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The Fab 5, Vol. 2: Eye Makeup Brushes

January 7th, 2014 by Karen 12 Comments

These five are my workhorse faves, and I use them almost every. Single. Day.

Do you have any of the same faves I do? Which are your five?

Products mentioned in the video

  • MAC 239 Eye Shader Brush ($25)
  • MAC 217 Blending Brush ($24)
  • MAC 224 Tapered Blending Brush ($32)
  • Burberry No. 10 Definition Liner ($32)
  • Too Faced Liner/Smudger Brush ($39; it’s one of three brushes in the Shadow Brushes Essential Set)

Reviews of the products on MBB

  • Unsung Makeup Heroes: The Too Faced Shadow Brushes Essential 3-Piece Set
  • MAC Unsung Heroes: The 239 Eye Shader Brush
  • MAC Unsung Heroes: The Marvelous Multitasking MAC 217 Blending Brush
  • MAC Unsung Heroes: The 224 Tapered Blending Brush

Thank you as always for watching, my friend. 🙂

Your friendly neighborhood beauty addict,

Karen

P.S. What’s for dinner, babe? I’m starved!

P.P.S. How was your day? Mine felt loooong.

The Fab 5, Vol. 2: Eye Makeup Brushes / Originally published January 7th, 2014

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  1. Rikki Poynter says

    January 7th, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    MAC 217 will ALWAYS be my favourite blending brush. ALWAYS. Well, probably. Hahaha.

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  2. hanna says

    January 7th, 2014 at 7:54 pm

    I love the burberry brush!

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  3. fancie says

    January 7th, 2014 at 8:03 pm

    I don’t own the MAC 217 but I have a Costal Scents dupe that’s one of my favorite eye brushes! They’re super veratile! I’ve actually tried these brushes while working at Nordstrom and I totally agree that they’re must haves! I’m actually thinking of hauling them anyway even though I have dupes. I really like the quality of MAC brushes

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  4. breyerchic04 says

    January 7th, 2014 at 8:08 pm

    I clicked on this wondering what brush you’d convince me I needed, and the answer is the Burberry one. I have the three mac brushes, and love them, plus I have mac 228 that I think is pretty similar to the little Too Faced brush, and so I will try it for along the brow bone, that’s brilliant.

    But I am totally lacking a nice pencil brush!

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  5. Gowthami says

    January 7th, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    I like the burberry one!

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  6. camille says

    January 7th, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    it has been a long day! and when i get my day off on friday, i’m going to enjoy going through the posts you’ve put up from the week! i love the videos, karen!

    it has been an 11+ hour day. pretty cool, though. working with a company that has an office based in the santa clara area. it was so nice to see a Bay Area area code!!!! whaaa whaaa?! 🙂

    i need to go home again. getting withdrawals.

    keep the videos/posts coming! looking forward to my rest day of ice cream and catching up on MBB!

    Reply
  7. Ella says

    January 7th, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Totally unrelated to brushes – what nail polish are you wearing?? Is it green? I am obsessed with finding a dark green polish and keep finding only full-on glittery or so-dark-it-looks-black. Fail.

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  8. Sylirael says

    January 7th, 2014 at 11:56 pm

    …I almost exclusively use my fingers for eyeshadow 😛 Does that make me a bad person? I would like to try the glory that is (apparently) MAC 217, but $70+ for a brush is a bit more than I can stomach!

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  9. Agata says

    January 8th, 2014 at 6:47 am

    I loved this video. Surprisingly enough I don’t have any of the brushes you talked about. I think it’s time to expand my eye brushes collection.

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  10. Deborah says

    January 8th, 2014 at 6:54 am

    Ooh, I’ve been meaning to invest in some great eye brushes and these seem pretty marvelous! 😀

    I’ve also heard a LOT of great things about Sigma brushes — would you ever consider doing a review of how those babies stack up next to MAC brushes?? (Especially the eye brushes!)

    Reply
  11. Kiara says

    January 8th, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    MAC 239 is an absolute favorite of mine! Don’t know how I lived without it really!

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  12. Natalie says

    January 8th, 2014 at 6:51 pm

    This is such a great list! And I love all the explanations of how you use them. Great video Karen!

    Reply

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