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Brushes play and essential role in the flawless mineral makeup application.

This post will explain the various brushes that should be in your collection for that perfect look!

1) The Kabuki Brush

It is also known as the “Buffer”. It usually comes in short handles for the comfort of gripping the brush. It is particularly used to blend and buff entire face using buffing powder such as the foundation, finishing veil and loose powder. It helps reduce the appearance of pore size.

Kabuki’s comes in a wide range of size, structure and hair type, such as the long-handled buki and baby buki. The main difference that you would want to look out for is the density of the brush and also the type of hair used. The larger the kabuki brush, the larger the coverage area you would be able to obtain. It determines the amount of powder that it can pick with its bristles.

A good kabuki brush should be able to provide good coverage when applying mineral makeup and also do not feel ’scratchy’. In addition, the brush should never shed too much during application. However, it would be normal for a brush to shed during the first few applications. After a good washing and more applications, the brush should not shed as much.

2) Concealer Brush

As the name implies, the concealer brush is used to conceal those ‘don’t want to be seen’ areas. The concealer brush size could come in large/small sizes where the larger ones are used to cover up those freckles/blemishes and requires a larger coverage area. Whilst, the smaller ones are used for more precise coverage, like those lines surrounding the eye area and tiny freckles.

A concealer brush would normally be made of taklon (artificial hair) as it needs to be a little bit harder to help control the concealing.

3) Contour/Cheek Blending Brush

A contour/cheek blending brush is angled and not flat as it is used to accentuate the contour of the face in the cheek area. It would be ideal to use this brush to apply your blusher/highlighter around the cheek area as it follows the contour of the cheek bones.

4) Medium Brushes

 

Blender for eyes and also used for highlights and shading of other smaller areas that you might want to highlight/shade for under the eyes, temples, under the chin, sides of the nose and etc.

Some are used for all over eyeshadow application over the entire eyelids as well as, to help soften and blend the edges of the eyeshadows and other very small areas.

5) Smaller brushes

 

From the pic above it’s the brushes 3, 6,7 and 17.

 For Eyes/Concealer/Lips — Could be used for glosses, liners, covering tiny spots and etc.

6) Brow definer

 Has a small angle and the bristles are stiff to apply and define your brows while brushing the hair into place. This brush is used to fill in your eyebrows and obtaining the shape that you desire.

7)Mascara Wand

The mascara wand is brush No. 19. It looks like exactly like the mascara comb on the mascara. 

This brush looks like a mascara brush just without the mascara itself. It helps to brush and comb your eyelashes to separate them out after the application of mascara.

8 )Combination of a Comb and a Brush

 This brush is used to brush and groom eyebrows into shape. Also, to remove excess powders trapped on eyebrows.

Note: You can get all this brushes from our Simply Naturale Store!