The Love Flush Blush Wardrobe is a limited-edition palette from Too Faced and it appears to be sold out on-line. However, you may still find one floating around your neighborhood Sephora, and you can still buy the blushes individually, so it seems fair to go ahead and review it. Besides, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and I wanted to review something with hearts on it.
This is a collection of all six of Too Faced’s Love Flush blushes. There’s a really good mix of colors, from light to dark, coral to plum, and various degrees of shimmer. Each has a cute love-themed name (I think they’re all song titles?). The pans are significantly smaller than a normal blush, but you still get a lot of product for the price and it’s a good way to try a few colors to see which one you like best. The pans are still big enough to accommodate any of the brushes I usually use for my blush, and since they are separate pans with a little space between them, you don’t end up with fallout drifting between the colors.
That’s a package of the box it comes in, but the design on the outside of the actual palette is the same, with the scattering of hearts with the Too Faced logo on them, and the little bunnies. It’s a cardboard palette, relatively slim and low-profile, but the fact that it’s so long may make it difficult to pack for traveling.
So far I’ve tried three of the blushes, sticking to the cooler tones as they go better with my winter wardrobe and the costumes I’ve been wearing lately. I’ll probably hit the warmer colors as my makeup gets brighter and bolder in the summer. I like that this palette gives me options that work well for every day, or for performance. I’ve found that the blush is highly-pigmented, though not to the point of being opaque. It goes on well and it’s easy to blend out the edges. I haven’t tested out the claim of 16 hours of wear, but “Your Love is King” (the dark plummy shade) held up well to last night’s Open Stage dancing.
If you like the look of the palette, you’ll probably like the individual blushes. They come in heart-shaped compacts and the blush has an embossed design on it. I think Too Faced tends to do a good job of having cute concepts (like the chocolate bar palettes) while still delivering a high-quality product that you’ll actually get a lot of use from. It’s nice to not have to compromise between having something that’s fun to look at, and good quality grown-up makeup.