Add the perfect pop of colour with the best blushes on the market

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It’s time to blush up on some new makeup must-haves to add to your everyday routine. We’re rounding up the top blushes to add to cart right now — from matte to glowy to powder to liquid, these are the top blushes to shop in every category to ensure the perfect pop and flush of colour every time. 

A little wrap on the best blushes

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Best splurge-worthy blush: Gucci Luminous Matte Beauty Blush
Glowy: Pixi On-The-Glow Blush
Powder blush: Kylie Cosmetics Pressed Blush Powder
Multi-purpose blush stick: Nudestix Nudies Matte Cream Blush
Liquid blush: NARS Afterglow Liquid Blush
Matte blush: Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush
Blush balm: Summer Fridays Blush Balm Lip + Cheek Stick With Hyaluronic Acid
Best do-it-all blush: ILIA Multi-Stick Cream Blush + Highlighter + Lip Tint

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Our top blushes

Best splurge-worthy blush: Gucci Luminous Matte Beauty Blush

Features: We have a blush on Gucci’s Blush de Beauté. This skin-loving formula offers a buildable, multi-use colour that can be used on both the cheeks and the eyes. Plus, it’s formulated to blend effortlessly into the skin while delivering a long-lasting luminous matte colour payoff, ensuring a healthy lit-from-within flush and glow. Key ingredient callouts include; shea butter, hyaluronic acid and black rose oil which help to hydrate and soothe skin.

What they’re best at: As one of the world’s leading luxury brands, Gucci stands behind its quality and performance when it comes to makeup. The Gucci Luminous Matte Beauty Blush is an innovative product for the brand as it’s Gucci’s first powder blush that’s formulated with skin-loving ingredients developed to ensure your skin is glowing from the inside, out.

Price: $67
Where to buy: Sephora

Glowy: Pixi On-The-Glow Blush

Features: This TikTok-approved blush stick is formulated with ingredients such as ginseng and aloe vera which help to hydrate the skin. It also features a unique blend of fruit extracts. You’ll love this blush because it’s convenient, super easy to apply and features a buildable formula designed to add a natural flush of colour to the cheeks. 

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What they’re best at: Pixi Beauty’s mission is to bring out your natural beauty, ensuring your skin looks and feels its best. This glowy blush stick comes in three unique shades and provides the skin with supple hydration and a dewy glow. Plus, this product can be layered to achieve your desired pigment and coverage. 

Price: $24-$54
Where to buy: Amazon | Shoppers Drug Mart

Powder blush: Kylie Cosmetics Pressed Blush Powder

Features: The Kylie Cosmetics Pressed Powder Blush features a lightweight formula and comes in an array of six colourful shade options. Designed to glide effortlessly onto the skin, this blush is smooth, long-lasting, buildable and super blendable, making for a flawless application process. It also offers a coveted velvet-matte colour payoff. 

What they’re best at: Kylie Cosmetics — created by Kylie Jenner herself — is a curated collection of the reality star’s makeup must-haves. The Pressed Powder Blush is a crowd favourite from the brand because it spotlights a silky formula that will add the ideal pop of colour to any look. 

Price: $26
Where to buy: Shoppers Drug Mart | Kylie Cosmetics

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Multi-purpose blush stick: Nudestix Nudies Matte Cream Blush

Features: Say hello to your new favourite blush. The Nudestix Nudies Matte Cream Blush features a soft, matte colour that you can use on the eyes, cheeks and lips for an overall monochromatic look. This award-winning, long-lasting and weather-resistant blush is also perfect for toting on the go because it’s dual-ended.

What they’re best at: Nudestix prides itself on creating easy-to-use products you can use to achieve beauty on the go. The brand is known for creating top-tier, multi-use products that are formulated to enhance your natural features and bring out the best in your skin. Fun fact — Nudestix Nude beauty director, Sofia Richie-Grainge, used the Nudestix Nudies Matte Cream Blush in the shade Picante during her wedding weekend earlier this year.

Price: $39
Where to buy: Sephora

Liquid blush: NARS Afterglow Liquid Blush

Features: I’m loving this NARS Afterglow Liquid Blush because it’s chock full of hydrating skin-loving ingredients. Featuring a long-lasting, natural finish and glow, this blush feels silky to the touch and blends effortlessly onto the skin ensuring a transfer-resistant colour payoff. The best part? It’s infused with sodium hyaluronate to promote hydration as well as vegan collagen to ensure healthy, radiant-looking skin.

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What they’re best at: NARS continues to push boundaries in the beauty space with the brand’s ever-evolving product lineup. The NARS Afterglow Liquid Blush is formulated with skincare benefits and properties that contribute to lasting hydration leading to overall healthier-looking skin.  

Price: $39
Where to buy: Shoppers Drug Mart

Matte blush: Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush

Features: Who doesn’t love a good blurring blush? The Too Faced Cloud Crush Blurring Blush is a must-have for any makeup collection because it’s formulated with a flower-extract blend and is available in both diffused satin and diffused matte finishes. However, the brand’s matte finish blush is where it’s at! The blurring properties of this blush ensure your skin is left with a pillowy soft veil of colour. Plus, the velvet powder’s natural blurring effect is also coupled with buildable colour which helps deliver a healthy flush to the cheeks.

What they’re best at: Too Faced is changing the game with the Cloud Crush Blurring Blush, because it offers an innovative formula made from 93 per cent naturally derived ingredients that feels like a second skin once applied. 

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Price: $38
Where to buy: Sephora

Blush balm: Summer Fridays Blush Balm Lip + Cheek Stick With Hyaluronic Acid

Features: Meet the latest from the Summer Fridays lineup and say hello to the Blush Balm Lip + Cheek Stick. This multi-use cream stick adds a fresh wash of sheer colour to the cheeks thanks to a winning combination of hydrating ingredients which include hyaluronic acid and glycerin. Now, it’s never been easier to achieve an effortlessly dewy makeup look you can sport daily.

What they’re best at: Influencer co-founders Marianna Hewitt and Lauren Ireland know a thing or two about beauty because Summer Fridays continues to revolutionize the industry with new launches.  The latest innovation from the brand — Blush Balm — is conveniently designed to plump and hydrate the skin, solidifying Summer Fridays’ mission to provide consumers with products that are not only easy to use but also feature clean ingredients and are also beautiful to display.

Price: $36
Where to buy: Sephora

Best do-it-all blush: ILIA Multi-Stick Cream Blush + Highlighter + Lip Tint

Features: The ILIA Mult-Stick Cream Blush + Highlighter + Lip Tint really can do it all. Inspired by natural beauty, this cream product offers a wash of colour that can be built up to your desired coverage. As well, ingredients such as shea butter ensure the product seamlessly melts into the skin while avocado oil and orange peel wax help to nourish and condition the skin. I also love that it can be used on the lips or cheeks and doubles as a highlighter, giving your skin the ultimate dewy glow. 

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What they’re best at: ILIA is dedicated to creating makeup formulated to nourish and protect the skin, in which its product lineup does just that. The multi-stick is a testament to the brand’s vision to continue pushing the boundaries of innovation — and the beauty industry — forward in that the convenience and usability of this blush stick make it truly stand out from anything else on the market. It also makes it the ideal all-in-one product to pop into your bag for a quick touch-up while on the go.

Price: $47-$72
Where to buy: ILIA | Sephora | Amazon

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