Swipe one of the best blush sticks is our favorite shortcut to glowing skin. We’re talking about often portable twist-up, cream-based formulas that contain skin-nourishing ingredients like shea butter and scalan. If you find yourself in just 10 minutes to always be ready (as we often do), a blush stick can become an actual lifesaver. Are you wondering what new or blush sticks are really worth buying in the most travel-friendly pop of colours around? We chatted with Allure Editors to determine the best and best, save time while shopping, and help achieve the perfect flash.
Our Top Brush Stick
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Overall the best: Makeup Ever Artist Color Crayon
Why we love it: You’re in the driver’s seat when it comes to making up for makeup. With a whopping 24 shades of hues, these sticks do more than blush. Depending on the pick, there are options for concealer, contours, or highlighters, but the pink and pink shades create a lovely flash. Creamy, lightweight, and long-lasting formula blends in with your cheeks, lips, or eye snaps. And the compact shape of the Sticks makes it easy to grow your collection without overcrowding your makeup bag.
“As a huge fan of a very lacking look, I usually feel embarrassed about any type of stick formula because I find that many of them are a little too dry. – Kara McGrath, Director of Content
Best Multipurpose: Nar multiples
Why We Love It: Nars’s The Multitions Got A Glow-Up, which offered the Best of Beauty Award this year. Think about it: long wear times (up to 16 hours according to the brand) and cream-to-powder texture. In addition to the brand’s iconic orgasm shades, the multiples come in 11 colors ranging from peach to berry tones for mixing, matching and layering. Moisturized peach kernel oil helps this blush continue smoothly, but according to one fascinating editor, it dries to a blurry, non-blurred finish. If your makeup philosophy is “set it and forget it,” then this may be for you.
Tester feedback from Senior Commerce Editor Saraferbin
“I’m not usually a fan of blush sticks. For me, they tend to be patchy and not mesh well with the rest of the base makeup. The multiples are very different (and much better!). It lasts all day – I don’t even need to set it up with it powdered on top, but my perfect pink, but I think you’re wrong in any shade, as you can use them on your eyes and lips too
Best Brush Light: Westman Atelier Light Up Highlight Stick
Why We Love It: Westman Atelier illuminates highlighter sticks and bridges the gap between blush and highlighter with some major skincare benefits, thanks to supplementing highlighter supplies and vitus vita grape extract. The product itself is easy to blend with a blatant, sparkling finish that will make your skin look wet. The light-up will appear in seven shades, including Petal, including the photo above.
Extra “Yeah, I’m going outside, what?” energy, apply a small amount to your forehead and nose. Want to reduce the reward and sparkle of more colours? Grab the Westman Atelier Baby Cheeks Blush Stick.
Tester feedback from Senior Director of Audience Development Lexi Herrick
“This product is a blush/highlighter hybrid. This is perfect for me. This multitasking stick constantly reaches out to lighten your cheeks by adding the right amount of rouge. It’s incredibly smooth and beautifully blended.” – Lexi Herrick, senior director of viewer development.
“No Makeup Makeup:” Perfect for violette_fr bisou Blush
Why We Love It: At the brainchild of Paris make-up artist Violet, Violet_fr bisou melts into your skin for a (almost) easy, natural-looking flash. There are six marble shades to choose from to choose from a beautiful look on your skin, like a tube, including the neutral beige Louise (pictured here) and Icesa, which is pink for dark skin tones. “You can say that makeup artists made these,” says makeup artist Kirinbatti. “The colours are thoughtfully chosen and are perfect for those who love the ‘no make-up makeup’ look. ”
Details to Love: An antioxidant inger root extract and the addition of Candelilla wax, an emollient that helps protect skin barriers. It also digs a soft, sturdy removable brush into the bottom to make blending easier for easy on.
Tester feedback from commerce producer Sarah Hoffman
“When it comes to shade curation, there are few brands that can touch Violet’s potatoes. You can’t find a single note of bubble gum pink blush. You’re paired perfectly with a full face of make-up and a barely concealer and mascara.” – Sarah Hoffman, Commerce Producer
Perfect for dry skin: Rhode Pocket Blush
Why We Love It: A proud member of the Road Family, Haley Beaver’s pocket blush instantly became a favourite of the fascinating editor. The petite, pocket-sized profile allows for easy to tote and targeted spraying, depositing silky smooth pigments every time. When light and hydrated, it comes in 11 shades that can be applied directly to your lips and cheeks, and gently blends in with your fingers and brushes. To add a glow to your lips, refill with a branded viral peptide lip treatment.
Tester feedback from Commerce Editor Sarah Han
“Beyond how cute these blush are, butter is very buttery and easy to melt. I like to tap the product before actually using the brush with my fingers and spreading the harsh lines. Yeah, they also become the most beautiful colours. – Sarah Han, Commerce Editor
Best Sheer: Milk Makeup Cooling Water Jelly
Why we love it: milk cooling water jelly looks good to eat, but don’t. The delicious atmosphere is only suffocated by the thin, long-lasting flash that this stick offers and the instantly cooled feel. “The cooling is due to the release of water when it is pressed,” says Gingerking, cosmetics. “Also, containing polymers in fumectants such as glycerin, sorbitol, and polysaccharides in aloe vera can enhance its effectiveness.” Make-up artist Salalen recommends using a brush with this. Technically it’s dirty and we recommend working quickly as it’s quick to set up.
Tester feedback from Alessandra Forshoo, Managing Editor
“Come on me skeptical! I don’t usually trust that jelly blush lasts longer and choose cream blush instead, but this elastic gelatinous blush (as a comparative word, not criticism, my cheeks actually have a thin, exposed colour all day long (I like shaded berries). The cooling and refreshing feeling of wanting to last for more than a few seconds.” — Alessandra Forforto, Managing Editor
Best Buildable: Charlotte Tilberry Unreal Lip + Cheek Glow Hyaluronic Acid and Blush
Why do we love it: do we feel a modest luminosity or do we want to raise the notch? Bring your recommendations on Charlotte Tilbury’s Unreal Lip + Cheek Glow Blush Stick. This has a pure finish that blends and layers seamlessly when you need pop, making it the perfect option for you. What also highlights it is the pearlescent pigment that gives the skin a soft focus glow.
