Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Be-Talk: Lakme Absolute Cheek Chromatic Baked Blush

Brand: Lakme
Line: Absolute
Shade: Night Sheen
Price: 550 INR
Quantity: 4g

I had long curiosity about baked blushes. I read so much about the Bourjois and MAC mineralize blushes-I just couldn’t wait to try out the Lakme Absolute Cheek Chromatic Baked Blush as soon as it was launched.

 A description of these blushes from Health Kart-since Lakme website is not yet updated with the product details of the Lakme Absolute Collection.
 
Have irresistible rosy cheeks with Lakme Absolute Cheek Chromatic Baked Blush. It contains antioxidants and Vitamin E which hydrates and rejuvenates your skin. You can so easily fall in love with the luminous Blush as you use this luxurious powder for a shimmering glow.

Description 

Features

Lakme Absolute Cheek Chromatic Baked Blush is a luxurious powder blush for shimmering glow. Its extraordinary luminosity will make you fall in love with it.

Contains  antioxidants and vitamin E.
· Get a shimmering glow with this luxurious powder blush
· Extraordinary luminosity
· Antioxidant Vitamin E

How to use

Day Look
·  With a brush gently sweep the blush across your cheeks using gentle upward strokes.
Night Look
·  To intensify the shimmer, first apply absolute Mattreal Skin Natural Mousse over face and neck.
·  Then follow instructions for Day Look.


Me-Talk: 
I was looking for a blush that will just impart some color to my cheeks-not something that will make me look Chili-Faced. So I opted for Night Sheen-as one of the other two colors was way too shimmery and the another one was too pink to fit my bills. Night sheen is a close to an orange blush-with copper and gold sheen to it. Its not shimmery. If used sparingly-it just imparts what I want-subtle color to me cheeks-I especially like it because this color aptly suits my warm skin tone and looks very natural. Another feature I like about this blush is that the color is very buildable. With a soft blush brush-you can pile up the intensity or tune the color as you like. The texture is very fine-and no gritty shimmer is observed. Because of this-this blush blends beautifully. The pigmentation is not very good-which again I will rate as a positive feature-since this prevents going overboard with color! Overall, I guess my first tryst with a  baked blush is really good-although I didn’t buy it from high end brands. Overall-the Lakme Absolute Cheek Chromatic Baked Blush is the most pocket friendly and pretty good quality baked blush in town now. Grab-able? Yes!! /blush



Pro-Side:
1) The color Night Sheen would be a versatile blush for girls with warm skin tones-during the day-this will impart a soft color. For nights-the finish can be built up to that of a bronzer.
2)The texture is fine. This makes it buildable and blendable.
3) Has no shimmer-so comfortably day wearable. The hint of sheen will not look OTT-but will add that extra punch to the –err-not face /wahaha but overall look 
4) At 550 bucks-this has lesser price than any other baked blush available
5) No break outs observed after applying

Light Application

Building up the intensity

Downside:
1)I wish there were more variants in shade available

2) There is a lot of fall out when the brush is swiped over the blush  /no

Rating: 90%

21 comments:

  1. Thankuuu :) :) :) I think this will suit all fair to medium-warm tones :)

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  2. the onion smilies are looking soooooo cute! i tried to incorporate in mine but couldnt :p the blush is damn pretty anu and i am going to buy it for sure!!!! you look dan cutie!

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  3. Ohh-I will tell u in FB chat-it was very easy to install these :) :) and thankuuuu /blush

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  4. woooow...loely shade
    u r looking like a doll in the last pic:)

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  5. lovely !! ll work great as bronzer

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  6. Bidisha: owww -thankuuuu sweety-mwazz :) :) :)

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  7. Rids-yess!! the nice thing is the slow blend-ability-you can get just the finish you want :)

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  8. This is my kind of colour very natural & warm. Will check this out for sure

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  9. Yes!!-this is a very good shade for Indian skin tones-and since the texture is fine-it will not look OTT!!! =))

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  10. sorryy-I didnt mean that smiley-posted the wrong code-oops /wahaha

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  11. This luks like a gud shade :) I was apprehensive abt d shimmer part but this luks so pretty on u :)

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  12. Thankuuu :) :) This is really a good shade for Indian skin tones-and you can control the amount very precisely-there is no chance of overusing it and look OTT /hihi

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  13. its a real nice shade..great going Anu !! :)

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  14. Looks so lovely on you. I want to try the pinkish shade now...nice review

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  15. The shade looks really warm and nice on you ! Nice review and pics ! But i have few pores wonder how it will settle into these or ... .

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  16. Prachi: I think this line of blushes will be good-you can go for the color of your choice safely :) :))

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  17. Sukanya: thankuuu sweety!!! :) :) :)

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  18. Shummerlicious: Thaankuuuuu!!!! Well, you can first apply primer and then foundation with a setting compact. A primer-a good one-will even out the appearance of pores-and then you can safely blend your blush-I do the same when I have some unevenness on my skin :):) and hey you have a lovely blog :) :)

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  19. I want this just cos the packaging is so awesome!! Lakme seems to be making so much improvement from their earlier boring products naaa

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  20. Hehe-yaa-the packaging is close to MAC ones na??? but donot buy the spf 20 intense white foundation-its looks are most deceptive :(

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