The Blush That Turned Leigh Into A Blush Lover

Published Feb 6, 2025, 6:30 PM

This week, we've brought in a setting spray that locks in hydration like nothing else, a luxury skin ointment that’s a total multi-tasking MVP, and a collagen booster that punches well above its price tag.

Plus, the viral brand that changed Leigh's mind about blushes...

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Merit Beauty Flush Balm Cheek Colour Stockholm Baby Pink $48

Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Makeup Setting Spray $66

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Boost Lab Marine Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid Essential Collagen Boosters $35

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MECCA COSMETICA To Save Face SPF50+ Matte Sun Serum $50

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Hosts: Kelly McCarren & Leigh Campbell

Producer: Cassie Merritt 

Audio Producer: Tegan Sadler

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Mama Mia acknowledges the traditional owners of land and waters that this podcast is recorded on Makeup is My Therapy. I'm in love, I'm obsessed and I don't even feel guilty about it. Hello and welcome to you, beauty. This is the daily podcast for Your Face. I'm Kellen mccarrin. Oh yeah, I'm Lee Campbell. I'm dancing away.

You're dancing away because it's our favorite day of the week.

It is Friday, and on Friday we get to talk.

To you about our favorite product recommendations that we have been absolutely loving or potentially finished.

We loved it that much. Sure, do we bring something that's pretty expensive or more expensive than our savy which is affordable, something brand new and my newbe today I haven't even opened. It's that new. And then something we've been loving at home, maybe so much we've finished. I haven't finished mine, but I think you're gonna love it well.

I can't wait to see what Lee's newbie is. I think you're actually going to really froth on mine too. Forth what I keep saying, madam, Maybe it's because I'm looking at my coffee and your coffee.

Let's start off though, with our spendy spendy maybe spendy Okay, my spendee. Are you ready? Yes. Regular listeners to the show will know that I've very recently got into blush, not because I didn't know what it was, but I just didn't feel like it suited my face. And actually, I'm going to blame the industry because I think most blushes were kind of powdery. Pinky made me feel like a nana. And blush has come such a long way. So a few weeks ago I talked about how I was dipping a toe. We've got a foot now in I think, oh got a foot, We're up to the knee.

I'm going to say, oh no, no, I reckon maybe the ankle. So Merrit is a brand that recently became available in Australia. Prior to that, when friends went to the States or I went to the States, I would buy it. I love this brand, so you can get it here now. I don't know if you've tried these blushes, Kelly. They're called the Merrit Flush Balm Cheak color. The color I've been using the most is Stockholm, which I've got here. I've got another very boring color that you won't like Beverly Hills. But they come in like a bright, poppy lollypink. There's a red, there's a coral, and I just love them. Firstly, they're this little dome. They're pretty expensive forty eight bucks, but I can't ever imagine myself finishing one blush ever you might. And it's a little dome so you can actually just go, like draw a little circle, pat pat pat, and it's so barmy, it's like a creamy lip barm But instead I use a kind of angled buffing something brush and I.

Go, do do do do do do? Do you like my noises like it's so nothing, You're gonna be like, that's nothing. Ly, that's no, it's pretty. I'm even doing with that a mirror.

I just do this. It's very pretty and it looks like it's very easy to work with and like, honestly, hell, if you got like the hot pink, you would love it.

Like you look like you're wearing the hot pink today. I know.

Oh my god, I love that you think that I'm wearing a bright blush there when I was like this is quite muted.

Oh my god, you're wearing so much blush anyway, they're forty eight and they're good to chuck in your bag. You just take the lid off. It looks like a lip balm, so you don't have to sort of squeeze anything out. And they also just really nice.

Yeah, you could pop it on and even like if you wanted a juicy eye.

So good. Everything for Merrit is beautiful. I love the foundation stick, there's a lot I love. They've got the day Ago highlighting barm which I also love, but the blushes forty eight dollars expensive. Maybe Beverly Hills is my new favorite, but I have been using Stockholm. I like Stockholm, like just looking at them. Yeah, that's kind of like a bricky pink, whereas Beverly Hills is almost like a brown. Boring Yeah, boring, boring brown. What's your spending?

My spendye is TikTok made me buy it, Which is funny because about a week ago, Sarah, Marie and I did a Thursday episode about products TikTok made us. By the way that the algorithm works on TikTok is unlike anything we have ever seen before. So we're talking about TikTok Beauty buys the viral products we know that you've probably seen and possibly bought. We're going to break down why these products are everywhere, what we've actually bought.

