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Concealer Brush 982shade · Sizes 0 and 1
- “This brush is perfect to cover large pores, especially my nose pores”▶ 3:15
- “It has a perfect flexibility and also dense bristles hard enough to push the product into my pores”▶ 3:25
- “Because of its angle shape, not the round shape like typical concealer brushes, it's perfect for getting into the corners of the under eyes and around the nose”
- “It's also great for fixing over lining”
- “If you are looking for a portable concealer brush that covers your pores and cleans up your makeup, I highly recommend this brush”▶ 2:56
Hourglass$42.00- “Hourglass has denser bristles and feel more stiff, so it's perfect to use with high coverage products because it gives you much more coverage”▶ 4:43
- “If you want more coverage for specific area, I would say this Hourglass will be better”▶ 4:57
- “This combo is just perfect for high coverage look”▶ 5:13
- “It still blends really nicely and blends seamlessly while giving you higher coverage”
- “If I blend too strong with this Hourglass brush, concealer can peel a little bit because it gives you very strong tension”▶ 5:24
Hourglass$60.00- “This works beautifully with more satin and a little bit more glowy type of foundation”▶ 7:26
- “The bristle is so soft and dense enough to give you enough coverage”▶ 7:33
- “After blending with this brush, it still leaves that beautiful glow on my skin while giving enough coverage”▶ 7:40
- “It's just easy to work with. It's so soft. I can just blend roughly and still gives that perfect even coverage look”▶ 7:47
- “If you don't have any makeup skills and you just want that quick and easy type of foundation brush, I would say this brush will be better”▶ 7:54
- “Whenever I use this brush with cream product or any liquid product, it still keep that glow from the products I use”▶ 8:15
- “The bristle shape and the handle shape is pretty unique because the brush is thin at the end. It gives you more precise application because when the handle is too thick, you're more likely to go more strong. But when the handle is thin, you're going to go for more light hand”▶ 8:24
- “The bristle is so soft, it's not that dense, so it gives you control and flexibility”▶ 8:40
- “When I use this as a foundation brush with the MPH foundation, it's just perfect combo. It goes really seamlessly while keeping that glow from the foundation”▶ 9:01
- “I feel like this brush is perfect to use with the lightweight serum type of foundation”▶ 8:09
- “You can even use this with the other cream products, cream blushes, cream contour, even concealers. So, this is really multitasking brush”▶ 8:11
- “This is like one of the most high quality brushes I ever used”▶ 9:58
- “The brushes are so soft so I love using their eye makeup brushes especially because it allows me to get the really natural eyeshadow look”▶ 10:04
- “This brush 15 is perfect size to apply the light base eyeshadow all over my lids”▶ 10:12
- “It never leaves any strokes or edges. It just blends so seamlessly”▶ 10:26
- “If the bristles is this soft and very high quality even if you're beginner in makeup I think you will still get the natural look because the tool is very important”▶ 10:31
Sigma Beauty$24.00- “I like to use this brush when I want to do more like a smokey eye makeup look”▶ 11:28
- “This Sigma brush is more dense and not that soft to get me that strong color payoff with the eyeshadow”▶ 11:51
- “When I want to blend seamlessly, I will just grab this refer 13 brush again and then blend the edges, then I will get the perfect smokey eye makeup look”▶ 12:08
Dior$32.00- “I found that this type of wide brush is perfect because you're just going to follow your lower lash line like all over”▶ 12:23
- “The size is perfect and it's pretty dense, it's not that soft, so it gives me high coverage or high pigment from the eyeshadow”▶ 12:46
- “I have to be really careful when using this brush”▶ 12:54
Dior$33.00- “I would say this is my most used eye shadow brush among all these brushes because I mostly use this for my lips to contour my lips specifically”▶ 14:43
- “I use this a lot to add that depth to my outer part of my eyes, a little bit of my inner corners”▶ 14:56
- “I think this is just perfect for overlining brush”▶ 15:09
- “I would say this is the most used and most favorite brush from this brand Rephr”▶ 16:39
- “This is the thinnest eyeliner or eyeshadow brush I have ever seen from the brands”▶ 16:47
- “This brush is long enough to give me that control, that thin layer with the deep brown eyeshadow”▶ 17:04
- “I always draw the fake eyeliner with this eyeshadow brush”▶ 17:13
- “This is just perfect size and perfect shape to draw the fake eyeliner”▶ 17:26
JUNGSAEMMOOL$38.22- “It's been over 6 years, I guess, and I still use the brush. It still does the job”▶ 17:53
- “It's perfect size and the difference between this Jung Saem Mool brush and O K brush, Jung Saem Mool brush is more round shape, so it's perfect to tightline the water lines like upper lines area”▶ 17:57
- “This one is more quick and easy tightlining brush”▶ 18:24
- no stillokhee$16.95
- “This Okhee brush has more angular shape, so it's perfect to draw sharper lines and more like wing eyeliner look”
- “Okhee gives me more precision to draw the lines”
Hourglass$48.00- “When I want to use that type of cream or liquid brushes with a high strong pigment, but still get that more natural look, I will go for this brush”▶ 18:59
- “This brush allows me get that even coverage. So, it gives me much more sophisticated look”▶ 19:12
- “The bristles is so soft. It's not that dense brush. It has a little sparse here and there, so it gives you more natural look”▶ 19:16
- “The shape is angular shape, so it's just perfect to go this way or whether it's a this way for the blush placement”▶ 19:33
- “I found this brush is perfect for sophisticated blush look”▶ 19:35
- “The bristle is so soft. It's the same bristle from the eyeshadow brushes, so it gives me very natural coverage look”▶ 19:46
- “Even if I use that very strong pigment powder blush, it still gives me that natural blurry look”▶ 19:50
- “The brush side is just perfect. It's not that big and not too small. I can just blend right here, blend all over, then I can get that very natural-looking blush look”▶ 19:57
Dior$37.00
okhee$21.00- “The size is perfect to go right here, and a little bit under my cheekbone area”▶ 21:23
- “If the brush is too small, it's more likely to leave that strong stroke, but I don't want that, so I just blend all over, and it can get that really seamless highlighter glowing look”▶ 21:27
- “You can use it with translucent powder, even with powder blush to get more targeted areas”▶ 21:41
okhee$19.00
- “I use this brush a lot when I use a translucent powder”▶ 22:32
- “The size is small enough to cover my eyelids and a little bit on my eyebrows”▶ 22:47
- “I like to go for smaller brushes, because I want to mattify specific area on my face, not all over so that I can create more natural look”▶ 22:58
- “I love using this brush to just mattify smaller areas”▶ 23:07
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