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Do you keep duplicates of brushes you like?
Yes, absolutely! For the most part, I use them the same as the first one – I tend to duplicate ones like eyeshadow and crease brushes, so I can use one for each color (or maybe every two colors, depending on how drastic the difference between the colors is!). I can also run through brushes pretty quickly, so I keep extras of my favorites as I only wash brushes every few days.
— Christine
Not really. The brushes I like the most are a bit expensive for my budget, so it’s already great having one!! But I do have a backup of my Real Techniques expert face (just because I grabbed it on sale and I still haven’t used it, lol).
Sure do! I typically buy them 2 or 3 at a time, especially liner and crease brushes.
Yessssss…because cleaning brushes sometimes is the last thing I feel like doing, especially for foundation brushes. Do them all at once, rotate through the week. These are easy because I can see which is dirty.
However, I do like to get similar but different brushes so I remember which is which, like same brush different color handle, or same type different brand. Like the angled liner brush for eyebrows vs the one I use for actual eyeshadow or liner, or the crease brush I use for my crease and the one I use to contour my nose. I do have 2 of my very favorite brush and keep them in different mugs. Mug #1 brush is for blush, Mug #2 brush for bronzer.
Systems 🙂
Yes indeed, even multiples! I kind of have to? Between jumping from one color look to a whole nuther the next day, plus my semi-notorious laziness towards washing my brushes leads to this being a need. Although I DO have a spray brush cleaner from Sephora that I use frequently, I know that nothing replaces a real soap & water deep cleansing.
No, I prefer to try a different brand or shape if I’m going to buy new brushes, so I don’t have any duplicates. Except for one Elf brush, and the second one turned out to be completely different shape-wise that the first!
Definitely with a few, particularly eye brushes (MAC 217…). I don’t know if I have any duplicate face brushes (yet), but I wouldn’t mind two Zoeva 110 ones.
Yep, good thing I like cheap DS brushes, because if I find a brush I like, I buy multiples.
Absolutely (with the exception of my more expensive Artis brushes). I have duplicates of all my brushes and some (eyeshadow, crease, liner blush, highlighter, etc.) I have multiples of 4 or 5. It makes it so I don’t have to constantly wash my brushes; I can use one blush brush for warms and another for cools or vary them by intensity of shade, etc. In fact, I just bought 2 cream product brushes from the Sephora sale page.
Yes, same here! I have duplicates of mainly eye shadow brushes. I also love a few of the elf face brushes; since their so cheap and perform just and well and some of my higher end brushes,I bought a few duplicates of those too.
Absolutely! Who enjoys constantly washing makeup brushes!? Not I said the cat.
I am definitely a person who has a large number of brushes, but rather than having 50 types of tool, I have multiples (sometimes up to 4 total) of those I find work best for me. I like to swap when changing colour or when I want clean blending. I tend to have multiples for all brushes (eyeshadow and face) where I have found multi-purpose for use.
Yes! bdellium Tools Studio 760 Liner/Brow and Royal & Langnicke Silk Greenline Eye Shadow #BGL-3. Can’t live without them now.
Yes, especially blush brushes. I keep one for pink colors, one for orangey colors, and one for browny/nudes so colors don’t muddy together. And it’s always nice to have multiple eye brushes, especially blenders. I hate getting caught wanting to use a brush but it’s covered in black eyeshadow from the last use.
I do like having dupes of a few staples. Mostly eyeshadow brushes.
I am like you Christine, I have duplicate eye shadow brushes. I typically use one brush per color scheme (darks, nudes, brights, etc.) other than that I buy them when I need them.
I’m kind of 85% no/15% yes on this one. Most of my duplicates are eyeliner brushes, mostly because I don’t like to use the same brush that close around my eyes two days in a row. More than that though, I like trying different brushes from new-to-me companies.
