Addiction Cheek Polish Suspicious

After my success with Addiction Cheek Polish in Fresh, the orange blush I've been searching for all my makeup-loving life, I thought I'd push my luck with another shade, Suspicious.
The details of this quirky liquid formula, translated ingredients list, and application tips can all be found in my Fresh review; Suspicious is more pigmented than Fresh (not just darker) but also retains a degree of translucency and sets to a similar satin-glowy -- indeed, 'polished' -- finish.

(Other reviews of these cheeksticks seem to agree they all vary a bit in pigmentation: see Birkin Beauty Bag on Tadzio and Chic and Wondegondigo on Suspicious/Revenge/Tadzio; So Lonely In Gorgeous swatched all seven shades together.)

Let's skate straight on to the comparison swatches, shall we? Since I was hoping that Suspicious would enable me to ditch at least one of the powders here:

natural light

Of course, sod's law dictated that Suspicious would instead fall awkwardly in between the two cream formulas, which I was not trying to replace :/ Note also the peculiarly hairy stripe of Suspicious (I swear I'm not rocking a new arm hair trend) which poses that great metaphysical question of our times: is it better to have a blush that emphasises dryness and fine lines, or one that brings out peach fuzz? To be fair, once blended on the cheeks, I haven't noticed this particular issue being issue-y, but it is a bit of a harbinger....

Anyway, blended swatches of the three non-powders:
which hopefully still show (blahblah apologies for terrible natural light aside) that Crush is more purple-red, Suspicious most plum-brown-red and Raspberry the coolest and clearest pink of the berries.

My face tends to magnify differences, so here's Suspicious on it, applied fairly enthusiastically and taken up to edge of temples:

two coats, natural light

(Other makeup: Suqqu 10 Sakuragi quad, Fasio Full Dynamic Volume mascara, Etude House Rosy Lip Tint 3 Rose Petal.)
Contrast with the cooler, clearer Becca Raspberry, worn here.

Aside from the brown/red undertone niggles, which make Suspicious less automatically flattering on my skin than Crush or Raspberry (not necessarily a dealbreaker) and harder to pair with shades in my makeup wardrobe (maybe a dealbreaker), I found its formula pretty tricky to work with (definite dealbreaker). More pigmented and fast to set than Fresh cheek polish, my sponge stamping method tended to leave purple tide marks, but brushes often blended the colour to nothing or left it patchy, entailing a lot of boring meticulous relayering, and a pretty raspberry flush is supposed to be easy in that "oh, la, I must have daintily rolled through a dew-bespeckled faery ring of blackberry bushes during the wild hunt" way, amirite? It should not be this much work.

It may well just be me, as Belly doesn't seem to have had any issues (also check out how light and pink it looks on a darker, warmer skintone than mine!) And the fact that I also struggled mightily with Suspicious in its cheek stick incarnation, despite numbering other shades in that formula among my all-time favourite blushes, suggests that we may just be cursed. Do you know of other plum non-powder blushes / a good exorcist? Leave me a comment!

....I know, 'tis the usual perils of buying delicious Japanese makeups blind, but right now I want to rename the blog In'N'Out Blusher :P