ETUDE Lovely Cookie Blusher Review

I am always looking for new Korean blushers. When you are very fair, I’ve discovered that I am more likely to find formulas that work for my skin when purchasing for Korea. So, after buying 2 shades of the Keep reading to learn more about the palettes, my and the Koreans’ thoughts, and where you can find one yourself.

Shades Shown Above:
  • BE101 – Ginger Honey Cookie
  • BR401 – Pink Brownie
  • BR403 – Glazed Cinnamon
  • OR201 – Apricot Peach Mousse
  • OR202 – Sweet Coral Candy
  • OR204 – Peach Vanilla Cream
  • PK002 – Grapefruit Jelly
  • PK004 – Pink Choux Wafers
  • PK005 – Rose Berry Pie
  • PK006 – Strawberry Crumble

What Complexions Do They Suit?

Cool tones:
  • OR201 – Apricot Peach Mousse
  • OR202 – Sweet Coral Candy
  • PK002 – Grapefruit Jelly
  • PK005 – Rose Berry Pie
Warm Tones:
  • BE101 – Ginger Honey Cookie
  • OR204 – Peach Vanilla Cream
  • PK006 – Strawberry Crumble
All Skin Tones:
  • BR401 – Pink Brownie
  • BR403 – Glazed Cinnamon
  • PK004 – Pink Choux Wafers

What are the Undertones?

Orange Toned:
  • BE101 – Ginger Honey Cookie
  • OR201 – Apricot Peach Mousse
  • OR204 – Peach Vanilla Cream
Brown Toned:
  • BR401 – Pink Brownie
  • BR403 – Glazed Cinnamon
  • PK006 – Strawberry Crumble
Pink Toned:
  • OR202 – Sweet Coral Candy
  • PK002 – Grapefruit Jelly
  • PK004 – Pink Choux Wafers
  • PK005 – Rose Berry Pie

K-Points: 8/10

So, for beauty reviews, unlike my album unboxings, I will be much harsher because this can directly impact your health, whereas buying K-Pop albums does not. It just impacts your wallet. As such, all of my beauty reviews will be out of 10 points. I will not be going over that number.

Overall, I wear this blush line a lot. I really like the pigmentation level because you can easily build it up, but it also doesn’t go on full force as soon as you tap your brush into it. That being said, I have one big complaint about the product: the packaging is VERY bulky and takes up a lot of space. As such, there is a chance I may depot these and put them in a Z-palette because I don’t even use the puffs to apply the products.

What are the Koreans saying?

I was digging through reviews on 화해 (Hwahae)*, a Korean skincare app that lists out the ingredients of products from many brands for people to look through as well as post reviews. So, instead of going through and talking about what the Koreans thought since there are 10 shades in my posession, I will rank all 10 in order based on the number of reviews and stars.

X in Order of Popularity:
  1. PK002 – Grapefruit Jelly (750 reviews/4.09 stars)
  2. PK004 – Pink Choux Wafers (170 reviews/4.26 stars)
  3. OR201 – Apricot Peach Mousse (167 reviews/ 4.32 stars)
  4. BE101 – Ginger Honey Cookie (89 reviews/ 4.08 stars)
  5. OR202 – Sweet Coral Candy (79 reviews/ 4.20 stars)
  6. OR204 – Peach Vanilla Cream (22 reviews/ 4.14 stars)
  7. BR401 – Pink Brownie (85 reviews/ 4.09 stars)
  8. PK005 – Rose Berry Pie (4 reviews/ 4.50 reviews)
  9. PK006 – Strawberry Crumble (2 reviews / 5.0 stars)

Where Can I Buy It?

Whenever I buy K-Beauty, I do shop at a couple of different places. If you want to see all of the places that I shop at, you can check them all out here.  I picked these up at a number of different places, including Style Korean, Etude and Olive Young. With a number of the places I shop for cosmetics at, you can also use Rakuten for cash back off of your purchases on their site.

What is Rakuten?

Rakuten is a cashback site that gives you money for purchases you may have already made. They even have an extension for multiple browsers so when you go to a website that uses Rakuten, it will automatically pop up the cashback button to make sure you are saving money. I use this all the time, and I got over $80 back from them for purchases I was going to make anyway. That’s about 3 more albums I can buy!

If you’ve never used Rakuten before, you can use this link to get $10 when making a qualified purchase of $25 when using Rakuten. You will also get whatever percent cashback is being offered from the site you are purchasing from.  Sephora, typically has 4% cashback, through here. Ulta typically has 3%. These are just some of the companies on the website, but there are other major retailers on there as well!

Rakuten also has a Google Chrome extension that will tell you as soon as you log onto a site that has cashback with a little pop-up in the corner so that you can ensure you are saving money!

Which shade of this blush would you be most likely to buy, K-Nuggets? Let me know in the comments down below!

사랑합니다!

–Rachel

*Note: 화해 still only exists in Korean, but some of the products can be searched for in English.