TRIED AND TESTED: The multi-tasking cream blush that completely changed my face.

Mamamia’s Tried and Tested series is your weekly review of the latest to hit our desks in beauty, health and wellness. You won’t find any #sponsored content here, just honest, relatable and independent advice. This week, Senior Lifestyle Writer Amy Clark wants you to know exactly how blush can transform your face.

I was 27 when I started wearing blush for the first time and honestly, it was 27 years too late.

OK, a bit dramatic. Maybe a decade late considering babies don't... need blush. Moving on.

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My fear of blush came down to a few things. Like how my natural ranga colouring has its own inbuilt blush that pops up whenever I exert the smallest amount of energy.

And not wanting to resemble toddler-me, who sported two perfectly round red circles on her cheeks like an 80s prom queen. Or Chucky.

Once when I was working in hospitality, a lovely woman complimented me on my blush and asked for the brand and shade as she paid for her chicken sambo on rye. It was just… my face.

So, I stayed away. My bronzer and I were just fine without blush. But the more I spoke to beauty experts, makeup artists, influencers and friends, they all wouldn’t stop talking about how great blush is and I started getting FOMO.

Still, it wasn’t until I received a mini size of the Nudestix Nudies Bloom All Over Dewy Color Blush in the shade Poppy Girl when I interviewed the brand’s co-founder Taylor Frankel (who is a seriously kickass mid-20s Lady Startup) that I finally got it.

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🌺poppy girl🌺 The perfect flush of color 💗💅🏽👋🏼

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This particular cream blush comes in a double-ended stick with a blending brush on the bottom. Each of the different shades can be blended into the apples of your cheeks as a blush, across the eyelids as an eyeshadow, and over the lips as a lippie.

As soon as I blended this peachy, pinky tone on my cheeks and over my lips, I understood the transformative powers of blush and what a bit in the right shade, formula and placement on your cheeks can do for your face.

I like to think of it as the easiest way to make it look like you get 12 hours sleep every night, go for regular runs (and even went for a quick one just now), drink a sh*t tonne of water and have really great sex.

Here's a look at how I've applied and worn this blush — skip ahead to around nine minutes to see the Nudestix blush in action.

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