It’s no secret that I love to play with makeup. I have loved makeup since I was old enough to start wearing it, and I have learned how to apply it over the years. One of the biggest reasons I love to play around with makeup is there are no rules. You can wear whatever makes you feel great. Green lipstick? Sure. Sparkly eye shadow? Yep! Mascara only? You bet! Apply whatever products make you feel great, however you want to apply them.
Since I have been selling Senegence products I get a lot of questions about application techniques. Most Senegence products are liquid or cream to powder, so they can be tricky to apply. My best advice is just to play with them until you get the look you want, but I wanted to create a how-to guide with an inexpensive set of makeup brushes to point everyone in the right direction.
I bought this set of brushes on Amazon almost two years ago, and I use them every single day. I deep clean them once a week (most of the time), and they have held up nicely. Especially for the price point. Here is what the set comes with.
You will get five face brushes. These are great for foundation, concealer, blush, and contour.
You also get nine smaller eye brushes. Obviously, mine are currently dirty. As I said, I use them every single day. These are good for eyeshadow and brows.
Here is how I use them:
For foundation, I use either the flat face brush or the angled face brush. I like them both equally, I just grab the closest one each morning.
I mix two concealers together to get a shade that works best for me. I mix white and light concealer together on my finger, dab it on my skin, then blend it with this tapered brush. I used to use a beauty blender, but I like the way the brush blends it out.
For contour, I use the flat angled brush and a foundation shade a few shades darker than my skin.
For blush, I use the round face brush. I place a tiny drop of product on the brush then blend on both cheeks.
There are so many ways you can use the smaller brushes for eye looks, I did a three-color eye look to show you how I use most of the brushes.
I always start with a color in the crease of my eye. 99% of the time, that color is Moca Java. I use the small fluffy brush to apply whatever crease color I’m using.
Some days I only add the crease color, mascara, and move on with my day. If I am doing a full eye look, I add a darker color to the outer corner of my eye with the larger fluffy brush.
Next, I add a lid color. If I want to pack on the color I use this flat brush to pat the color on my lid. This is especially good to do with shimmer or glitter colors.
I use the small flat brush to apply eyeliner. There is a thin eyeliner brush included in the set, but I use shadow as a liner so I need the thicker brush. If you use a liquid liner, I would use the thin eyeliner brush instead.
To highlight the inner corner of my eyes I use one of two shadow shades. Snow, which is a matte white, or Sandstone Pearl Shimmer, which I used today. I use the small domed brush to pat the color into the inner corner of my eye.
I fill in my brows every single day. Even if I’m only wearing mascara. I use the spooly end of this brush to comb them up, then fill them in with the tapered end, and brush them again to make them look more natural. I use Smoked Topaz shadow to fill my brows in, but there are a number of Senegence products you could use.
I used six of the nine eye brushes for this example look, but most of them can be used in multiple ways.
These are the three I didn’t use for the example and don’t use often. The top angled fluffy brush could be used in the crease or outer corner of your eye. The middle smaller domed brush would be great to smudge out your eyeliner for a smokey look. The bottom eyeliner brush would work better if you wore a liquid liner.
Like I said, there are no rules in makeup. If you want to apply your foundation and eye shadow with your fingers, that is fine. I would recommend this brush set if you are looking for something inexpensive that gets the job done though. The below video is a demo of the example look on my actual face. Doing eye makeup on paper was harder than I thought it would be 🙂