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

[makeitup305]

@caitbird I think it looks beautiful! You did your inspo pic to a T.

[caitbird]

@makeitup305  thank you so much! 💜

[itsfi]

Sakura Slay

Ami Colé Desert Date Cream Blush & Lip Multistick Hibiscus 

Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez Mini Soft Pinch Liquid Blush Happy 

The respective consistency of both products worked really well together. I applied product to the back of my hand as in the swatch photo and then lightly dabbed the two shades together just in the middle, and picked up and applied the shades with SC 99 layered next to each other and slightly overlapping - first the AC and then the RB and then dabbed the mixed shade over both on my cheeks.

The first of the two cheek shots is of the shades combined, as applied in the morning; the second, is how it looked at the end of a long day. 

Photo credits for the inspo:

• Upper left: llo Frey
• Bottom right: @itsfi 😉

[Cissy63]

@itsfi  Such a soft pretty pink look🌸🩷.  And your pic of the lovely tree blossoms against the blue sky is beautiful 🌸🍒

[itsfi]

Thank you @Cissy63; I love cherry blossoms so this was a fun one for me in more ways than one. I lucked out that the sky was so clear and blue that day. It really set off nicely with the pretty whites and pinks of the cherry blossom flowers. 

[lmaster]

I'm in love!! @itsfi 

[danielledanielle]

Same @itsfi & @lmaster 

The soft peach varietal of a cherry blossom is equally as pretty as the pink ones.  What a way to translate it into a blush 🙌🏽

[itsfi]

Thank you @lmaster @danielledanielle. I want a cherry blossom tree now. May need to revisit some landscaping plans. lol 

[PDXXXX]

Those blended so beautifully @itsfi ! I like that so many of us are going for the mid-pink, darker sakura tone on this one. I love that Rare Beauty shade in particular. Mixed with the Hibiscus it's perfect on you.

[itsfi]

Thank you @PDXXXX; I’ve been mixing more blush shades of late. I like the color combos from it … and that it makes me feel like I’m using items in my collection.

[makeitup305]

That’s a beautiful combo @itsfi 

[itsfi]

Thank you @makeitup305 

[caitbird]

@itsfi  beautiful look and inspo collage! I love your idea to combine the two blushes like that. Somehow the Ami Cole blush sticks have flown under my radar until now, but looking at them, they look really good! Saving for later reference 😉

[itsfi]

@caitbird, the Ami Cole sticks are so nice - colors are pretty and the stick formulation makes it easy to carry around and to use. I blame @danielledanielle for intro’ing me to them. The formulation leans more dry (but they’re not drying) so it comes in handy for me in the warmer seasons. I’ll pick up another one at some point. Will keep an eye out to see if you find one you like.

[makeitup305]

Sakura Slay week so far. I used the Guerlain Blush in 06 Deep Red which just gives my cheeks a natural flush.

I love the PT duos but really struggle with the powder shade of the PATRICK TA Major Headlines Double-Take Crème & Powder Blush Duo She Left Me On Red . I maintain that it's a totally different formula from his other powders in the blushes (I have almost all the shades at this point). It applies so heavily no matter what I do or what brush I use, and it's so pigmented it always looks overdone on me. I keep it for the cream shade, which is beautiful. I layered both in this picture but this is more blush than I prefer wearing on the daily. My glasses cover up half of it, though 🤓

This one doesn't really fit the theme for the week but I liked wearing this warm neutral from the other JungSaemMool palette I got.

[Cissy63]

@makeitup305  All three blushes are pretty 🥰. 

[makeitup305]

thanks @Cissy63 !

[Titian06]

All three blushes look wonderful on you, @makeitup305 ! 😍  The two red colors give you a lovely "flushed" look. ❤️

[makeitup305]

@Titian06 thank you, that's what I was going for.

[itsfi]

@makeitup305, pretty flush; you and @lmaster did a lovely job with the red blush.

[lmaster]

Thank you sweets!! @itsfi