BRUSH Stash

My brush collection is something that I have started to expand recently. Up until two years ago I had like 3 brushes: power brush, two eyeshadow brushes and some of the applicators I got with the eyeshadow quads.

My brush collection varies in price: there are expensive high-end brushes next to cheap drugstore one (and I don’t see much difference in quality).

I take care a lot for my brushes – the oldest one in my collection is 10 years old and it is still good as new (even better). I wash them once per week (depending on how much make-up I do that week) with gentle, no-silicone shampoo in lukewarm water.

Currently I have 4 face brushes (but looking to expand it), 11 eye-brushes (not counting the applicators I got with the eyeshadow palettes) and 1 lip-brush (don’t need more).

STUDIO BASICS Eye Blending Brush Review

This is one of my oldest make-up brushes. I’ve purchased it a long time ago (together with several other brushes), when there wasn’t a great selection of make-up tools in my country. Nevertheless, I’m still using it. I don’t remember how mush I’ve paid, but it was very cheap.

The bristles are very soft, but they are synthetic. In the first month of using it, it has lost only two bristles, and since then it hasn’t shed.

It is advertised as a blending brush, but I find it impossible to use it that way. The brush picks enough of eyeshadow and applies it evenly. The bristles are long, and there is a lot of them, therefore the blending is not precise. Instead, I use it to apply the base eyeshadow all over the lid. Since the brush is almost the size of my eyelids, I only need two swipes.

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