Eve Lom Powder Foundation Brush

I do love a foundation brush, I really do. Well strictly speaking I love a buffer brush, something to buff my chosen base of choice into my stricken skin. And the chosen base of choice could be liquid, cream, powder, dependent on the strickeness of my skin and how much coverage is required.

This is £38 so to my mind is a considered purchase when there are many and varied buffing type brushes available at considerably less.

But I am on the quest for the one, the one true buffing brush which is long of handle, I find most buffing brushes frustratingly short in that department and dense of bristles.

So this brush is certainly full of bristles, but the head itself is reassuringly small and thus easy to manoevre.

The fault for me is that it is beautiful, and in its beauty lies a reluctance on my part to use and dent its perfection, on the few times I have used it, it has certainly performed and added a polish to my skin, but frankly I prefer to look at it and stroke it occasionally.

Makeup brushes I buy in duplitriplicate

I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to beauty products, or maybe that should be collector? Whatever it is, if I find something beautywise which I like and use which does its job, I am likely to buy it again, and again, and maybe even again.

First up Maximum Coverage Concealer Brush from Bare Minerals. I bought one, found that it was exceptionally brilliant for applying mineral powder foundation, concealer, liquid foundation, stippling a product into my pores to minimise them. And I found that I didn't want to be without it, so I bought another, then thought I had lost one, so bought a third and felt well really it is a bit like bras, one in use, one in the wash and one washed and ready to use.

Everyday Minerals Short-Handled Kabuki Brush. I am a bit of a mineral foundation fan, although I can go off it suddenly and completely only to return to it when the weather warms and every foundation product is sliding off my face.

I have an inordinate number of kabuki brushes, but these - flat top and domed are really good at applying a light layer of any powder, be it mineral, or finishing. They also do not shed, wash and dry super quick and sit extremely easily in the hand - in short they do the job I ask of them time and time again.

Eve Lom Powder Foundation Brush

Ever since the handle of my Sigma F80 Flat Top Kabuki Brush decided to depart from its brush head totally and irrevocably, I felt the need for something to replace it. 

And I plumped for this, the Eve Lom Powder Foundation Brush.

This is a lovely, lovely brush. It has substance in the hand, so that I find I can buff it around my face without it skidding all over the place. The bristles are densely packed and very soft. 
What I particularly like is the fact that this brush does not hang on to the product, but deposits it around the face evenly.

Currently £38, not cheap but frankly I am over cheap brushes.

BECCA Foundation Brush #102

I need a new foundation brush like a hole in the head, but my current foundation of choice is BECCA Ultimate Complexion Foundation and after seeing Alex Byrne apply it with this brush, I felt compelled to buy.

This is a small, densely packed synthetic brush. The fibres are quite firm, and it is more akin to a flat foundation brush but in a more 3D form if that makes sense. It picks up enough product without absorbing the product, and the small pointed head makes for accuracy in application. I find that it is particularly good at stippling product into the skin in order to minimise my pores.

I have photographed it next to the Sigma F180 from the side.

And from above.

I bought this from SpaceNK for £33.

Zoeva Concealer Buffer Brush #142 and Real Techniques Delux Crease Brush

Many minor inconveniences occur when one moves into one's later years, having to shave my eyelids is one inconvenience, hence my previous post on Lilibeth of New York's Eyebrow Shaper, another is having to deal with the sleep deposits which collect throughout the day and settle in my tearducts annoyingly.

I don't "do" eyeshadow. I realised from a very early age - probably around twelve when I started to dabble in makeup that my there was insufficient space from upper lash line to brow to do anything other than keep it clean. Sadly even from that early age there has always been sufficient skin, and the folds and creases mean that clean and clear and bright is the only way to go with my eyelids, that and maybe making sure there is not too much flatness.

So I need to remove the sleep deposits and cover the teabag stains which surround my eyes. And this I can manage with a careful "pad, don't rub" application but to achieve perfection I need a buffing brush for the eyelids, and being somewhat of an obsessive I decided to compare and contrast the two available.

And there really is very little in it.

Side by side I cannot even remember which is which. The Zoeva is a fraction more densely packed, but it is a smidge, a hair's breath.

Both buff eye products in with aplomb. Zoeva is available from Beautybay amongst other online retailers and is below £10 and Real Techniques is available from Boots amongst other retailers but has to be bought as part of a set which is more than £10

Zoeva Concealer Buffer Brush #142 and Real Techniques Delux Crease Brush

Many minor inconveniences occur when one moves into one's later years, having to shave my eyelids is one inconvenience, hence my previous post on Lilibeth of New York's Eyebrow Shaper, another is having to deal with the sleep deposits which collect throughout the day and settle in my tearducts annoyingly.

I don't "do" eyeshadow. I realised from a very early age - probably around twelve when I started to dabble in makeup that my there was insufficient space from upper lash line to brow to do anything other than keep it clean. Sadly even from that early age there has always been sufficient skin, and the folds and creases mean that clean and clear and bright is the only way to go with my eyelids, that and maybe making sure there is not too much flatness.

So I need to remove the sleep deposits and cover the teabag stains which surround my eyes. And this I can manage with a careful "pad, don't rub" application but to achieve perfection I need a buffing brush for the eyelids, and being somewhat of an obsessive I decided to compare and contrast the two available.

And there really is very little in it.

Side by side I cannot even remember which is which. The Zoeva is a fraction more densely packed, but it is a smidge, a hair's breath.

Both buff eye products in with aplomb. Zoeva is available from Beautybay amongst other online retailers and is below £10 and Real Techniques is available from Boots amongst other retailers but has to be bought as part of a set which is more than £10