From Blackpink’s Jennie to Singaporean actress Fann Wong, Asian beauty standards favour the use of blush to add a natural flush to the cheeks to accentuate the wearer’s youthfulness. In a similar grain, adding a wash of lip colour also livens up the complexion. And with our busy schedules, cheek and lip tints are the perfect answer to score on all fronts.
Unlike blushes for the cheeks and lipsticks for the lips that can usually only be applied where intended, the multi-purpose cheek and lip tints are made with ingredients that are suitable for both. They also tend to leave a more skin-like finish on the face as compared to blushes, allowing for a more natural look. Finally, these can be easily dabbed on with our fingers or a synthetic brush to create a cohesive, rosy makeup look on the cheek and lips that appears healthy and youthful with little effort.
Offering a cream-to-powder finish, E.l.f’s cream stick can also be used on the eyes as an eyeshadow colour as well. The formula contains shea butter and vitamin E to moisturise and nourish.
These cream blushes from Jessica Alba’s Honest Beauty have been well-loved for a long time by beauty influencers and regular consumers alike for their lightweight, seamless formula that offers a healthy flush. It is free of talc, mineral oil, synthetic fragrances and parabens.
Enriched with mango butter and avocado oil, the Milk Makeup’s lip and cheek cream blush is easy to blend (even with just your fingers) and offers buildable coverage. Toss it into your purse to touch up your makeup on the go.
ICYDK, lipsticks can also be used as blush. But as formulations differ, some are better suited than others. The Clinique lipsticks contain nourishing squalane and pomegranate sterols and are made to play double duty on both the lips and cheeks to offer a high shine, pigmented finish.
Beloved on TikTok, the lip and cheek cream sticks from Huda Beauty are infused with lychee extract and vitamin E to give your mien a dewy, healthy glow. The stick formula also makes it easy to travel with.
Kahi is a Korean beauty label loved by actress Kim Go-eun. The balm is powered by Kisspeptin that firms and brightens as the salmon complex and fermented plant oils from Jeju Island hydrate, plump and nourish the skin. Use it across your eyes, lips and cheeks.
Smashbox’s lip and cheek tint is infused with primer, which means it blends easily to offer a buildable sheer-to-medium coverage and blurred soft matte effect. The Primer Oil Complex also provides comfort.
The Stila quad is made for those who love options. It is available in two colour combos – a more muted palette for daily wear and a more saturated version for those who prefer a brighter punch of colour. Either way, the cream formula leaves a translucent flush of colour to liven up your complexion.
Dry skin types would enjoy RMS Beauty’s iteration as it contains buriti oil, shea and cocoa butter to deeply moisturise and add a touch of glow. The pigmented formula also means you don’t need to use much each time.
An extension of Charlotte Tilbury’s famous Pillow Talk line, her multipurpose lip and cheek tints contain emollients, mica and various nourishing plant extracts to offer a healthy, seamless fresh-looking glow.