What’s your must-have beauty tool (that isn’t a makeup brush)? Share!
Q-tips! I really liked the more angled ones for removing and cleaning-up makeup.
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My fingers.
anastasia beverly hills’ tweezers .
i’ve had mine for about 4 years & it’s still sharp . i love how thin the blades are , so they pick up more fine hairs .
they’re so worth the $28 .
Eyelash curler all the way!
Hmm…I would say cotton pads and balls for toning my face and removing the extra makeup
Good question! I guess I’d have to say my tweezers. I’m cursed/blessed with very full brows but damn, I’m a hairy woman! Also like q tips alot too… have to have plastic wands, not the paper wands! The pointed ones are great for cleanup like you said.
Definitely my Tweezerman tweezers. Pricey but totally worth it.
The Clarisonic – can’t live without it!
A comedone (pimple) extractor. I know, I know, I’m supposed to leave them alone. However, if I must pop’em, why not with a properly sanitized tool? lol
Cotton rounds or my latex free makeup sponges!
Eyelash curler. Also: double-ended Q-tips.
Same here, Christine! Q-tips are a girl’s best friend when it comes to makeup.
And let’s not forget the good ol’ mirror. Courtesy of the dept. of the bloody obvious, I know, but the only makeup bit I can do without one is applying lip balm. What I tend to do it break apart the mirrors from my barely used and dried up blushes/eyeshadow quads/you name it and disperse them inside my purses, lockers etc. so I can easily reapply my lip color or check and fix any mishaps.
Cotton makeup pads. I soak them with either a dry oil spray or coconut oil and press them on my eyes to dissolve my makeup before wiping it off. My eye makeup wears like iron to keep from creasing and this makes it easy to remove with no tugging or pulling.
Eyelash curler! I have a regular Tweezerman one, a heated one, and a half-size!
My Clarsonic! I’ve had it for six years and nothing compares to it yet.
Eyelash Curler. I have very straight and down lashes, so I need to curl them before applying mascara.
Tweezers! Could not live without them.
Where do you get these from? What brand?
http://www.qtips.com/product/detail/115035/precision-tips
Tissues… You can clean-up makeup, blot your lips, quickly clean brushes, etc.
My Beauty Blender! I didn’t know what the hype was about…until I got one…
Almay eye makeup remover pads. You can fold them up into a point and spot correct any mistakes.
Any sort of latex free blending sponge!
Is eyeshadow primer a tool? If I had to, I could do my makeup routine with just eyeshadow primer and fingers.
A sharpener!
Tweezers!
beauty blender
Eyelash curler – it’s the only way I can look awake! I can skip mascara if needed, but not the curling.
Shu Uemera eye lash curlers! those pointed q tips are a close runner up for me! They help with clean up. But , also if your not so skilled at a wing or point on a liner, those and a little make up remover or lotion or spit if you wanna be super quick will do it.
i will agree with you on the pointed q-tips. i like the q-tip brand ones, but walgreens sells some that are pointed on one end and flat, sort of like a paddle, on the others and i actually like those better-especially when i remove left over eye makeup with a lotion/cream.
I find it interesting noone said “toothbrush”… I remember my mom telling me no matter how much makeup one wears, or how beautiful they are, bad oral hygiene would erase that in an instant.
I don’t think of a toothbrush as a beauty tool. It’s about hygiene to me, not beauty. Ditto for the cotton pads/balls to swipe toner, micellar water, etc. across the skin.
Yes, but hygiene is technically “optional”, as we could survive without it-although it may be unpleasant for those around. Toothbrushes/toothpaste are a relatively modern invention, and there was a time hygiene standards weren’t what they are today. Also, I’m quite certain there are still parts of the world that have different standards today.
Fingers!
Does the Beauty Blender count? Lol I love that thing! You can use it for like everything. Foundation, concealer, cream blush, etc. I use mine all the time
QTIPS, fix +,
My must have beauty tool is a quality dual pencil sharpener. I have tried cheap ones and I have found that they only eat up your lip/eye pencils if they are not good one. UD Grindhouse is a good one; I also have one have a stainless steel one where the blade can be replaced that I got from beauty school.
A ribbon elastic, so I can get my hair out of my face and not get product in it!
As I commented already, I don’t count hygiene items like toothbrushes, cotton pads, or facecloths to be beauty tools. To me, a “beauty tool” is an optional thing related to enhancing one’s appearance, not stuff you use to wash. (I’m basically assuming none of us considers washing to be optional, lol.)
Cotton rounds and an amazing pair of $5 Revlon tweezers I bought 10 years ago.
Beauty Blender
I love loved love my beauty blender. My skin is so dry that a brush isn’t going to happen. Feels like sandpaper. But the B.B. Is PERFECT!
I also really like the makeup removing wipes, I’m so lazy in the evening, that it is easy to wipe, wash and go. Plus for little whoopsies!
A heated eyelash curler, tweezers, and clippers!
A good quality dual pencil sharpener,such as UD Grindhouse.
Sponges are great. Also tissues, I use them to blot my face after moisturizing and fast cleaning brushes. Tweezers are great for applying false eyelashes and then of course, fingers 🙂
Tweezers!
My Benjabell brush tree. Love from first sight. I use this every week when I wash brushes. I have the origional and it will hold a ton of brushes at once. Next my clairisonic plus.
Trish Mcevoy eyelash curler. I have large eyes & very long but poker straight lashes. When I curl them, my eyes open up like an umbrella. I’m always asked if my lashes are real. Uncurled, they’re unremarkable
Tweezers are a must have for me.. ! 🙂
My Clarisonic. I seriously can’t live without it.
Two things, tiny q tips and my ancient Rubiglo plastic eyelash comb. The eyelash comb once belonged to my mother.
Tweezerman slant-tipped tweezers–my loving father gifted me with curly, dark, full, long, unruly brows (and not in a cool Brooke Shields or Cara Delevigne way) . Thanks, Dad.
I agree with qtips. They save me many times. Also beauty blender.
The Real Tecniques Lash groomer.I believe this is not concidered a brush, but a comb..Hope it is an eligible choice. This is a must have. It separates lashes easily and beautifully.
Believe it or not, I still swear by my triangular makeup sponge wedges and sponge tipped eyeshadow applicators! I do use brushes but sometimes certain jobs call for the other kinds of tools. Hey if it works, why not??
For me baby wipes just while I’m doing makeup to get primers or whatever other products off my hands
Q-tips and my Revlon slanted tweezers. I kinda freak out if I can’t find them. (either!)
Shiseido facial cotton pads. I ordered them on a whim and they’re so much softer than the “regular” cotton pads I had been buying. I use them to remove eye makeup and think they’re worth every penny.