Groovy Brushes. What’s the Best Mascara Applicator?
Undoubtedly, the perfect mascara must go with the perfect applicator. After all, each one of us faces the problem concerning choosing the right mascara. Here are a few descriptions of the best and the weirdest mascara wands to look through. Perhaps the choice will become far easier if you find out something more about the subject of mascara brushes.
Nylon brush or silicone wand? Simple form of original shape? Long or short bristle? Each mascara brush was designed to achieve a set of particular effects. Some applicators are supposed to extend lashes and bold them, whereas the others enable effortless coating of the lashes growing in the corners of the eyes. Obviously, there are also multi-purpose applicators that are able to adjust the bristle to the shape of eyes, they are flexible, their size is described as optimal which facilitates coating both long and short lashes – and this makes the eye make-up perfect.
Find out what types of mascara brushes you can choose from. Thanks to this it will surely become easier for you to define which mascara wand is the most suitable for you. To start with, the basic division says that mascara can have:
- silicone brush – more elastic,
- nylon brush – a regular one
However, there is more to a mascara brush then just the material it is made of. There are also various shapes of the applicators. The practice proves that the simplest methods are frequently the best ones. Check it yourself.
Classic Mascara Brush
It’s the type of applicator that goes with most mascara tubes. Its size is found optimal – being neither too big nor too thin. Moreover, it adjusts itself to almost all shapes of eyes. In most cases it gets narrower at the tip, therefore it’s easy to use it in the corners of the eyes. The truth is, such classic and simple brush serves its purpose in each case: no matter if lashes are short or long, thin or thick. It always enhances, extends, separates and adds volume.
Asymmetric Mascara Brush
It’s available in various forms – it can be tapered style brush or spiral that is narrowed at one end. No matter the shape, the asymmetry was designed to facilitate coating various lengths of lashes, even the ones growing in the hard-to-reach spots. Sadly, the irregular shape doesn’t always work well because, after all, using such mascara requires experience. Moreover, if not cleaned often, such brush can gather the residues of a mascara and leave eyelashes clumpy.
Curved Mascara Brush
Relatively less frequently to approach are the mascara brushes that are delicately bent. In most cases they are silicone applicators because nylon bristle doesn’t offer such possibilities. All brushes shaped in this way work for naturally long and unruly eyelashes because they might not grab the short ones so easily. While choosing a mascara featuring this type of applicator it’s worth checking out whether the brush is bent appropriately so it matches the shape of our eyes.
Comb Mascara Brush
The mascara producers don’t always decide to arrange the bristle all around the applicator. Indeed, there are mascaras which instead of having a regular brush feature a comb. The bristle placed only on one side of the applicator is supposed to facilitate separating eyelashes and, naturally, putting on the mascara. In practice it frequently appears that a comb-like applicator leaves lashes clumpy and requires skilful hand manoeuvring. Similar case is with other weird-looking applications such as a ball brush or a bubble brush.