Absolutely. I have quite a few dupes of favorite eye brushes, in part so if I drop one I have a backup, or so that I have a couple to rotate in while the newly cleaned stuff over the weekend dries. I also have some stored in my travel brush roll, and I just swap out the brushes used on a trip for fresh ones and wash what I just took with me.
Echoing most folks – I have a few duplicate eye brushes for my favorites. Makes it easier when using multiple colors; especially since I won’t use anything with alcohol to quick clean my brushes.
Definitely! Mostly because I buy really cheap brushes lol, I can afford a couple of each versus Sigma brushes. I especially do this because it’s easier for me to find one brush with multiple uses than own dozens of brushes. I have multiples of the Elf Studio liner brush, for example, and use one for actually lining the eye, one for my go-to metallic cream shadows, and one for filling in my brows. My favorite all-over face brush is a denser tulip brush from TJ Maxx and it kills me that I only have one right now. Every time I shop at one, I look for more since it does powder, blush, and contour perfectly for my face shape!
Yes I would have three of the same but it gets expensive but I definitely have two of each.
I don’t have any duplicate brushes, I used to have two real techniques setting brushes (one for contouring and one for highlighting) but I since got rid of one since I found a different contour brush that I like better than can achieve a number of different contour looks
Hi Christine & Everyone At Temptalia,
This is a oops, my bad type of answer! Lol.
What I mean to say is that while I am trying to half way stay in the game of cosmetics, the one thing that has slacked big-time is my brushes and my brush collection! As I stated in a few questions ago, I am in “desperate” NEED of new brushes, okay a whole New beautiful brush collection! I have a few e.l.f. brushes and they are very easy to get as many as I need. However when it comes to my more expensive brushes, Lord help me! I can’t afford to pay for the first brush, let alone the second one.
I do buy duplicates of favorite brushes especially if I use them for multiple purposes or for different colored such as with eye shadows. I also have several concealer type brushes to use for regular concealer and for color correcting concealer. I have a couple eyeliner smudge brushes as I often wear a different color on the top lid than the bottom lid.
Definitely have duplicates of all my brushes, with an exception of my more expensive ones like my Wayne Goss brushes.
Like you Christine, I iike to have at least 2 of the eyeshadow and crease brushes and I’m thinking of getting the Goss small brushes for eyeshadow and crease also!
I have a large vanity and so I have separate drawers for different types of makeup. In each makeup drawer, I have an open topped acrylic box where I keep the brushes for that particular type of product. For example, my eyeshadows, eyeliners, and mascara are in one drawer along with an acrylic box containing all my eye brushes; in another drawer I have my lipsticks, glosses, and lip pencils with a box containing lip brushes; and so it goes for all the other products in my stash. I also have a drawer where I keep a box for the brushes I’ve used during the week. In general, I use a brush once–rarely twice–and then into the wash box it goes! At the end of the week I wash those brushes and put them back into their respective drawers. Because I have duplicates of all my favorite brushes, I can use a brush once and then take it out of rotation without any problem. I love brushes and have so many I can’t imagine keeping them all mixed up in the same drawer, container, bag, or what have you. When I pull open a drawer to select a blusher, I want to see at a glance which brushes are at my disposal. Seeing as I have eight different brushes for that type of product, I don’t need to complicate things by having to sort through a bunch of irrelevant brushes to get the one I want. Yeah, I’m a brush junkie!!!!
Actually I don’t have duplicates. I use Sephora’s Color Switch to clean my brushes between colors. When I’m done I use MAC’s brush cleaner in a spray bottle and spray a paper towel down using a different area for each brush. But reading everyone’s posts it would be nice to have a few duplicates.
Sephora bought the patent from Vera Mona?
Yes! As a wannabee MUA and total geek, I have two full sets of Sigma brushes!
Yes!!!
Yes. If I find something that works great for me, I’ll buy two or three. Most of my brushes are inexpensive, so it’s easy for me to do so.
Yes! I have 5 of my favorite blending brush….
I do too – especially blending and eye shadow brushes in general.