Illamasqua Colour Veil is a hybrid blusher that has a jelly to cream type texture but offers the same high pigmentation of a powder blush. I recently bought one in the shade Frisson. They usually sell for £20 each but are on offer more often than not. I bought mine for £8 from LookFantastic (I actually had some credit left over so I think it cost me all of £1 in the end).
The Colour Veils come in little frosted glass pots with a black glossy plastic lid. Looks can be deceiving and on first glance you might be thinking that this is quite a liquid formula due to the transfer of some product onto the lid. It actually has a jelly-like texture that when warmed up with fingers transforms into a cream. This makes the product extremely blendable and easy to work with. I usually dot the product on my cheeks using the tip of my finger and then blend it in using a stippling brush.
The Colour Veil blush dries down to a satin finish and lasts a good while. Perhaps not as long as a powder, but easily 8 hours +.
Frisson is a cool toned, mauve pink shade. I think it complements fair skin perfectly, but is pigmented enough to work for darker skin tones. There’s no shimmer and I believe all the shades on offer are matte.
All in all, I really like the Colour Veils. They’re pigmented, easy to work with and Frisson especially is a lovely shade on light skin. I’m also eyeing up Tonic but I’m not sure if it’ll be too orange on my skin.
Have you tried anything from Illamasqua before?
