Don’t you love when your big fat ladies mag shows up in the mail! What treats inside! Spring is coming! Spring is coming! Anyway … InStyle dedicated FIVE pages to makeup brushes in its March issue, featuring the lovely Nicole Kidman on the cover. Highlights: Page One Beauty Shot of brushes – no real information. […] Read more…
Archive of ‘Brush Brands’ category
OMG – Has the Nars Ita Been Killed?
UPDATE NO. 2: YES, IT’S SOLD OUT AGAIN. FOLLOWUP STORY HERE. UPDATE NO. 1: AS OF MARCH 1, THIS BRUSH IS BACK IN STOCK AT THE NARS COSMETICS WEBSITE. BE FORWARNED: THE PRICE HAS BEEN INCREASED TO $55. THE ARTICLE BELOW ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN JANUARY 2014. The Nars Ita, with its unique sleek modern […] Read more…
Fan Brushes – Why?
If you’re new to the wild world of makeup, you may ask yourself: What is the point of a fan brush? Powder? Blush? Bronzer? Contouring? Highlighting? Clean-up? Actually, the answer is all of the above, and all women — especially us makeup lovers — could greatly benefit from a lighter hand sometimes. And that is […] Read more…
What is the *Very* Best Brush for Applying Mineral Makeup?
Mineral makeup — tiny particles of mineral, such as iron oxide or talc, that have been ground, milled or micronized — has become one of the most popular types of foundation on the market, and its sellers proclaim many benefits for the skin. But the finish you achieve with those teensy-weensy particles has a great deal to […] Read more…
Don’t Care How, I Want it Now!
We love Sonia over at Sweet Makeup Temptations, and her absolute and epic dedication to Japanese makeup brushes. She recently wrote about her adventures, frustration and, essentially, gambling when it comes to buying makeup brushes off Japanese websites, without speaking a lick of Japanese and with a little help from Google Chrome. In her “Lost […] Read more…
Brush Watch! The Heavenly “It” Powder Brush – for $48 Buckeroos.
New Beauty magazine, “The Beauty Authority” — which is not to be confused with Allure, which is “The Beauty Expert” — has featured It Cosmetics’ Heavenly Luxe Powder Brush in the “Trend Report” of its most recent issue. It’s the only brush featured in the issue, so you know it must be B-I-G! And, INDEED, the […] Read more…
Bizarre. Awkward. Bloody Awful. Slightly Mental. – A Beauty Brush Review Like No Other
Granted, Wayne Goss, beauty blogger extraordinaire, now sells his own brushes. So he’s not exactly a fully independent reviewer anymore. But, heck, we still trust (and love!) him. And Wayne basically says that two of the three new MAC Masterclass brushes – you know, the ones that look like toothbrushes — are just, well, strange. […] Read more…
Brush Watch! Laura Mercier Luxury Collection featured in Bazaar
Didn’t get everything you wanted for the holidays? Don’t feel sad 🙁 ! Spoil yourself with this $375 brush collection from Laura Mercier, featured in the gift guide of the December/January issue of Bazaar. The set includes: Keepsake Tiger Wood Box with lock and key closure 10 brown lacquered, full-size professional brushes Bronzer Brush is […] Read more…
Breaking News: Wayne Goss Launches a Holiday Brush
Wayne Goss posted a video today about the launch of his big, new limited-edition holiday brush. The brush is pretty and tapered and, um, bigger. The brushes in Wayne’s original collection released this year were of the small and precise variety. And Mr. Wayne hasn’t exactly been a big advocate of those big, fluffy powder […] Read more…
The Mom Who Launched A Makeup Brush Line
Women can do some pretty creative things to support a stay-at-home lifestyle sometimes. In the case of Paula Pokora, of Cheltenham (a spa town in the U.K.), that involved launching a makeup brush line, Nanshy. The name is a take off of some cute babblings from the mouth of her son, Dominic, who was a […] Read more…