Yep, I picked this up after seeing Jackie Aina say - several times - that it really helped her foundation application and that she loved it. I had been trying to use bronzer brushes since those were rounded rather than flat brushes; but they weren’t really working the way I wanted them to. I had slightly better results with some other facial brushes (like elf’s stippling brushes) but I was still finding myself having to go over spots multiple times. I had initially dismissed this brush or brushes like it because I really thought that a flat-topped brush would be more helpful in getting into the curves around my nose while applying the foundation evenly. This brush is the one that did the trick, though. I pump the foundation onto a fingertip, dab lightly on my forehead, cheeks, or jawline, and use the brush to buff the foundation around and fill it evenly into my pores.

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The handle is longer, but not the longest brush handle I’ve worked with. I don’t mind that the handle doesn’t taper down to a near-point, but I like the feel of the more contoured long brush handles like Sephora’s now-discontinued Professionnel line. The ferrule is slightly contoured, and I get more control if I hold the brush there instead of down on the handle; but I’m less fond of the feel of the paint or lacquer or whatever-it-is that’s on the ferrule.

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