The 224 is more of a blending brush,..It really is too fluffly to pack on the color IMO. I use my 224 Just to buff out my final applications (I show this one doing that on my tutorial in the tuts section) If you really wanted to use this one to apply color though,.. my recommendation would be to a lot of color on it and then pat it onto a sticky base like a cream colored base or something of that nature with the brush. HTH!