‘Brontë Blush’ Is the Windswept Makeup Trend We’ve Been Longing For

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind,” wrote Emily Brontë back in the late 1800s.

Same, girl. Isn’t it crazy how something written so long ago can hold so much truth today? But dreams aren’t the only thing that can do this to me. A really good blush placement has the exact same effect. Meet Brontë Blush, the windswept blush trend I’ll be wearing all spring. Ahead, all the details.

About Brontë Blush

Warm and just slightly dewy, Brontë Blush is placed low on the cheeks. It captures the look and feeling of running through an uncultivated landscape on a windy day, thinking thoughts that fall halfway between brooding and yearning. We’re not going for toasted or sunburnt, just pure old-fashioned burning cheeks courtesy of a burning heart and the fire you sit in front of when you finally get out of the cold (and start furiously scribbling a diary entry for a weary traveler to find years later before he’s visited by your ghost).

Niche? Yeah, a little. That’s because one of the very best (modern) examples we have for Brontë Blush is Margot Robbie’s look at the world premiere of Wuthering Heights in Los Angeles. Makeup artist Pati Dubroff glammed her, applying a sweep of color low on the actress’s cheeks.

Why It’s Trending

Ever heard of a little movie called Wuthering Heights? We know Robbie is an expert in method dressing for the red carpet, and her press tour looks have been full of darkly romantic outfits (lots of heavy fabrics, reds, blacks, corsets, and ribbon) with makeup and hair to match.

We’ve been into the dark romance scene for a while, but more so in the fashion space. It’s about time that the aesthetic made its way to our faces, and this is the easiest way for that to happen. Obvious makeup was considered extremely tacky in the Victorian age, but who could deny the power of a natural flush?

How to Get the Look

There’s no Sephora in the moors, so you have to throw out your modern notions of shade selection to make this work. Newfangled cream blush formulas are welcome, though.

In a video posted to her Instagram, Dubroff broke down Robbie’s premiere look and gave a full breakdown of how she made it happen.

“It’s all about the blush,” she said at the beginning. And it is. Really.

After making sure the actress’s skin tone was even and glowing with a sheer foundation, Dubroff went in with cream blush courtesy of Chanel’s No.1 de Chanel Lip and Cheek Blush in the shades Red Camellia and Berry Boost.

“I took a little bit of each of them and blended them together,” she explained, Then, she grabbed a blush brush and created a “windswept flush on the apples of the cheeks and a bit below the apples of the cheeks, kind of flushing outward.” She then took out a foundation brush and got to blending to make sure there were no visible harsh edges. “We want it really diffused,” she added.

Next up, she took some face powder and added the “tiniest whisper” over the cream before going in with a rosy powder blush from the currently sold-out Rouge Noir Confidence Eyeshadow and Blush Palette, applying it right over where the initial products were placed. She used “short, feathery strokes” before once again cleaning up the edges. Lastly, she dabbed a bit of pink highlighter—the Baume Essentiel Multi-Use Glow Stick in Rosée—on top of the cheekbones to add some glow.

Remember: low on the cheek, and high in your (or your lover’s) mind.