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The Exact Blush Margot Robbie Used to Get Her Golden Globes Glow


How far in advance do you plan the look?

The second I see the dress I start obsessing. Sometimes I’ll see it on the day of, which is not ideal, and sometimes it can be weeks ahead of time. The second I know what that dress is, I’m thinking about her and what will work, and zooming in on it. I’ll go down in my studio swatching products and even trying things on myself. Usually I’m down there until 1 A.M. I want her to feel like the best version of herself so it’s my responsibility to do whatever I can to help her achieve that, and I take it very seriously.

Do you tend to make last-minute decisions and changes?

I try not to do too many things last-minute because that takes time and it would be messy. Ideally, when she sits down for makeup it’s worked out and laid out and ready to go.

But with the eyeliner, for instance, I was going back and forth about what color to use at the lash line—in the bodice, you could kind of pull out any color—but I kept veering toward purple in my head because I love purple with a green eye. Then, when I saw her manicure for the night, it was a little bit fuchsia and it told me I was going in the right direction, it tied in beautifully.

You manage to keep the makeup classic and beautiful but with clever, modern twists. What’s the secret?

It’s whether the girls can carry off a little ‘something something.’ It’s not always appropriate, but when it is, it’s really about the wear–that they feel confident to carry it off. If she didn’t feel confident about the color, no matter how subtle I make it, then I’m not going to do it. It’s also about the event. For instance, what I would do for the Met Gala, wouldn’t be what I would do for the Golden Globes. The Globes are generally an event that can have an element of fun to them, but it’s an acting event, it’s not a fashion event, whereas the Met Gala, which is about fashion, would be a whole other vibe.

What are your favorite products to use on Margot?

I never use any mascara other than the Chanel Le Volume mascara–and not just on Margot, on everyone–because I need a mascara that’s going to go on the lash but that’s not going to flake. I can’t be worrying about the mascara flaking when I send them out to an awards and that mascara is very reliable.

Then I love the Chanel Waterproof Brow Pencil, the light blond is the perfect color for Margot, it’s the perfect texture and it serves me well.

My other major go-to product is the Stylo Ombre Et Contour in 12 Contour Clair. That product I pretty much use on everyone when I do makeup, like everyone, because it’s the perfect taupey color that can give structure to your eyes without looking heavy or makeup-y. I can give a little bit of contour to the crease of the eye or under the eye, or wherever the eye needs a bit of pushback. Those are my biggies. After that it’s like, let’s play.

This story originally appeared on Glamour UK.



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Patrick Ta Velvet Blush Review: Best Blush for a Natural Look


Like most things, my mom was right about blush. As soon as I started regularly wearing makeup in high school, my mom would insist that I needed to “put a little color in my cheeks,” and would practically chase me with a blush brush. For some reason, my idea of blush was that it was dated, clowny, and just generally too “done” looking. (I was also a teenager and probably enjoyed the small rebellion.) So I ignored her pleas. But once I picked up a compact of Nars’ Deep Throat my freshman year of college on a whim—it was out of budget but I couldn’t resist the name—I realized my mom was actually on to something.

Since that day, I’ve been hooked on blush, and will always go to bat for it as the most underrated makeup product. I love the way it instantly wakes up my face, and when applied with a heavy hand it can add either a romantic flush (think a rococo cherub) or a disco edge. That being said, every blush I’ve tried, even what I would consider my ride-or-dies, still had a little room for improvement. And then l I tried the Patrick Ta Monochrome Moment Velvet Blush.

You may know Patrick Ta as the makeup artist behind Gigi Hadid’s, Shay Mitchell’s, and Elsa Hosk’s glowiest makeup looks, and last month he expanded his namesake makeup line to include blushes named after his favorite qualities of the women in his life. Like the name suggests, the blushes have a matte finish, except for She’s Adorable, which has a light shimmer. At first swatch, I was a little underwhelmed, but that was actually intentional—they’re designed to be super buildable.

“I love pigment, but with a blush it’s super important to have something that’s not going to put a whole blob of color onto your cheek,” Ta told me when he introduced the collection. “You should be able to build and grow the color, I think blush should look like a diffused cloud.”

