Bare Escentuals Full Coverage Kabuki Brush (Bare Escentuals id Full Coverage Kabuki Brush)

Member Name: lilyellowfish1

Product:	Bare Escentuals id Full Coverage Kabuki Brush
Date:	14/05/08 (707 review reads)
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Advantages: Soft, gentle to skin, smoothes on make up perfectly

Disadvantages: Expensive

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About Bare Escentuals
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Bare Escentuals first of all introduced their BareMinerals SPF 15 Foundation in 1976, since then Bare Escentuals has created creamy, feather-light color for all over your face, cheeks and eyes. All their products are 100% pure minerals and aswell as having a range of make up products they also have a range of specially designed brushes to go with each of these products.

Although BareMinerals make up has been around since 1976 it is only in the last few years it has become more well known, and it still isn't as widely known about as it should be. It is America's number 1 selling foundation and also the number 1 mineral make up brand in the world, proving that it must be good. It is slowly coming into more salons and getting more of the deserved publicity it should in the UK. Quite a few salons, I have found mainly in the Midlands stock BareMinerals, and the salon I work in does also, and has done for several years - the customers love it! Since using Bare Escentuals make up on my face, I would never use anything else and I know alot of customers feel the same. I think it is the best make up out there by far.

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Full Coverage Kabuki Brush
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The Full Coverage Kabuki Brush works perfectly with all the BareMineral products. The brush is firm enough to do the job properly, yet is still gentle and soft. It gives the perfect coverage all over. The Kabuki Brush is specially designed to hold just the right amount of product, ensuring you get the best coverage possible. It makes application and colour blending fast and easy and is recommeneded mostly for use with Full Face Colour, blushes and bronzers. The Bare Escentuals Full Coverage Kabuki Brush is made only from the finest quality tapered and textured hairs which helps you to shade and provides fantastic coverage thanks to its high quality, also meaning it doesn't shed.

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Use & Effects
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I don't usually think it matters too much what brushes you use to apply your make up with and have never used the recommended brushes from companies as I know they are no better than any others but with BareMinerals Full Coverage Kabuki Brush, and all of BareMinerals brushes it is different. This is the only brush I would actually say is compulsory for maximising the effects from the products you apply with this brush. Make Up brushes are like a builders tools, they are compulsory for doing the job, and you need the right tools to do the job the best you can. It has been specially designed for use with BareMinerals foundations, full face colours, blushes and bronzers. I personally only use it for my BareMinerals bronzer Warmth or if I apply blusher to my cheeks rather than using it to apply foundation as I find the BareMinerals Flawless Application brush is much more suited to this. I have used this brush on other products, my blusher is not BareMinerals, instead it is Rimmel and it does work very well with this too, but I do rarely use blusher as my cheeks are quite rosy anyway.

The brush looks good, it is average sized, not too big that you can fit it in your make up bag yet not too small that you will loose it, it is slightly smaller and more stubby than BareMinerals other products. The handle is small and silver and remains clean throughout use and doesn't clog up and the bristles are brown in colour. The bristles themselves, I think actually look quite hard, but at first touch, you see this is not true - they are really soft, like running cotton wool over your skin. As the bristles are so soft, it means it won't irritate or scratch your skin but will apply your bronzer or blusher into your skin nicely. I have sensitive skin and ecezma on my face and this brush is so gentle to that, it doesn't make it worse and apply the bronzer over my patches of ecezma without it clinging to it and making it obvious. The bristles tend to absorb quite a lot of the product, so there is no need to use too much. The brush evenly smoothes the product onto your skin and leaves your skin with a flawless finish everytime. The product is even and doesn't make you look like a clown, it really blends the product into your skin perfectly leaving you with flawless looking make up. You can apply the product to just your cheeks or all over your face, and both these ways can be done with this brush and they both are easy to do. Using this brush opposed to other brushes really does make a difference to the final appearance of your make up, it works so perfectly with BareMinerals products and leaves your make up finish perfect. If using any old brush with BareMinerals products, then you don't get the perfect, even and smooth appearance and also a lot of other brushes aren't as soft and gentle to your skin as this brush. I have had my brush for a year now and it is still in fantastic condition, just as when I first purchased it and the bristles also last, they don't fall out.

It is recommended that you do clean your brushes every so often, to eliminate any bacteria. You can use BareMinerals Brush Cleaner, which I do or you can wash my brushes in hot soapy water, but make sure you throughly rinse them afterwards as you don't want any soapy residue to remain otherwise it will transfer onto your skin and could cause a reaction. The BareMinerals Brush Cleaner only costs £6 and I find it lasts for months, so I would say it was worth getting.

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Price & Availability
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The Full Coverage Kabuki Brush costs £24, it can be purchased from any salon stocking BareMinerals products and from various websites such as www.lookfantastic.com. I got mine in a BareMinerals starter kit which included several other brushes, foundation, bronzer and concealer.

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Conclusion
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I would really recommend this as a fantastic bronzer or blusher brush but not so much for foundation. It works fantastic with BareMinerals products and other products and although it is expensive it lasts forever and is really worth it - it will apply your make up perfectly and leave your face looking flawless.

Summary: A must have brush in your collection