For makeup starter, not all makeup brushes are essential. Here is the information to know what different makeup brushes are for and how to use them, how to make them last, and natural hair vs synthetic fiber brushes.
You may find a lot of makeup brushes inside a makeup artists bag. In fact, not every makeup brush is essential for each individual makeup. Which brushes you consider essential is likely a function of which part of your face you emphasize with makeup.
Concealer brushes
Concealer brushes are small, narrow and firm, tapered toward the end. If you hide dark circles under your eyes with concealer, its best to apply and blend a liquid concealer with a makeup sponge. Applicator brushes work best with cream concealers.
Eyebrow/Mascara Brushes
Eyebrow brushes are often two brushes in one: eyebrow brush and mascara comb. You can purchase either separately, but if you need both, purchase a two-in-one combination brush. At one end you’ll find a brush to tame flyaway eyebrows and coax them into submission. Turn the brush in your hand one-half turn, and you’ll find a brush to separate eyelashes after applying mascara. While many women find no need for an eyebrow brush, almost any woman who applies mascara will find the mascara tool indispensable.
When a mascara tube has been open for several months, the mascara begins to lose moisture and dries out. No amount of pumping the applicator brush in the tube will restore the mascara to its former silky texture. It’s a futile exercise. If you want to extract and use every bit of mascara, you need to separate the clumps with a mascara brush immediately after application, before the mascara dries.
Eyeliner Brushes
If you wear liquid or cream eyeliner, the eyeliner applicator brush is an essential component of your makeup arsenal. The brush is similar in appearance to a lip brush, thin and tapered to a point toward the end. If you use an eyeliner pencil, you will need a sponge to smudge the eyeliner, not a brush.
Eyeshadow Brushes
You’re probably wondering why you would need an eyeshadow applicator brush when eyeshadow comes with a little sponge or brush applicator. If you apply the eyeshadow to one eye with a used sponge applicator, the application is often uneven and sometimes the sponge disintegrates right onto your eyelid. The sponge applicator is good for exactly one application. After that, the shadow becomes compressed on the sponge applicator, and you’ll receive an uneven application. After a few more applications, the sponge inevitably falls apart. You don’t want little pieces of sponge creeping into your eyes. You’ll receive a more uniform application and a more natural finished look from the proper eyeshadow applicator brush. Further, those miniature applicators that come with eyeshadow are unwieldy and uncomfortable to hold, if not impossible to manage. What you save in expense by using the little sponge applicator, you lose in lost time correcting the eyeshadow application.
You’ll need two eyeshadow applicator brushes. Use one for dark colors and one for light colors.
If you highlight the eyelid crease with a darker shade, youll want to invest in an angled eye shadow brush. The brush is flatter than a regular eye shadow brush, and the angled end makes application easier in tight spots. This applicator brush is essential to properly apply and blend the darker shadow into the crease.
Blush Brushes
If you use powder blush, a high-quality blush brush is essential. Cream and liquid blushes require a damp sponge for proper application. Those little brushes that often accompany powder blush are worse than useless. If you have ever used one of those brushes, then you know that the blush looks streaky, and its next to impossible to blend the blush properly with those brushes. Blush is supposed to give you a healthy glow, not an angled streak from mid-nose to the upper cheekbone. The brushes that come with powder blush are usually flat, and a proper blush applicator brush should be fluffy, and rounded at the end. The brush is almost identical to a face powder brush, except smaller. If you apply blush away from home, invest in a quality travel brush.
Face Powder Brushes
Most women who use powder use loose face powder at home and pressed powder away from home. Applying face powder too heavily accentuates wrinkles. Application is much easier to control with a brush. The face powder brush is fluffy and fat, and it’s rounded at the end. In fact, its the fattest of the makeup applicator brushes. For the most natural application, buff powder onto the face, and use less than you think you need. Add more as necessary. When using pressed face powder, instead of using the powder puff, invest in a high quality travel brush. If you dont, pressed powder can look unnatural and resemble stage makeup.
Lip Brushes
The professionals will scream at the top of their lungs that no self-respecting woman would apply lip color without a brush. Every makeup artist in the world uses these thin, tapered-to-a-point brushes. Whether or not these brushes are essential is up to you. Lip color is applied in a variety of ways, and is probably best applied in the manner you find most comfortable and which produces the most appealing look.
Makeup (Foundation) Brushes
If you’ve never heard of applying foundation with a brush, that’s because you’ve never tried the new powder-based foundations composed of minerals from the earth. There is no other way to apply this foundation. You buff the foundation on the face with a face powder brush. In fact, it is a face powder brush, but you’ll need one brush for the foundation, and an additional face powder brush for the powder.
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