Cream Blush Vs. Powdered Blush

Video Transcript

"Hi welcome back! Right now we are going to do cream blush versus powder brush. My clients always ask me, should I use a cream, should I use a powder? I don't know it is really all personal preference or it is all what you want for that day, for that look that you are going for. If you are looking for a dewy glowingly look kind of like that J-Lo look you want to use a cream blush. If you want that Mac look, that smooth kind of parsley look then you want to use a powder brush. You can use cream and powder on any skin type unless you are extremely oily or extremely dry. But if you are kind in the middle you can just pick and choose depending on what day of the week or what season you are in. In the summer you might want to stick with powder blush. In the winter you can do your drier you can do a cream blush. The application is a little bit different; cream blushes are a little bit more sticky, they don't go on as smooth as a powder blush would unless you are using a appropriate brush. Now I like to use a foundation brush and also a small contour brush and you just basically want to kind of get some color on your brush and you want to pat it or stippling it into the skin. So you don't swipe like you would do a powder you will press it into the skin. So it inheres in the cheek bones. You know like I said cream is more like a dewy look so it is going to give more of a glow. If you like powder if you just like the application of powder, just get a powder with some sort of a shimmer in it. It gives the same effect. I take my contour brush and again same thing buff it, steeple it and the darker you want it the more you would put on. You want to really keep it on the apples of the cheeks and a little bit up the cheek bone but you want it to blend it. Blend, blend, blend. You don't want to look like that strip, you know that is a look it is just not a look that you want for everyday. That is the cream. Now for powder, powder is much easier; you want to take a regular blush brush. You can really use any size blush brush and same keep it on the cheek bones. The apples of the cheek and blend, blend. You can do a little of that stippling technique. There we go cream versus powder."