Natasha Denona Bloom Blush & Glow Palette

Where I got it

I got this from Sephora while they were having a 20% off storewide discount in July. I recently picked up the Bronze Eyeshadow palette via Beautylish but I was tossing whether I should get the bronzing palette in the collection. I didn’t in the end because I hardly wear bronzer and the highlight in that palette was way too warm and glittery for my skin tone and preference. When Sephora had a sale, however, I decided it was time for me to try out this blush palette because blush is something I wear often and I really want to try her cheek palettes. Also, it looks so darn gorgeous!

So, I got this from Sephora for $96 after discount. This is usually $106 on Sephora.nz. I ordered this on a Friday and it arrived on the next Tuesday.

What I got

This is the Bloom Blush & Glow Palette by Natasha Denona (13.7g). A midi-size blush and highlighting palette inspiring by Natasha Denona’s best seller – Diamond & Blush Palette. This is the ultimate glow palette featuring some of the bestselling Face Glow Cream Shimmer in peach, Glow extreme in light rose, Cream Blush in fuchsia, and the iconic Duo Glow in vibrant coral and golden.

Cream Blush: A hydrating velvety cream blush to give your skin a healthy flushed color.

Duo Glow: A multi-purpose duo-chrome highlighting powder that is rich in real crushed mineral duo-chrome pearls to give your skin a supernatural shade shifting glow. 

Glow Cream Base: A hydrating luminous cream highlight that is rich in real crushed mineral pearls to give your skin the ultimate lit from within radiant glow.

Glow Extreme: A multi-dimensional sparkling creamy powder highlight with a soft-focus HD finish and a velvety smooth texture.

How I find it

The packaging is beautiful and high quality, the compact has a magnetic closure and the top cover opens fully flat. If you know about Natasha Denona’s face palettes, you would have already known about the top two shades that have a clear cover that can flip up. That top two pans are cream blushes and highlighter, therefore the designed wanted to users to be able to protect it from drying out or other powder products flying into the cream. I think this is thoughtful design and it has been executed very well, it is an easy flip up and down.

I also love how each shade/pan has its name on the side: (starting from top left, going clockwise) Glow Cream Base, Cream Blush, Glow Extreme, and Duo Glow. It makes it so much easier to figure out which one to use because the shades are quite deep and pigmented so it’s probably not very suitable for everyone. It has a large mirror under the lid but doesn’t include brushes which I don’t really care for.

Basically what we have here is a cream highlighter, cream blush, powder highlighter, and powder blush. You can use a cream highlighter as a base and then intensify with the powder highlighter, or the same thing with the blushes. You can also use the cream or powder on their own, or even cream over powder!

For the first look, I used only the cream products. I applied the cream blush with a dense buff brush, but the highlighter with my fingers. The cream highlighter gives a really natural-looking glow and the cream blush looks like I’m blushing naturally.

For the second look, I used only the powder blush and highlight. The powder blush is significantly less intense than the cream blush and I had to build it up to see some colour. The powder highlight, however, was a lot more impressive. It is shimmery and sparkly, rather than glowy.

Overall

Alright, to summarize, the Cream Blush is highly pigmented and is a rather deep fuchsia shade that might not work on lighter skin tones unless you really sheer it out. It applies nicely with a dense buffing brush and gives that natural-looking glow from within. The Glow Cream Base is really beautiful on the skin, but it was a little difficult to pick up with my dense brush so I always end up using my fingers. It adds some colour to my cheekbones and gives that glowy sheen finish. The Glow Extreme is also super sparkly, so don’t expect a subtle, natural glow. It deposits more shimmer than colour on the skin. The Duo Glow is soooo gorgeous as a blush, it is less intense compared to the Cream Blush and I hardly need a highlighter if I use this.

The powder products look really good on their own and the cream products as well, but the powder products do adhere much better and are a lot more intense when applied over cream products. Personally, I would prefer either cream or powder, but not one on top of each other. It’s quite a personal thing.