Soft, blurred, and beautifully diffused, watercolor blush is the painterly flush that’s quietly stealing the spotlight. Its defining feature? A wash of color with no harsh lines in sight. “The watercolor blush is a soft soft veil of product applied to the cheeks,” celebrity makeup artist Carolina Gonzalez tells Vogue, who’s etherial makeup aesthetic is often inspired by Alberto Vargas’s watercolor pin-up girls. “Think of the finish as the difference between oil paint (opaque) and watercolors (diffused and buildable). You can’t see where the application of watercolor blush starts or ends, because it melts into the skin with no detectable edges.” Gonzalez is known to paint this ethereal look on the likes of Sabrina Carpenter and Gigi Hadid, though Kendall Jenner , Simone Ashley ,

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