The four shades are designed to be universally flattering and are mostly neutral with one bright option. The pigment swipes on evenly, and imparts the prettiest, natural-looking glow. I like to use a heavy hand to get a lot of color, but it never looks old or fake, and the powder melts into my skin thanks to the included moisturizers and specially treatment pigments. I love to use the peachy shade She’s Sincere in leu of bronzer to add all-over warmth and subtly contour, and a pop of the bright pink She’s Passionate on the apples of my cheeks to make it look like I slept more than five hours.

Ta notes that most of his clients are afraid of blush, as I once was, and recommends starting slow. While I like to go full force with a fluffy brush, he says to apply it with a brush, but then stamp over it with a Beautyblender. “If you use too much blush, this really blends it into your skin and melts the powder for a seamless look,” he says. He also likes to blend a little bit of blush into the crease of your eye to pull a look together.

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While the seamless application is a plus, for me the biggest perk of this blush is that it actually stays on all day. Despite not having oily skin, I have a face that eats makeup, and most face products don’t last more than a few hours on me (although Urban Decay’s setting spray has been helping), but the first time I tried this one, I was shocked to look in the mirror at the end of the day and see my flush was still in tact.

I’ve barely looked at my other blushes since acquiring the Patrick Ta, which is saying something because I have at least 100 to choose from. The only downside? Every time I swipe it on, I’m reminded that my mom was right.

Patrick Ta Monochrome Moment Velvet Blush

Patrick Ta Monochrome Moment Velvet Blush

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Bella Cacciatore is the beauty associate at Glamour. Follow her on Instagram @bellacacciatore_.





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How to Wear the Orange Blush Trend


I’m no blush expert; expertise requires wearing it regularly, and I’ve applied it to my face a grand total of one time. Thanks to a natural permaflush that’s been attached to my face since birth (it’s either a sign of good health or mild rosacea), I just haven’t felt the need. The closest I ever got to making it a part of my beauty routine was when a former boss, shocked at my revelation, hurled a tiny Korres pot at me and melodramatically screeched, “You’d better wear this tomorrow!” And I did—for one day—before going back to my old, blush-free ways.

But that was until images of orange blush started permeating my feeds and dare I say it’s the first time I actually considered wearing it on my own. At face value, “orange blush” doesn’t sound like something a beginner would dive right into—actually, it doesn’t even sound like something people who wear blush on the regular might consider putting on their face. According to Pinterest’s 2018 Global Beauty Report, though, blush in all shades of orange is becoming increasingly popular (searches are up 250 percent, based on their data). The fall trend has also been a mainstay on Japan’s beauty scene for quite some time now.

After going down a rabbit hole of reference photos, you can definitely see the appeal; the color stands out more than red or pink, yet lends a surprisingly flattering glow to any skin tone.

Ready to confirm my conclusions, I set out to put the trend to the test with a little phone-a-friend help from celebrity makeup artist Ralph Siciliano, who has somehow mastered the ability of making every shade of the rainbow look stunningly wearable. “I just did an orange blush look minutes ago,” he informed me when I texted for help. Coincidence? Or it’s just that much a thing now? Either way, it was perfect timing.

Eager to dive right in, I kicked things off with the fiery 515 Tangerine HD Cream Blush from Make Up For Ever. While the name sounds subtle, the neon shade is so bright that it almost pulsates in the pan. (For a powder equivalent, I love MAC’s Bright Response.)

When I asked Siciliano on advice for choosing the best orange for my skin tone, he kept it simple: “Usually, the first orange I grab is the one I’m drawn to and I just make it work.” As my eyes were immediately drawn to the blush that screamed “ORANGE!” the loudest, I too was determined to make it work. I sheered it out on my cheeks using a double-ended brush from the same brand, picking up the cream formula with the densely packed contour side, then flipping it over to the blush brush side to blend everything out.

