The blush sticks are like the Dior Nude foundation and/or the YSL "how do they do that" blur finishing gel in pink. Moist to powder in a nap second. One of my co-workers bought them, swiped them on, blended them like crazy. Yet, it still looked she was ready for a football game with the "war paint" stripping on her checks. Dot, then blend out. Build slowly, but again, too much work for me. I am just a lazy slug......love the Chanel sticks and of course the cream blushes in the compact and TF cream blush. The engineers on this collection to me really blew it.....