If you are over 50, I want to forbid you to wear powder blush. Things can go rather Miss Havisham dusty pretty fast when you use powder after a certain age.
Maybelline’s new Cheek Heat gel cream blush ($11 at drugstores) gives you a natural flush and it applies fairly easily, so if you pause to breathe before blending it in, you won’t be left with dark dots of stain on your cheeks. There are six shades that look vivid in the paint-box inspired tubes (first popularized by Glossier, but no less cute for it) but they sheer out quite nicely.
The right blush enlivens your whole face and makes you look like you just spent a nice couple of hours tramping through the woods. Which is another thing to dream of doing when our house arrest ends.