What is a beauty blender

Everyone knows the main rule of natural makeup: the tonal basis should be applied exactly and not to issue itself. Most women have their usual and convenient ways to impose a tone cream, each of which is effective in its own way.

1. If you distribute the tonal base with the pads of your fingers, then the consumption of cosmetics is reduced, it falls asleep in the influence of heat of the hands.
2. You can apply a tool with special brushes of different forms, but it requires additional skills and significant accuracy, as well as tangible time spending.
3. Many use the most ordinary sponge that, of course, does not guarantee uniform overlap.

More recently, another makeup appointment appeared, which was a worthy competition with familiar ways and took the honorable place in the cosmetics of many beauties around the world. This is a Beautyblender device (beauty blender).

What is a beauty blender

Many girls call the beauty blender all the sponges oval or just an unusual form. This is rooted incorrectly. Beauty blender is not the name of the commodity group, but a completely concrete tool for making makeup, issued by the American company "Beautyblender".

Beauty blender is a sponge for applying proofreaders, the basics of cream-shaped Rumen and Shadows. The sponge is soft, light and air, easily compressed in the palm of palm, its touch is not irritated by sensitive skin.

Beauty blender repeats the shape of a drop. Such a form is attached to the tool not for the sake of originality, it largely ensures the functionality of the sponium:

• the pointed end of the device provides access to the inner corners of the eyes, the area under the eyebrows, the wings of the nose and the sneakers on the chin;
• the round end is necessary for the distribution of the tone for the rest of the face;
• due to the fact that the tool does not have sharp corners and vigor, there are no divorces or borders when applying makeup.

Made a beauty blender from a special synthetic material that does not smell, has bactericidal properties, and the touch resembles a velvety suede skin. In its composition there is no latex, so the tool does not cause allergic reactions. The unique material absorbs cosmetics well, and when applied, it gives them to the skin, that is why the cosmetics layer and it turns out to be subtle, uniform. If there are small peelings on your face, then beauty blender will smooth them, visually aligning the skin surface. It is superimposed with a wet beauty blender, which sufficiently solves the problem of applying cosmetics on the dry skin.

In the past few years, Beauty Blender has gained great popularity. Many specialists on the visa will notice its advantages over traditional cosmetics and willingly include it in their arsenal of vocational facilities. In the forums about makeup girls left hundreds of reviews, among which it is very difficult to find negative.

Beauty of Beauty Blent

1. Easy application. To get an excellent result, you do not need to specifically learn to use a beauty blender.
2. Allows you to apply creamy and dry cosmetics.
3. Used for all stages of makeup: from applying a tonal base to shadows and a blush. Can replace a whole set of brushes in your cosmetics.
4. The naturalness of makeup - the means are soft and smoothly chosen.
5. If necessary, it easily removes the surplus of cosmetics (it is easy to get into the sponium's clean side).
6. Conveniently lies in hand.
7. Easily washed away from all types of cosmetics and aquagrim.

Disadvantages of Beauty Blender

1. High value tool. On the official website of the manufacturer, the price of a beauty blender reaches $ 20.
2. Service life about six months.
3. Requires daily special care.
4. Increases consumption of cosmetics.

How did the beauty blender

The miracle sponge appeared not so long ago. American professional makeup artists Re Anne Silva and Veronica Lorenz were looking for a way to achieve the absolute naturalness of the Makeup of Hollywood stars, so that the light of Sofita would not underlit the borders of the application of the makeup.

Many years of experience of professionals suggested that the tool for making makeup should be soft, not to have sharp edges, but at the same time to work out any area of \u200b\u200bthe face.

As a result of the experiments, a sponge appeared in the form of a drop of a special hypoallergenic material, with which without difficulty, both professional make-up artists and a common girl. The device was released on sale under the brand name "Beautyblender".

Almost immediately, Beauty Blender became the leader of the sales of the online store Amazon. And the magazine Allure has announced a new remedy by the winner of the nomination "best tool for visage" (in 2011, 2012 and 2014).

How to apply a beauty blender

Use the tool is much easier than many familiar means to apply a tone base.

1. Before proceeding with makeup, moisten the beauty blender with water and blot with a paper napkin. Under the influence of water, the sponge will increase in the amount of 2 times. A small trick should also remember: the stronger the beauty blender gets into, the more dense it will apply a tonal cream on the skin. Therefore, if you just want to slightly cover the face of BB-cream, then the sponge should be carefully squeezed.
2. For even and smooth distribution of the tonal basis, you will not need special skills. Light slapping movements distribute the tonal cream on the skin of the face. The sharp tip of the sponge is worked with the wings of the nose, the area around the eyes and chin, and the round side is cheeks and forehead. To reduce the consumption of the tone, you can first pin the tips on the cheeks, nose, forehead and chin, and then distribute it with a beauty blender over the entire surface of the face. It is very important to apply cosmetics that patting movements. If you break the tonal cream, then the sponge just absorbs it into yourself.
3. When the base is applied, spend the pure side surface of the sponge along the borders of the makeup, finally cutting them.

