Eye Makeup Brush guide: Types of Eyeshadow Brushes, which works best!

Your Eye Makeup Brush guide: Types of Eyeshadow Brushes, which works best!

Eyeshadow brushes come in a variety of shapes, sizes and uses. Shadow brushes are used to contour, blend and accentuate the shape of the eye with eyeshadow. Here's a guide to the 3 essential eyeshadow brushes that every makeup wearing gal must own:

Shadow Brush

Contour Shadow Brush

Soft Round Tip Brush

Shadow brushes tend to be soft, large and rounded at the top.

Used for: Highlighting brow bone, blending shadow across eye lid. Best on browbone and light coverage in crease and eyelid.

Effects: Browbone: Light, sheer coverage when highlighting. Sweep across browbone for a subtle highlight.

Eyelid: Sweep across eyelids for a light to medium overall eyeshadow cover.

Coverage: Light to medium coverage

Contour Shadow brushes tend to be soft, yet fuller than a regular shadow brush and can be rounded or slightly angled with slightly shorter bristles than a regular eyeshadow brush.

Used for: Heavier highlighting. Creating depth at the lid crease for maximum coverage

Effects: Browbone: Gives more of a concentrated highlight effect.

Eye Crease: Use on the crease are to create depth and maximum coverage with eyeshadow. Also used to blend browbone, crease and lid shadows.

Eyelid: Sweep across eyelids for a maximum overall eyeshadow cover.

Coverage: medium to heavy coverage

Round tip eyeshadow brushes have semi stiff bristles and are short and rounded. These are similar to smudge brushes but have bristles and not a sponge.

Used for: Applying maximum eyeshadow coverage in small spots.

Effects: Eyelid: Usually these brushes are used to deepen the outer corner of the eye with your darkest eyeshadow. Great for smokey eyes.

Inner Corner: Daub the brush in the inner corner of the eye with a highlight color to brighten eyes.

Coverage: heavy coverage