YSL put out a new blush that many beauty gurus are struggling to make work on their skin. Golloria recently tried ALL the shades (the brand sent it to her) and it was extremely chalky and barely appeared on her skin. People in her comments told her it wasn’t meant for her skin tone (the brand photographed these blushes on dark skin) and was meant for pale skin.
Manny MUA tried these blushes and they did not show up on his skin despite being quite fair. People in his comments told him he wasn’t pale enough and the product wasn’t meant for his skin either lol.
NoWomanNoFry on
Manny is pale AF lol some people just want to cosplay as oppressed 💀
FancyAdvantage4966 on
Wooow. These comments are… posted. On the internet.
Seriously though, my grandma is Swedish, I’m pretty fair complected, and I don’t even want to use them after watching Golloria try them. (And she was sent them as PR??) I don’t need makeup that’s going to wash me out and make me look pasty. Imho they’re bad across the board.
Silly_Somewhere1791 on
It’s a brightening tone for people with pale olive or cool undertones. People are just jumping on the bandwagon and pretending to act confused in bad faith. Anyone who ever swiped on shher lavender blush to wake up their complexion knows exactly what this product is for. It’s also a mixer.
The problem isn’t that this product exists. It’s that other skin tones and undertones aren’t being given this treatment. But I also think YSL potentially misjudged by bringing a K-beauty trend to a demographic that was never going to be interested.
galaxystars1 on
I mean go on golloria’s tiktok of the YSL blushes the comments are the same
brbrcrbtr on
The creators are being ridiculous on purpose for engagement and I wish people would stop giving it to them.
They know pale people exist, they know that skintones cover the whole colour spectrum. Yet they act like idiots every time a non-standard blush shade is released. It’s tired.
randalina on
The thing I don’t get is like… okay this is makeup for people who are very very very fair, I get it. What I don’t get is the swatches on the website then, the swatches show it on darker skin tones looking not at all how it looks on any of the beauty gurus (Monica, golloria etc.) I’ve seen test it.
Okay this blush isn’t for people with darker skin that’s fine… then why are the swatches on the website so misleading? I don’t get why people are acting like these people are dumb when they’re being sent it in pr and the website makes it seem like it is a product for everyone. If anything they’re just pointing out how misleading the brand being about this shade.
Edit: I just double checked the website and to me it looks like manny is paler than all of the models they show in the face swatches? So like if manny isn’t pale enough… why aren’t the people who say this blush is for them a little upset with the brand, when the brand won’t even show what it looks like on something close to your complexion?
lupinrangeryellow on
people will foam at the mouth for a chance to tell dark skinned people that a designer brand’s product isn’t for them, actually. it’s marketed as a blush. it was sent to golloria. of course she’s going to assume the thing that was sent to her was for her/her skintone. people who are telling her otherwise just look dumb
LimeGreenTangerine97 on
I mean to be fair I’m not buying YSL anyway. It’s going to cost over $50 and have horrible perfume smell. I love the shade for me but I’ll buy an inexpensive K Beauty blush
Flashy_Blackberry_60 on
Disclaimer that this is my personal opinion so for other people it could be different BUT in the winter + without any self tan I can be super pale and I feel like this wouldn’t work even for me?? Like I don’t think it would necessarily be ashy but I think it probably wouldn’t show up well. Like that girl Jazz or Jazmyn (not sure of spelling) on YouTube is fair and I couldn’t see it on her when she tried it.
Also people keep saying k beauty brands do these lavender blushes, I keep tabs on k beauty brands and I haven’t even seen any THIS light? Or people say it’s meant to act as a base for other shades or for brightening almost like a highlight. I don’t believe this to be true though, since when is a high end luxury brand like YSL making artsy kind of makeup that is “made to mix with other shades” or whatever. Also just from my perspective if I’m going to spend that much on blush I want it to work perfectly on its own, if I wanted a lightening base I could probably find something that would achieve that at a much cheaper price.
I believe their actual motivation for making this shade was either an oversight while trying to make something different and exciting or making a genuinely weird shade that would stimulate discussion. Also worth noting that actually ALL of the shades have white base and are prone to looking ashy on deep skin. As a (sometimes) fair skinned person, I do need white base in the formula for a blush to be muted enough or especially if I want it to look baby pink instead of hot pink. However I think there should be SOME shades that work for deep skin as a priority over making a shade that will barely even show up on the fairest 2% of the population. Just weird to me 🤷🏻♀️
JenFromIT on
Even for very fair people a white base in the blush is not necessary, it can be a translucent base or low color payoff and still be beautiful for fair people.
