ELF has two brush lines, the core line with the white handles, and their Studio line, with the black handles. The Studio ones are amazing, the core ones are meh. Not a big deal since the Studio ones are only a dollar or two more.
Eco tools has alright face brushes, their eye brushes are
horrible, in my experience. They might work for you, though. I need small, precise brushes because I'm short and build small and most things in this world are made for people bigger than me. I'm not a little person, just.. short.
Sonia Kashuik has two brush lines as well, the black-handled ones are somewhat pricey but very good. Her kits are good as well. I don't have many of her brushes because I can get brushes from companies I love for the same price.
Japonesque makes a lot of good brushes that aren't expensive at all. They have a
five-piece travel set that's only $20, with a powder/blush brush, a small eye brush, a larger eye brush, a lip brush, and a concealer brush (that can be used as an additional eye brush). They also have a
four-piece eye travel set that's $16.50, and contains short-handled versions of all of their amazing eye brushes. There are very few angled liner brushes out there that stay as precise through use and washings, and none this cheap. If you want long-handled versions, they have those as well, but not in a kit.
Sephora's house brand, Sephora Collection, has a huge array of brushes, and they have a Canadian site. The ones in kits are the way to go, and there's always a decent choice of different kits. They're very good, sold singly or in kits, but they're much more affordable in the kits. They have their own
five-piece eye travel set for C$26, there's a
full set on sale for C$29 that contains a flat powder brush, a domed powder brush, a shadow brush, an angled liner brush (the angled liners that come in Sephora kits are my absolute favorites, I have at least five of them), and a smudger brush. The Canadian site has
26 different brush sets right now, worth taking a look.
Tarte, Sigma, and Illamasqua make my favorite face brushes, but those are all rather expensive, even in kits. Sigma brushes are often faked, so I wouldn't advise anyone to purchase them from Ebay, but Tarte has flooded the market with both their discontinued purple-handled brushes and their newer bamboo-handled brushes, knocking the prices down so low no one has bothered to counterfeit them (yet, anyway). Ebay is full of them, both the American and the Canadian sites. You can pick up a fantastic
foundation brush for C$13.56 shipped, for example. There's also a
single listing from one seller with nearly all of the good brushes, most of them at the lowest 'Buy It Now' price. The purple-handled blush brush is the same as the bamboo-handled blush brush, people just want more for the bamboo one because it's newer. You can probably get all of those cheaper if you're willing to bid, as well. Some of the brushes are mislabeled, so if you want to check on a brush based on the picture, use
this page.
Sorry for all the words! I really love brushes, have waaaay too many even though I just gave 20+ to a friend as part of a starter kit for getting into cosmetics, and figured the links would be helpful. Hope you find some awesome deals and brushes you love.
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