We throw away hundreds of dollars trying out different makeup, but we tend to ignore how important the makeup brushes are. Because the brushes are not being worn on your face doesn’t mean you should go cheap. In fact, a bad brush does show on your skin. Go to a drugstore and you would find those cheap $10 set for 4 brushes! Wow! And they are packed in a cute package, perfect! Not! I would never buy a brush without ever buy a brush without knowing how if feels. What I like about purchasing at the department store is that you can touch and try the products. Also the same way with Sephora. And even if you bought a product and didn’t work out, they will take it back. Not the case with drugstore or Target brands. For makeup tools I love MAC, they are the professionals. I only do eye makeup, so I own two brushes from MAC. One is an eye liner brush for liquid eye liner. Another one is eye shadow brush. Both are kind of expensive, $20, but great quality. I think being a painter taught me how to pick out a good brush. The hairs should not be rough, they should feel smooth, so makeup can be applied to the skin smoothly. A cheap rough brush, as you can imagine, shows the bad result on your skin. Rub the brush on your skin to test it out. For eye liner brush, they bristles should be firm. Bend it and it should bounce right back like elastic. Look at the craftsmanship, if the head is lose then the quality is obviously bad. A lot of times drugstore makeups are as good or better than the expensive brands in department store. But when it comes to brushes, you do get what you paid for.

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