DevelopmentInside874 on
That’s such a weird comment “it’s for people like me, I can never find makeup for my skin tone” when more than majority of makeup on the market was made for people with that skin tone
This is the same YSL lavender blush on Oceanne (beauty influencer with albinism) and so far she’s the only one I’ve seen that the white base works for
331x on
I’m black and I think ppl are being so insane about this. Very fair people need unique blushes just as much as very deep people :/ not everything is for everyone and that’s okay. This is making a problem out of nothing and they’re taking simple wording far too literally.
I’m disappointed in everyone criticizing this release for making a single pale lavender blush that works solely for fair skin, they’re really making a fool of themselves
somewhereheremaybe on
“Kitten, get behind me 😡” aaa beauty brand defenders lmfao
my600catlife on
Why are people acting like they need special blush shades because they’re pale? You can use almost any blush on the market. A lot of them were already made for you, but you can still use deeper shades with a light hand or by mixing it. I also can’t imagine this particular shade looks good on anyone. It’s almost gray.
AlarmedAssumption277 on
LMFAOO this is just white people being dense
Chocolate_peasant on
On the website for this blush, all of the models are medium-deep skin tones. It’s very misleading. Also I am confused on those who are talking about inclusivity goes both ways, when the entire shade ranges of the blushes won’t work on most people because of the white base.
ElevatedAssCancer on
As a very fair-skinner and cool-toned person, I LOVE a lilac blush with a strong white base. It looks so radiant on me (haven’t tried the YSL one specially, just in general)
I completely agree with the sentiment that not everything needs to be for everyone. In today’s world of insanely high pigment blushes, they don’t work well for me at all! IMO the problem comes in where they tried to market this on deeper skin tones and (seemingly, allegedly) fudged the results.
yeahokbuddy55 on
“Is it even a problem if it’s not MY problem?”
QueenMaeve___ on
Pale people looove talking about how deathly ghostly pale they are lmao. Any oppurtunity to do so… It’s so dumb too bc if a blush is too pigmented… just use less of it?? But if a blush is too ashy it won’t work no matter what you do with it. If you market a product as inclusive, it should actually show up on dark skin lmao. Pale people want to be oppressed so bad oml
Rumi2019 on
The commentators are being obtuse on purpose. We know pale blushes are a thing for ultra fair skin tones, just like dark blushes are a thing for deep skin tones. The problem is that YSL’s marketing of this blush shows it showing up on medium & dark skin people even, so naturally the influencers that test makeup are going to try out if the brand claims are true.
From what I saw 3 of the blushes in this range had a white base, & white base can make colours look ashy even on medium skin tones.
AsterismRaptor on
Here’s the thing – you can make blushes for fair skinned people and still include some blushes without a white base for other skin tones. This isn’t difficult. The problem here isn’t the white base, it’s that they marketed it for people of ALL skin tones and then *surprise pikachu face* it’s not for all skin tones. And to ice the cake they threw some PR at the deepest skin tone influencers and what? Expected them to just make it work? Nah. I’m with the influencers on this one, this was dumb.
lna9997771 on
I have really bad grammar so please bear with me.
The comments where people are like, I’m as white as paper and this would work for me, don’t understand how ignorant they really are… no one has ever made a white as paper foundation, they always consider skin tone, undertone and things like this for people who have fair skin. I do remember in the early 2010’s and before it was hard to find drugstore foundation for my skin tone, everything was pink/orange/a hair dark (for reference I am ultra fair in UD and was L40N in the old kvd foundation back in the day) skin tones like mine and up to tan have always been catered to, even before drugstores had good undertones. there is a way to do pastels on darker skin, by working with skin tone level and saturation you can make something beautiful for people who want a lighter, brighter blush. It won’t have a white base but it can achiever the same look. Its lazy for a big brand to only cater to light skin tones, in k beauty the majority of people are on the fairer side, so they don’t have to worry about that as much when formulating for a non western/other market. I wish people would stop defending big brands when they aren’t inclusive.
When I see a brand do this it says to me they don’t want people of color buying from them, and I don’t want to support a company like that.
CeruleanHaze009 on
The second slide. Irish and Scottish people are NOT “sheet white”. They’re also acting as if PoC can’t be Scottish and Irish. Speaking as someone who lived in the UK for years and visited RoI frequently.
thesweetestgoodbye on
Like EVERY makeup product isn’t made for
People with fair skin and they get 10000 shades and the tan/dark skin folks get two shades at best. Not to mention most if not all blush and lipstick shades can work with fair skin but not on darker skin. People want to be oppressed so
Bad.
fibrofighter512 on
These comments remind me of when fat ppl like me talk about body discrimination and some skinny girls will come in and be like “well I TOO am discriminated against because I’m thin!” like that’s not how oppression works
Prestigious_Draft_24 on
Lowkey feel they are bots
Lavawitch on
As somebody who is very pale, yeah, sometimes finding the best shades is tricky, but tricky just means choosing wisely from the wide assortment available to us. The only product I can think of that really wasn’t available was CC/BB cream.
