Saie Dew Blush ($25)
Range: 6 shades
Key Ingredients: Evening Primrose, Mulberry, and Elderberry
Approach & POV: Saie Standards + Recycling Program
Benefits: Bold, blendable cream face color
Certifications: Climate Neutral Certified, Certified Plastic Negative, Cruelty-free, 1% For the Planet. This specific product is vegan.
This multi-tasking cream blush is makeup with skincare benefits, with the inclusion of hydrating ingredients commonly found in our favorite treatment products. With a cream-gel texture, a glass bottle, and an extra large doe-foot applicator, this is the perfect option to throw in your bag for touch ups throughout the day for a seamless and dewy application, never patchy or streaky. When we say a little goes a long way, we mean it. Even a small dot on each cheek is enough to get verysolid color payoff. The colors themselves are gorgeous, and suit a wide variety of skin shades. The dew blush was the winner of a Glamour 2022 beauty award.
About Saie: Founded in 2019, Saie can be described as the Glossier for the conscious consumer, bringing transparency to the ever popular “no makeup” makeup look. They focus on light, creamy, dewy finishes, and always incorporate skincare ingredients into their products for benefits beyond color. The high-performance color line is formulated by experts and made for makeup fans across the spectrum.
The brand is quite mindful in their approach to transparency - their formulations are EU compliant and made with safe ingredients (the purpose of every ingredeint is highlighted on their product pages), and their dedication to being sustainability-minded is immediately apparent. Product packaging is made with PCR when possible, and while they highlight that it’s also recyclable, most don’t make it through the curbside recycling stream, so they encourage consumers to recycle through the Pact Collective. Saie touts a number of environmental certifications, and is dedicated to their Feel Good Five (CLEAN) — clean, luxurious, earth-friendly, award-winning, and new.