A spin-off of spring’s coral trend, apricot blush seems to be usurping better-known shades of pink as the cheek color of choice these days, popping up in makeup collections and on the red carpet with increasing frequency. As far as we’re concerned, Chanel’s new Fandango and Givenchy’s Maharani Orange shades take a close second and [...]

Forget that it’s almost winter. Padma Lakshmi embraced her God-given right to show a little shoulder at the New York premiere of Valkyrie this week. It was this bold move, as well as her perfect skin tone—enhanced with a touch of pink blush on the apples of her cheeks—and those glistening ringlets, that caught our [...]

As we mentioned a few days ago, a winter flush is a key component of the makeup look for the season—a point that was not missed by Scarlett Johansson and Eva Mendes at last night’s launch party for their new film The Spirit. Both women skipped the classic rosy pink in favor of a more [...]

In this season of wind-burnt cheeks, I have rediscovered an affinity for blush—or rouge, as my grandmother called it (terminology that is long overdue for a comeback, as far as I’m concerned). Since standing outside for long periods of time or pinching your way to a perfect pink is both uncomfortable and excessive, simulating a [...]

While shows like Blow Out and Shear Genius have made the drama of real-life hairdressing familiar to TV-obsessed Americans nationwide, the reality show goldmine of the face-painting business has somehow managed to remain untapped. To fill this void, Lifetime is launching Blush, a new competition that’s looking to crown “the next great makeup artist.” With [...]

During the Spring show season, designers often pass down a “warm” mandate to the makeup artist in charge backstage. This is why, aside from a few rogue dissenters, you frequently see a bevy of rosy cheeks walking down the runway come September. Spring 2009 was no exception to this general rule, although in a particularly [...]

They say Boy Scouts are always prepared, but apparently, the same can be said of art historians. Sporting a pink cheek courtesy of her Chanel blush, this German transport by way of Christie’s in London was packing heat while strolling the cobblestones in the Meatpacking District. “I always have it on me,” she said producing [...]

It took this ceramics teacher six haircut-free years to get her braid to Rapunzel-rivaling lengths. (We’re assuming the large dreadlock she likes to fasten into an interesting topknot was cultivated over this period of inaction as well.) The pink blush just above the apples of her cheeks was a style that took a little less [...]