Whether you are a liquid, cream, or powder gel, it’s not the end of the equation to find a great foundation. You need to do it with something and fingers aren’t really the strongest choice. While you can apply your foundation in a pinch with your fingers, buffering it in with a high-quality foundation brush can give you a natural, flawless finish immediately. Including kabuki brushes to stippling brushes to buffing bristles, the sort of foundation brush that you choose affects the finish entirely.
1. Powder brush
A powder brush has long, fluffy, and soft bristles making it ideal for applying oil-control setting powder or loose powder, as its soft bristles are meant to dust the product lightly and evenly around your face without dispensing too much product and making your makeup look cakey. You may also use this brush as a brush highlighter, blush brush, and bronzer brush depending on the size.
2. Stippling Brush
A stippling brush is used to stipple many things. The brush can be used to apply foundation, blush, bronzer, powder, and highlighters.
With a 3:2 ratio in the center of tightly packed short bristles and longer, more flexible bristles around the perimeter. This blend of short and long bristles allows this brush to perfectly create coverage, thus blurring sharp lines that might give away all the secrets of our beauty. The center density packs on color to cover blemishes. The light exterior bristles are great for blending, smoothing, and producing a seamless, airbrushed look.
3. Tapered foundation brush
Generally flat with a soft taper, less absolute in form. Flexible bristles and slightly tapered edges make this brush perfect for applying and blending the foundations of liquid and cream to a streak-free finish. The tapered tip makes the inner corners of the face easy to reach. Its smooth, compact form offers absolute, even coverage while its super soft bristles effortlessly blend the foundation of liquid, cream, or powder for a seamless look and complete power.
4. Beauty Blender
Beautyblender is a compact make-up sponge that can be used with almost everything in the make-up bag: foundations, bb cream, concealer, primer sunscreen, or topical creams. Beauty-lovers most commonly use it to apply the foundation and blend blush, bronzer, and highlighter. It quickly blends make-up with easy usage and smooth, skin-like finish.
Created by artist Ree Ann Silva to easily apply Makeup. The revolutionary beautyblender sponge hold water, not a product, and uniformly distributes and blends the ideal amount of cream, powder, or liquid formula without lines through the face.
5. Silicon Blender
It’s cleaning (wipe it off with rubbing alcohol or hot water and soap) is superfast and it still doesn’t hold any bacteria as it dries easily. Which ensures that you are less prone to block pores and trigger breakouts. The silicone, non-porous texture means that the blender itself never loses a single drop of precious product. We appear to blend with sponges and spread them in spherical and smudge-like motions.
6. Kabuki brush
The kabuki brush is a popular makeup brush with a short handle and dense bristles, named after the Japanese Kabuki drama theater where actors wear Keshō, a very heavy makeup that underlines the nature of their characters. The brush spreads cosmetics uniformly to the face, owing to its size.
The large head makes it suitable for applying makeup to larger areas of the skin such as the neck and cleavage, too. Traditionally, Kabuki base brushes are used to spread makeup powders but they may also be used to add liquid and pressed foundations, bronzers, blushes and other cream cosmetics.