I've been experimenting with blusher recently, previously a product that I'd entirely leave out of my daily makeup routine. However, I'm liking the rosy cheeked look, especially as summer is (supposedly) arriving.
My latest purchase is Illamasqua's Cream Pigment in 'Androgen'.
It arrived in a littlle nest of a package. A lot of packaging for one little product, but cute nonetheless! Felt like a little egg about to hatch...Generally I love the Illamasqua packaging, but this was far smaller than I imagined it to be. Even in the photos below it looks bigger than it is! Don't be fooled...haha. You get 8g of product in this thing, which I guess is not toooo bad.
Cream pigments can be used on eyes, lips and cheeks. I have mainly been using it on my cheeks, but I tried it on my lips a few times too. On the cheeks, I love the effect it has; a really subtle, peachy coral colour. On the lips, the colour is gorgeous, but it is slightly drying and shows up any bits of...skin or whatever uneveness is on the lips! So make sure you have exfoliated your lips with a lip scrub (I use Lush's Bubblegum lipscrub...but forgot to do it today, oops) to avoid it looking ikky.
I don't know if it has really shown up on here...on my eyes I am wearing Nars cream formula in Petula. This is a light swatch, but I am excited about building it up. I usually stick to gold/grey/lilac colours on my eyes, but I actually really like this look.
You can see the cream pigment on my cheeks a bit more clearly here.
And a somewhat blurry pic of the cream pigment on the lips.
Have you tried this Illamasqua's cream pigments before? What do you think of them?





