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I’ve got strong feelings on blusher. I don’t wear it often, but I know exactly how I like it. Or how I’ve always thought it should look based on every girlish icon in history from Jackie Kennedy to Belle in Beauty and the Beast: a girlish pink shade – none of those dark plums or airy-fairy baby pinks – and applied bang in the middle of the cheeks, on the apples, with maybe a bit along the cheekbone for added definition. Slightly Edwardiana and sort of like a china doll, it's an antique, feminine look that's focused on adding colour not contours. 

With my bossy mantra in mind, I was completely spoiled by the shows this season where said cheek flush was in abundance. At Blugirl it was a subtle and soft look while over at Burberry, make-up artist Wendy Rowe did a typically English rose wash of pink on the likes of Edie Campbell and Cara. Perfection. And the trick for this, so the story goes, is to use a cream or liquid blush over anything powdery. It stains the cheeks in a much more authentic way and lasts way, way longer. Hence why I’ve had a serious love-in with Estée Lauder’s new Pure Colour Cello Shots ever since they landed on my desk last month. They’re genius – sheer, buildable and the ideal tool to bring an instant rush of colour to cheeks as though you’ve just done 20 star jumps. Wonderful.

In keeping with the English rose sensibilities, testing out a blusher like this works best on flawlessly porcelain skin. Like Elle’s here, a new face on the books at Select who poled up to the office having spent the weekend at Wireless Festival. No really, that’s what she looks like on a hangover – highly unfair. She had the milkiest, softest skin known to man, so the Cello Shots worked a treat. Make-up artist Orla, a dab hand at blusher (it’s no easy feat that’s for sure), mixed up two of the pink-y shades – Pink Patent and X-Pose Rose – and smudged the colour into Elle’s cheeks, on the apples and dabbed along the top of the cheekbones. And just like that, with complete ease and competence, a fully flushing cheek done exactly the way you’re supposed to.   

Estée Lauder Pure Colour Cello Shots, £24 

Photography: Hugo Yangüela
Model: Elle at Select 
Make-up:  Orla for Estee Lauder