“Placement really depends on the look I’m going for,” Siciliano says. “But for everyday, it’s best to just smile and hit the apple of your cheek where you’d naturally blush.” I followed his instructions with my best cheesy smile and spent the next 10 minutes admiring the results from multiple angles.

Since the cream formula had worked out so well, I decided to step things up a notch and go for a darker orange in a powder formula. Siciliano told me that the orange he gravitates toward depends on his mood at the moment, as well as the vibe he wants to create. “I often go for matte—Kevyn Aucoin makes a good all-around matte orange blush that works for most skin tones,” he says. “But you can use any orange.”

Taking the second part of his advice to heart, I erased my Tangerine glow with a makeup wipe and went in with Nars Taj Mahal. If you haven’t tried Nars blushes before, know that they’re pigmented and proceed with caution. The burnished orange powder, flecked with golden microshimmer, was the most intense of all the shades I tried—intense, but beautiful.

“The trick is to apply it with a super light hand,” Siciliano warned me. “Use very little product and pressure on the brush and build it from there. As long as it’s light, it won’t look ridiculous in real life.” If you’re looking for something that’s almost impossible to overdo, he recommends a mineralized formula: “They have less pigment usually, and they give a great dewy effect with less color payoff.”

Another option to keep things subtle is to search out shades of orange that “make the cheeks look fresh and sunkissed.” On my complexion, this translated to paler peach tones with a touch of shimmer. I layered one coat of Make Up For Ever’s Artist Face Color in B306 Mandarin under Charlotte Tilbury’s Beach Stick in Moon Beach for an orange highlighter-blush hybrid that made me look incredibly dewy.

Having discovered a newfound love of blush (when it’s orange), I texted Siciliano a final time to ask what he recommended pairing it with. “If you want to wear it alone, go for it,” he replied. “If you want to wear it with a nude lip or a dark lip, go for it. Or go monochromatic and match it with your eyeshadow or lipstick.” I ended up wearing all four shades with my usual winged liner, mascara, and brushed-out brows. The one constant that I found really made the color shine was a smooth base. While I usually can’t be bothered to wear foundation, a thin layer of Nars Foundation in Vienna acted as the ideal canvas.

I loved every single shade I tried for this experiment, but there’s no need to buy four new pans of blush if you’d rather work with what you already have—or want to test-drive the color before fulling committing. Lipsticks and eyeshadows can easily pull double duty; I found that Catrice’s $15 Paradise Desert palette contained plenty of options that wore well as both blush and eyeshadow.

I leave you with Siciliano’s most helpful piece of advice, which successfully ended my existential crisis over which orange blush to try first: “The only rules are that there are none.”

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The Best Blush Colors for Your Skin Tone and Face Shape


This isn’t something we say often, but blush is almost too basic to be fun. Take a beaten-up brush that’s seen better days, grab an inoffensive shade of pink, and swipe it across the apples of your cheeks. You look a few degrees more alive, and you’re done. If that sounds familiar, well, the sorry truth is that we’ve all been shafting blush. Because if you know what you’re doing on the approach, it turns out there are few things that make a bigger difference to your face. It’s like the magic of contour, without the potential for someone asking if you have dirt on your cheek.

So how do you use blush in a way that it actually makes a difference? Thuy Pham, head of artist’s education at Dior Beauty, explains that she has a few rules of thumb. If you want a more natural flush, opt for a blush that’s on the same side of the cool-warm spectrum as your skin tone (so if you have warm undertones, a warm blush won’t draw much attention). If you’re looking to add a little more life to your face, head to the opposite side of the spectrum as your skin tone, since it’ll bring contrast—i.e. verve! Energy! Pep!—to your look.

Pham suggests stocking three blush colors in your makeup bag, including a pink, a brown, and a coral (so, not five shades of the same mauve-y rose. Noted). Pink is foolproof and works across the board, while brown is an easy, grounding choice that adds balance when dark lipstick or heavy lashes are in play. And coral, surprisingly, earns Pham’s praise as the most universally flattering shade, since it melds the benefits of pink and brown into a brightening flush of color.

