Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush Gives the Best Luminous Glow

HourglassAmbient Lighting Blush: Cheek color with candlelight effects.

Hourglass makeup is high end and high performance. Launched in 2004, these innovative luxury cosmetics blur skin imperfections with luminous, airbrushed effects. For those who want products that are easy to apply, that enhance your natural beauty, and that are long lasting, this brand has several. I easily recommend Hourglass bronzer for radiant warmth, Hourglass lipstick for comfortable pigment saturation, and Hourglass blush for the perfect pop of color and glow for cheeks. In fact, I can’t get enough of Ambient Lighting. This blush is special. It’s fused with Ambient Lighting Powder, making it like a soft highlighter and cheek color in one. The look is reminiscent of candle glow or moonlight on the skin. Who doesn’t want the aura of the moon on their cheeks all day?

Promises vs. Performance: Hourglass blush’s soft focus glow and depth.

The Hourglass website describes their Ambient Lighting blush as having vivid color and an airy lightweight feel. Because the “modern hues” of pigment are hand-swirled with Ambient Lighting Powder, no two blushes are exactly the same. Instead of being flat like a traditional blush, this one promises to provide seamless, multidimensional color with a lighting effect on the skin. And, even better – the formula is said to be buildable color that can give you a natural flush or a bold cheek.

I love Hourglass blush formulas and am always excited top off my cheeks with them. Two of my most reached for shades are Ethereal Glow, a cool pink blush, and Mood Exposure, a soft plum color. I always use a large fluffy blush brush to dab on the product. True to brand claims, the product felt so light and silky on my cheeks. It instantly blurred my middle face and smoothed out the look of my pores, giving a beautiful airbrushed effect. The color was saturated but soft and glowy around the edges. It was easy to build this blush to the depth of color I wanted. The interplay of tones and light that it gave me was stunning.

I’ve worn this blush all day long several times, and it continues proving itself to be a very long lasting blush. By the end of the night, my cheeks always still look great. The product does not become flat and it doesn’t transfer or fade. The healthy glow and color the blush provided was still present and looked fresh at the end of aa full day of wear.

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How It Compares: The best luminous, luxury powder blush.

Hourglass Ambient Lighting stands apart in the world of high end cheek products. The unique, bestselling formula is a fan favorite and darling of beauty editors. One writer for Who What Wear praised this product’s ability to impart glowy radiance, even naming it their most favorite blush after testing more than one hundred varieties. Shoppers must agree: More than 238 thousand Sephora patrons have loved this cheek color, and countless reviewers declare it to be their holy grail blush. I enjoy this blush because it comes in eight gorgeous shades that are lightweight, buildable, and natural looking. Although it’s a powder, it never looks dry or flat, thanks to the luminous highlighter swirled within. Ambient Lighting Blush provides beautiful color and a light-catching glow that accentuates the cheekbones (no matte cheeks around here!). And, it doesn’t fade all day.

Milabu Method: How to apply Ambient Lighting Blush for soft, glowing cheeks.

This gorgeous cheek compact by Hourglass makes it easy to get a natural looking flush. It’s a soft, fail proof formula, so you really can’t go wrong!

1. Apply the product using a large, fluffy blush brush in dabbing motions along the cheekbones and on the apples of the cheeks.
2. Repeat to achieve deeper color.
3. Blend by using the same brush, but without additional product, in gentle swirling motions on the cheeks for the softest edges and most believable glow.

Tip: A radiant setting spray is my preferred final step when my makeup routine includes a series of powder products (bronzer, setting powder, and blush). I enjoy Hourglass Veil Soft Focus Setting Spray, $48, but there are great ones in every price range.