And the use of Irish as a synonym for very pale is not great. Irish people (and Scottish) come in all colors and always have.
whalesarecool14 on
pale princesses love to tell darker skinned people “not every product is made for you yk”. you think you need to tell that to anybody with dark skin??? we already know 90% of makeup is created with white skin in mind
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YSL put out a new blush that many beauty gurus are struggling to make work on their skin. Golloria recently tried ALL the shades (the brand sent it to her) and it was extremely chalky and barely appeared on her skin. People in her comments told her it wasn’t meant for her skin tone (the brand photographed these blushes on dark skin) and was meant for pale skin.
Manny MUA tried these blushes and they did not show up on his skin despite being quite fair. People in his comments told him he wasn’t pale enough and the product wasn’t meant for his skin either lol.
Manny is pale AF lol some people just want to cosplay as oppressed 💀
Wooow. These comments are… posted. On the internet.
Seriously though, my grandma is Swedish, I’m pretty fair complected, and I don’t even want to use them after watching Golloria try them. (And she was sent them as PR??) I don’t need makeup that’s going to wash me out and make me look pasty. Imho they’re bad across the board.
It’s a brightening tone for people with pale olive or cool undertones. People are just jumping on the bandwagon and pretending to act confused in bad faith. Anyone who ever swiped on shher lavender blush to wake up their complexion knows exactly what this product is for. It’s also a mixer.
The problem isn’t that this product exists. It’s that other skin tones and undertones aren’t being given this treatment. But I also think YSL potentially misjudged by bringing a K-beauty trend to a demographic that was never going to be interested.
I mean go on golloria’s tiktok of the YSL blushes the comments are the same
The creators are being ridiculous on purpose for engagement and I wish people would stop giving it to them.
They know pale people exist, they know that skintones cover the whole colour spectrum. Yet they act like idiots every time a non-standard blush shade is released. It’s tired.
The thing I don’t get is like… okay this is makeup for people who are very very very fair, I get it. What I don’t get is the swatches on the website then, the swatches show it on darker skin tones looking not at all how it looks on any of the beauty gurus (Monica, golloria etc.) I’ve seen test it.
Okay this blush isn’t for people with darker skin that’s fine… then why are the swatches on the website so misleading? I don’t get why people are acting like these people are dumb when they’re being sent it in pr and the website makes it seem like it is a product for everyone. If anything they’re just pointing out how misleading the brand being about this shade.
Edit: I just double checked the website and to me it looks like manny is paler than all of the models they show in the face swatches? So like if manny isn’t pale enough… why aren’t the people who say this blush is for them a little upset with the brand, when the brand won’t even show what it looks like on something close to your complexion?
people will foam at the mouth for a chance to tell dark skinned people that a designer brand’s product isn’t for them, actually. it’s marketed as a blush. it was sent to golloria. of course she’s going to assume the thing that was sent to her was for her/her skintone. people who are telling her otherwise just look dumb
I mean to be fair I’m not buying YSL anyway. It’s going to cost over $50 and have horrible perfume smell. I love the shade for me but I’ll buy an inexpensive K Beauty blush
Disclaimer that this is my personal opinion so for other people it could be different BUT in the winter + without any self tan I can be super pale and I feel like this wouldn’t work even for me?? Like I don’t think it would necessarily be ashy but I think it probably wouldn’t show up well. Like that girl Jazz or Jazmyn (not sure of spelling) on YouTube is fair and I couldn’t see it on her when she tried it.
Also people keep saying k beauty brands do these lavender blushes, I keep tabs on k beauty brands and I haven’t even seen any THIS light? Or people say it’s meant to act as a base for other shades or for brightening almost like a highlight. I don’t believe this to be true though, since when is a high end luxury brand like YSL making artsy kind of makeup that is “made to mix with other shades” or whatever. Also just from my perspective if I’m going to spend that much on blush I want it to work perfectly on its own, if I wanted a lightening base I could probably find something that would achieve that at a much cheaper price.
I believe their actual motivation for making this shade was either an oversight while trying to make something different and exciting or making a genuinely weird shade that would stimulate discussion. Also worth noting that actually ALL of the shades have white base and are prone to looking ashy on deep skin. As a (sometimes) fair skinned person, I do need white base in the formula for a blush to be muted enough or especially if I want it to look baby pink instead of hot pink. However I think there should be SOME shades that work for deep skin as a priority over making a shade that will barely even show up on the fairest 2% of the population. Just weird to me 🤷🏻♀️
Even for very fair people a white base in the blush is not necessary, it can be a translucent base or low color payoff and still be beautiful for fair people.
