Cure and Care-Magazine

MUST HAVE MAKEUP
BRUSHES TO CREATE
YOUR SIGNATURE LOOK
Make-up has been an extremely important aspect in life, right
from the days of old until to today. One of the important make up
tools, which help create picture perfect, eyes, lips, and face are
Cosmetics Makeup Brushes. It goes without saying that the
best brushes will render application effortless, and optimise
the performance of your makeup products to their full potential.
When it comes to the brushes, there is a popular belief that
you need 20 to 30 make-up brushes in your collection. For a
professional make-up artist it would probably be very beneficial;
however all you really need, are these 10 multi-functional
brushes suggested below. The right makeup brush can create
a significant difference when it comes to application, and provide
a flawless finish.
Here are 10 must have make-up brushes, to jump start a wellrounded
collection to your vanity kit, and to brush your way
towards perfection.
1. THE BLUSH BRUSH
It pays to invest in a blush brush; because once you find the right one,
it does it all. This domed brush is the perfect brush to add colour to
cheeks, it also works well to shade and contour your cheek area. Simply
apply the brush in a circular motion to the apples of your cheeks.
2. THE BLENDING BRUSH
A blending brush is a must-have for dusting eye-shadow along the
crease of your lids since flexible bristles makes it easy to blend colours
and soften lines. A brush with a narrow tip will give you more
control over specific areas around the eye.
3. THE CONCEALER BRUSH
This small and tapered brush is ideal and essential for targeting
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areas that need extra coverage. It helps apply and blend
the concealer in small areas such as under the eyes and
blemishes, allowing imperfections to be concealed in a
natural way. Also works as a great option to use when applying
cream eye shadow thanks to its synthetic fibres.
4. THE CONTOURING BRUSH
Cut into a square shape, this natural hair brush is one of
the best brushes in the market for sculpting the face for
a 3D effect. It is soft and bendable, which helps to prevent
any harsh lines when contour cream/powder, or
bronzer is applied - perfect for enhancing facial highlight.
5. THE EYELINER BRUSH
The trick to finding a good eyeliner brush is looking
for a small angled brush that is easy to grip. This brush
is versatile enough to work with wet or dry eyeliner.
6. FOUNDATION BRUSH
A small, dense, rounded brush, is great for achieving a flawless
base. Its small shape makes it great to blend and buff
product into the skin resulting in a much easier, smoother
and more flawless foundation application and finish.
You can use it to apply face creams and serums.
7. THE POWDER BRUSH
Let’s talk about the powder brush. Every makeup collection
needs a powder brush. This natural hair brush is soft and tapered
into a dome shape; with multiple uses on wide variety
of products including setting powder, blush, and bronzer.
8. THE HIGHLIGHTER/KABUKI BRUSH
This brush has a feathery texture to sweep highlighter, blush
or bronzer over your cheek bones – the key is to keeping a
light touch so your makeup doesn’t look too overdone.