More pictures of the E.L.F. brush
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1. Sonia Kashuk Ergonomic Handle Blending Brush
This brush is just too dang big for me to feasibly blend with. It has on OK softness, but it isn't the greatest. I have found every SK brush I have tried to not be all that soft. It's better for applying a wash of color, or you can do what I did and repurpose it as a concealer brush. It works great for that, and it's only an OK blending brush for shadow(it requires a bit more work to blend than I think it should).
2. Coastal Scents/Crown Badger Blending Brush
This brush is OMG soft. I love how it feels on the skin. I would even say it's softer than the MAC brushes I have felt. However, it's a bit too sparsely packed and is flimsy. You have to spend a lot of time working to blend with this. While soft, it's not worth purchasing.
3. Sonia Kashuk Large Crease Brush
This brush just plain sucks. It wasn't that soft to begin with, and over months of use is just damn scratchy. I put jojoba oil on it last night, and hopefully that brings this brush back to life. Otherwise I am throwing it out. It sucks as a blender(it tends to leave harsh lines where the brush comes to a point), and that coupled with the scratchiness left my lids really irritated trying to blend out my shadows.I pretty much only use it to place color if I have no other clean brushes. Sucks, don't buy.
4. E.L.F. Blending Brush(the new one, this was purchased in late May of this year)
Still testing this one out, but so far so good. It shedded a bit at first. I think it's done, but give it some time to be sure. I actually have 2 of them. Only one seems to have shedded a few hairs. They are soft. Softer than the Sonia Kashuk brushes. They blend just great. The only shadow it didn't blend well was my MAC Carbon, but that stupid damn eyeshadow is stubborn as hell to blend. I hate it, and can't wait until it's used up. I have yet to find a brush that doesn't take some work to blend it. I have used this brush for the past week( at least) of makeup. I enjoy using it. I'd really recommend getting a few.
Hope this helps someone.
