So Primark are at it again, making some super affordable makeup dupes, and with their new PS Pro makeup line launching I popped in to the Tottenham Court Road branch to pick up the product I'm most looking forward to try out. If you have Instagram then you have probably seen the new Artis oval makeup brushes and plenty of dupes winging their way around. Now as student I don't have much money especially now its come to the end of the year and my loan has all but ran out. But all hail Primark as they fight in our corner to provide us with all the products we need.
I picked up two of the new PS Pro oval blending brushes to try out, the ones I got were, as I remember the smallest and medium sized brushes. The reason I was so excited to try these brushes because I love buffing and stippling brushes, for me I feel that the more densely packed brushes work best for my skin when it comes to applying makeup. These brushes brushes come in clean and simple packaging, the handles are plain black with the PS Pro logo, they can feel a little flimsy but they should hold up for your blending needs.
On to testing, I tried two different foundations, one is a Topshop Foundation in the colour 1.0 and also No.7 Beautifully Matte Light Foundation in warm ivory. I also used two different concealers, Maybelline Dream Lumi Touch in 02 and No.7 Instant Radiance in shade 10.
I used these two foundations because the No.7 is my favourite foundation whereas the Topshop foundation, although it matches my skin tone perfectly it doesn't blend easily into my skin and I wanted to see if these brushed would help.
The brushes worked well with the No.7 foundation, they gave my skin an even finish, they blended well to give a smooth finish, although they didn't work well when it came to covering blemishes. When it came to adding more layers they didn't seem to give a fuller coverage more like it sponged up more of the product.
When it came to the Topshop foundation, the brushes did exactly what I thought it would. Like other brushes and sponges iv used it took a whole lot of blending to get a layer down because it seemed to just spread around my face, but after a few layers and a lot of blending these brushes managed to give an even finish to my skin but once again didn't leave enough product to cover my blemishes.
Overall I really like brushes for giving a base for my makeup and for the price which was £2.50 for the small and £3 for the medium. I plan to continue to use them and hopefully will be stocking up on some more soon. So if you have been wanting to give some of these brushes a go, I do recommend these for starting out.
Enjoy
