Everything from cream blush to highlighting blush to good old-fashioned powder blush is made by countless makeup brands.

While pomegranate and safflower were likely harmless, cinnabar unfortunately contains toxic mercury.

There were a few reasons for this.

A smiling woman applying blush

In short, blush was back.

The blush of the day has equally fascinating and strange stories surrounding it.

By the roaring twenties, flappers paired blush with heavy and dark eye makeup.

A woman dressed as Cleopatra

And if it falls out of fashion, wait: history repeats itself.

Blush, we firmly believe, will always be back.

Queen Elizabeth I

A depiction of the French Revolution

A Victorian lady wearing blush

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