Review and Swatches: Fenty Beauty’s Raisin Standardz Cheeks Out Cream Blush

Formula Overview: The #FentyBeautyCheeksOut Freestyle Cream Blush is a #musthave for a fresh wash of color that effortlessly blends with a natural-looking finish. The #coverage is sheer and buildable, with a sweat- and water-resistant formula. Apply with fingertips or the #125brush for best results.

The coverage of this blush is buildable, leaning towards semi-sheer but varied depending on the application method. After one layer, it gives a fresh wash of color, but it can also be built up to a semi-sheer to medium, buildable coverage with a second or third layer. The formula layers beautifully, maintaining its flattering effect on the skin.

For higher coverage, swirl your fingertip around at least once, diffusing it to a more semi-sheer to medium coverage depending on the shade. Using a moderately-dense, angled brush also achieves semi-sheer to medium coverage in a single layer. A stippling brush gives a sheer wash of color, while fingertip application tends to be more medium coverage.

While finger swatches show initial pigmentation, the formula sheers out during real application. For true, sheer coverage, a lighter hand with one pat or tap with fingertip or brush is advised. The formula can be applied with fingertips or brushes, with fingertips being a handy and efficient tool for cream-based products.

This blush applies and diffuses effortlessly over both bare skin and foundation. There were no issues with lifting up base products. The consistency is similar to a traditional cream blush, emollient and wet to the touch in the compact, drying down after application. It gives a natural-looking, dewy finish, even though it feels dry to the touch.

The formula has impressive longevity, lasting between eight and nine hours before fading. The fade is even and the blush is water-resistant, but not completely impervious to rubbing.

Overall, the #FentyBeautyCheeksOut Freestyle Cream Blush is a fantastic product that delivers a fresh wash of color with a natural-looking finish. It is versatile and forgiving, allowing for sheer or buildable coverage depending on preference.

Formula Overview

$20.00/0.1 oz. – $200.00 Per Ounce

The formula is supposed to give a “fresh wash of color” that is “effortless” to blend with a “natural-looking” finish. The coverage is designed to be “sheer, buildable” with a “sweat- and water-resistant formula.” The brand recommends to apply with fingertips or their 125 brush (which is a fairly dense, angled brush).

The coverage was definitely buildable with a tendency toward semi-sheer coverage, but the intensity depended on application method. The best way to describe was that by the time you applied and blended out one layer, it often looked like that “fresh wash of color” it was marketed as having, but I’d argue they were closer to semi-sheer to medium, buildable coverage than true, sheer coverage. It was very readily built up to more intense, more opaque coverage with a second or third layer. It layered beautifully, too, so achieving higher coverage was easy to do and was still as flattering on the skin as one layer.

If you took a fingertip and swirled it around at least once, you’d get higher coverage, but it would diffuse a bit to more semi-sheer to medium coverage depending on the shade. With a few taps of a moderately-dense, angled brush (like they paired with this formula), one could get more semi-sheer to medium coverage in a single layer. A stippling brush was most consistent at yielding a sheer wash of color, whereas fingertip application tended to be more medium coverage.

That being said, they had the kind of pigmentation that seems pigmented initially but does have a tendency to sheer out in real application, so finger swatches alone are better as insight into potential opacity but not one layer opacity; the blended out swatch is a better indicator of as-applied to cheeks coverage. I still think they were more pigmented than described, but the formula was very forgiving so they could be used with a lighter hand (like one pat or tap with fingertip/brush) for true, sheer coverage if desired.

The formula played well with fingertips as well as brushes, though I preferred fingertips as they’re really just such a handy, efficient tool for cream-based formulas like these (and one less brush to wash!). I didn’t have any issues applying and diffusing out the edges of the blush over bare skin or over foundation (I paired them with Fenty’s Pro Filtr, which is popular but also more matte, so made for a good test base) as it did not lift up base products.

The consistency was more in line with a traditional cream blush; it was emollient and felt wet to the touch in the compact, and it remained emollient when it was applied to my skin. It did not turn to powder as soon as it came into contact with my skin, but it did dry down for the most part. I felt like there was very fine, barely-there pearl through most shades (some had obvious shimmer) which gave the illusion of dewiness, because when I touched the final application, it seemed dry to the touch but absolutely had that “natural-looking”–read: skin-like–finish advertised.

They wore between eight and nine hours before fading a bit, and they seemed to have a nice, even fade beyond that range. They seemed water-resistant as they didn’t bleed when I ran swatches under water, but you could certainly wipe the product away with light rubbing so it wasn’t impervious (resistant implies just that, resistant, but not impervious!).

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