The thinner texture and matte finish seem to make the color a little darker when applied to bare skin. To keep the color truer, try applying it to matte or powdered skin. It wore well for eight hours before it visibly faded on me.
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Formula overview
$ 24.00 / 0.16 oz. – $ 150.00 per ounce
The formula is said to have a “buildable”, healthy-looking color tone “that” blends easily “thanks to the” silky “texture. It was more in a soft, semi-gloss finish and a matte finish. The pigmentation ranged from medium to predominantly opaque, and they built up to a more opaque coverage right from the start and lasted eight hours on average.
The texture was soft, smooth, and finely ground without being too powdery, and while it was a thinner powder overall, it turned out to be no problem when applied. The blush was applied evenly to bare skin as well as over the foundation without lifting the base products, and I had no issues with the very matte finish going much darker or blotchy over an emollient base (often the biggest problem with matte blushes! ).
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ingredients
Talc, silicon dioxide, aluminum oxide, boron nitride, zinc stearate, mica, octyldodecyl stearoyl stearate, caprylic / capric triglyceride, squalane, caprylyl glycol, ethylhexylglycerin, may contain (+/-): titanium dioxide (Ci 77891), iron oxides (Ci 77491.), Ci 77492. Ci 77499), Red 7 Lake (Ci 15850), Red 28 Lake (Ci 45410), Red 30 Lake (Ci 73360), bismuth oxychloride (Ci 77163).
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