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What three makeup brushes would you bring with you to a desert island?

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What three makeup brushes would you bring with you to a desert island? A good and fun question 🙂

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239, 109, and 182!

Thanks to Dusty for the Q! 🙂

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Miss Kitty Avatar
Miss Kitty

it depends what makeup i’d be able to bring, haha! if i somehow had all my makeup, but only 3 brushes i’d bring 190 or 187, 150 and 249. i don’t use mac brushes though, so i found equivalents so more people would know what i’m on about haha.

Sarah M Avatar
Sarah M

This is such a hard question!!! I think my 3 must-haves would be 116, 217 & 187, although I know I’ll change my mind in about 2 seconds because I love and use so many different brushes! :-S

Dusty Avatar
Dusty

Haha! Awesome! What a cool thing to wake up to on Christmas morning 🙂 Here’s my slightly revised answer:

The 217 and the 109 – Because I find them the MOST versatile out of all of MAC’s brushes. Then I’d still have to say the MAC 134 brush – Because I think I could crack open coconuts and club small woodland creatures for my dinner with the handle 🙂

Kristy Avatar
Kristy

Love the responses on this!! HAHA
“Haha! Awesome! What a cool thing to wake up to on Christmas morning 🙂 Here’s my slightly revised answer:

The 217 and the 109 – Because I find them the MOST versatile out of all of MAC’s brushes. Then I’d still have to say the MAC 134 brush – Because I think I could crack open coconuts and club small woodland creatures for my dinner with the handle :)-DUSTY” Toooo funny!!
Mine would have to be MAC 131, 217, 239

Shay Avatar
Shay

I don’t need makeup brushes on a desert island.

Nevertheless, if I travel, it would be:
1. Coastal Scents Synthetic Wide Buffer Brush
2. Laura Mercier Blending Brush
3. Lancome duo fibre brush (forgot the exact name)/ Sephora Flat Blush Brush (depending on which blush I wanna bring)

Anita Avatar
Anita

Well I own no mac brushes, so…
-A large face brush
-A concealer brush
-A flat foundation brush (just to blend the concealer)

I’ve found that no matter how hard I try I can’t do looks on my eyes that don’t look really muddy and weird. So every day I stick some concealer, then I blend it and set it with some powder. I don’t really use foundation, unless you could call the powder foundation – I only use a little but just to set the concealer. My goal is never to cover up anything when using the powder. Then I use a little bit of grey eyeliner on the top lid, sometimes on the bottom if I’m in the mood.

Katy Avatar
Katy

well I’d bring (to an island) my concealers (MAC select cover up and studio sculpt, mAC MSF, LAGUNA by nars bronzer, urban decaY eyeliner, lash blast mascara, and MAC tinted lip conditioner if I could only bring BASICS, not everyday makeup…. but basics

for brushes I’d bring a
Sephora perfect ten brush set 😀 hahahahaha I’d cheat

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