A woman's face is her business card. This is the first thing that attention is paid at the time of initial acquaintance. Therefore, each representative of the beautiful half throughout her life works on her face, supporting its healthy and well-groomed appearance with health-improving and decorative cosmetic means. And here, makeup is not the last role. And in order to successfully arrange it, you need a list of some attributes in the form of directly cosmetics and, of course, tools for applying it as a variety of makeup brushes.
The need to purchase brushes for modeling make-up
Today, there are many methods for modeling everyday and daily makeup, one of which is even a manual method, which involves applying cosmetic decorative materials to the skin of the face using just the fingertips.
A logical question arises: why do I need makeup brushes? The bottom line is that each of them carries a special meaning, since it is intended for the formation of make-up on different parts of the skin and applying different decorative cosmetics to them. So, distinguish several main groups of brushes:
- fundamental (base under the base);
- contouring;
- under the shade;
- under the eyebrows;
- under lipstick and shine.
Each of the groups involves a combination of several other types of makeup brushes, designed to apply them in the desired area of the face. And to know their immediate purpose is quite important, since this will allow you to make perfect quality makeup at home without the help of makeup artists and skilled masters.
Foundation brushes for applying tone
The very first step to making a make-up is to prepare a basic coverage. No successful make-up can be created correctly without a correctly and well-applied tonal foundation. And since it has the property in different companies and brands of manufacturers to have a different degree of density and concentration of pigment, it simply needs to be able to properly apply it to the surface of the skin of the face. The essential makeup brushes will become irreplaceable assistants in this matter.
The foundation can be applied to the face with several basic types of brushes.
- A wide flat brush with a rounded shape of the tip is perhaps the most comfortable, highest quality and most correct model that allows you to apply a liquid consistency of foundation on a face with a dense layer. Thanks to a medium-sized synthetic pile that is densely packed into the base of the brush, the liquid foundation is evenly spread over the entire surface of the skin, without leaving straight lines due to the curved bevel of artificial hairs. Why is it important to use synthetics as a shading fiber? Because it has greater rigidity and less absorption compared to natural pile, due to which it practically does not leave foundation on the hands and carries all the material directly to the destination.
- Brush brush - a trendy trend of our time, which won the hearts of not only professional makeup artists, but also ordinary users of decorative cosmetics in a short time. Enthusiastic girls in their reviews of a makeup brush in the form of an enlarged toothbrush vying repeatedly insist on the excellent quality of the thick synthetic pile of this tool in modeling make-up, as well as its ease of use due to the slightly curved handle and a rather wide surface of the base of the brush itself. This allows you to evenly distribute the tonal foundation across all areas of the facial skin, while experiencing a very pleasant sensation from the soft touch of the brush pile.
- A spatula brush is another no less convenient model, also related to professional makeup brushes and representing a voluminous rounded base shape with a pile densely packed into it in its horizontal flat bevel. This shape of the brush, resembling something like a spatula, is used in applying a thicker foundation composition, helping to drive consistency with your dense layer of pile directly into the skin. This allows you to fill absolutely all areas of the skin with a tonal remedy without gaps and spots on the face.
- A duofiber brush is a cross between an ordinary brush and a sponge, such a perfect make-up modeling tool allows you to apply a foundation in the maximum amount required for this. Since the brush consists of a mixture of synthetic and natural villi, and also has two categories of length in its thickest part (more authentic) and around the circumference of the brush (shorter), it leaves an even soft tonal layer on the skin, slightly absorbing its excess. Use a makeup brush of such a plan with special care, periodically washing off the remnants of decorative cosmetic material with warm soapy water.
Contouring brushes
An equally important step towards a perfect make-up is the process of contouring the face. What does this procedure imply? This is a set of certain actions for applying additional corrective agents to the skin on top of the tonal foundation for editing minor imperfections by the method of visual dimming and lightening of the most exposed and accented areas of the face. Of course, that quality contouring without the use of auxiliary tools cannot be achieved. To do this, you need special makeup brushes, and which one is for what purpose - it's easy to figure out.
This group of tools, as well as fundamental, includes several subspecies of professional brushes.
- The brush under the corrector is a small flat texture of a pile that has been pointedly collected into a bundle, which allows you to correct skin imperfections in the area under the eyes and eyelids. The shape of such a brush allows you to get to the most delicate facial features and apply corrective means on them so that it is not noticeable visually, but transforms the look of the face as a whole.
- A highlighter brush is a tool for modeling accents on areas of the face that need to be lightened, such as the central frontal part, the infraorbital space, the tip of the nose, chin and fossa above the upper lip. Such a brush allows you to accurately disperse bright highlights on the face without clear boundaries, which allows it to be refreshed and softened.
