Your questions about blusher answered

What is the best blush?

After testing powders, creams, liquids and stick formulas across a range of skin types and tones, Patrick Ta’s major headlines double-take cream and powder blush duo proved the overall winner with its perfect balance of pigment, longevity and versatility. For a more affordable option, L'Oréal Paris’s lumi le liquid blush impressed with its excellent colour pay-off and sophisticated, moveable consistency. Meanwhile, Westman Atelier’s baby cheeks blush remains a hard to beat – albeit expensive – pick for cream-blush devotees. Of course, the best blush for you will vary depending on , but the strongest performers here all shared one thing: they looked convincingly natural, wore beautifully and brought life to our faces without ever looking cakey or doll-like.

How we tested

Blush is one of those products that can appear a perfect shade match when you’re looking at a swatch, but translates entirely differently once layered onto real skin.…