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Help choosing make up brushes for LA Make Up Course

  • 24-06-2011 8:37pm
    #1
    justjamie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13 ✭


    Im starting Module 3 in the LA Make up Academy in August.
    i need some new brushes and have been given a few different opinions on the best brushes and the best animal hair in the brush...

    Has anyone done this course or any make up artists got any opinions or tips???

    Any help appreciated..


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  • #2
    Mariabelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭Mariabelle


    Hi

    I didn't do this course but I have a set of make up brushes from Make up Forever about two years now and they are still practically new (I use them on a daily basis). They're really hard wearing and if you look after them properly should last you years. They have a really good range and are so soft. They are real animal hair but I'm not sure what animal sorry.


  • #3
    glitterbug86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭glitterbug86


    I am not a makeup artist but I think in general MAC brushes are considered the favourite by makeup artists. I heard a statistic that 15 out of 20 most sold brushes in the world are MAC brushes.. don't know how true that it though. Were you looking to buy individual brushes or a set? Mac brushes are very expensive to buy individually but maybe you are looking to invest in individual ones. Otherwise, as the last person said, Makeup Forever do brush sets as do Inglot as far as I know. Maybe also consider Sigma who do copies of the mac brushes for cheaper (some say these are as good as Mac, others say they're good but not that good).


  • #4
    slowmoe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 561 ✭✭✭slowmoe


    a friend of mine is a make up artist so i went for advice to her when i wanted to get a good set. What she recommended was to get a basic set of brushes like sigma or crown and a couple of nicer brushes to mix in and to build up over time when you have a bit of extra money. She said her fav brushes are the mac foundation buffing brushes, the 187 and another smaller harder one-i can check the number for you. Also the dior foundation, eyeshadow and eyeliner brush. I love the dior ones because they look amazing in the chrome and really make my brush set look fancy. And the bobbi brown eye sweep brush.

    Just an fyi, her and a few other mua's have said they don't use mac eyeshadow (not liner) brushes because after washing they feel a bit rough on the eye area


  • #5
    glitterbug86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 133 ✭✭glitterbug86


    slowmoe wrote: »
    a friend of mine is a make up artist so i went for advice to her when i wanted to get a good set. What she recommended was to get a basic set of brushes like sigma or crown and a couple of nicer brushes to mix in and to build up over time when you have a bit of extra money. She said her fav brushes are the mac foundation buffing brushes, the 187 and another smaller harder one-i can check the number for you. Also the dior foundation, eyeshadow and eyeliner brush. I love the dior ones because they look amazing in the chrome and really make my brush set look fancy. And the bobbi brown eye sweep brush.

    Just an fyi, her and a few other mua's have said they don't use mac eyeshadow (not liner) brushes because after washing they feel a bit rough on the eye area

    I think that's a good idea to get a basic set and then build it up adding better brushes over time.

    I don't think I have heard that about mac brushes getting rough after washing. I have around 10 of them and often heard you should use baby shampoo/gentle shampoo to clean them so that's how I cleaned them at the beginning and I didn't notice them to have gone rough. However I once used a cheapish harsher shampoo and when they dried they were super soft. I hadn't realised till then that they weren't that soft and I've been using a stronger shampoo since. One of the pixiwoo's also mentioned in passing that they use big cheap bottles of shampoo to clean their brushes. I recently got a couple of new brushes and my old ones were just as soft as the new.


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