Show Me Your Beauty Collections!💗

[Tamara76]

Hello, beauties!!!💗💗💗

We had a fabulous collection thread on the old BT that didn't seem to migrate over to BIC and since I love looking at collections, I thought I'd start a new thread.

This is a space to share your beauty collections - makeup, lipstick, nail polish, perfume, whatever you've got!

I'll start off with a few of my collections.💗

 Pat McGrath:

Too Faced:

Melt, Huda Beauty, MAC:

 Can't wait to see yours!!!💗💗💗

[JaneanBT]

Hi @scott1201 ,

I love organized make up! Makes finding things so easy to find and display. 

Best Wishes,

Janean

[scott1201]

Thank you, @JaneanBT 🤗

[WinglessOne]

@scott1201  That last photo is very satisfying! I love that your entire collection fits in one drawer. If I had a bathroom drawer deep enough, I’d see how much of my collection can fit in it because now I’m genuinely curious. 

[scott1201]

Thank you, @WinglessOne ! I have a big smile each time I open it (and I have less bottles falling over)

Amazon has so many great organizers if you’re in the market. They had so many options that it probably took me an hour to figure out what would work best for my drawer. 

[WinglessOne]

Now that I’ve done a good bit of decluttering, I can start sharing my beauty collection. I’ll begin with all my makeup brushes. I’m getting rid of a few of them but included them anyway. 

Eyeshadow brushes: 

You can never have too many crease/blenders?

The Chikuhodo shader is huge. I originally used it as a powder brush for small areas, but now I use it to quickly and broadly sweep color on my brow bone or lid. 

The middle shader is a 20+ year old MAC 144 I found just last month while rummaging through an old box of stuff. I forgot I had 2 of these! My other one was destroyed by a friend’s cat earlier this year, hence the reason I bought that MAC 239. I was ecstatic to find my forgotten 2nd 144. It’s the oldest makeup brush I own, and all its lettering’s been lovingly worn away. 

The “giving away” brush is a Trish McEvoy 23. I haven’t had it long and can’t use it because it’s too scratchy for my skin. 😞 

Cheek/powder brushes: 

Spoiler

I’m under Chikuhodo’s spell.

I use the 3 “buffers” to knock off excess powder, but they’re not meant to be used that way. They’re awful at their intended jobs. The farthest left one is a MUFE crease blender brush that’s terrible with eyeshadow, but it’s a fantastic soft fluffy brush for powdering my nose area and sweeping off excess powder there. I think both the IT brushes are meant for concealer buffing/application, which is hilarious. 

For blush, I travel with either the MUFE or the red violet handled Chikuhodo. But at home, I use the Chikuhodo Z-4 most often for blush. I just got the Chikuhodo highlighter brush and I’m getting to know it better, to see what kinds of things I’ll most often use it for. 

And then there are these 2 giant brushes... I never use the Sephora brush anymore for makeup, but sometimes it’s a nice stress reliever: I just run it (with no product) all over my face. 🙂 The IT brush is still good for buffing off excess powder on large sections of my face (forehead, cheeks), but I almost never use finishing powder on my entire face—so this poor brush sits unused 99% of the time. 

Concealer/foundation brushes: 

Spoiler

Multiple concealer brushes are a must when you’re kinda lazy about washing them.

The 2 Chikuhodo brushes are really eyeshadow shaders. They’re made of quite soft goat, and their tapered shape makes them great for applying concealer under my eyes—especially for the “less is more” way I use concealer. And I still love the MUFE angled eyeshadow brushes for under eye concealer. Sometimes I do use one for eyeshadow. 

Foundation brushes: I don’t use beauty sponges (I kinda hate ‘em), but I also don’t wear foundation often, so these brushes don’t get lots of use. I’ve used them to apply skin tints when I didn’t feel like getting product all over my hands. The one on the far left was gratis from Sephora’s Glow Up event (thanks, Sephora!). I don’t really need all 3, though, so eventually I’ll get rid of one. The IT brush is much denser than its Sephora dupe by the way. 

I know folks who have many more brushes than I do, including a friend who collects Japanese brushes (her Hakuhodo and Chikuhodo collections are the stuff of dreams). But I’m trying not to add many more to my own collection, especially eye brushes. 

[tsavorite]

@WinglessOne,

Wow!  I thoroughly enjoyed this trip through your brushes and their purposes!  It was inspiring!  I hope someday to know my brushes and their best uses this well!   🙂

[curlychiquita]

You have a lot of fantastic eyeshadow brushes, @WinglessOne!  One day I'll invest in a Sonia G brush in order to try one.

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @curlychiquita! I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect from the Sonia G brushes... didn’t have high or low expectations, but kept hearing about them and wanted to try a couple. I’m very impressed with the one I’ve used so far. 🙂 I hope you get to try one soon! 

