The blushers Sabrina Carpenter loves REVEALED – and they all cost less than £40
SOMETHING’S been bothering us since Sabrina Carpenter’s Saturday Night Live appearance.
No, it isn’t how she manages to prance around in blocky heels or remains pitch-perfect while dancing on a cocktail bar.
We’re hooked on that blush look.
While most of the Espresso singer’s beauty fanfare has surrounded her hair, it’s the candyfloss pink, over-zealously-applied blusher that got the Fabulous office talking.
Shortly after her SNL appearance, make-up artist Carolina Gonzalez revealed all the products she used to achieve Sabrina’s look – including that hallowed blush – which sent social media into a frenzy.
But we were desperate to discover the blushers the singer swears by, so here they are…
Armani Luminous Silk Cheek Tint
Armani Luminous Silk Cheek Tint, £36
From Sabrina’s Coachella appearances to red-carpet moments, it seems like MUA Carolina Gonzalez almost always reaches for Armani Luminous Silk Cheek Tint.
Following Sabrina’s SNL performance, Coralina revealed that she layered shades 53, a candy pink, and 62, a deep rose, which created a sculpted three-dimensional look that enhanced Sabrina’s cheekbones.
According to John Lewis, the blush quickly sold out following her May appearance, with searches increasing by nine-fold across the store’s website that month.
Makeup By Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush
Makeup By Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush, £30
We adore Sabrina’s kitsch red-carpet looks – courtesy of her glam squad – but she’s also pretty good at DIY.
In a GRWM video for the Bueno Aires leg of the Eras Tour, Sabrina taps Makeup By Mario Soft Pop Plumping Blush across her cheeks.
Easily blendable and buildable, this cream blush can be applied to cheeks with fingers or swept on to skin with a brush.
In most of her blush looks, Sabrina tends to opt for warmer, deeper clay-pink hues – and her favourite Makeup By Mario shade is Rose Crush.
Milk Makeup Jelly Tint and Milk Makeup Lip + Cheek
Milk Makeup Jelly Tint, £22, Milk Makeup Lip + Cheek, £22
The blush used on Sabrina in the Espresso music video is rather bizarre.
If you’ve swiped through beauty videos on social media, you’ll be familiar with make-up’s wobbliest product: Milk Makeup Jelly Tint.
In a now-deleted Instagram post, MUA Leah Darcy recreated Sabrina’s Espresso look, revealing the products she used in the singer’s music video.
First, she applied the jelly blush to her cheeks, before layering on Milk Make-up Lip + Cheek, a multitasking blush balm.
This created depth and dimension, dialling up the pigment of this otherwise sheer and dewy blush look.
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Charlotte Tilbury Matte Beauty Blush Wand
Charlotte Tilbury Matte Beauty Blush Wand, £30
Few products reach the stardom of Charlotte Tilbury blush wands, and it’s little wonder, considering all its celebs fans – including Sabrina Carpenter.
In a GRWM video, the singer dots the blush along the apples of her cheeks (a technique developed by Charlotte), before blending with a brush.
With their precision applicators – enabling you to ‘stamp’ product on to your face, minimising mess and fallout – and highly pigmented, matte formulas, Charlotte Tilbury Matte Beauty Blush Wands are more or less foolproof.
Nars Blush
Nars Blush, £34
We thought that Sabrina prefers liquid blush, until we stumbled on this video.
Sabrina sweeps Nars Blush on to her cheeks and over the bridge of her nose, explaining it’s her favourite hack for achieving a radiant, sun-kissed look.
Powder blushers can be messier and less buildable than liquid, but their easy-blend formulas make them a make-up bag staple – just ask Sabrina.
She uses the shade Dolce Vita, a warm clay pink, which you could also tap on to eyelids for the ultimate put-together look.