Simply over a month after its premiere, I’ve been citing Wuthering Heights to any good friend keen to indulge me. This isn’t an invite to spar over whether or not variations ought to cleave extra faithfully to the textual content; whether or not you skew extra literary snob like me, or are a full-on Emerald Fennell adaptation apologist, there’s one level of consensus: Wuthering Heights was a visible feast. What I didn’t anticipate was the aftershock—particularly, the fervor surrounding Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw and her now-viral blush. It feels secure to imagine Emily Brontë couldn’t have anticipated her anti-heroine inspiring a magnificence development 200 years later (amongst different issues, in fact). And but right here we’re, speaking about Wuthering Heights blush.
I clocked it myself at Vogue Guide Membership’s screening of the movie. In an 18th-century makeover reveal, Robbie’s Earnshaw steps down from a horse-drawn carriage, along with her berry-stained cheeks set in opposition to a crimson petticoat. It was the form of element you register instinctively—the saturation of it, the romance—earlier than the subsequent scene pulls you underneath. On the time, I famous it and moved on, with loads extra scenes to digest. Every week later, I discovered myself seated throughout from a good friend, the designer Kim Shui, at a comfy Greenwich wine bar. She barely had time to settle into our nook desk earlier than asking, with urgency, “Have you ever tried the Wuthering Heights blush? I would like it!”
The product in query, I found, was Chanel’s N°1 de Chanel Lip and Cheek Balm within the shade Berry Increase. In an interview with Attract, BAFTA-nominated hair and make-up designer Sîan Miller (aka the brains behind the wonder appears in Wuthering Heights) revealed it was her go-to for every time Cathy was at Wuthering Heights, later switching to berry-toned shades of Advantage’s Flush Balm (a extra semi-sheer end) when at Thrushcross Grange to juxtapose the extra elaborate costuming.
