I usually swipe multisticks straight onto my cheeks and blend them out with my fingers or a brush, but makeup artist Ngozi Edeme — aka Painted by Esther — recently shared a far more professional technique on Instagram. For cheeks, Edeme recommends “underpainting” the blush by swiping the stick onto the back of your hand first before what makeup artist Katie Jane Hughes famously calls “priming the brush” — swirling the brush into the melted product, making sure all the bristles are coated. Using a large powder brush with dense but soft bristles, Edeme pats the color onto the high points of the cheeks before blending it across the apples and upwards, stopping just short of the tail of the brow.
