Maybe a stain like Benetint would work for you

I have the same skin type and use tretinoin. I got that Ogee set of cream stick bronzer, blush, and highlighter and it adds a nice, easy contour.

Moisturizer then tinted sunscreen then blush

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Anonymous wrote:I add a little moisturizer to my foundation and can use powder blush soon after. Sounds like you are using too much moisturizer.

I think she's not using foundation from the sound of it.

Oh, ok. Then I’d lighten up on the amount of moisturizer.

Anonymous wrote:I add a little moisturizer to my foundation and can use powder blush soon after. Sounds like you are using too much moisturizer.

I think she's not using foundation from the sound of it.

I add a little moisturizer to my foundation and can use powder blush soon after. Sounds like you are using too much moisturizer.

Laura Mercier has a cream blush in a tube that I've used and it's really pretty. Chantecaille has a gel blush that I've never used but I use the gel bronzer and if it's a similar formulation it'll be good.

Milk. blush. It’s like a tint. Im exactly the same skin type as you, OP.

I use Merit when i don’t have any moisturizer on and Milk if I do.

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I would have to wait probably 20 mins at least for the moisturizer to ebb, and there’s no way that I’ll come back to the bathroom to do that. I need a solution in the three mins I get ready in the am or it’s not happening.

Currently using a Clinique moisturizer, but it happens with any moisturizer. I used to use Clinique gel (super light) moisturizer and still had this problem. The issue is that I still have super oily skin that, at core, doesn’t need moisturizer. But the tretinoin dries on the surface, so I need to moisturize or I have flaky surface otherwise.

I mean the obvious solution would be to switch to a lighter moisturizer but you're saying it happens with any moisturizer so I would simply switch to cream blush.

You don't need 20 samples. Just stop at Bluemercury or Sephora or something on the way home from work and ask for a neutral cream blush.

Would a cream blush be better? It seems like you could blend it more easily. I have oily skin so I’ve always used powder blush too.

Op here. I would have to wait probably 20 mins at least for the moisturizer to ebb, and there’s no way that I’ll come back to the bathroom to do that. I need a solution in the three mins I get ready in the am or it’s not happening.

Currently using a Clinique moisturizer, but it happens with any moisturizer. I used to use Clinique gel (super light) moisturizer and still had this problem. The issue is that I still have super oily skin that, at core, doesn’t need moisturizer. But the tretinoin dries on the surface, so I need to moisturize or I have flaky surface otherwise.

What moisturizer are you currently using?

Use a primer first

Why not just let the moisturizer soak in for five minutes, then apply primer, and let that soak in for five minutes.

Mid 40s with oily skin. Very low key skin and make up routine.

I never used moisturizer when I was younger, because it made my skin greasy. I have always used powder blush.

Started using tretinoin a few years ago, and even though my skin is still kind of greasy, it’s also flaky and dry on the surface. So I now moisturize at night and the am. But if I put on blush within five mins of moisturizer, the powder blush instantly gloms on to the moisturizer and gets super intense. So I can put just the lightest dusting of blush on my brush, tap it ever so lightly on my cheek, and I look like Marie Antoinette with dark pink blobs on the cheek bones. It’s probably not that extreme, but DH regularly comments on how I look like I have racer stripes on my cheeks when I put on blush in the am. If I skip moisturizer, I don’t have this issue. I want to use a fairly intense moisturizer because of the tretinoin.

Is there a blush product other than powder that will work better for naturally oily, moisturized skin that will go on a little lighter? I’m sure blush cremes etc may achieve this, but would love some suggestions before I go buy ten samples….