best powder blush

What it is: A beautiful blush and a luminous highlighter with a gel-powder texture to deliver a glossy shot of radiance and a flush of color in one sweep.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Radiant

Formulation: Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Pearlescent Pigments: Deliver a luminous finish.
- Emollients: Provide a silky sensorial feel and blurring effect.
- Skin Conditioning Agent: Provides a silky feel.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, retinyl palmitate, sulfates SLS & SLES, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also cruelty-free.

What it is:
A long-wearing, sheer powder blush that provides up to 10 hours of buildable, natural-looking cheek color for all skin tones.

What it does:
Blush Colour Infusion is a sheer, buildable, and silky-smooth cheek color that blends seamlessly with skin for the most natural, fresh look. Pure color pigments feel weightless and apply evenly to skin for a healthy-looking flush of color that lasts for up to 10 hours. Infused with micro-fine powders, this next-generation formula can build from a diffused, sheer hint of color to a bold color statement. It’s designed to layer as flawlessly with liquid or powder makeup as it does on bare skin.

What it is:
A groundbreaking hybrid that combines the customized lighting effects of Ambient Lighting Powder with a spectrum of breathtakingly modern hues for seamless, soft-focus, and multidimensional color.

What it does:
Discover a new way to blush. Hourglass has fused Ambient Lighting Powder, the cutting-edge collection of finishing powders, with an array of vivid cheek colors, creating a hybrid product that is unique, contemporary, and revolutionary. Unlike traditional blush, which tends to be flat, Ambient Lighting Blush uses Photoluminescent Technology to exhibit depth and dimension.

What else you need to know:
Hourglass products are 100 percent cruelty-free.

What it is: A petal-soft powder Blush with blendable colour and a unique featherlight, silk-velvet finish.

Coverage: Medium

Formulation: Pressed Powder

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.

What Else You Need to Know: This satiny powder blush features buildable layers of color for even, mistake-proof application. Sweep over foundation for rich saturation or after powder for a softly diffused look. Skin Fetish: Divine Powder Blush is available in an array of modern nude-to-vibrant shades, each expertly blended to beautify all skin tones.

What it is:
A groundbreaking hybrid that combines the customized lighting effects of Ambient Lighting Powder or Strobe Powder with a spectrum of breathtakingly modern hues.

What it does:
While traditional blush tends to be flat, the Ambient® Lighting Blush Collection uses Photoluminescent Technology to exhibit depth and dimension with seamless blending. The handmade powders are formulated using an advanced miscelare technique—which means "to mix" in Italian—creating the perfect balance of pigment and powder. No two look alike.

The Ambient® Lighting Blush Collection features airy, lightweight blushes to flatter a range of skin tones.

What it is: A silky, soft pressed powder formula that seamlessly blends into the skin, imparting a healthy, natural flush.

Finish: Natural

Formulation: Pressed Powder

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Shea Butter: A skin “superfood” full of fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals that make it an ideal moisturizer for healthy-looking skin.
- Squalane: Mimics your skin's natural oils, making it an excellent emollient, preventing loss of essential hydration.
- Sweet Almond Oil: Rich in vitamin D, vitamin E, and minerals that help soothe irritation, protect from UV damage, and support the skin’s moisture barrier.

What it is: This cult-favorite highlighter powder creates a light-reflecting, shimmering pearl radiance for perfectly luminous cheeks and eyes. 

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, and sulfates SLS & SLES.

What Else You Need to Know: A silky gel-powder hybrid highlighter that glides onto skin with a cushiony bounce to smooth, brighten, and deliver a sheer, lit-from-within glow. Formulated with a clear base and highly reflective pearl pigments to impart a naturally translucent radiance.

What it is: Shade & Illuminate Blush Duo is a luxurious blush palette that pairs two skin-perfecting cheek tints: one luminous, one semi-matte.

What Else You Need to Know:This two-in-one powder blush is formulated with rice silk powder for lush, light-reflecting, long-wearing color. Each palette duo offers complimentary semi-matte and highlighting hues to sculpt, illuminate and create a soft, multi-dimensional glow.

What it is: A high-pigment, petal-soft blush that blends effortlessly into skin for an intense bloom of transfer-resistant color that lasts all day.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This blush contains silky, micro-milled powder that is highly pigmented yet velvety as a rose petal, allowing it to blend effortlessly into skin. A bouquet of six shades offers a range of depths for every complexion each in a rose compact. Everlasting Blush delivers extreme long wear and a beautiful, soft-matte finish.

Clinical Results:In a consumer study on 32 volunteers over 24 hours:
- 100% agreed it applied smoothly and seamlessly
- 100% agreed it had a soft, velvety texture