This is 8 of the 15 brushes that BH Cosmetics sells. The only caveat was the Tarte brushes … I think this is because they are so densely packed. I washed my brushes around 5:30 pm and finished washing my brushes around 9:15 pm and I woke up around 7 am this morning and all of the brushes from this set were bone dry! In fact most of all the brushes in this post were bone dry by the time I woke this morning. There was no shedding and no splitting of the hairs upon inspection after they dried …. They also hold up very well to vigorous cleansing. This would be a great gift to give someone just starting out with makeup, or for someone new to the world of makeup brushes in general… they brushes do most of the work when it comes to buffing in products and blending out eye shadows. This is definitely a great brush set for the price point. The eye shadow brushes are just lovely!!! Simply put they our perform most of my high end brushes. I do bronze the perimeter of my face and I do use bronzer to contour my nose (I find that contour powders tend to look muddy on me so I don’t use them to contour my nose), but for the most part I steer clear of contour powders for my face. I never like to use a blunt brush to contour… basically I never truly contour my face… I don’t know how to contour my face correctly and almost always end up with my features looking disproportionate. that brush I use to cut my jaw line when I bake the high points of my face. I use the face brushes just was they are meant to be used except for the Flat Contour Brush…. These brushes are nicely weighted with a sturdy ferrule (the metal piece at the top of the brush right before the bristles). These brushes are so soft and so well put together that had I not know that this was a drug store brand I would have mistaken them for high end brushes!!! I loved them so much in fact that I put 3 more sets from Ulta in my online shopping cart to purchase later this month (March). It worked so darn well that I ended up using the whole set for my makeup application the next day. I thought I could use the brushes as decoration on my makeup vanity, however… I was missing my nose contour brush somehow … I think I might have accidentally thrown it away when I decluttered my vast makeup brush collection … so I decided to try the Flat Concealer Brush as a nose contour brush. To be honest I only purchased this brush collection because I wanted that darn makeup bag!! It was super cute. From left to right the brushes in the second picture are the: Large Blending Brush, Tapered Blending Brush, Domed Blending Brush, Buffing Blending Brush, Eye Shader Brush, Pencil Brush, Flat Concealer Brush, and the Angled Brow Brush. From left to right the brushes in the first picture are the: Deluxe Powder Brush, Large Rounded Bronzing Brush, Rounded Buffing Brush, Flat Contour Brush. From left to right the brushes are numbered from 1 to 12. This is the Crystal Quartz – 12 Piece Brush Set with Cosmetic Bag that I purchased off the Ulta website for $29. ** SIDE NOTE ** There were 3 brushes that I purchased that are part of this haul that I used today so I had to take pictures of those brushes separately because I didn’t want to mix them in with the clean brushes … that is the reason they have a different back ground and that they are not lumped in with the rest of the brushes. I even use this soap to wash my beauty sponges daily. I love the way it smells, it doesn’t leave any residue on my beauty tools, and it leaves all my brushes soft and supple. I buy them in a 10 pack at Walmart for $11 and I use this only to wash my beauty tools. I don’t use any fancy brush cleaning liquids or soaps… I use plain old Dove Pink Beauty Bar With Deep Moisture. I typically try to deep clean brushes every month… I wasn’t able to do it these past 2 months so there was a ton of brushes to clean. last night I was washing brushes for around 3 1/2 hours to wash all my brushes… I still have clean brushes in my collection but I wanted to make sure all my brushes were clean going into March …. I love brush cleaning day!!! I just cant’s sit upright for as long as it takes for me to wash my whole brush collection … generally it takes me around an hour to an hour and 1/2…. Last night I was able to wash 2 months worth of dirty brushes…. I had wanted to do this post last week but I just didn’t have the energy and pain level that would allow for me to deep clean my brushes to get good pictures for this post. I made 5 makeup brush purchases this past 2 months that I have been testing out behind the scenes to see what was good and what didn’t work out for me. Hey doll hey!! How is everything going for you today? Great I hope.
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