That’s such a weird comment “it’s for people like me, I can never find makeup for my skin tone” when more than majority of makeup on the market was made for people with that skin tone
https://preview.redd.it/0ucbalm1k0qd1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b96411b80b74c1ab73af84ec4d8ff254b4a4ec4
This is the same YSL lavender blush on Oceanne (beauty influencer with albinism) and so far she’s the only one I’ve seen that the white base works for
I’m black and I think ppl are being so insane about this. Very fair people need unique blushes just as much as very deep people :/ not everything is for everyone and that’s okay. This is making a problem out of nothing and they’re taking simple wording far too literally.
I’m disappointed in everyone criticizing this release for making a single pale lavender blush that works solely for fair skin, they’re really making a fool of themselves
“Kitten, get behind me 😡” aaa beauty brand defenders lmfao
Why are people acting like they need special blush shades because they’re pale? You can use almost any blush on the market. A lot of them were already made for you, but you can still use deeper shades with a light hand or by mixing it. I also can’t imagine this particular shade looks good on anyone. It’s almost gray.
LMFAOO this is just white people being dense
On the website for this blush, all of the models are medium-deep skin tones. It’s very misleading. Also I am confused on those who are talking about inclusivity goes both ways, when the entire shade ranges of the blushes won’t work on most people because of the white base.
As a very fair-skinner and cool-toned person, I LOVE a lilac blush with a strong white base. It looks so radiant on me (haven’t tried the YSL one specially, just in general)
I completely agree with the sentiment that not everything needs to be for everyone. In today’s world of insanely high pigment blushes, they don’t work well for me at all! IMO the problem comes in where they tried to market this on deeper skin tones and (seemingly, allegedly) fudged the results.
“Is it even a problem if it’s not MY problem?”
Pale people looove talking about how deathly ghostly pale they are lmao. Any oppurtunity to do so… It’s so dumb too bc if a blush is too pigmented… just use less of it?? But if a blush is too ashy it won’t work no matter what you do with it. If you market a product as inclusive, it should actually show up on dark skin lmao. Pale people want to be oppressed so bad oml
The commentators are being obtuse on purpose. We know pale blushes are a thing for ultra fair skin tones, just like dark blushes are a thing for deep skin tones. The problem is that YSL’s marketing of this blush shows it showing up on medium & dark skin people even, so naturally the influencers that test makeup are going to try out if the brand claims are true.
From what I saw 3 of the blushes in this range had a white base, & white base can make colours look ashy even on medium skin tones.
Here’s the thing – you can make blushes for fair skinned people and still include some blushes without a white base for other skin tones. This isn’t difficult. The problem here isn’t the white base, it’s that they marketed it for people of ALL skin tones and then *surprise pikachu face* it’s not for all skin tones. And to ice the cake they threw some PR at the deepest skin tone influencers and what? Expected them to just make it work? Nah. I’m with the influencers on this one, this was dumb.
I have really bad grammar so please bear with me.
The comments where people are like, I’m as white as paper and this would work for me, don’t understand how ignorant they really are… no one has ever made a white as paper foundation, they always consider skin tone, undertone and things like this for people who have fair skin. I do remember in the early 2010’s and before it was hard to find drugstore foundation for my skin tone, everything was pink/orange/a hair dark (for reference I am ultra fair in UD and was L40N in the old kvd foundation back in the day) skin tones like mine and up to tan have always been catered to, even before drugstores had good undertones. there is a way to do pastels on darker skin, by working with skin tone level and saturation you can make something beautiful for people who want a lighter, brighter blush. It won’t have a white base but it can achiever the same look. Its lazy for a big brand to only cater to light skin tones, in k beauty the majority of people are on the fairer side, so they don’t have to worry about that as much when formulating for a non western/other market. I wish people would stop defending big brands when they aren’t inclusive.
When I see a brand do this it says to me they don’t want people of color buying from them, and I don’t want to support a company like that.
The second slide. Irish and Scottish people are NOT “sheet white”. They’re also acting as if PoC can’t be Scottish and Irish. Speaking as someone who lived in the UK for years and visited RoI frequently.
Like EVERY makeup product isn’t made for
People with fair skin and they get 10000 shades and the tan/dark skin folks get two shades at best. Not to mention most if not all blush and lipstick shades can work with fair skin but not on darker skin. People want to be oppressed so
Bad.
These comments remind me of when fat ppl like me talk about body discrimination and some skinny girls will come in and be like “well I TOO am discriminated against because I’m thin!” like that’s not how oppression works
Lowkey feel they are bots
As somebody who is very pale, yeah, sometimes finding the best shades is tricky, but tricky just means choosing wisely from the wide assortment available to us. The only product I can think of that really wasn’t available was CC/BB cream.
And the use of Irish as a synonym for very pale is not great. Irish people (and Scottish) come in all colors and always have.
pale princesses love to tell darker skinned people “not every product is made for you yk”. you think you need to tell that to anybody with dark skin??? we already know 90% of makeup is created with white skin in mind