[sprocketta]

@WinglessOne This collection is so complete and thorough and it's so satisfying to look at.  Nicely organized.  I get the impression you are with all your beauty products.  I know you are with the lipstick.

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @sprocketta! Heh, the brushes aren’t super organized when they’re not all laid out like that for photos. I keep all the eyeshadow brushes together in one brush holder, and all the cheek brushes in another holder. Concealer and foundation/skin tint brushes are on the wall beside their intended makeup products. I guess my brushes are kinda organized after all 😄 but not nearly as well as some other people’s. 

[keana1]

So many great brushes @WinglessOne ! What do you use for cleaning them ? I use liquid Dove shower cream with Nutrium to cleanse my tiny collection and I’m wondering if I’m doing it all wrong? 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @keana1! Lots of cleaners will do the job, whether they’re brush cleaners, hair shampoos, body washes, or bar soaps. 🙂 Especially for synthetic brushes, which can take more frequent washings than, say, a Japanese squirrel brush. 

Here’s what I use to clean mine: 

Spoiler

The hair shampoo doesn’t play nice with my hair, but it works well on makeup brushes. It hasn’t wrecked a brush yet. My goat and squirrel brushes really seem to like this stuff.  

The green-lidded jar holds 2 sample sized Beautyblender solid cleaners. I get one whenever they’re available as free samples on my Sephora orders. These also work well on brushes, and they’re nice for traveling. 

The 2 sprays are what I use between thorough washings, especially on squirrel brushes (I wash those only once a month). BeautySoClean works better than the Sephora Dry Clean spray. Neither sprays are a replacement for a true washing. 

I’m still looking for good brush cleaning wipes—something that’ll act like those 2 brush sprays for between-washing product removal—that work without messing up brushes. That’d be ideal for travel. I’m not super impressed by the Parian Spirit wipes. I tried an Elf brush wipe and it nearly ruined the synthetic brush I tested it on, so those are a big nope. 

[keana1]

Thank you so much for the tips @WinglessOne I really appreciate your help! 😊

[MissPuff]

Swooooooon @WinglessOne What a lovely collection and so nicely laid out and labeled! Do you have a preference for the Sonia G over the WG brushes? I see Beautylish is coming out with more Sonia G eye brushes, wondering if they were worth giving a go?  

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @MissPuff! I still haven’t used the Sonia G crease brush on my eyes (don’t know what’s taking me so long), but I’ve used the worker one brush a couple of times. I’ve used all my Wayne Goss brushes on my eyes. 

For blending overall, I prefer the Sonia G Worker One blender over the Wayne Goss number 6. The Sonia G kinda has a hybrid shader/blender shape, like a plump shader. It’s a fantastic, very efficient blender and diffuser. It gives me softened lines in far fewer strokes than needed with my other blenders, and it can apply a diffused wash of color. For instance, with this brush I can very easily layer one Viseart Editorial Brights shade over part of another to create a new color, and the lines are automatically softened/blurred in the process. I even like the handle of this brush: it’s longer than the Gosses and Chikuhodos, but it feels balanced enough that I can comfortably hold it where I need to for easy blending. 

To blend out the inner corner of my crease—that part of my eye a big blender can’t easily handle—the Wayne Goss 6 is better than the Sonia G because of its smaller size and extra softness. But if I need to blend in a tight space, a Goss small crease brush works best. 

I love those little Goss crease brushes. Still need to use the Sonia G Crease One soon for comparison, since it has an interesting shape for a crease brush. 

Not sure if any of this helped. “Well, I like brand X for task 1 but brand Y for task 2... oh wait, that doesn’t really tell you if I prefer brand X or Y...” 😄  Really though, if the new Sonia G brushes contain a “worker” brush (I got the Beautylish email announcement but haven’t investigated yet), and you want something that’ll make quick work of softening/diffusing, I’ll recommend that one. 

[naturalooks15]

@WinglessOne Very nice collection and more than that the labeling. What is that Sephora brush labeled as "Bronzer" in 'Cheek/powder brushes" 

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @naturalooks15! That’s the SEPHORA COLLECTION - PRO Precision Powder Brush #59. 

It’s synthetic and it was my primary blush brush before I bought the Chikuhodo Z-4, so it’s been washed many times and has gotten rather bushy. Had I dried it in a brush guard, it might’ve kept its original shape better. I don’t use it much for bronzer anymore because the Chikuhodo powder brush is soooooo much softer and better at diffusing. But it did a very good job when it was one of my primary brushes. Soon I’ll retire the 59 with honors. 🙂

[lmaster]

love how nicely labeled they are! @WinglessOne great brush collection! 😍

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @lmaster!

[faeriegirl]

That is a fantastic brush collection @WinglessOne!

[WinglessOne]

Thanks @faeriegirl!