Maybelline Mineral Power Naturally Luminous Blush (Gentle Pink) Review

Hi! I'm back with the first blush I've ever owned, the Maybelline Mineral Power Naturally Luminous Blush with Micro-Minerals. Phew that is one heck of a long name. The colour I own is Gentle Pink. I can't remember how much it was since I got it at least 4 years ago. All colours of products are as true as I can get on my screen to the original product.

I know that we're not supposed to keep blush for so long, but I don't know how anyone expects to finish using up this whole tub of blush within even a year. Plus I'm quite the hoarder. One does not simply throw make up away.  It's a pretty huge tub of happy powder, as can be seen from my cutting mat, about 5cm in diameter. Does not come with brush.

Being the first blush I've ever owned, I didn't know anything about blush when I bought this. Guess I was lucky enough to fall into the 'mineral' makeup category. I used it quite a lot then, then fell out of using it as my blush collection just kept growing. But recently I've fallen back in love with it big time.

Design wise, loose powder. Nobody loves the messiness of loose powder, especially me. I am paranoid that the puffs of powder that appear when I close the container will magically stain my clothes. That aside, this tub fits nicely in my palm. Also, unlike the everyday minerals blushes, maybelline only gives 5 small holes in the tub. Much better to control the amount, but still not really suitable to carry around. This product is definitely one that should stay at home. 

What i do is before I open the tub, assuming there's no powder already in the lid, i turn it over so that it's cap down, then lightly tap the bottom surface 2-3 times with my fingernail. Gently unscrew upside down. That amount should be sufficient to give both cheeks a subtle glow. 

The powder is finely milled. It also goes on the face very smoothly. There are glitter particles in this blush if you look at the picture closely, but they are extremely fine. On the cheeks they just impart a very nice glow, even if when swatched reveals quite a scary amount of glitter.

Gentle pink does lie towards a coral tone. The above swatch shows the blush heavily swatched on the left and lightly swatched on the right. Oddly enough, the pink tone of this blush is more evident when layered, though I would suggest using a light hand as this blush is very pigmented.

I'm afraid as I'm still compiling the colour swatches that the only skin tone this will be showed with is mine. This slightly coral pink matches my nc30 skin tone extremely well, it's probably the best "flushed after exercise" tone that I have. I'm very sure this would match all skin tones very well.

This is how the product looks on the skin. Left is in the morning freshly applied, taken in natural sunlight. Right is after 12 hours of wear, 1 hour in contact with the humid weather of Singapore, the other 11 in the confines of the artificially cooled environment I call school. I don't blot my face, so I apologise for the oily face and hair and general weariness of myself.

Back to the product, you can see how amazingly long this product wears and I only put the tiniest amount.
Again, I really love the colour! No breakouts even though this product has technically expired. Thumbs up!

I really think blushers should be made in smaller tubs, then at least there would be hope in finishing a product. Will definitely repurchase this should I ever run out though.

Summary:

Pros:

• HUGE amount of product
• perfect colour (for me)
• highly pigmented 
• applies to a glowy finish
• lasts all day
• smooth soft powder, can't feel it!

Cons:

• messy to apply
• tough to bring out if annoyed by messiness