I can’t very well review cosmetics and ignore the elephant in the room, now can I? So let’s get it over with: NARS Powder Blush in Orgasm is on every stylish girl’s vanity (and face) (although my friend Jackie prefers the even more appallingly named “Deep Throat,” I often wear the less glimmery “Oasis,” which is more pink than the peachy “Orgasm”). The name hasta be a marketing gimmick (one which has worked amazingly well; even my mother knows what NARS Orgasm is, and she lives out in Northern Pig’s Ear, Vermont), as no one I know glows a shimmery golden peach after, uh, you-know-what, but let’s face facts: when you’re in a lounge lit with red, pink, or orange lamps and you’re wearing this blush, YOU. LOOK. INCREDIBLE. No matter who you are, what you’re wearing, what you drank, who you’re with, or even what dive or neighborhood you’re in, you glow as if you’re lit from within. Thanks, NARS, for giving us an afterglow beforehand so there might, in fact, be a real afterglow later on! The only drawback: if you don’t thoroughly spank your brush before applying, you can end up too pearly-faced, and trying to tissue it off merely seems to polish the pearlyishness and make it worse. What I do when I “over-Orgasm”: I reapply some foundation to my cheeks with a damp sponge. Voilá! Now I look as if I’m lit from within, instead of looking as if I had an accident at the Esteé Lauder factory. $25.00

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