Hey guys!
Recently I've been recieving a lot of questions about makeup brushes and which brushes I would suggest to someone that wants to begin their collection!
Since discovering Sigma Brushes in 2011, I've grown quite a collection. I've compiled a list of the best makeup brushes that I believe every true makeup lover needs.
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FACE BRUSHES
The F25 Tapered Face Brush: This is a large, versatile face brush
useful for applying all over powder, or product to more specific areas such as
hilight, cheek or contour colours.
It's wonderfully
soft and I love that unlike most powder brushes, the tapered tip allows for
ease of application into every nook of your face.
I rarely use an all over face powder
so for me, I use this one to set my under eye concealor to prevent creasing.
The F15 Duo Fibre Powder Blush Brush is another versatile
brush that can be used with powder or creams. I love to apply my liquid
foundation during the summer with this brush, and it gives me the most
flawless, natural looking foundation with an air-brush type appearance.
It features fibre blended
bristles that delicately apply the product when you use a softer hand, and then
when using firmer pressure you get a stronger application! Great for applying
any type of blush also, it's very difficult to apply too much with this brush.
The F84 Angled Kabuki Brush is my absolute favourite
foundation brush. I also have three others from the collection but if I had to
choose which was my top favourite, it would the this angled one.
I prefer need
a full coverage with my foundations and because of the dense bristles with the
F84 it applies the liquid evenly and really buffs it into my skin leaving
gorgeous, natural looking, full coverage veil on my skin.
It
blends the foundation without streaking and does the job very quickly! Ideally
you should have this one and another so you don't have to clean after every
single use.
The F40 Large
Angled Contour Brush was one of the first I got from Sigma and
has help up so well for me over the last two years. Used almost daily its help
me apply and blend my powder blush or bronzer to PERFECTION.
It's soft and
fluffy bristles disperse colour evenly and you can build up colour intensity
very well. I
really need this brush.
The F70
Concealor Brush is like a mini foundation brush so you can pat
on concealor directly and precisely to blemishes. Can also be used to
blend the edges of the applied product through I usually use my fingers or a
different brush for that.
A staple for every
makeup brush kit.
The E75 Angled Brow Brush is the most precise, delightful
brush for applying brow powder to form my beloved arches to their desired
shape. I will never use anything else now I've got this.
You
can use the bristles vertically to fill in a solid colour to the 'head' of the
brow, then flip it horizontally to get crisp lines at the tail and edges of
your brow. Don't know how I lived without this!
The L05 Lip brush is for applying lipstick or lip product. I NEVER apply a colourful lipstick without a brush. Straight from the tube will look too messy! Use this to 'line' the lips with the lippy then you can fill in the rest of your lips from the tube if you prefer.
This brush has lovely precise bristles and has a removable cap so you can pop it in your handbag for reapplying throughout the day without fear you will ruin the interior of your handbag!
EYE BRUSHES
The E55 Eye Shading
Brush is a staple for applying
eye shadow to the lid. It's the perfect size for all eyelids and has lovely
soft, flexible bristles.
This E20 Short Shader Brush is has short and dense soft bristles so it applies shadow well along the lash lines. Packs on strong colour precisely which is good for smokey looks! Its good to have one smaller shadow brush such as this and one other, larger shadow brush.
This E60 Large
Shader brush is
optional BUT I use this most out of my shading brushes because its made of
firmer bristles that can pack on colour more densely!
This is the E15 Flat Definer
brush, it's for applying
eyeshadow precisely and in crisp lines. I use this a LOT! It's a very useful
brush when doing cut crease looks, for creating a perfect 'outer-v', or for
applying shadow directly to the lash line as liner!
You NEED this E30 Pencil Brush to
apply colour to the crease and to blend. I use this in probably every single
tutorial... Perfect when used with a light to go into the crease, then press a
little harder and it blends the same shadow out. Very useful brush everyone
should own!
The E45 Small
Tapered Blending Brush is
another excellent brush, it was my first sigma blending brush; it features a
tapered tip so it blends more precisely, but is also useful to apply eye
shadow. You should ideally have
multiple blending brushes, if you dont blend, your eyeshadow will look messy
and unprofessional. Some
looks do call for crisp lines but most eye makeups require blending . This one is great to sweep
colour over lid (maybe a shimmery colour to create a beautiful sheen on the
lid) and to blend cream products too! Blending Brushes are versatile and you
really do need more than one blending brush.
This is the E35 Tapered Blending Brush. I like this one because it’s fluffy and has a large ‘face’ so blends over a larger surface area. It's not really tapered as the name suggests however, it's more of a round bristled brush. Really good!
The E65 Small Angle
Brush is for applying gel
or cream liners and even for applying shadow precisely! This is a necessity.
And that would conclude my brush kit! I own a lot more brushes, but these are what I would need to do any makeup!
Hope this was helpful you guys!
Love, Chlo Bo xx
Hope this was helpful you guys!
Love, Chlo Bo xx
*I used my affiliate links in this post! This means that if you buy any of these brushes using the links I provided I make 10% of your purchase. It really helps me out. FYI I paid for all my own sigma brushes and I really think they are some of the best out there.
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