BECCA Mineral Blush in Wild Honey

I hope you all are enjoying the holiday season! The product in this post was definitely a bit of a holiday splurge. I’ve been intrigued by BECCA Cosmetics ever since they appeared in Sephora. After reading Becca at The Beauty Sample’s review of Sweet Pea, I was inspired to try a BECCA blush. I ended up purchasing Wild Honey.

On Sephora.com, Wild Honey is described as a peachy nude. I think of nudes as having a beige or brown base, but other than that, it’s a term that can describe such a range of colors. To me, colors like Wild Honey look less like any one single color and more like a blend of many. I uploaded an image of Wild Honey onto a Color Palette Generator (have you seen these, by the way? for all my fellow color fanatics, this is such a fun tool), here are the tones it came back with:

So as you can see, the blush is a blend of muted warm browns, pale burnt orange-y beige tones, dusty pinks, and light salmon peachy pinks. On my warm-toned skin, it leans more orange-peach than pink.

Wild Honey is incredibly buttery smooth and blendable. It’s a very soft and natural shade, but pigmentation is buildable, although it does maintain an underlying sheerness. I was recently reading a post by Sunny at Mostly Sunny where she described a product as being intentionally sheer. This is a perfect example of an intentionally sheer product. It’s beautifully formulated and highly pigmented, but not designed to give opaque coverage.

The finish is somewhere around a satin-matte. Like the Lippy Girl Oragnic Mineral Blushes, the first ingredient is Mica. I’m assuming this gives both blushes their not-flat-matte finish, although I’d say the BECCA blush is slightly more glowy than the Lippy Girl. I love this finish for blushes – they give you the slightest bit of highlight that won’t show up as shimmer or glitter, even in the most unflattering office lighting.

My other nude blush is Sleek Suede. Here’s the two next to each other for comparison.

The Basics

• Where to Buy: Online and in-stores at Sephora, beccacosmetics.com, Amazon.com; check Where to Buy for retail locations near you
• Price: ~$32.00
• Availability: BECCA is available in Australia, Europe, and the US
• Animal Testing Policy: BECCA is cruelty-free.