As for where to stick these colors on your face, here’s a true shocker: There’s more to life than blush on the apples of your cheeks, contrary to the advice of every aughts-issued magazine ever (ICYMI, the apple of your cheek is the part that grandmothers pinch when you smile). It’s all about your angles, Pham says, so keep the basics below in mind. Pham treats blush like an art form, but since she can’t do our makeup every morning, we had her consult four Glamour staffers with blush advice. Then, they set out to follow her directions. Here’s how it went.

PHOTO: Michelle Sulcov

Khaliha Hawkins

Administrative Assistant

Pham chose the warm, peachy-coral of Dior’s Rouge Blush in Actrice for Khaliha, who was looking for a natural-looking shade. In life before this day, Khaliha says her go-to blush technique was to dust it across her apples and up towards her temples, but Pham recommended that she try placing it below her high cheekbones. In the same place where contour powder would go to make those hollows recede, blush brings attention to Khaliha’s cheekbones by grabbing attention instead, softening and enhancing her bone structure without exaggerating her angles.

Khaliha says that Pham brought up an interesting point; she usually plays up her cheekbones with a contour, and relegates blush to just adding a little color. Armed with this knowledge, she says she’ll be whipping out this trick when she goes too hard on her contour sticks (“like always”).

Shop the look: Dior Rouge Blush in Actrice, $44, neimanmarcus.com

PHOTO: Michelle Sulcov

Tess Kornfeld

Editorial Assistant

Tess was down to try a look with more color, so Pham walked her through a modern spin on blush draping (also known as what makes the women on GLOW look so good). Here’s a fun metaphor: To create structure on longer faces, a “bra and underwear” method draws people’s eyes up and to your own, thanks to a duo that work in harmony. Following Pham’s advice, Tess took a brown blush on a large, fluffy brush and created a wide expanse underneath her apples and cheekbones, then topped it with pink blush at the very top of her cheeks, right up near her under eyes.

Tess says that in all honesty, her internal monologue while going through the motions ran along the lines of, “Why would I ever want to do this?” But after taking a step back, she was into it. The color combo looked natural, like she’d just run around the block—and she adds that the compliments that came rolling in afterwards didn’t hurt.

Shop the look: Sephora Colorful Contour in First Touch, $14, sephora.com; Givenchy Prisme Blush Highlight & Structure Powder Blush Duo in 03 Spice, $46, sephora.com

PHOTO: Michelle Sulcov

Alexa De Paulis

Junior Designer

Pham took a look at Alexa’s cheeks, which were slightly ruddy from over-exfoliation, and knew exactly what to do. Instead of trying to top the redness with foundation or add more color elsewhere, she recommended that Alexa try a neutral brown, Dior Rouge Blush in Charnelle, on top of her apples to tone it down into a natural, tawny pink.

It’s always easier to work with your skin than against it, she said, and when Alexa tried the same trick the next day, she says the brown’s naturally cooling, sculpting effect solidified its place in her daily routine.

Shop the look: Dior Rouge Blush in Charnelle, $44, macys.com

PHOTO: Michelle Sulcov

Smriti Sinha

Senior Social Media Manager

Smriti was ready to go bold, so Pham pointed her towards a cool, cherry red color that looked eye-popping in the pan. A pro tip to make super-pigmented colors approachable: Pham says to dip your brush in translucent loose powder before swirling it in blush, which will diffuse the color and make it more user-friendly. Pham came with another gamechanger to add dimension to Smriti’s high cheekbones and oval face. It’s called the “magic triangle” trick: Make a peace sign and rest it against your cheek, with the tip of your middle finger at the inner corner of your eye. See the triangle? Blush should go right in there, concentrated at the top center to create an angle that pushes your cheekbones up. As for Smriti’s thoughts? Well, we think the photo speaks for itself—gorgeous.

