Hi, I'm Pallavi Symons your makeup expert with Glamrs.com. I'm going to start with Sanchita who's about to do her own makeup and I'm
going to take her through it while explaining the use of these brushes
and the method of applying the products that we have picked for this shoot.
We're getting on Sanchita with the more terrifying part of using brushes. I think for most people and that would be
eye makeup. Although it's not a necessary thing to do, I would use a little bit of powder under the eyes
because for somebody that's trying on eye makeup
this is a great way to prevent falling eyeshadow from sticking to your skin. So tiny amount of powder
which you should not forget to dust off with a powder brush later.
Let me just tell you that the theory remains the same. Again flat brushes for heavier application and deposit of colour and
rounder brushes for softer finishes on the eyes so washes of colour
blending two colours in, this is a great brush! So now this is called a small eyeshadow brush. It's a paddle brush again. Flat!
Hair that's held together really flat.
So I'm just picking up a product. Now if you notice the picking up is important as well. Now with a flat
paddle brush don't ever use the tip like this to pick up a product. You're ruining your brush.
You're not going to get what you want, so use the paddle of the brush.
Which is why it is a paddle brush! So use the paddle pick up your product.
Use the paddle apply the product.
So place it as you would if you were using your fingers. So kind of sweep
it across and using the flat of the brush use it where you normally would put your highlighter.
Now this simply blends
the two colours or more colours together.
And another thing that a rounded brush does is that it gives you a softer deposit of colour.
So I'm just colouring the corner of her eye again using the flat brush.
This is to show you how you can mix two colours using her eye shadow brush. So as you can see now
There is a clear separation between colours and also this shape that you can't kind of blend off with a factor flat brush.
So you want to use a round brush to soften those
corners edges and make it a soft finish. Make sure that you don't press into your eyes.
So you don't want to push anything into your eye or push the pigment into your
You actually want to soften, give it a softer focus.
So I'm just going to show how you can use a liner brush because this is also very
important to create shapes on your eyes especially if you like winged eyeliners or if you like very precision eyeliners.
I do understand that most eyeliners come with their own brushes as in wands that actually deliver the product which is great as well.
But having said that professional brushes do have a little bit more bend. This bend actually helps
you create shapes. Remember that brushes that are long need to have colour along the entire length of the brush.
So you just have to pick up the product also along the length of the brush. Make sure you have the excess off
and then paint your eyeliner as you normally would. Now Sanchita is holding the brush in absolutely the perfect way.
I notice that most people that use liner brushes tend to use the point again even on the eye.
The whole point of having a nice long
bristle is to use the length of it, so you can sweep the colour across your eyes in maybe two motions
if not one. In the event that your product has dried up on your brush, always keep tissue handy.
You just want to take off the excess product so your brush gets back to its nice you know flexible self.
Another key feature for Indian makeup is Kajal. I think most people have progressed from wearing Kajal just as a Kajal to
smudging it making it more intense, more smouldering, softer, more captivating.
So I'm gonna show you how you can use a smudging brush. Basically, it's a tuft of hair
that's very tightly held together in a mount which is sharp at the top.
Now there's a reason for that. Now the tip is used as you can see, the tip is quite small compared to the entire
brush. Now this is used to kind of soften the product that you're using
and as you can see there's a small incline along the brush
which is quite tapering. Closer to the eye you use the tip so it stays dark and as it taper down it softens
So on how I'm going to use a generous amount of Kajal.
Now just remember that if you're going to smudge a Kajal you need to have enough product to smudge at all.
So as you can see
I'm going to do a fairly thick amount of product here and take it to the absolute corners of the eyes both ways.
By using this brush effectively you keep the darkness close to the eye, but you softly diffuse the rest of it to a smokey effect.
So the point actually keeps the product
whereas the tapering hair
disperses the product. So you disperse the Kajal to create a soft smokey effect
The eyes are done, so we've done a very basic use of brushes on the eyes
Just two eyeshadows how to use a liner brush and how to use a smudging brush.
Now, what completes my makeup really is eyebrows and most people tend to
you know kind of not do it at all, and if you have very thick eyebrows
It's okay to just groom them with an eyebrow brush, but having said that there are several
sets of eyebrows that need more than grooming. They need filling in as well.
Filling in is necessary when you see little gaps
and you can see the skin through your hair growth. So what you need for grooming your eyebrows or filling in your eyebrows is a
very firm slanted brush such as this. There's several sizes that you get to fill in your eyebrows
The larger size and smaller size, I personally pick the smaller one because I find it handy
and it's I think very easier to fill in with a smaller brush.
Just make sure that the bristles of an angular brush are not too soft
They need to be a little key stubborn and a little inflexible.
Just gonna use a colour that's close like a deep brown or stoney brown.
Make sure that you angle the longer point inwards and
then go according to the growth of the hair. So you
do it in upward strokes because that's how your hair grows
Make sure you get the colour here as well.
And as you come to the corner where your hair slopes downwards make sure that you turn the brush this way
Basically what you're doing is imitating the line of your hair growth
So there, it's a very natural fill.
Now we're gonna progress to the cheeks which is quite simple
I think most people do know how to use a blush brush
but having said that a small slip could cost you a whole shape of your face. A small blush brush should suffice as a
brush for bronzing and for blush. So I'm gonna use one brush
And show you how both products can be applied. Now the important thing is to learn where to dip so you
dip this part. Now in a bronzer
you're shaping so you use the part that will create shapes that is normally the side
That's what creates shapes whereas the top creates the fluffiness the roundness so you can use the top to blend or use a blush
Whereas the sides that create the shape can be used for bronzers, so you dip like this,
not like this
So you dip like that
Get a fair amount of product and place the colour in the hollow under your cheek. The minute you use the rounder part
it's going to get soft, and it will give you a more rounded appearance versus a sculpted appearance
like that
This is just to show you how to blend or how to use this brush for
this you know for a blush effect as well. Now when you're using a blush
then use the round because you want the colour on your cheeks
and now you can use it in rounded motions and blend it in with your bronzer.
So you create a diffused effect, so there's no shape. There's no specific shape, it's more like how you dust powder.
Just be mindful that if you're using a blush brush for both products
it has to be a small headed blush brush. If you used a large headed
Blush brush like this one the chances are that if you're not very
good with using brushes, or you haven't used brushes at all. I wouldn't recommend this for both products
This is great as a blush brush only you cannot really use this to sculpt and shape because of the large rounded head.
Coming to the last brush on our basic brush kit tutorial.
There's a lip brush, which I think most people either don't need because we tend to just wear your colour in or
most people just simply know how to use a brush. Now again lip brush is a paddle brush. It's flat and
Fibers are really stuck together.
So you can actually
pick up the lipstick and paint over. Now this lovely curve that you have on a lip brush is meant for you to be able
to pick up product. Again using the flat of the brush
this actually helps with the precision and
also
to paint in the corners. This curve actually helps just to paint in the corners right here
which most people miss when you simply swipe your lipstick over.
Sanchita has already worn a lip pencil as a base, so I'm just showing you over that.
As you can see the curve actually helps create the shape and the paddle fills in.
Another great reason why you should use lip brushes is sometimes when you swipe the lipstick across your lips
And you don't stretch it you tend to leave lines of bare skin coming through
Now the lip brushes are fantastic for that so you can fill those lines in even after you complete
one wear of lipstick.