This story is part of the July 14 edition of Sunday Life. See all 14 stories . Cheeks are often the forgotten beauty spot, but forget at your peril, as make-up artist Bobbi Brown so succinctly points out.
“A touch of colour will make your skin look alive and pretty, and blush is that perfect pop of colour,” she says. The latest inspired trend, sunset blush, hit TikTok hard when beauty creator Alissa Janay posted about it and nearly 10 million views later, it has become one of the hottest beauty looks around. In Janay’s post, she dots on two dazzling, highly pigmented fuchsia shades of liquid blush near the temple, two dots of bright orange blush next to them in a line and placed on the top of the cheek bone, and then a dab of golden closer to the eye.
The look is completed by skilfully (and I mean skilfully) blending them all strategically together, and so this beautiful gradient-effect sunset blush is born. The cheeks are the hero of this look – go subtle on the eyes. Credit: Fernando Gomez/Snapper To create the perfect base to complement this solar-inspired look, go for a glossy, tinted base over well-primed skin.
For a primer, we love Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Primer Illuminating ($76), followed by Chantecaille Future Skin ($149), an illuminating gel-based formula that is lightweight and buildable. Now for the high-octane blush. Getting this look right can be a little tricky as you don’t want the colours to merge into a blob.
First up, you need to work with produ.