Whether your aim is to have your face beat by the gods or have a low-key coverup, getting a full face make up look requires the necessary tools. Not even an artist can create a masterpiece without the necessary brushes, and your face is no different. So what are the best makeup brushes for full-face makeup look? Keep reading to find out!
Foundation is your neutral backdrop to support all the combinations of colors and highlights that one puts on their face later. While liquid foundation can be applied with your fingers, a foundation brush is perfect to control the amount of coverage and for even, all-over application.
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On a smaller scale, concealer brushes are similar to foundation brushes. They are only meant to help apply concentrated pigment in a tiny area. They are useful when needing to conceal under the eyes, zits, or even around the eyebrows to better shape them. Synthetic brushes are ideal for targeting small areas.
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Typically one will find powder brushes in the form of kabuki brushes. Large in circumference, these brushes are perfect for applying powders, whether it’s foundation powder, finishing powder or setting powder. Their intentions are to cover large areas!
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Contour brushes, often coming in slant, compact bristles, are designed to buffer out sharp edges and lines to produce natural-looking shadows on the face. Since one typically contours with darker pigmented lines, you want to make sure those lines blend seamlessly with your foundation to help highlight your natural bone structure!
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You will find when it comes to highlighter brushes, that they may come in many forms, sizes, bristle density. This is mainly because the shape and size of the highlighter brush depend on how much glow one wants. Whether you are going heavy or light, be sure to select a brush that picks up your preferred quantity of highlights. If you are unsure, try to select a brush that is somewhere in between!
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A blush brush is quite similar to a powder, but just like an artist with their canvas, multiple brushes are needed to avoid color mixing. Not only that, but blush brushes are not too big but not too small. The bristles need to be concentrated enough but big enough to produce the right about of pigment of blush.
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Need opaque color on your eyelid? You need a shader. The only shade this brush will be throwing is a vibrant, concentrated pigment that you can easily apply to the small area of your lid. You will find that these brushes are typically flat, rounded at the tip, and dense, perfect for color delivery.
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Pretty self-explanatory, a blending brush does just that, blends. Eyeshadow blending brushes makes sure applied eyeshadow on your lids blends seamlessly with the various pigments. Blending brushes also buffer out any awkward sharp lines.
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Chances are if you are not well-versed in the assorted variety of makeup brushes, chances are you have at least used a double-ended eyebrow brush before. With the spool comb on one end and the soft bristles on the other, it makes for the perfect ammunition for unruly brows.
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Stippling brushes are my favorite because its shape makes it the most multi-purpose of all the brushes. It can be used to apply foundation, finishing powder, blush, a highlighter and more. Since stippling brushes have flat tops it makes for easy and smooth application.
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