Bloosdoeners: blush makes a comeback

Style We would in times of contouring almost forgotten, but once, in a bathroom far away, there was blush. And that is this year all the way back.

a Long time for the contourkits the red carpet, YouTube, and our make-uplades conquered, was made rouge-has a fixed value. That you are free to be taken literally, because the colorful boxes have been in existence since the ancient times, albeit in slightly different form. While we but with the powder brush need to swing for a fresh blush, had the Egyptians DIY’and, with red earth and fat, the Greeks used currant juice and the Romans, red minerals. As far as difficulty. And why actually?

batting and blushing

Flushing, we do especially when we are younger, and usually by a kind of excitement. Think of that fresh kinderblos after a round of romping on the playground: the body temperature rises, blood vessels expand, and it flows more blood through. The result? Cheerful blushing cheeks. It is not surprising that we blush to associate with youthfulness. We blush not only less as we grow older, our faces lose as the years pass also dimension and color. In short: pale pink or perzikkleurige rouge is the ideal way to get back some life in the brewery. Botox in a jar, so to speak.

All, there is still another reason, and that has to do with a very different kind of excitement. Not so much on the playground, or in the bedroom. Sexual tension provides as well for an increased blood flow, and the accompanying blush. No coincidence that the cultblush of the American NARS the name ‘Orgasm’. People who easily blush we find attractive, as appeared from a study by the university of California. Because we, unconsciously, with love and lust to associate, but also because we have blushing cheeks charming and disarming.

It is a testament of reliability and friendliness. Properties we high commitment. And yet had to understand the blush the past few years from the bottom of our toilettries powerless watching countless bronzers and highlighters stores stores. It had everything to do with the Instagramcultuur. Worldwide, we take less than a thousand selfies per second. The perfect skin was becoming more and more important and so disappeared any course blosje skillfully under a layer of foundation, then there was a lot of bronzer and highlighter over powder to dimension to create. Though there is now a counter-movement going. The popularity of the hashtags #nofilter, with meanwhile more than 200 million snaps, #naturalmakeup, 3.3 million, and #naturalskin, 170.000, reveals that we are again looking for authenticity. And also on the catwalk we see authenticity: in the form of small imperfections, sproetjes, mischievous crow's feet. And of course: a light red blush. Because Instagrammake-up may be the social media take over, naturelle beauty is a long uitgeblus(h)t.

Do-it-yourself

That blush throughout the years seriously changed, there can be no doubt. We all remember the red appelwangetjes from the 20's, or the bright stripes as two colorful jets across the cheeks zoefden in the 90's. In the year 2019 should the happy a little more subtle. Under the name ‘blushadow’ is blush the product to become uniformity. How? Simple: bring the color to the color on your cheekbones and fade gently towards the temples. Let the same color, then come back into your eye shadow, on the bridge of the nose and the lips.