Purification of beauty blender

Like all the tools, the beauty blender needs to be cleaned regularly. It is advisable to do it after each use.

1. Under the trademark "Beautyblender" produce special means for delicate sponge cleaning: BlenderCleanser gel and solid solid with both cleaners are made on the basis of natural components, have a pleasant fragrance and economical to use.
2. Wash the beauty blender can also be used using an ordinary hair shampoo or liquid soap. In his reviews, most of the tool owners assure that such means will clean the spontaneity no worse than expensive brand.

For high-quality used beauty blender, there is enough pair drops. Watch the foam, squeezing and spouting, rinse it with water. Press the beauty blender and leave to sleep on a stand, which is sold along with the device. Dry spontaneity on the battery or with a hair dryer is not recommended not to disrupt its texture.

Do not be scared that the first few times during washing the tool can lift. Manufacturers explain that it is quite normal for a new sponge.

Types of Beauty Blender

The most famous type of beauty blender is a sponge of pink color. But there are other options that differ from each other not only in color, but also by properties.

1. Original. Spontaneous bright pink color. The first tool in the series. It can be used to apply a tonal base of any type, Rumen with cream texture and proofreaders. The result is a smooth coating of medium density. Pink sponge is used for both professional makeup artist and home use.
2. Pro. This kind of black white beauty blender. Made of the same material as the ORIGINAL, has the same form. The sponge of the increased density of the texture is distinguished and causes the same "dense" layer of makeup. It is most often used for professional makeup - when preparing models for photo and video, for example.
3. Pure. White beauty blender. It has a particularly soft texture. The tone base with it is distributed to the finest layer. Very well suited for the application of BB-cream at home. But do not forget if you have the need to disguise the serious flaws of the skin, then the white beauty blender may not cope with this task.
4. Mini. A green tool, in size, it is 4 times less than the Original. It has a more porous and tender texture. It is convenient for the application of cosmetics into small sections of the face: angle of the eyes, a surprise arc.
5. Royalty and Red Carpet. These are two new beauty blender models, which were released as an alternative to Pink Spong. They differ only in color. And the rest retains the characteristics of the universal beauty blender ORIGINAL.

How to distinguish the original beauty blender from the fake

If you want to buy a sponge of a beauty blender, then you need to know that many fakes of this religious product are now spread. Remember the main characteristics of the product:

• pink sponge size 5.5x4 cm;
• it has a drop shape. In other modifications is not available;
• colors: pink, white, black, green, purple, red;
• in a dry form, it is easily compressed, soft to the touch;
• the structure of the original sponge resembles a small porpoil;
• quickly absorbs water and increases in the amount of 2 times;
• beauty blender is sold in a package one by one or several pieces; kits with branded cleansing agents may be formed;
• the manufacturer also produces gift sets with branded cosmetics;
• country producer USA;
• the price of a beauty blender cannot be below $ 20.

In online stores, you can often find a sponge of Cosmopolitan, which is designed by analogy with a famous beauty blender. Cosmo tool price is about $ 8. This sponge is more dense than a beauty blender, after compression takes the previous form only after 10 minutes. The tonal basis inflicts smoothly and quite thin. If you need to remove the surplus cosmetics, then Cosmo copes with such a task. In general, it can be successfully used for a liquid tone basis.

L'Etoile's branded shops also offer an analog of a beauty blender at a price of about $ 5-6. This is an orange device, rigid to the touch. The sponge also repeats the shape of the drop. However, the pointed part of it is not quite thin to work well, for example, the wings of the nose. The sponge from L'Etoile does not react to water: it does not get more and softer. The girls who acquired such a tool leave in their reviews information that it is not completely washed away from cosmetics and eventually acquires an untidy look.

The Polish manufacturer of professional cosmetics inglot brought to the market its version of the sponge for the decay of the tonal base. The product is very soft and elastic. Material, like a beauty blender, resembles suede skin. The composition does not contain latex. The shape and color of the product completely repeats the original beauty blender. It is recommended to use with any liquid or creamy species of decorative cosmetics. According to the reviews of the forum, the sponge of this manufacturer does not learn when washing, does not need any special care products. As you can see, the sponge of Inglot is a worthy alternative to the famous beauty blender.

As for the analogues of Chinese production, they mostly smear cosmetics in the face. The composition of the material manufacturers most often do not indicate, therefore, hypoallery guarantees, respectively, no. Such fakes can be different forms, colors and sizes. When wetting, they do not change the size and texture. Popular media for making makeup is unlikely to deserve your attention.

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