Transition Blush Tutorial: Your Blush Has Never Looked This Seamless!

Before you start building your blush look, lay down a flawless concealer application to disguise the look of dark circles and discolouration. The aim of transition blush is to create a seamless transition between your blush and concealer and the easiest way to do this is to blend out cream concealer first then using powders to set, diffuse and blur. You don’t want to see any visible lines where your concealer ends, so take extra care to blend out the edges.

Tilbury Tip: I recommend focusing AIRbrush Flawless Blur Concealer at the inner and outer corners of your eye and blending well with the small end of my Hollywood Complexion Brush, then setting with a small amount of AIRbrush Flawless Blur Loose Powder.

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Transition blush incorporates several shades of blush to capture that dreamy, diffused look. The base blush shade you choose will determine which colour you are most prominently blushing in. Decide how you want to blush – think pink, peach, berry– then apply to your cheeks as you normally would. With a base blush shade, I like to focus the colour on the centre of the cheeks to give them that rosy, flushed appearance. Take your favourite blush on a fluffy brush like my AIRbrush Flawless Easy Soft Blur Bronzer and Blusher Brush and buff it into the apples of your cheeks. For a lift effect, blend upwards towards your temples. You can stop there and look fabulous, darlings… But a couple of extra steps will give you that flawless transition effect.

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To transition blush seamlessly into your concealer, take a blush shade that’s slightly lighter than the base blush shade you have applied and use it to gently blur the edges of your blush. Taking a small amount of a lighter blush shade and sweeping back and forth over the edges of your blush creates the most gorgeous blush diffusion. Use soft, circular motions with a small fluffy brush for a beautiful, blurring effect – this removes any stark contrast between your complexion and your blush and allows your blush look to flow effortlessly between your base and cheek makeup.

Your base blush sets the tone for your transition blush look so when choosing your transition blush it’s best to stay within the same blush family. For example, one of my favourite ways to get the transition blush look is with a bright pink blush like AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur in Loved Up. I pair it with a light pink transition shade like Blushgasm or Pillow Talk Medium for a flawless colour blend and it creates the dreamiest pink blushscape.

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The final step for the transition blush look is to use a loose powder to set and blur. Applying two tonal shades of blush creates a dreamy blurring effect, but adding loose powder to complete the look is what gives you that ultra-seamless finish. With your powder puff, press a small amount of loose powder into the perimeter of your blush. This gives the edges of your blush a blown-out, cloud-like finish that effortlessly transitions into concealer. Your blush shouldn’t cross the border of your concealer but rather meld flawlessly to create a smooth transition. This last touch of loose powder is what fuses blush with concealer – once you’ve gone over the edges with your powder puff, it’s not obvious where your concealer ends and your blush begins!

Tilbury Tip: For this step, I love using a pink or peach shade of loose powder. My Brightening Pink and Brightening Peach shades have blushing tones that meld so beautifully with blush – it’s like they live in the same beauty world!

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1. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Loved Up
2. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Blushgasm
3. AIRbrush Flawless Blur Loose Powder – Brightening Pink

Pink blushes pop on fair and medium skin tones, darlings! Loved Up and Blushgasm are my secrets to flawless pink blush and they pair perfectly with my Brightening Pink shade of loose setting powder. This blush combo will give you that ethereal, rosy-pink blur filter effect that also counteracts and brightens the look of any dark circles and discoloration.[

1. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Sunset Siren
2. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Summer Lovegasm
3. AIRbrush Flawless Blur Loose Powder – Brightening Peach

Warm tones like peach and coral come to life on medium and tan skin tones. Sunset Siren is my ultimate summertime siren shade – it is a hot, hot coral for the most flattering pop of colour! Try pairing it with Summer Lovegasm as your transition shade – the moody peach tones blend flawlessly with tan skin and transition into my Brightening Peach loose powder like a dream!

1. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Forbidden Cherry
2. AIRbrush Flawless Blush Blur – Pillow Talk Dreams
3. AIRbrush Flawless Blur Loose Powder – Translucent Deep

Deeper skin tones require more saturated shades of blush for them to pop. To get the transition blush look for deep skin, reach for a brown-toned blush like Pillow Talk Dreams as your transition shade – it will fuse your blush look with your skin tone so elegantly. Forbidden Cherry will look dreamy as a base blush for deep skin; blend it into the rosy tones of your transition shade and finish with a deep shade of loose powder to create a soft, gradient look.