Honest Beauty Créme Blush

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Cream blush is an efficient way to brighten things up after months of sun deprivation (fellow Seattleites can commiserate here). Or if you've had enough bleary eyed late nights responding to emails, and 3am fire drills initiated by a crying toddler to make utter exhaustion the new norm.

Lash curler + RMS UnCoverup + Luminizer + one of these Honest Beauty blushes are a great template to have in your kit. Particularly new moms, frequent travelers, or subscribers to the 90's no-makeup-makeup aesthetic that's enjoying a resurgence.

I love the look of cream blushes, but they always vanish on me after about 90 minutes. These little beauties, however, actually last! They're not dewy, but they're neither powdery or mattifying. It's a soft, diffused pigment with high opacity. They layer well over bare skin, cream or powder foundations. And while you could use a brush to apply, but for the sake of ease, I prefer fingertips.

Terveer & Frau Tonis

First off, the larger bottle isn't clean per se. Frau Tonis makes vegan fragrances, and I was gifted this deluxe sample during a visit to an Air Berlin pop up. This bottle, #18, is inspired by the mediterranean with warm, zingy notes of fig, pepper and cedarwood–but manages to somehow remain aquatic and mellow.

Now the other three fragrances from Terveer are oil based, roll on perfumes. Gardenia reminds me of a cleaner Fracas, heavy on the tuberose and pikake. Incense (my favorite of the three) is a warm, sweet sandle wood with notes of oud wood, tobacco flower and burnt firewood. Lastly, Green channels a rural landscape with a blend of fresh ivy, fig leaves, fig wood, vetiver and wet oakmoss.