Shop the look: Dior Rouge Blush in 999, $44, macys.com; Maybelline FaceStudio Master Fix Setting + Perfecting Loose Powder, $9, sephora.com





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Call Me Crazy, But I Can't Stop Wearing Brown Blush


What if I told you there was a way to make your face look alive, but in a secret way—a way that most people’s eyes just skate right over? You look flushed and healthy, in a Brooke Shields, tawny, sexy-outdoorsy-slightly rough around the edges kind of way. The kind of color that says, “Oh, am I hiking or modeling a picture of health? Is this a photoshoot, or the Pacific Crest Trail?” Other words and phrases I associate with the look are: quarter-zip fleece sweaters, the Sierra Club, sepia, trail mix, and the entire vibe of the 1998 movie Stepmom, featuring Susan Sarandon and a young Julia Roberts. Hello, my name is Rachel. And I’m obsessed with brown blush.

Not to be one of those people, but pink blush is out (for me). Instead, I’m leaning hard into the look that Sarah Lucero, Stila’s global executive director of creative artistry, created for Tibi last fashion week. Ninety-nine percent of fashion week trends fall into camp unwearable, but the look at Tibi was different. Lucero had done models’ eyes in a mix of colorful shades, so to keep it grounded, and she tapped on Stila’s cream blush in the ruddy, tan-meets-peach shade Camellia. It was perfect. Less precious than pink, and because it’s so close to flesh-toned, it’s almost undetectable unless you load it on.

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After wearing brown blush almost exclusively for the past two months, I’ve pinned down the magic that it weaves. It falls completely outside of traditional cheek knowledge, which says that blush on the apples of your cheeks brightens your face, bronzer gives you a glow, and highlighter and contour define your cheekbones. But brown blush? It covers everything with a simple one-and-done, and because it’s not what you’re expecting to see, it reads incredibly natural. I lightly tap it from my apples up to my cheekbones, and stop just under the outside of my eyes. To borrow a phrase from makeup artists everywhere, it brings some color to your face. Your eye follows that line, which emphasizes your cheekbones without the shadow manipulation of contouring.

In terms of product reccs, I’ve stuck with creams like the Stila. Too Faced Pinch My Peach is a good one, along with Onomie’s Boosting Lip + Cheek Stick in Nightingale. The texture does actually make a difference. The Stila and Onomie have formulas on the moister side, which covers your highlighter base with a healthy-looking glisten. The dryer feel of the Too Faced makes it best for beginners, since it’s way harder to overdo. And even if you do, so what? Brown blush is an adventure, in the woods or not.

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This Tarte Blush Has 8,000 Rave Reviews—and It's on Sale Right Now


Give me your foam conditioner, your jiggly masks, your life-changing moisturizer from the depths of Amazon. I love a beauty gimmick. But between all the newness that rolls in waves across my desk, blush is one of the hardest things for me to get excited about. Especially because I’ve already found my be-all, end-all: Tarte’s Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush in Exposed, a cult favorite that at least 8,000 people agree is pretty great.

In case you’re not one of the people already obsessed, the best way to describe Exposed is like the “my lips, but better” of blush. Like when you find the perfect slightly darker, subtly enhancing lipstick that matches your lips but takes them up a notch, Exposed has the same effect. Online, it doesn’t look like the star it is. But read through the blush’s 4,923 sterling reviews on Sephora’s website, 1,001 reviews on Ulta’s, and 2,552 on Tarte’s, and it gets pretty clear that this blush is not to be underestimated.

Other than how natural the shades look, the reviews’ common thread is the blush’s durability. The wear-time makes sense, given the formula (and the name). Tarte writes that it infuses the blush with natural clay, which tones down your skin’s oil and keeps the color in place. The 14 shades come in workhorse options, most falling into variations of nude, pink, peach, and rose. And the clay formula has an added benefit: Blissful, another often-reviewed color, looks like an intimidatingly bright pink in the pan. But thanks to the clay’s consistency, your brush picks up just enough, and it steers clear of clownish.

Still, Exposed remains my favorite. The barely rose nude makes you look as if you just came in from the cold, but in a more “model in a wintry Tiffany’s ad” way than reality. And now that Tarte’s blush is on sale for 20 percent off at Dermstore for two more days, you can bet I’m stocking up.

Tarte Cosmetics Amazonian Clay 12-Hour Blush, $23, dermstore.com

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