Cheeks by NARS Bumpy Ride Blush. It?s available now for $30 in the NARS Spring 2017 Wildfire Collection

Geez, for a blush called Bumpy Ride, this sure is smooth?
Badum-bum.
Either someone at NARS was having fun on New Product Name Day, or they were thinking about that time they bounced across Idaho in a Pre-Cambrian Era Subaru Outback that practically launched them into outer space every time it hit a pothole?
Wait ? never mind. That was me.
Officially, this is pink
NARS calls it a shimmering candy pink. I was dubious at first, so I pulled out a few other NARS pinks for comparison ? Gaiety, Desire and New Attitude ? and Bumpy Ride looks nothing close to what I?d call a standard-issue pink.
It?s more of a coral with pink dreams to me, and the closest thing I can find to it is NARS Day Dream, which is a tad more coral but less pink.
$30 NARS Bumpy Ride Blush

It?s also VERY shimmery
Holy crap, this is a shimmery blush! And the funny thing, it doesn?t look that shimmery in the pan or in swatches.
Because of that, I grabbed a regular blush brush to apply it, thinking, ?This?ll work.?
I swiped it across the pan once and popped it on one of my cheeks, but when I started buffing it out, wow ? lots o? shimmer. We?re talking serious luminosity, but it?s grown-up shimmer?like if the MAC Mineralize Skinfinishes put away their childish dreams of becoming a pop star and finally got a ?real job? (air quotes). The pigmented particles are finely milled (there?s really no actual ...