Good tools can make a great difference but they cost.
Recently I purchased a 20-piece brush set from Ebay and the pink color certainly was attractive to me :P
I tossed away the brush roll since it is too crappy.
[[ you know sometime ebay sellers will put a note saying 'thank you for purchase' and dont rate them negatively? They put that note inside the brush roll and the ink transferred onto the surface... awwww. hate it!! (see the pic below -> there is some black lines on the right) ]]
This set contains 5 face brushes,1/2 for lips and the rests are for eyes.
Same as other cheap animal brushes, these brushes do smell.
Washing them before use is definitely a must.
When I was washing them, they shed like crazy!
The bristles were quite sparing, and got even worse after wash.
All the white bristles are really soft and tender, not stiff.
Hence, they work quite good as face brushes. I do hope the bristles were much denser.
There is a pink stippling brush in the set but it really does not have much bristles.
It does not work very good on applying foundation but cream blush =)
The photos above show comparison between the stippling brush and my Everyday Minerals brush
[[the EM one is awesome. Sofe and dense bristles give an air-brush finish. Love it ♥ I think it may be sort of similar to Sigma one? ]]
But for the eye brushes, sorry, they fail.
First, no sponge-tip brush please.
Second, here is the comparison between two cheap brushes I owned and the eye brushes in this set
The Red Earth and Sinful color brushes are far more fuller.
As I said, the white bristles are really soft. It cannot really put on much eye shadow on the lids but the sparse bristles do not work well on blending either. Suck.
This set has two angled eyeliner brushes, a synthetic one and a goat hair one, both are craps.
Compared to the one I have (right), my old angled brush has a fine and sharp edge and works much better to create a perfect line.
In conclusion, I dare not to recommend this brush set.
People in the US can go to ELF, SINFUL COLOR or even WALMARTS to get cheap and good brushes.
But people outside US, like Australia brushes and things are comparably pricey, you can get a good amount of brushes here. even not every brush is nice. [Update: go get real techniques! they are good and cheap!]
Where I got it from:
Ebay seller: 09chan
Price: US $16 included postage
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Good blending brushes are hard to find, reasonable priced ones are even harder (at least in Australia).
I finally a pretty good one from TARGET and under the brand NAPOLEON
Even it is made of synthetic bristles, it has enough bristle strength to get the job done.
