{"id":540,"date":"2008-07-21T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T01:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2008\/07\/21\/review-makeup-chanel-joues-contraste-powder-blush\/"},"modified":"2017-08-30T08:30:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T00:30:29","slug":"review-makeup-chanel-joues-contraste-powder-blush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywomenstuff.com\/2008\/07\/review-makeup-chanel-joues-contraste-powder-blush\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Makeup: Chanel Joues Contraste Powder Blush"},"content":{"rendered":"

For as long as I can remember, my ultimate dream bag is a Chanel 2.55. Ok, not as long as I remember because when I was younger, I thought it looked “auntie” but now I want one and its out of my financial reach. (Besides, if I do have one I’m not sure I’d have the guts to carry it around and sully it with scratches, dirt, pollution… but I digress… \ud83d\ude09 ) So, what’s the next best thing to a Chanel 2.55?<\/p>\n

Chanel makeup! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Specifically, the Chanel Joues Contraste blushes<\/strong>. They are da bomb!<\/p>\n

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The Chanel Joues Contraste blushes come luxuriously packed in a velvet pouch (that serves no purpose except to add luxury) and are housed in a solid black plastic case with the classic Chanel emblem on the cover. Look at it from the front or back, it looks the same. That makes things a bit hard sometimes because it only opens one way and most of the time, I’m not getting to the right clasp!<\/p>\n

Once opened, you’ll see a round domed powder blush on the left, with a small, cute but utterly useless blush brush on the right. I’d rather they just did away with the brush totally and made the case smaller and more compact. Maybe even slimmer.<\/p>\n

Packaging grouses aside, the blush is, for me, perfect. There is just the right amount of shimmer in the blushes without being glittery and the texture is silky smooth. The powder blushes are baked not pressed so they feel harder to the touch. If you have Bourjois blushes<\/a>, they are similar (Bourjois is Chanel’s little sister… or maybe its the other way around) in make but Chanel’s texture is much smoother and silkier.<\/p>\n

In terms of pigment, I find that Chanel blushes are pigmented yet sheer, so they are blushes that can be built up slowly to your desired colour. Unlike Nars blushes<\/a> which tend to deposit a lot of colour on the brush, the brush doesn’t pick up too much colour from Chanel blushes so it is easier to layer and to ensure you get your desired tone\/shade. Some people don’t like this because it means you have to brush on your blush 2-3 times, and to them, its a bother. I like this because it means I’m less likely to make a mistake and have to start over which is, to me, even more of a bother!<\/p>\n

In terms of colour, I do find that Chanel Joues Contrast blushes don’t come in great variants of colour, unlike Nars. Chanel blushes tend towards the Pink (Narcisse, Caprice, Turbulent), Coral (Reflex), Beige (Orchid Rose) and Browns (Brume D’or). On screen, the colours look bright but in person, except for a few more prominent shades, I’ve noticed that they are more muted. In fact, I used to find Chanel blushes a little boring because they looked very brown. Now of course, I know better.<\/p>\n

What this means is that Chanel blushes are more wearable. I can wear a brown\/bronzer shade like Brume D’or <\/strong>without looking like someone threw mud on my cheeks. Some other shades don’t work so well on me though. Some examples are:<\/p>\n