Beauty Blast

The game follows Fiona, a mother of two daughters, Mia and Ava, who is left on her own after her husband walks out. Levels are cube-matching puzzles, and progress moves her story forward through eviction, secrets and a possible new start. A stranger in a wheelchair offers her help early in the plot.

The store listing sums up the loop in three words: makeover, renovate, match. The category is makeup games, and the tags are casual and teen.

You clear levels by crushing color cubes, working around tricky obstacles and using quirky boosters.

Between levels, the makeover side lets you dress Fiona and her daughters from thousands of outfit combinations.

Alternatives include Project Makeover, Fashion Show, Rebel Glam, Glow Fashion Idol, Super Stylist Fashion Makeover and Monster High Beauty Salon. Most of those names point toward styling and fashion. Beauty Blast adds a serialized family drama on top of match puzzles.

Google Play rates it 4.9 from about 124.8 thousand ratings.

Beauty Blast is made by Pexix Inc., which runs pexix.com for questions about the game. It costs nothing to start, but ads appear between puzzle rounds and in-app purchases are offered, so it helps to review spending settings on the device first. The Teen content rating is also worth checking if a younger player will be matching cubes and dressing up Fiona and her daughters.