Andrea Martini wrote:
the hakuhodo brushes are really luxurious. i got a chance to touch them at the makeup show in NY...absolutely lovely-i can imagine they are great to work with.

Arent they super expensive?

Jeni Teran wrote:
The FAQ's have some good brush suggesstions, but the softest brushes I have ever felt are by The Ultimate Face. Waaay softer than Crown brushes I love them!! I probably haven't felt as many brushes as most of the MUAs here though.

Where do you get these?
I googled and found nothing

Marissa Callori wrote:
yes I was at the make-up show too in NY and felt them !! They are really nice and I am thinking of buying like 14 of them but it comes out to be over 300 so I am not sure if I should spend money on them or the Crown and if crown says how good they are and the hairs are NOT synthetic then why such a big price difference ?

Andrea Martini wrote:
the hakuhodo brushes are really luxurious. i got a chance to touch them at the makeup show in NY...absolutely lovely-i can imagine they are great to work with.

Hakuhodo sure makes great luxurious brushes!  I have a wide range of brushes I have collected over the years, MAC, Mercier, Armani, YSL, Chanel, Dior, Chantecaille, Crown, A Design, drugstore's brushes...But my set of Shu Uemura brushes is my all time favourite!  Now if only I can get a second set of Shu Uemura brushes I would be in heaven! LOL

Artifex  wrote:

Arent they super expensive?

depends on what you call super expensive i guess. we all know that no matter what, you get what you pay for. Crown brushes seem to be very nice quality for their price point. I would imagine you might have to replace them a bit more often-but you may not mind it so much bc they are so inexpensive and depending on how much you use them and how you care for them , they might last you a long time. the hakuhodo brushes were super soft and very precise looking. yes, they have a much higher $$$tag on them, but if you are looking for even better application for higher end clients, is it worth the money?

Patricia Le wrote:

Hakuhodo sure makes great luxurious brushes!  I have a wide range of brushes I have collected over the years, MAC, Mercier, Armani, YSL, Chanel, Dior, Chantecaille, Crown, A Design, drugstore's brushes...But my set of Shu Uemura brushes is my all time favourite!  Now if only I can get a second set of Shu Uemura brushes I would be in heaven! LOL

I've heard nothing but great things about Hakuhodo brushes.

Andrea Martini wrote:
depends on what you call super expensive i guess. we all know that no matter what, you get what you pay for. Crown brushes seem to be very nice quality for their price point. I would imagine you might have to replace them a bit more often-but you may not mind it so much bc they are so inexpensive and depending on how much you use them and how you care for them , they might last you a long time. the hakuhodo brushes were super soft and very precise looking. yes, they have a much higher $$$tag on them, but if you are looking for even better application for higher end clients, is it worth the money?

I have to admit, as much of a 'brush whore' I am and as many expensive brushes I own, I don't think that having a 50-60 dollar blush brush is necessarily going to mean a flawless application.

I think most of it is in the technique of the person holding the brush, not necessarily the brush itself. Just my opinion.

Artifex  wrote:

I have to admit, as much of a 'brush whore' I am and as many expensive brushes I own, I don't think that having a 50-60 dollar blush brush is necessarily going to mean a flawless application.

I think most of it is in the technique of the person holding the brush, not necessarily the brush itself. Just my opinion.

i can halfway agree....it def has to do with the brushes used as well as the talent holding them. im not saying its totally necc to have a $60 blush brush, but you arent going to get the same performance and last out of a $4 drugstore one.
i dont own super expensive brushes, but i have owned cheap and then not so cheap ones. there is a difference. lets keep in mind some brushes "claim" to be better quality and have a big fat price tag attached to them bc of their name...and then there are brushes that are a total steal for quality AND price.
I guess the only way to know is for someone to chime in who has actually USED both and has seen a difference. there was a thread on the makeup show NY...i believe someone in there mentioned they had noticed a difference from other brushes they had used.

Angela Michelle Perez wrote:
I use Sigma brushes they are really good.

i bought a set of them and they have lasted for a while...they start to get really rough though...and the hairs fell straight out of a few of the brushes...however $60 for a set....and they lasted a year-ish. not too bad.

Marissa Callori wrote:
I want to invest in my craft.  I am very good at what I do and I want to use a product that is as good as me !

+1 ♥

I do think artifex is right it's more about the technique but I can't stand crappy brushes. lol I'm a bit obsessed with my brushes.

I have mostly MAC brushes. My obsession with them started WAY before I even fathomed being a MUA so of course the obsession carried over. :-P

Outside of MAC brushes a few of my must haves are

The small Sonia Kashuk eyeshadow brush. I also have some of her other brushes. I like most but not all of them.

MUFE kabuki brush. ♥♥♥

Laura Mercier angled eyeshadow brush.

I want to try sigma brushes since I hear they are so awesome. I figure for 70 buck if at least two of them are decent it wouldn't be a total waste.

Chelsea Dutchak wrote:

Where do you get these?
I googled and found nothing

http://www.ultimatefacecosmetics.com/

Mia Moreno wrote:
I love my MAC brushes. I personally haven't used Crown but the school I go to, stopped offering them to us because way too many of the bristles would fall out and the students weren't happy with them. But, I don't think they were the Italian badger series.

+1 gotta love my mac
i also love E.L.F. plus there cheap