2024 - Application Guide: What fingers, brushes and sponges are best suited for

Application Guide
This is how you get the most out of your makeup

Which brush was that again for the foundation? And what do you use a sponge for now? We will now clarify these questions and many more.

In order to exploit the full potential of your make-up, the right tool for the product is crucial. While there are no rules, some ordering methods work better than others. We’ll tell you what goes best with each other.

Application Guide: This is the best way to apply your make-up

Different makeup tools have different advantages. Here you can find out what fingers, sponges or brushes are particularly good at so that you can get the best out of them.

1. With your fingers

Our fingers are not only the cheapest tool, we also always have them at hand. They have many advantages: Our body heat allows make-up products to melt beautifully into our skin. We also keep control and can decide on pressure. So for our complexion and larger areas, our (cleaned) fingers are a very good choice – we would recommend them for these product types:

primers: It’s like a makeup-matched extension of your skincare routine. That’s why the primer is happy about the warmth of our fingers, so that it can be spread particularly well and is immediately absorbed by the skin. With our hands we can quickly and carefully work it into the skin.
Skin Tints: The more liquid, lighter sister of the BB cream can be distributed wonderfully quickly and evenly with your hands on your face. Body heat allows you to work it seamlessly into your skin without wasting product on a brush or sponge.
concealer: When it comes to concealer, you often run the risk of applying too much. The thick applicators often leave a large amount of product under the eyes – more than we even need. Too much concealer then quickly settles in the wrinkles. Therefore, first apply the concealer to your ring fingers and then dab it onto the under-eye area. This way you stay in control and can build up the opacity bit by bit. Because your fingers won’t soak up any product, you’ll get the full coverage you want.
Shimmering + creamy eye shadow: Cream eyeshadows often come in a little pot from which you take them. As soon as they come into contact with heat, they become softer and creamier – this is the best way to spread them on the eyelid. With shimmering powder eyeshadow, your fingers have another advantage: if you enter the pan with the tip in a circular motion, you press the pigment together for an optimal result. For this reason, applying glitter eyeshadow with your fingers is also optimal.

We should use our fingers much more often for our make-up because the end result will be very natural with it. You are also welcome to use them to touch up when products simply cannot be blended with a brush or sponge. The body heat gives you a better chance with your hands. Certain regions of the face, such as around the nose, in the corners of the mouth or in the inner corners of the eyes, are particularly crooked and difficult to reach with the fingers. This is where a brush comes in handy.

2. With the brush

As soon as you hear “powder” you can immediately think of “brush”. In general, all powder products are best applied with a brush. There are of course exceptions, like shimmer eyeshadow or another one that you can find under the third point, but you can never go wrong. But also “liquid” products, such as foundation and Cream rouge or bronzer are most easily and beautifully applied with certain brushes, as you will soon find out.

There are many different brushes, all of which have their right to exist. Everyone has their own preference for what they like to use which brush. Here are seven brushes we would start our makeup collection with, in order of priority.

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