- The brush under the concealer - in contrast to the brush for applying highlighter, it is a tool for applying thick liquid textures with a dark pigment base for modeling the lines of the cheekbones, darkening the frontal part behind the temporal lobes, and also reducing the wings of the nose, if necessary.
Powder brushes
When choosing tools for applying powder to the skin, you also need to know the specific description of makeup brushes: what is provided for what and how to use them. So, there are three main subspecies of brushes for working on face skin with powder:
- oval - the primary assistant in the uniform and accurate transfer of the notorious velvet pollen to the surface of the face, previously worked out by the tonal base; such a brush is easy to apply and tends to shade well the applied layer of powder on the skin;
- Kabuki - a fluffy round brush with a short handle, very voluminous in its tightly stuffed base; it allows you to apply powder with trampling movements, which helps to qualitatively treat the surface of each area of the skin on the face without stains and age spots;
- fan - a wide flat makeup brush that helps to gently remove excess powder from the surface of the skin with light movements and distribute it as thinly as possible over the entire area of the facial areas requiring treatment.
Blush brush
In addition to working with cheekbones, during contouring at the final stage of facial skin cosmetic make-up, it is necessary to apply a light layer of blush. Here, the selection of the necessary tools is minimized, so a long description of makeup brushes - what is intended for what - is not required in this case. There are several options for brushes, designed for applying blush, but the only right, high-quality and practical choice is a medium-sized brush with a slant on its side. It allows you to more evenly and accurately apply cosmetic material to the cheekbone area and gently emphasize their expressiveness.
Eyebrow brush
Why do we need makeup brushes, and which ones should be chosen when working specifically with eyebrows, probably every girl knows. Since eyebrows are today the most catchy, the most important accented spot of all facial features, they require special attention to themselves. Depending on the state of their grooming, shape and color, the face acquires a different visual expression.
In working with eyebrows, mainly three main tools are used:
- brush - is presented in the form of a double-breasted tool, on one side of which there is a brush with a hard synthetic pile for combing eyebrow hairs, and on the other - a fine-toothed scallop mini version of a comb;
- art brush - characterized by short hairs of a pile with an oblique cut in a flat design; this formation of the brush allows you to accurately draw the borders of the eyebrows and paint them with a pigment dye in the form of liquid or dry eyebrows;
- wax brush - designed to fix the material applied to the eyebrows with wax.
Thanks to the application of the described three elements of eyebrow modeling, a very accurate and expressive make-up is obtained as a result of working with them.
Eyeliner brushes
When choosing a set of brushes, ordinary consumers who are not masters in the art of make-up often wonder: what makeup brush is provided for what. However, this question does not arise with the appearance of a brush for applying eyeliner, because its characteristic appearance speaks for itself. In an even execution of the body or with a slightly curved back side for more convenient application of the material to the area of the moving eyelid near the eyelashes, such brushes differ in the minimum amount of pile in the formation pointed at the tip.
This allows users to apply thick eyeliner material with as thin a clear line as possible. Often this tool comes in a kit with the material itself in one tube, but the presence of a separate eyeliner brush will never interfere with its presence in the arsenal of accessories for a high-quality make-up.
Eyeshadow brushes
What and why in the set of makeup brushes is provided for the design of shadows - the question is also simple. Basically, the most commonly used are three types of devices for decorating eyelids:
- flat brush - is characterized by a relatively short length of the pile, flatly folded into the base, to highlight the movable eyelid with pigment;
- oval brush - also made in a flat form, but the hairs of the pile are elongated and softer in contact with the skin; such a tool helps to make a color accent in the crease of the eyelid and give saturation to the shadow color along the outer contour of the eye;
- the round brush is more fluffy and voluminous compared to its counterparts, it is intended for applying bright shadows and high-quality shading of the shadow material.
Eyelash brushes
The time has long passed when a palette containing mascara was stored separately from the brush in the well-known version of the notorious “Leningradka”. Now mascara and brush for it are made in an indissoluble single bottle, which is very convenient and comfortable to use. But a couple of tools for eyelash decoration in a professional set are still present. These makeup brushes do not require a description: this is a well-known brush for eyelashes and a comb for separating them. Pre-treated eyelashes with these devices will be more pliable in applying mascara to them, which will facilitate the design of the make-up as a whole.
Glitter and lipstick brushes
The choice of tools for applying lipstick or gloss is also represented by several possible brush options. It can be models with a pointed conical cut of the pile for drawing contour outlines on the lip area, or a rounded flat version of the cut of the villi, which allows you to darken the middle space of the lip folds, as well as brushes in the form of a sponge head, designed to apply liquid lipsticks and glosses to the lips.
Thus, the widest range of assortment in the selection of makeup brushes allows modern beauties not only to choose good tools for applying decorative cosmetics on their faces, but also to create really high-quality make-up with them that is no worse than professional.