And loved or maby hurt. Well, I've got another one to add to the list. And I missed that episode. I need to listen to it because I'm not on TikTok. So it's like a too long didn't read well.

It was kind of like also Instagram. We just called it that, but were talked about just in general things that social media have made us by. I also purchased the Milk Makeup, hydro grip set and Refreshed Spray.

Because you like the primer Primer.

I love the Primer even though I thought that I wouldn't because I'm not really like a whoa all day stay type of gal. Because I feel like sometimes that makes it a little bit matt.

Yes, and also then you can't really touch up if it's glutive face. Fifty mils is thirty eight dollars. That's good. I like that size. Is that not good?

Well, if you think about it, that's like it's quite it's a travel size, but then you get one hundred meals for sixty six dollars, So it is expensive for a setting spray. Your makeup will not move all day, but it's also hydrating.

Yes, now put your face. It's so good. I promise you just to misst I mean the mist is beautiful.

If it feels so refreshing, Yeah, it's just so so so good. You can use it before makeup to try to like prep your skin a little bit, use it as a setting spray, use it to refresh during the day.

Okay, So say I've put this on and then I'm going out tonight, could I still touch up my conceal or is it two hair? It's not hair sprayed all?

A lot of those really really SETTI even decay all night.

You can't put anything. No, it's great, but you like you have made the decision that your makeup is over, it's done.

Yeah, you can still put things on over the top of this. I used it halfway through my makeup reapplication this morning to like rehydrate my skin because I've waited too long between steps.

It's incredible. I love a multi use product, and I feel like to refresh and to set it. Hello, And do you know what I do sometimes if I've powdered too much my combo bits and then they're too powdering. I do a bit of a spray like that on a brush and then just to un Yep, that is a great host tag.

That's pretty good. See buy it from Sephora. I wondered, I'm going to get that. Okay.

My savy is what looks like medicine, but it's not. Sorry I'm picking it up. It's the boost Slab Essentials collagen boosters. So you know the other week you talked about the Loxtan serum that had the balls in it. We predicted it. Balls are big. These balls are big, big balls are going to be everywhere balls. So have we got more balls? I have balls? So what you do is you get I've used this one one, two, three, four, five, six seven, and you kind of use it. You could do a course like for a week, or you can use it as a booster once a week. It's thirty four ninety five for seven. So you meant to combine it with a boot Slab serum, but let's just use any serum we want because I didn't have a boot lab. So I've got a skin republic on here. It like turbo charges your serum. How I'm going to show you it's so fun. Oh yeah, do you want me to tell you the actual facts first? Yeah? Okay. So you can use morning all night and you apply on clean damp skin in the morning or the evening. Add one essential collagen pearl. So they're calling them a pearl, I'm calling them a ball. That's what the locksit on ones are called. Two pearls. Yeah, okay, sounds balls, yeah, big balls on your face. Okay, And you put it in your hand and then you mix it with the drop of your favorite serum they say Boots Lab. Of course, I've been using it with various ones. This is my second packet, by the way. And then you shmack it on so lucky. I keep my skin care and my lollies separate because I've had a lot of lollies that look like this. Do you want one for yourself? Sure? Okay? You feels going to share that? Yeah, Oh my gosh. It feels like nothing. It feels like a foam packaging, but also looks a bit pink. And then show and tell squirt. Now you sort of mix it in your palm. See how it's disintegrating and it's just gone, oh what the what the heck aw and it's turbocharges whatever serum you're using, so I would only use like a hydrating or a peptide just my hands. So yeah, it's so glowy, So you can use morning or night. I would well, because I'm combo, I probably can't get that much golow in the morning. But for a dry person like you using that before a makeup, because it also makes depending on which serum are mixing, it in sort of a bit thicker and tacky, but in a nice way. That is so interesting. How fun is that if you're traveling as well, and like you don't want to take a whole bunch of different things that you're going away for a wedding, so you've got your regular skincare, but the day of the wedding, all the night before, you want to just amp it up. Isn't that clever? That is so cool? But I thought they looked like panadol or like individuals a little bit. Yeah, so yeah, thirty four ninety five and you just get your little custom smush on it at home. We're all going to be smushing pearls all over ourselves this year. I think balls balls what is your saving? My sav is something that my friend brought me back from I'm so jealous. How did you get Prequel? How my friend brought it back from the US for me? Why aren't they my friend? Pre Cal is a brand that we can't get here that I'm obsessed with on the internet. Okay, you explain and why you're so obsessed with it because I had not heard of it. Okay, I'm obsessed with it before.

