As what i said before, im gonna be doing a review on the brushes that i got from Ecotools. I'll just leave the 6pc brush set for the meantime & focus on the foundation brush first.
Im having mixed feelings now...I was pretty excited when my packaged arrived from Makeup Mix Shop all because of this brush. I used it first without cleaning it so that i can see for myself how it actually feels (all brand new) & i freakin' love it! It's perfect!.....well,that is..until i cleaned it... *sigh*
This is how it looks like before:
happy & full of life...
with its shape all intact & no fly-aways
it gives a little fight back which i do like a lot.That was the day where i thought that it would stay like that...
but now....
sorry if its blurry..i took it in my roomlook at its sorry state....
its shapeless...oily...doesn't even have life...& is LIMP & FLIMSY....
It seems oily..on which made me think if its just what i used...
First time that i used it...i used the Wet n' Wild Ultimate Cover...maybe it got oils on them or something...so i cleaned it...& dried it...it was like that already...
Then i used it on my cooling tint (which i know is actually oily) before i clean it again...This time i cleaned it twice...first with a baby bath (details here) then with a regular dishwashing liquid (ha!talking about removing oil residues!)...but its still like that!!! arrrrggghhhh!!!
If you don't have an idea how 'oily' it is...look at this 'test' that i did:
i gave it a bit of a shove (the bristles....)...let it go...then..look at that...
it would not even return to its natural shape..which means that its stuck with something somehow... *sigh*It kinda annoys me to see it like that...actually i have another brush like that that got the same problem...
its an eyeshadow brush..a round,slanted brush
look at that....annoying,isn't it?i can understand if the foundation brush will be like this (because i guess some foundations can have mineral oils on them or something) but not an eyeshadow brush..
i brought this at Nu-yu for i think less than Php300 (i think its less that $6)...such a disappointment!
Anyways, im not stopping there...if dishwashing soap didn't work....ill try laundry soap! lol
But one thing that i can say about it is that it disn't shed..not even one hair..not even when i used the dishwashing liquid & washed it hard...plus the ferrule would not even budge..which is an indication of a good brush...it's just the bristles...
If its still like this..then maybe ill just grab The Face Shop's foundation brush...hope it will not be like this too...Then also a brush cleaner just to be on the safe side...
One of my wishlist would be to be able to have the beauty blender...if i have that, i dont think ill need to use a foundation brush anymore.
Has this happened to any of your brushes before? What did you do? Do you think its just because of what i used?
