Benefit Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush Review & Swatches
Add the new Benefit Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush ($28) to my list of things I wished I loved! Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush is a new creamy version of Benefit’s cult favorite Dandelion Powder.
This soft baby pink liquid cream promises to give cheeks a healthy glow with a baby pink hie that instantly brightens up cheeks and face.
Unfortunately, on me, it didn’t quite work out.
Benefit Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush comes housed in a bright green metallic pump barrel. It happens to be one of two new creams that Benefit released with Dew the Hoola Soft Matte Liquid Bronzer being the other. I have hopes and suspicions that at some point, perhaps Summer 2016 and into Fall 2016, we’ll see all the Benefit Box O’ Powder Blushes get their own liquid cream variations. I know I’d be very excited to see shades like Bella Bamba and Coralista as a cream version.
Benefit dubs this a dewy pink liquid blush with a soft, radiant glow. The name says other wise, “Soft Matte”, seems like it might be matte in finish? So yeah, I’m confused. None the less I wanted to try this out since I’m a rather fan of the powder formula so away I went to Sephora.com to make my purchase.
So not only is it a baby pink blush but it’s supposed to give you a lit-from-within-glow that brightens your complexion with a “delicate gleam”. I has a sad because it didn’t work for me at all. This is a beautifully creamy texture that blends easily but on my duller skin it looked horrible. I didn’t get the radiance or gleam it promised and unfortunately, it seemed to cast a pasty pink across my cheeks that made me look sallow and sickly. On the upside it kinda works well under blush and adds a certain brightness to my face when I wore it under my regular blush. I think it’ll work best on cooler tones. I have medium fair skin myself with warmer undertones so I felt like this didn’t really flatter my complexion. I guess it really depends. The color does run sheerer so don’t expect it to work perfectly as a blush but some folks might like the way it adds a certain “strobe” or highlighted effect. This, for me, turned into one of a weird cast it created over my skin. Not a good look I fear. It’s funny because it swatches a nicer pink than it appears on my cheeks!
There’s no fault with the formula. As I mentioned above it’s very creamy, easy to blend, and wears considerably long for a cream product at around seven hours. It leaves behind a soft, satiny finish but not so much a matte or even a dewy one that’s described in the name of the product and description. I think it looks quite second skin-like and doesn’t adhere to drier areas.
I’d recommend Benefit Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush as a test in store type of product. It’s going to work great for some and not so much for others in my humble opinion.
Benefit Dandelion Dew Soft Matte Liquid Blush is available now at Sephora, Sephora.com, Ulta, Ulta.com, Macy’s, and macys.com.