How to choose your colors -- Glow hot or stay cool?

Contrary to popular belief, whatever your skins tone maybe, fair, medium, or deep, you can blush in almost any color. However do keep in mind that it's the depth or intensity of color that can work wonders on you or ruin your look. If the color is too deep or intense, it can look garish, gaudy and tasteless on light skins. If it's too faint, the color can fade away quickly and easily from medium to deep-toned skin.
If your skin has a cool cast, your best blush will probably be on the cool-toned side.
A rich rose for example, rather than a hot pink. If your skin has warm golden or olive tones, your best blush probably falls on the warm side, too.

Your Best Way to Blush Guide is the skin tone types.

Cool-Toned Skin, Warm-Toned Skin are some of the skin types.
If you look best in these fashion colors: blue, aqua, green, lavender, plum and other cool water tones. If you look best in these fashion colors: peach, pink, orange, red, olive-green and other warm earth-tones.

Get a rush from your blush in cool tones of Plum, Wine, Crimson, Blue-Red, Pastel Pink, Terracotta, Peach, and Rose! Get a rush from your blush in warm tones of Hot Pink, Coral, Warm Red, Bronze, and Brown!

Blush Intensity According to Skin Tone:

Fair Skin: Light to Medium Intensity

Medium Skin: Medium Intensity

Deep Skin: Medium to Deep Intensity

From Cheek to Chic: How to Apply Blush the Peter Lamas Way

As we have already pointed it out that blusher is one of the most difficult of cosmetics to put on. It has to be matched and missed with your skin tone flawlessly so that there won’t be any rough edges. Blush makeup should also make sure that your best features are delicately and in an understated way, made even better. Finding ad selecting the right shade of blusher that suits your skin tone is of great importance. The right shade of blusher will give you a healthy natural looking glow and color to your face. And the incorrect shade or shade that doesn’t suit your skin tone will make you look drained or overdone. We caution you that it is very important for you to know your most excellent facial features. You can use your blush to put emphasis on your beautiful cheekbones or a high forehead or a perfect chin and apply your blusher to subtly define and accentuate them.

Look at the greater picture: try to complement and use a blusher that matches with your lipstick color as well as your clothes at all the times and instances.

Cheek color should be always put on only after you apply the foundation or on clean, bare skin, if your skin looks sine and is flawless enough to go without foundation. Be sure to apply a light layer of pressed or loose power on your naked skin first, and then apply the blusher. This will help to prevent the oily areas of your face from making your blusher to look blotchy or streak.

Now we will tell you how to apply your Formula perfectly. In general these are tips to apply blusher to get a certain look and to make your face look like you want it to look:

To get a sculpted, sophisticated look you have to at the very beginning, locate your cheekbones by sucking in your cheeks. Feel along the edge of the cheekbone. This is where you'll have to put on the cheek color.
Never put on color on top of the cheekbone area. It will get in the way with the eye area and actually make the skin under the eyes look swollen and bloated. If you apply the blusher in a proper fashion, you have to make sure that the end product of your blush makeup should be to make cheekbones more outstanding to look at. And perk up your other features as well.

For a soft, gentle and mellow glow all you have to do is smile to expose and show the "apples" of your cheeks. You will notice that they're right in the center of your face. Put on color horizontally or in side ways, sweeping over this "apple" area and mix it up lightly and mix it with your natural skin tone. As in every other instance, keep your blush color at least one and one-half inches at a distance from the nose and never brush color near the eyes.

Using Your Favorite Formula:

If you are using Powder blusher then make sure that you put your money to get yourself a professional quality, full-bristled brush designed specifically for powder blush application. Read our tips on how to choose high quality brushes.

When you apply powder blush, don't put too much of color on the brush from the blusher. Extra color will only make you look very rough and brighter than a Christmas tree. Stroke the brush softly across the powder blush pan and pat gently on the blusher container to remove all extra color. This way you will save the blusher from being wasted as well!

Sweep on the brush along the periphery of the cheekbones, in an upward or vertical motion, towards temples, without going very near to the hairline. Add a touch of color on the chin and another, across the brow, brushing in a horizontal or side ways course, to achieve a sense of steadiness and poised look on your entire face.

Incase you are using a crème blush you should use your fingers, place three to four small dots on cheekbones and merge it towards the temples until and unless the color blends evenly and smoothly with your natural complexion. Apply another dot on chin and blend it well with your skin tone to get evenness in the color on your face.

Just incase your Liquid or Gel blusher you can press out color and apply a pat on a dot of color on your fingertip. Blend on cheekbones, working towards the temples. Reapply if needed to intensify color. Add a dot on chin and blend, to balance.

If you are using a Crayon blusher that is a cheek pencil then make two to three light pencil strokes on the cheekbones and merge it evenly towards temples. Apply a little blusher color on the chin and blend evenly to get a sense of equilibrium in your makeup.

There are some Do's and Don'ts for the correct application of blusher. Read it and follow these rules on what you should do and what you shouldn’t when you are applying blush makeup to get the perfect blush!

DO - Apply blush in several coats, building up the color on your cheeks gradually.

DO – get yourself a large blush (preferably the area of the bristles should be of exactly the same size of your areas of your cheeks). So do find for yourself a brush designed specially for applying blusher.

DO - Wash powder blush brushes regularly, as often as you can with soap and water. Air-dry it naturally after you wash. This will keep the bristles fresh.

DO - Wash your hands thoroughly before and after you blend in crème, liquid or gel blusher to prevent transmitting bacteria to your skin. And to prevent from staining fingers and clothes.

DO - Look at yourself that is look at your face in a well lit mirror from all possible angles after applying blush makeup. This is important so that you can check and ensure accurately that every edge is absolutely blended and the color has merged with your skin tone.

DON'T - Blend the blusher inwards towards your nose or downwards below your cheekbone area. Always blend in an upward motion, out towards the edges of your face.

DON'T – put on too much color and take extra color on your brush. This will lead to a point where you will commit the mistake of applying just a bit too much color in while trying to apply blusher. You will only have to take out most of it with a makeup sponge or tissue, to achieve the natural look that you truly desire.

DON'T - Rub your skin with a lot of force when you blend your blusher. Remember that ideally you should at all circumstances blend the blusher with your skin very softly and tenderly with the pads of the fingers or fingertips or a soft makeup sponge.

DON'T - Clash with the other colors that you are wearing (whether that is your natural skin tone, hair color or the color of the eye shadow, lipstick or the clothes that you are wearing). Select a blush color that complements your complexion and hair color and of course match along with the color of your lipstick and your attire.