Beauty

Illamasqua Colour Veil in shade Frisson Review

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?

Sarah

Sarah. Almost 30. Craft beer drinker. South London resider. I like photography, boxing and visiting all of London's markets.

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