This is going to annoy her so much that now I've got one of the products when she's the one that was a big fan.

I'm mostly obsessed with it because there's a great Instagram account called Sam by the Counter. Sam is obsessed with it, and I'm obsessed with everything Sam's obsessed with. He is like so smart, He's so smart. I just want everything he wants. But I'm like, oh, how do I get it? Okay?

So I am talking about it even though it's very hard to get in Australia because people travel.

Also, you can buy it on Amazon, yes, or you can get a shipping service. It just costs a BILLIONI it.

Just costs a lot of money. So like I'm looking on Amazon at the moment, you can buy it for twenty dollars and then you have to pay about ten dollars for shipping, which, like I did not know that. Please keep talking while I okay. Anyway, So what the product is. It is called the Skin Utility Ointment, and it is mainly petroleum.

So you would put it on.

And think that it's vasaline e yeah, oh my goodness. It is nothing like I mean, I guess it is a little bit, but it's I don't like the most skin smoothing as an ointment. You would put this on dry spots or use it to slug. So I've been using it as the last step in my skincare routine, like my cuticles, my cuticles?

Is it not the most like smooth? It doesn't feel like it feels like a very elegant vasseline, but I have other stuff in there.

Oh wow, it's suitable for all skin types. I'm holding onto lids so you can't nab it. It's good for sensitive skin, and it's really really good for anyone that has compromised skin or they're kind of ft their skin barrier.

That's a good size, but it's still small enough for travel. Like it's big, it's not your small lip balmi taking on the plane. But imagine if you that's all you would need to take, isn't it, Especially when you've got a kid, because like mossy bites and scratches and they exactly money Auchi. Yeah, I do, but not enough to hand it over. Sorry, brow. All Right, after the break, we're gonna both share something new and mine, like I said, is so new. I haven't even opened the box. Yay, we're going to do an unbox. Hey, newbie, anything else? It's new?

All right, Lee, get out your little unboxing that you're very excited about.

Well, it's in a pretty little box. I can see. Yes, this is a press kit. This is what they look like when they come. So let me explain why I haven't even looked at this product before I talk about it. So it's a sunscreen and you might be thinking, hey, I thought people weren't allowed to recommends. We've decided that the TJ can shove it. No, we haven't. Kelly has the TGA has good intentions, but they've stopped us personally recommending sunscreens because well I don't know why. But so someone comes to me and says, hey, Lee, you're oily I'm Oily, what sunscreen do you love? I'm not allowed to tell you. Kelly's dry. She's not allowed to tell you, but we are allowed to tell you the facts. And I've not even tried this product yet, so it's not a recommendation. It's just a PSA that it's brand you. So it's the Mechic cos Medica to save Face SBF fifty plus Matt Sun Serum, So they're Spear fifty plus in the tube, like the cream was formulated to be not Matt but quite grippy, to be like a primer. And then they have a serum that's really juicy and Spear fifty serum. But obviously the Oily goals out there were like h F gat me. So here we go? Are they the same? Oh no, we've got one of each year. This is what it looks like when we open our mail. So they've sent the original and then they've sent the new ones. So there's one serum that's very juicy and this is the new one. So it says to say Face fifty plus Matt Sun Serum, Broad Spectrum Shine Control with white willow bark. Shall I open it for the last to do? Because I also think oily girls, shiny girls, combo girls don't want really thick sunscreen. We want the Serumi texture, but not the juicy, juicy, glowy, glowy, oily vibe. I've got so much product all over me. It's fifty dollars. It looks almost tinted, but it works down to nothing. That was quite a big pump. But we do need a quarter of a teaspoon for our face and a quarter of tea spoon for our neck. Okay, I've just put it on leave to dry for three minutes to optimize them at finish. I did wonder that because it feels quite juicy.

I think that this is a great option to have on the market for oily gals and guys because there are so many juicy formulas out.

There now, and that's it sunscreened by default when you formulate, one is going to be juicy. So it's really hard to do it. Matt, you know, we've waited there and it has kind of matted down and gone quite tacky. Yeah, so that's a new one from Mecca. Have I recommended it? No? Have I told you that it's new? Yes? What's your newbie? My newbie is from benefit. Sorry, I'm so excited by all your things today. It is the mighty fine brow pen I told you.

