Ben Nye Powder Blush and Contour Refill

The Ben Nye powder blush refill pan is lovely. Using a light touch with finger or soft brush on primer the colors last all day. Buffing them down leaves a wash of all day color that does not rub off on masks and is very real looking for an everyday look.

The quality is finer than prestige brands in up market retailers. My next Ben Nye purchase will be to try the lipsticks. For an uncomplicated but striking look there is no better than Ben Nye colors.

I love matte blush and these blushes are lovely and blend nicely. It’s a great price for the quality and I like the refill pans to fill and personalize my own empty palette. It’s a little hard to choose shades online (I really wish they had arm swatches!) but I got Nectar Peach, Victorian Rose, Vintage Rose and also the Contour 1 powder. They don’t seem to have a mid-tone plummy pink, unfortunately (I’m looking for a Tarte Blushing Bride dupe). Swatches would be so helpful! Please please please!

Nectar Peach is the beautiful mid-tone warm peach that I was looking for (med-tan skin tone), but I think it’s a nice peachy tone that can work for a lot of skin tones without being too bright or orange.

Victorian Rose to me is a medium-dark reddish pink, it gives a nice looking flush on the cheeks. I think it’s probably best on tan to deeper skin tones as it’s pigmented though.

Vintage Rose is like a lighter and smidge more pink version of Peach Nectar, in my opinion. It’s good for when I want a light nude blush and don’t want a lot of pigment, but I’d say it’s a nice peachy pink nude for a more medium to light/fair skin tone.

Contour 1 is a very pigmented, cool-toned, taupe brown contour powder. I use a fluffier type of brush with this to blend; definitely use a lighter hand. It looks so good if you really marry your blush/bronzer into it. If I go too heavy it can look like a stark, gray stripe on me since I’m very warm toned though.

I’ve been using coral for months as an eyeshadow and blush, and I’m excited to try out this color! Ben Nye has great pigment and lasts a long time, and I love that I can use the magnetic refills in my empty palette to create my own palette to take with me to performances!

Nice pink for fair to medium skin tones Matt for a natural finish

This soft, finely milled, and highly pigmented blush is a lovely color and works well both as a blush and eye shadow. The high quality, large size of the pans, and ability to use them for double duty makes these an obvious choice.