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Is blush safe to use on acne prone skin? I use bb cream every day, will blush make the bumps and blackheads covered by the bb cream more visible? What kind of blush is the best? Also, my skin is very pale, what colour will suit me? And is it necessary to buy an expensive blush or it doesn’t really matter? Thank you!
Some of the colors used in blushes are mildly comedogenic; others are not. I can’t recommend a specific product but I can tell you that powdered blushes are less likely to cause acne than liquid or cream blushes. (And the cost doesn’t matter at all.)
Perry and I aren’t very good at picking colors to go with your complexion but I bet one of our other Forum members will have some suggestions.Tree, you mentioned you live in Korea right?
Generally with blushes, pink looks good on everyone as long as it’s not overdone.If you have a lot of redness in your cheeks and you don’t want to emphasize it you might want to use a nude pink (there are some blush colors out there that look like they could be regular powder, those are the ones).Additionally you can experiment but generally plums look great on mid-tone olive skin tones, peachy pinks look great on fair-medium skins and peaches look great on the fairest Irish redhead skin. Deep reds, magentas, oranges, fuschias, are best pulled off with those of deeper skin tones.Most Korean women have pretty light skin with warm undertones, so pink is definitely a great option. But don’t be afraid to experiment, you might find you love how a certain “contraindicated” blush looks on you. Rules were made to be broken.Does cost matter when it comes to performance? Is there any difference on how well it will look and how long it will stay on my face?
Actually, my skin is kind of rosy naturally and my cheeks don’t need blush but I have to wear BB cream because of my mild acne and acne scars
Do you think I need to go for a blush that is close to my natural color and how do I pick it?Cost does NOT matter There are good and bad products at all price points
Do you have the NYX or Milani brands in your drugstores?Thank you, brainybimbo! I’m not Korean, I just happen to live here, I am European with light brown (here it is considered blond, lol) hair, black eyes and black eyebrows. I actually like my rosy cheeks but because of the stupid pimples and scars I have no choice but to hide them and I think I look too pale (although here it is considered good to have white skin but I am like a ghost). I am not sure what these colors mean but I will definitely use this information, thank you!
Another question – is it too bad if the blush is low quality? I know with foundation it can be disastrous but with blush do I take a significant risk to look bad? Or even a not so high quality product will do a decent job?I don’t know about these brands, I will check, mostly here they sell Korean brands and each brand has a special store (they are everywhere). Maybe I will buy Missha because I know they are good but are a bit pricey.Tree, price has absolutely no correlation with quality. You’re not taking any significant risk to the way you look by purchasing a less expensive blush.
The brands really don’t matter, do they have beauty advisors or testers, so you can try colors before you buy them?I would say don’t bother buying American products bc they are probably overpriced being shipped all the way there. I have heard S.Korea has a ton of beauty stores. Sounds like my kind of place!
If a pimple is raised, applying concealer could easily make the pimple visible if not even more so because of the shadowing. You can’t get rid of the shadowing unless you apply buckets of makeup.
Yeah I noticed that with a YouTuber I like. Covering them with concealer just seems to make it worse.
I think that people are so used to covering wrinkles and hyperpigmentation that they forget about why/how they can cover them, so they assume it’ll work the same way with acne.
I doubt that young people even think about the hows and whys concealers work, thus assuming it’ll work for their acne–and that they see photoshopped models all the time.
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