Todays post is about a little blusher I recently picked up from a brand i’m beginning to really like.

MUA (Make Up Academy) is a low budget brand that is available online and also at Superdrugs in store. (Let me know if you find it anywhere else on the high street please).

It has a really great range of products for really cheap prices. Whenever I buy one of their products I always expect to be let down in some way, just because I can’t quite believe it could be such a great bargain – but I always remain impressed.

So on a whim I picked up their latest blusher offering, the Blush Perfection Cream Blusher. The cute little container spoke to me as I walked past. I wasn’t even in the market for a new cream blusher, but the £2.00, yes people, just £2, price tag screamed at me and I had to pick one up.

The cream blusher is quite small at only 3.8g, but, it’s so well pigmented that I can see this lasting for quite some time.

This is what MUA say about this new range:

These cream blushers are very versatile and multi-purpose. They can be directly applied to bare skin, layered over foundation or set with the matching matte blushers in the £1 MUA range. You can use blush perfection to highlight your cheekbones, shape your face, build and blend with fingers or a brush to create the colour intensity. The colour effects range from a light pink to warm shade, depending on method of application.

The range comes in six shades (Top L-R) “Yummy”, “Blossom” & “Dolly” (Bottom L-R) “Bittersweet”, “Lush” & “Scrummy”.

The new MUA Cream Blush Range

Personally, i’d like a bit more of a colour selection as at least half of them are too “nude’ to do much but provide a cream contour to the face.

I chose the colour “Scrummy”, which is what i’d all a pinky/peach. The swatches on my hand look much more pink than peach, but I promise, on the face a decent flush of peach does come through making this a ‘warm’ toned blush over a cooler shade like “Bittersweet”. For this reason, I think “Scrummy” could work well as we progress into Autumn, adding a little bit of warmth to my face.

In natural daylight

With flash

The formula requires a little warming up before you can apply it with a brush, but as with many cream blushers, I find applying with fingers gives it a more natural finish anyway.

This time I did a bit of both as I was also blending in a highlighter. So I applied the cream to my cheeks with fingers, dotted my liquid highlighter above and used the brush to blend the two together.

The Highlighter I used

Blended with a brush

Result in natural daylight

Result with flash

I love how the blush contains no shimmer but still gives you that sheen, which is so typical of cream blushers.

So far, i’ve had it on for just over 4 hours and it is wearing well. It dries to a non-sticky finish, but doesn’t turn to powder like some cream blushers, so this is one for you if you are after a flush of colour with a dewy rather than satin finish.

What do you think?