Brush 12 (White)

Wayne Goss Brush 12 (White) ($53.00) is a dense, medium-sized cheek brush that flares outward from the ferrule and then finishes to a slightly rounded, domed shape. The brush head is 31.20mm in length, 36.20mm in width, and 23.35mm in depth, and it uses goat hair. The brush (from end to end) had a total length of 17.00cm.

Compared to the previous version of Brush 12, the new, updated version was denser but also more rounded and less flared. It was noticeably softer, and it picked up marginally less product compared to the original, but I did not feel like it was really meaningful in practice. This style of brush is one I reach for to apply sheer to medium coverage cheek colors--blush, bronzer, highlighter, whatever--as well as for buffing and blending out edges of more pigmented brushes. It can be easy to over-apply a very pigmented cheek color with this brush as it was denser. I use this shape mostly for applying blush and for blending out edges of stiffer blushes.

This brush is comparable to Tom Ford Cheek (06) ($78) and Hakuhodo J5543 ($63).

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