many different shades of blush, but despite my 44 years on this earth I have not yet seen a person blush coral or peach. Sure, those colors look great on warm skins, but do they look like a natural flush? Nope. They look great, but they don’t look like your own natural color. Even my mother, who is a Warm Autumn with fiery red hair, brown eyes and pale golden freckles doesn’t blush peach. It seems to me everybody’s natural flush is some shade of red, all the way from very pale (pink= red with white) to deep red, either in slightly warm or slightly cool tones. So why are red blushes so very hard to find? If you look for coral or peach or tawny or bronze, you’ll have plenty of choice. Even plums and burgundies and bubble gum pink are in abundance. But each time I go out to look for a true natural flush red – I don’t want garish, I’m looking for a soft, clear red that lets my own skin tone show through – it’s nowhere to be found. Why is this???
Kristina –
MAC’s Fleur Power is as close my natural flush color as I’ve found. It’s somewhere on the red/pink/coral spectrum, but it’s bright and clear rather than muted with brown or gold, like most warm-toned blushes.
Red blushes are hard to find, I imagine, because most women are scared of them.
Thank you, Kathy!
We do get MAC here in Sweden where I live, so I will have a look.
I re-read my post this morning and realized that I might have to clarify that I do like the fact that there are plenty of choices out there, blushes in all kinds of colors. Through the years I’ve worn practically every season’s blush color! And I love a soft coral or peach blush on warm skin. But I was just curious as to why red is so difficult to find. I think you’ve hit the nail on the head, Kathy. I think most women are scared of red.
Hi, I would love to comment, but just want to make sure…is a true summer the same as a light summer?
Also, I have used slate eyeliner by Clinique for many years and I like it, but sometimes wonder if it is a litttttttle bit harsh.
Hi, Annie,
In the Sci\ART system, True Summer and Light Summer are different. I believe that CMB uses Cool Summer and Light Summer to denote the same colour groups. Light Summer blends in a trace of Spring.
I agree that while Slate is a great colour, it is not light enough for many Summers, nor blue enough. I prefer Annabelle pencil in Blue-Grey.
I think MAC Dame and Well Dressed are the perfect pale cool rose blush for summers. Coygirl maybe a little too blue- better for cool winters.
I see Fleur power more as spring blush (especially a clear spring)
On another note I explained blush to my sister this way- everybody blushes red from the blood under the surface but the colour is changed by the pigments in the skin over the top of the red- so your perfect blush is a mix of red (oxygenated blush) blue (de oxgenated blood) Peach (carotine) and yellow/ brown (melanin).
I’m clear winter so I’m quite red with a little yellow melanin in my skin – which makes a bright clear red blush. My sister is a clear Spring so she has some red with a little more melanin and touch of carotine -so her blush is a coral peachy -pink colur.
Hope that helps.
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