Homemade Lip and Cheek Tint

To make this you will need:

• Rose water
• Red food colouring (powder form – available in all good supermarkets)
• An easily sealable tub – ideally a travel shampoo bottle or similar       

    

You start with the rose water, about 15ml of it is a good start, then you simply add as much food colouring as you need – that’s basically it!  Obviously start very gradually, with a pin prick amount.  A little of the food colouring goes a very long way with this. 

For the full tint effect you need add the colouring until you achieve deep, blood red colour. 

                 

Now you may be thinking, how can I put food colouring on my face?  

My view is, if it’s good enough to put inside your body, surely it should be good enough to put on your skin.  And no, you won’t be stained for life.  

But like most tints it won’t be washed away with water alone, you need to get the cleanser or makeup remover on it.  

 To me this is a good thing, as often blusher is the first thing to slide off your face when you’re having a makeup meltdown.        

  

The trick with this is to apply really sparingly.  While most tints advise you to use three brush strokes, the homemade version only requires one dot of colour.  Anymore, and you may look like a Punch and Judy puppet!    

The beauty of keeping the homemade tint in a flip top bottle (the one I used contained a shampoo), is that you can control how much or little you use by applying gradually.

Overall, the homemade tint has exactly the same effect as the original versions, Benetint made by benefit sets you back around £23.  This handy mixture has the same deep colour as Benefit’s version, and lasts just as long.  Also, like Benetint, you’re left with a lovely finger stain after using!        

I would definitely recommend giving this a try, you’ll be impressed with the results.