Extreme blush exposes real personality

Taking inspiration from the 80s, fashion houses like Chanel are bringing extreme blush back, writes Kate Guadagnino.

In beauty, blush may be the most reliable response to the age-old imperative look alive.

Does it follow that more blush equals more life? Elizabethan courtiers thought so, taking the impulse to such extremes that it became a parody of good health.