Tom Ford Blush Comparison: Love Lust & Frantic Pink

I was recently asked how two particular Tom Ford blush shades compare to each other, because at first glance they do seem incredibly similar. For £46 a piece, you don't really want to end up with two near identical shades, do you? (Blush addicts like myself, you don't have to answer that one)

Here are the two shades side by side in natural daylight. It may have been snowing and my fingers nearly dropping off, but there was sunlight!

As you can see, to the untrained eye these blushes are almost identical.

Here are the two shades indoors, under the flash from the camera....

It is only with the camera flash that you start to notice the slight differences in these two blushes.

Love Lust is a soft coral with the most delicate hint of pink to offset the peachy coral tone. The shimmer looks both silver and gold depending on the way the light hits it in the pan but on the skin translates to a radiant sheen as opposed to shimmer or glitter.

Frantic Pink (reviewed here) is a light pink with just a whisper of peach,  shot through with subtle silver shimmer. Again it is so refined that on the skin it makes the cheeks appear to have a sheen rather than be overtly sparkly or glittery.

Here are the blushes swatched on my hand in natural light

L: Love Lust   R: Frantic Pink

and under camera flash

L: Love Lust   R: Frantic Pink

So there you have it. One is a Pinky-Peach and one is a Peachy-Pink. Only the most obsessive beauty connoisseurs will know that this is not at all the same thing!
The subtle nuances between the two are more apparent on the skin than in the pan.

Personally, I am glad I own both and I do find the subtleties between them to be apparent enough to warrant owning both.