I know I’ve talked about glowy cheeks but it’s hard to make them last throughout the day if you do not have the right tools to help you push those makeup pigments into your skin. And if you have butter fingers like mine, my guess is you don’t even blend half as well with them as using a blush brush.

I have owned the Real Techniques Powder Brush for over a year now, but I only picked up recently their Stippling Brush because I’d hauled one blusher too many as of late. I thought this is a good time to talk about makeup brushes since it is Spring/ Summer time and anyone who needs to steal a cheeky glow or two may be interested to see these makeup brushes reviews.

The Real Techniques Stippling Brush Review

Stippling brushes generally are not just great with pushing the product into our skin so they make them longer-wearing, but they too are great in picking powdered products up. Thus when it comes to mineral blushes for example, my Innisfree Mineral Blusher, stippling brushes come in really handy and speedy when applying this type of surface or spot makeup.

The Real Technique stippling brush also works great for liquid blushers or highlighters; they diffuse the hues well by the gentle swirling of the soft bristles against the skin. I will not say the same for cream products such as cream blushers because this brush has fibers that are too soft to pick cream product up, let alone blending them. They work better with powders and liquids because naturally, the consistency of those allow the brush to grip and drip well. For that, I prefer to use my fingers to blend when it comes to cream blushes.

But the difference is apparent from the photos below – stippling allows better control in the color gradation; you can stipple on, tap off excess, dust off, and stipple again. Finger blending for cream blushes is a little more challenging; I don’t know about you – but although I could still build the intensity by taking it a little at a time, somehow the area on which I work tends to get uncontrollably expansive. It is harder to remove any excess that has already ended up on your skin so you tend to lighten the intensity at some point by dragging it further.

Notice I don’t talk about using it for foundations, not even for my Laurer Mercier Smooth Finish Powder Foundation because in my opinion it is not dense or big enough to make the cut for base makeup. Though I know it picks up a lot of product at any one time, the issue here is with the surface area of the face it could cover each time before I had to go back to pick up the product. Plus because the fibers are too scattered hence the bristles are not tough enough to bring together the strength into pushing base makeup into the skin; although apparently it may resemble a flat top kabuki foundation brush that often does the trick.

But fret not, they have those taken care of by their Expert Face Brush and the angled Foundation Brush for base makeup.

For foundation makeup brushes, you my wish to see the demo I did with BH Cosmetics brushes with both liquid foundation and powdered foundation here.

 

 

 

The Real Techniques Powder Brush Review

The Real Techniques Powder Brush has a round head and is very soft and fluffy even though they are synthetic. It works well in sweeping and dusting but only with products you want on broader areas like when bronzing your forehead and temples or dusting loose powder all over your face. It picks up powders like nobody’s business so you might want to watch out on that. I know the market has brushes meant for contouring like those angled ones or the Nars’s Ita Kabuki brush. I guess you only find those useful when you really want sharp contours to achieve a chiseled look. If you are looking at delicate contouring, this powder brush does great for sweeping on the hollows underneath your cheekbones to make faces appear smaller and slimmer.

Verdict

Review of the Real Techniques Makeup Brushes by Samantha + Nicola Chapman

So apart from the above, another thing I love about Real Techniques makeup brushes is that they can stand on their own! You may not find this a big deal but for someone who just doesn’t feel comfortable laying brushes on tables (even with tissue paper in between for that matter) and in need of a speedy makeup routine at the same time, you will appreciate this; especially when this allows for free-standing easy storage too. They kinda organized themselves without having to put them in a jar, ya know what I’m sayin’?

The Real Techniques makeup brushes are of synthetic bristles and are 100% cruelty-free. This one is right up my alley.

Prices & Where to Buy the Real Techniques Makeup Brushes

Real Techniques Stippling Brush and Powder Brush – available at Guardian Pharmacy stores in Singapore (local drugstore) at SGD$18.60 and SGD$18.00 each respectively.

They are also available for sale online at http://www.realtechniques.com.sg/catalog/1, they offer free delivery around Singapore.

For even more competitive prices for these Real Techniques brushes, and if you are also into purchasing potentially other organic products and perishables, check out http://www.iherb.com/Real-Techniques-by-Samantha-Chapman to enjoy a flat postage fee of SGD$4.00 for delivery weighing not more than 14 pounds (6.35 kgs).

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