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Best blushes for brown skin that give a gorgeous glow

Source: Imaxtree

As the proud owner of naturally brown skin, there are plenty of pros to being blessed with oodles of melanin, but one or two drawbacks too. 

My (quiet) complaint is that blushing naturally doesn’t come easily, even after an intense spinning session or, more recently, running for the bus. The ‘glow’ I get then is a polite synonym for ‘sweating one’s head off’. 

When I wear makeup, blush is always part of the picture. You’ll always find one rattling around the bottom of my bag (my go-to is shade so well-used that I’m now to the outer edges of the compact and can use the exposed pan as a second mirror - spare the violins, please). In the rare instances I find myself without, two dots of lipstick blended into

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