Cosmetic Brush Information

Below you will find useful information regarding cosmetic brushes. This information aims to help you decide which brush type might best fit your needs.

Bristle Information

Badger Hair

Badger hair can be identified easily by looking for soft yet stiff bristles which start at base as white and end with black tips. Although these bristles are stiff, they are also soft and work great for kabuki brushes, though the brushes themselves tend to be more expensive. Erth's Italian Badger Kabuki are ultra-soft and perfect for mineral makeup application.

Goat hair, also called "capra", provide a soft bristle with a slightly more blunt, porous tip which makes it an ideal choice for powder cosmetic brushes, though the bristle tip may not be quite as soft to the touch. The porous tip is ideal for "catching" powders & mineral makeup which helps in adequate mineral application.

Sable hair is very durable and is very popular for use in cosmetic brushes for many uses. Powders, including mineral makeup foundations, mineral foundation, & mineral bronzers cling well to sable bristles.

Squirrel Hair

Squirrel hair is wonderfully soft and best for soft blending and for a more sheer application as powders do not cling as well to it's bristles.

These bristles are ideal for sheer coverage, or for coverage of mineral makeup concealers as they do not apply powdered makeup too thick.