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BBIA Ready To Wear Downy Cheek
BBIA

Ready To Wear Downy Cheek

Blush · 3.5 g

35%$5.04$7.80

Shade: 12 Downy Bloom

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Key ingredients

Isononyl Isononanoate

Found in the full ingredient list below.

Full ingredients (22)

Listed for the shade 02 Downy Peach. Other shades share this base but differ in pigments.

  1. Isononyl Isononanoate
  2. Polyglyceryl-2 Triisostearate
  3. Polyhydroxystearic Acid
  4. Lecithin
  5. Ethylhexyl Palmitate
  6. Isopropyl Myristate
  7. Isostearic Acid
  8. Polyglyceryl-3 Polyricinoleate
  9. Cetyl Ethylhexanoate
  10. Mica
  11. Hydrogenated Polyisobutene
  12. Hexyl Laurate
  13. Silica
  14. Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride
  15. Methicone
  16. Ceresin
  17. Vinyl Dimethicone/Methicone Silsesquioxane Crosspolymer
  18. Ozokerite
  19. Cetyl Palmitate
  20. Silica Dimethyl Silylate
  21. Caprylyl Glycol
  22. CI 77491

Listed from highest to lowest concentration. Formulas change, so check the packaging if you avoid an ingredient.

Product details

Six Ready To Wear Downy Cheek compacts in 07 Angel, 12 Bloom, 08 Rosy, 02 Peach, 06 Fig and 04 Lavender on pale peach paper, with soft cream blush smears at the edges

Cream-to-velvet cheek

A cashmere-soft cream blush with blurring powder that melts on and turns softer and more velvety as you blend.

Ready To Wear Downy Cheek starts as a moist cream that melts with the warmth of your fingers, then sets to a soft matte finish; BBIA calls it an inversion texture. Blurring powder gives it a downy, velvety look, it builds from a sheer wash to full colour without scattering like a powder, and it lasts longer than a powder blush.

Shades, from Downy Peach to Downy Bloom
8
Shades, from Downy Peach to Downy Bloom
That sets to a velvet matte finish
Cream
That sets to a velvet matte finish
Compact pan
3–3.5 g
Compact pan
Eight velvety cream blush smears from peach and lavender to rosy pink and mauve on pale peach paper

What’s inside

The ingredients doing the work

  • Melt-in cream

    Light emollients that soften with fingertip warmth, so the cream glides on moist.

    No. 1, 2, 5, 6 of 22 on the list

  • Blurring powder

    Soft powders set the cream to a downy, matte velvet the more you blend.

    No. 13, 17, 20 of 22 on the list

  • Soft wax structure

    Waxes hold the cream in the pan and help it stay put on cheeks.

    No. 16, 18, 19 of 22 on the list

  • Colour

    Iron oxide colour with mica for a soft, fresh flush.

    No. 10, 22 of 22 on the list

A Ready To Wear Downy Cheek compact in 07 Downy Angel above a soft pale pink cream swipe on pale peach paper

How to use

Tap, blend, build

  1. 1

    Pick up

    Touch a fingertip, brush or sponge lightly to the cream.

  2. 2

    Tap on

    Dab onto the cheeks; the cream melts as it warms.

  3. 3

    Blend

    Smudge the edges out: the finish turns softer and more velvety as you go.

  4. 4

    Build

    Layer more for brighter colour, or use it as a tint.

A soft peach-pink cream blush swirl with a velvety surface on pale peach paper

Cashmere-soft cheeks

A cream that melts on and blends out to a downy, velvet flush.

Good to know

  • Shades: 02 Downy Peach (bright peach), 04 Downy Lavender (cool lavender), 06 Downy Fig (soft fig beige), 07 Downy Angel (milky pale pink), 08 Downy Rosy (clear rosy pink), 09 Downy Taro (muted mauve beige), 11 Downy Petal (light peach coral) and 12 Downy Bloom (light cool pink).
  • The ingredient list shown is for 02 Downy Peach.
  • The surface may look uneven or show tiny droplets. This isn't a defect.
  • 07 Downy Angel and 08 Downy Rosy come in 3 g; the other shades come in 3.5 g.

All 12 shades of BBIA Ready To Wear Downy Cheek