Spring Cheek Challenge 2025: Style Awakening

[danielledanielle]

Spring Cheek Challenge
Style Awakening  💇🏽‍♀️✨⏰

Spoiler

Welcome to the Spring Cheek Challenge!!!  I'm looking for that seasonal refresh.  For the first SPRING Cheek challenge, (I know right.. How is this the first...I couldn't get past IYKYK, "Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking."), I want you to look towards personal moments and icons (person, celebrity, objects) for inspiration.    Look to the Gawds, dahhhhhlings.   And zhuzh it up with an outfit, or hair accessory or anything you think that's relevant.  I've declared this the "year of using my pretty things, " and I'm inviting you to join me!


The INSPO behind the INSPO:
This was fueled by caitbird's brilliant inspo board for Belle, pdxxxx's elite breakdown's of icons, the creative choices of Cissy63 during the Winter Wonderland cheek challenges... And again, Zendaya.

BUT, WHEN YOU NEED A PUSH/INSPO, AS ALWAYS.....I GOT YOUUUUUUU

Here are the weekly themes:

Blush Crush (Apr 8-13)
Meet me in Miami (Apr 14-Apr 20)
Sakura Slay (Apr 21-Apr 27)
Candy Coated Coquette, Pastel Version (Apr 28-May 4)
Candy Coated Coquette, Mocha Mousse Version (May 5-May 11)
Sunday Best (May 12-May 19)

I made a bunch of mood boards; feel free to use them or remix/remake them into your own.

 Blush Crush

Meet me in Miami

Sakura Slay

Candy Coated Coquette, Pastel

Candy Coated Coquette, Mocha Mousse (this pin is by the lifestyle blog)

Sunday Best

[Titian06]

Very pretty, @lmaster ! 😍

[lmaster]

Thank you darlin @Titian06 💕

[Titian06]

Today's Mocha Mousse was much lighter:

Yves Saint Laurent All Hours 24H Hyper Sunkissed Glow Bronzer 1 

[lmaster]

Lovely choice @Titian06 

[itsfi]

Candy Coated Coquette, Mocha Mousse

HAUS LABS BY LADY GAGA Bio-Radiant Gel-Powder Illuminating Highlighter with Fermented Arnica Bronzit... as a blush-bronzer-and-highlighter in one.

[lmaster]

Your hair is gorgeous @itsfi  beautiful choices

[itsfi]

@lmaster, thank you; mocha mousse is a good fit for summer, all around.

[danielledanielle]

Nice pick @itsfi , didn't think of these for blushlights!

Also, is that your hair ?!?

[itsfi]

I've been making a more deliberate effort to work through my products - new, well loved, OG, and ones that I just haven't had a chance to get to (or get to again), and this has been one that I've been meaning to incorporate into a look, and the mocha mousse theme worked out so well; thank you @danielledanielle. Oh yeaaahhh, blushlights or multi-taskers are gonna get more attention with summer around the corner. I want to find a go-to brush for this formula - 3 to get this look was a bit more than I envisioned. 

Yes, ma'am, that is my hair. I really thought it was shorter than it is (I had 3+ inches taken off a few months before the photo was taken) but seeing the photo, well ... I guess not. There's been lots of testing of hair care products and tools over here. 🤣 

[Cissy63]

@itsfi  Such a beautiful mood board!  This  gel powder has so many uses!  

[itsfi]

Awww, thank you @Cissy63, I've been finding the Haus cheek items to be very versatile - love that! 👍

[Titian06]

For today's Mocha Mousse, I used

- Hourglass Ambient® Lighting Bronzer Nude Bronze Light 

- GUERLAIN Terracotta Luminizer Highlighter Powder 00 IVORY 

[lmaster]

Those are right on point! @Titian06 

[Titian06]

This combo looked so pretty together, @lmaster ! 🥰

[danielledanielle]

Those guerlain bronzers are so pretty @Titian06 

[Titian06]

Yes they are, @danielledanielle ! 😍

[makeitup305]

Last look with Candy pastels using PATRICK TA Major Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush Duo Just Enough 

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And first look of Mocha Mousse using MAC True Harmony. It can double as a warm bronzer. It didn’t really go with my eye look all by itself so I ended up topping it with Yves Saint Laurent Make Me Blush 24H Buildable Powder Blush 44 Nude Lavalliere to cool it down a little and adding a little more pink to my lips after I took this I picture.

[lmaster]

So beautifully done @makeitup305 

[danielledanielle]

I think it looks great @makeitup305 , and the eye look with the cheeks is like a happy mesh of this week and last week's themes

[Titian06]

Very pretty, @makeitup305 ! 😍

[Titian06]

Here's today's Mocha Mousse Coquette:

- MAKEUP BY MARIO Softsculpt® Multi-Use Bronzing & Shaping Serum with Hyaluronic Acid Fair  (surprised? 🤣)

- NARS lip pencil in Bansar. I love this color!  This is like my third pencil, but it's been discontinued. 😞