Blusher

Actual use: Ideally meant for the cheeks, a blusher is a perfect tool to add some colour to your face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Completely eyeliner and "blusher" free, it lets your little fairy unleash her inner stylist. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"Only use products such as blusher and mascara which enhance what you already have. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A dusting of Laura Mercier's Invisible Loose Setting Powder £29, spacenk.co.uk with a big blusher brush when you're just about to leave the house will fix your face for the whole day. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Every week, I watch commuters apply their make-up on the train, and it takes all my effort not to lean over with a blusher brush and rectify this most crucial omission I'd also switch off their mobile keytones while I was there. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sweep on the base colour with a powder brush, blending outwards, then take a good-quality blusher brush with domed bristles try the Body Shop or Mac and grin insincerely so cheeks fatten in the middle. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I had prepped precocious Cindy Hammer for a feature on Camp Pa-He-Tsi in Winnisquam, Michigan, using every tool in my portable makeup kit; styptic pencil, upper armpit blusher, highlighter. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

She blends the concealer, curls her eyelashes and goes light with the blusher but it's 2:13 and she's obviously tired in spite of being freshly painted, perfumed. ❋ Ames John Gigounas (2011)

I managed to pick up a nice red headed Jesus wearing lipstick, blusher and a sacred heart. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If you really can't bear to black out your lips (with pale eyes and just a crabapple of blusher), then try a dark plummy red, such as Dolce & Gabbana's or Maybelline's. ❋ Eva Wiseman (2010)

Prince is but a kid, him and friends Andre, Dez and Bobby Z pose in a grotty Minnesota bar, resplendent with flyaway proto-Princess Di hairdos, statement blusher, smudged guyliner, flasher macs and bare chests, in a mostly Caucasian town famous mainly for being bloody freezing. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tegan, Jen, and Sadie were all glowing with pride and overzealous blusher application. ❋ Erin Downing (2010)

She shot him a girlish smile, found her compact in her busy purse and applied blusher. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She spotted her cheeks with blusher and wiped away the excess with a piece of tissue. ❋ Robert Dugoni (2010)

What I wear, how I do my makeup … I mean, the omelette story is going to lose a lot of its charm if the picture the kids have to accompany it is a dodgy mobile-phone shot of me in jeans and a crumpled T-shirt with hastily applied blusher and a limp hairdo. ❋ Holly McQueen (2010)

Often, make-up for real people nods towards the cartoon, with an ultra-red Betty Boo lipstick or a perfect circle of pink blusher, but this month Shu Uemura have gone wild for the trend, with a pair of false eyelashes designed for the PPQ catwalk (£25, Selfridges, Selfridges. com). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I can’t make Amy [blush] for anything That’s because she is a very [skilled] [non-blusher] ❋ Anonymous12345567 (2019)

"Thanks again for sending over your [blusher]. I don't know how I would have made it through [finals week] otherwise." "[FWB] is too complicated. Sometimes you just need a blusher." "Sometimes I don't have time for sex, or I'm just too tired, but I stay horny af. My blusher doesn't dissappint." ❋ Thrawn's Kivu Brother (2023)