The Tamesis
More than a month after it premiered, I keep mentioning Wuthering Heights Any friend willing to indulge me. This is not an invitation to debate whether the adaptation should stick more faithfully to the text; whether you’re a literary snob like me or a dyed-in-the-wool Emerald Fennell adaptation apologist, there’s one consensus: Wuthering Heights It’s a visual feast. What I didn’t anticipate were the aftershocks – specifically the enthusiasm surrounding Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw and her now-viral blush. To be sure, Emily Brontë couldn’t have predicted that her antiheroine would inspire a beauty trend (among other things, of course) 200 years later. However what we are talking about here is Wuthering Heights blush.
I timed myself Fashion Book club screening of the film. In an 18th-century makeover, Robbie’s Earnshaw steps out of a carriage, his berry-stained cheeks against his crimson petticoat. It’s the kind of detail that you instinctively register – the saturation of it, the romance – and then you’re drawn to the next scene. At the time, I noticed this and moved on, there were more scenes to digest. A week later, I found myself sitting across from my friend, the designer Kim Shui, in a cozy Greenwich bar. She barely had time to sit down at our corner table before she asked eagerly, “Have you tried it?” Wuthering Heights blush? I need it!
I discovered that the product in question was Chanel’s N°1 de Chanel Lip and Cheek Cream in the color Berry Boost. during an interview lureBAFTA-nominated hair and makeup stylist Sîan Miller (aka the brains behind the beauty) “Wuthering Heights”) revealed that this was Cathy’s go-to whenever she was at Wuthering Heights, and later at Thrushcross Grange, she switched to Merit’s Flush Balm in a berry shade (a more translucent look) to match more sophisticated outfits.
