I had the urge to do a review on this brush because I love it so so much and am stunned by how amazing it works. The brush comes in the ‘core collection’ in a set of four made by the well-known You Tuber Samantha Chapman from Pixiwoo. The reason I actually bought the set was for the increasingly popular buffing brush (which I will be reviewing separately) so it took me a bit of time to try this one when putting on my makeup as it was not the reason I bought the set.
I don't contour on a regular basis, which is what this brush has been labelled to do (but of course, you can use any brush for any use). Whenever I have tried to contour I never really get a precise enough placement of colour and you may laugh, but I have quite a small face, so I really don’t like big or normal sized face brushes to contour. Aside from this, I am too lazy to do it on a regular basis as it adds another step to my routine.
After using the buffing brush a couple of times I looked to begin trying the other brushes in the set and picked up the contour brush. I thought I would give contouring a go that day, as I wanted to see how the brush worked. Just like the buffing brush, the contouring brush was extremely soft and nice to touch. I put quite a lot of product on the brush (I must have been going for a heavy contour) and used it just under my cheekbone and the colour went on so effortlessly and blended out within seconds almost as if I didn’t even do anything. The brush did all the work for me, something as an MUA I will always look for as it makes my job easier. I then realised I really didn’t want to put the brush down and added a cream highlight with it which worked just as well. Furthermore, I picked up my blusher and used a small amount of that with the brush too. I then ended up with a dirty brush.
This is an amazing brush as it is so precise due to its size and shape. It blends the colour as you apply it and even if I’m being heavy handed with picking up the product it never leaves me with a stripe of colour. It is extremely multi-use as it works with powder, cream, highlight, contour and blusher, (the reason I want another 10 of them!) and I have yet to keep using it as I’m sure the list goes on. Due to the hairs being synthetic the brush(es) are not limited to either cream or powder giving you an endless amount of freedom in the textures you can use it with, I haven’t had the brush for very long but as I said I don’t want to put it down.
Coming onto the topic of price, it is in my opinion a steal at £21.99 for the set of four, and if we were to divide it evenly that would mean it works out at around £5.50 per brush, which is crazy. It does not come alone as far as I’m aware so you would need to buy it with the others but that’s not really a negative for me. I’d recommend you all get yourselves one it will be glued to your hand if you’re anything like me.
Let me know your thoughts!
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Available at Boots: http://www.boots.com/en/Real-Techniques-Core-Collection-1403_1252038/
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