best blending tool

iluvtinkerbell23 · 10-01-2005, 10:28 PM #1 (**permalink**)

so, i see all of your lovely fotds with the most beautiful blending. what is your best blending tool for MAC shadows? i mostly use my fingers(i know, bad), but what do you guys use?

Turbokittykat · 10-01-2005, 11:41 PM #2 (**permalink**)

MAC brushes. Which one depends on what I'm doing. I most commonly use a 222 or a 224 for blending my eye shadow. The 217 is useful too.

shygirl · 10-01-2005, 11:57 PM #3 (**permalink**)

I loooove my 224 brush.

exodus · 10-02-2005, 12:23 AM #4 (**permalink**)

I use... my fingers?

I guess I must be bad with my brushes, because I only like them to pick up pigment from the e/s and pat them on my lids. When I try to blend with them, I seem to brush off most of the colour, so I like using my fingers to "press" the colour onto my skin. It works for me

makeup_junkie · 10-02-2005, 03:02 AM #5 (**permalink**)

I've never used my fingers before....maybe I'll try that. I use the 224 brush but I seem to lose a lot of the vividness of the color. So I'm curious also to know what everyone else uses.

lovejam · 10-02-2005, 03:43 AM #6 (**permalink**)

I use the 272 for nearly all aspects of e/s application, including blending. It's a very versatile brush.

SonRisa · 10-02-2005, 04:13 AM #7 (**permalink**)

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Originally Posted by iluvtinkerbell23

so, i see all of your lovely fotds with the most beautiful blending. what is your best blending tool for MAC shadows? i mostly use my fingers(i know, bad), but what do you guys use?

BRUSHESSSSS!

Jude · 10-02-2005, 05:12 AM #8 (**permalink**)

I swear by All Over Shaders. Brushes with a larger, flatter surface and concentrated bristles that allow you to blend quickly before the colors get muddied.

Stila #5 and the Sephora brush has worked better for me than any other brush I have tried.

cinnamongurlee · 10-02-2005, 11:41 AM #9 (**permalink**)

it really depends on teh formulation and the intensity of the colour for me. i usually use my Lancome shader brush, but there is also the MAC 224, 252 and 213 that i use as well

xiahe · 10-02-2005, 02:33 PM #10 (**permalink**)

MAC 222, 224, or 217. Sometimes I'll just use regular q-tips to blend.

blaherina · 10-02-2005, 09:51 PM #11 (**permalink**)

I have an large e/s brush that's too big for my lids (does that make sense? too big to use for a dark color on my lid= too sloppy) so I just run that brush over my e/s when I'm all finished to blend. I got it at Target.

amillion · 10-02-2005, 11:52 PM #12 (**permalink**)

I use the 217. I have one by sephora as well but alway reach for the 217.

mspixieears · 10-03-2005, 03:40 AM #13 (**permalink**)

Not MAC recs but UD blending brush, but more so PrettyPretty eye/cheek brush. It's marked as being an eye shader and it does a fab job. It's a flat, wide synthetic brush - check DopeSickGirl's description of all-over shaders - that's what this is.

Midgard · 10-03-2005, 09:15 AM #14 (**permalink**)

Depends on what colors I use, but most times 224 or 217.

user3 · 10-03-2005, 12:26 PM #15 (**permalink**)

I use a flat thick blender brush. I think the name of the brand is Face Secrets. I picked it up at Sally's beauty.
Sometimes I use my fingers. I just getting the hang of blending.

glittergoddess27 · 10-03-2005, 03:28 PM #16 (**permalink**)

MAC's 242 and the 217.

PhonyBaloney500 · 10-03-2005, 11:21 PM #17 (**permalink**)

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Originally Posted by DopeSickGirl

I swear by All Over Shaders. Brushes with a larger, flatter surface and concentrated bristles that allow you to blend quickly before the colors get muddied.

Stila #5 and the Sephora brush has worked better for me than any other brush I have tried.

Do you blend after you've applied all the colors? Sorta swipe the brush in one direction over the whole eye or...?