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11 November 2009

Beauty Tool Hot Seat: Brushes!

Test yourself: Can you identify which are synthetic brushes? The 10th person to email me the correct and complete answer wins a Bloom blush brush!

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I've only started using makeup brushes during the second quarter of this year. I bought a couple of 'em without understanding their structure, thus, wasting good money for those that I have no use for.

So before you get those moolah wasted, acquaint yourselves with brushes first.



Brushes are primarily categorized based on the type of bristles. We have:

1. Natural Brushes- made of real animal hair (goat, squirrel, badger, and more!)
(note: there are no brushes made of skunk hair. The term 'skunk' pertains to the black and white appearance of the mixture of hair)
2. Synthetic Brushes- out of man-made fibers like nylon and taklon.

Natural

Synthetic

Appearance

Bristles are shiny on pics; hair strands hardly seen as single units

Bristles appear to be more defined (like you can see the demarcation of the strands) on pics

Bristle Texture

Very soft; can be easily deformed

Soft and smooth but firm

Usage

Powders/pigments

Liquid/cream

Brush Care

It may be a pain to remove makeup stains

Bristles do not trap the product, easier to remove stains












These are the basics in knowing your brushes a lil bit more. Stay tuned for part two, makeup newbies! We'll talk about face brushes, eye brushes, and great tips on purchasing brushes!

4 comments:

  1. I emailed you my answers girl ahaha :)

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  2. I have only just recently become interested in makeup, so I am looking forward to your future posts about makeup brushes, I am sure they will be very helpful. Thank you! :)

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  3. if you plan (if ever lang) to sell your EDM brushes, pls contact me, :P

    hahaha...

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