I was like, I know that Lee is going to love this because you love anything with strokes.

I do, and really fine.

So look at that. Oh so I want you to draw it on your hand. It's got three tiny little brushes.

I'm going to give myself a mustache. No microblading.

Yeah, it's literally got like a microblading thing with three tiny little sprongs that create like.

Little very fair I guess it wouldn't be my color media. That one actually is too fair for me. Oh wow, Oh yeah, here we go.

Yes, so like paints and like feather strokes on hairlike little feather strokes. So this I don't need something like this because I'm so hairy ye myself that I don't need that illusion of more hair. But oh my goodness, any patchiness not really not. My hair is so thick though. I need something a lot more heavyweight than and you've probably got enough that you could just move your real hair into the patches.

Yes, exactly.

But for people that struggle with the thickness of their brows or creating volume, this is so good because it looks so realistic, like I was creating little fake little eyebrows on my hand.

Yeah, that's great, blowing my mind. Word. But it's not a liquid.

It's like it's a liquid, but it's not coming out super liquid. It's almost like pasty. Yeah, it's such an interesting product.

It is it?

Forty eight dollars from Sephora or Maya wherever you buy benefit and yeah, brand new.

They are the brow They are the brown people. O G brow people. V're me and Anastasia. They just kind of like we own brows.

Yeah, sorry everyone else basically, but hey yeah, later on in the episode, and empty an empty, you're a shot mustache.

Mine's I shot. My stash will never be empty in my whole life. But I think you're like it. Okay, that's a interesting sell shot mustache. All right, kel you give me your shop, your stash or you're empty first. You don't have to give it to me physically.

It's an empty as you can see because it's all rubbed off. This was the Inness free Green Tea Caffeine Bright Icerum thirty five dollars from Sophora.

Oh ye, I loved it.

I love it because it's got the little roller ball, So it was just so ninety exam.

Yes, yes, yes, it's to get the juice out. Do you normally press down.

Yes, you press on that and then you would just apply it with that little rollable so.

Baby lymphatic massage exactly. It was just such a good product.

Sometimes I don't want something to be super thick and hydrating, like something like this is just perfect if I want an I cream for during the day.

That sinks in so you make up can go on.

Yes, And also good for people that have really puffy under eyes because it sort of like depuffs them because it's quite like zingy exactly exactly, and the caffeine restricts the blood vessels and makes them crink up.

So that's what I finish. I wonder if you'll repurchase that mine. I don't think I'll ever finish. But you know how, I've got into blush and I've always been scared of cream contour with a few exceptions, but I find them too hard to blend and get really muddy. I'm obsessed with this. It's the Trinny London Golden Globe Bronzer and my car. Okay, now I understand why you're like I'll never finish sinster. I mean it's tiny, baby pot. You would be like what, I'll finished this. But it's the most wearable usable like cream bronze because it's sort of a glowy. But how do you even put that on? Well, Kel, I don't do full hectic contour like you do, so I just use again the similar brush. Oh you use the same one. Don't you just chuck it on in because it's just like a flush. It's quite dewy. It's very nice at theful. It is so nice. There are four shades, so there is I think I'm the second shade. Oh no, I'm the lightest. The gent Star is gentle golden bronze. Then you've got neutral toffee bronze, rich chestnut bronze, and then deep mahogany bronze. It's just the most wearable, like it's like a bronzer and a high lighter in one. It is so nice. Would you like to touch it? Okay?

But it does look really beautiful. I've just my hands are a little bit gross at this stage. Yeah, we've got products all over us.

It's forty six dollars and it's small, but you're not like you wouldn't use much. No, and honestly, just like even I wouldn't you if you've just done a tinted base or whatever and then you just, oh, you look like you've been on a hole holiday without actually tanning, because we don't tan. Forty six dollars is a lot. But it's also one of those trainy things where you build your own stack. So you've got that and then your shadow, your lip, and you've got your little tube of goodness.

Oh okay, well, I love the shade of that one and the formula.

Thank you so much. We over, We're done, We're done, well you be's. Apparently that's it for this week. We will be going to place a poopul order. I actually am got excited to wrap this up so I can get on Amazon. Now there's a weekly You Beauty newsletter that you could get in your inbox if you don't I write it. It comes out on Fridays. It's got all our recommendations in it are the tips and tricks, products, just really good time in your inbox. So sign up. It's free and there's a link in the show notes.

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