With makeup artists waging anti-blush campaigns on the Fall runways, a should-you-or-shouldn’t-you dilemma lingers. To properly sort out how we feel about it by September, we’ve decided to fully embrace cheek color for spring. So far, we have the following things to report about our personal preferences: If we’re going to wear it, it has to be a cream formula and it has to be bold.

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We’ve already discussed our love for MAC’s bright Cremeblends from its limited-edition Lilly Pulitzer collection, but more recently we’ve developed a little obsession with Elizabeth Arden’s Ceramide Cream Blush in Plum. The brand’s first cream blush, the pigment looks pale violet in the compact but goes on like a sheer dusty rose, adding a pretty, vintage-picture quality to your complexion, which is never a bad thing.