These Are My Essential Eyeshadow Blending Brushes

hi today i'm going to talk to you about essential blending brushes we're going to stick to blending brushes specifically because i have an obscene amount of brushes uh if you want to see like my essential brushes in general it's going to be a long video i just kind of wanted to talk to you about like what you would need for eye shadow i didn't mention that it's eye shadow not face before i show you specific brushes i just want to let you know first of all i do have a video that goes into depth about how i blend i have two i have one for like the upper part of your eye and then i also have one for the lower lash line uh so i can link those down below if you have not seen them and you wanna if you have not seen them and you wanna watch them my brain just shut off my typical rule of thumb is that as the shades get darker you want to become more precise so your brushes are going to get smaller okay you have to take into account the actual size of your eyelids and cat what are you doing so weird you're gonna make a news then you have to come say you and i totally match right now you okay do you hate it i can't kiss you gotta get like a lip gloss all right all right okay all right okay remember what i was talking about so you have to keep in mind the actual shape of your eyelid by shape i mean size so i actually have a decent amount of real estate going on up here i'm very thankful i thank the eyeshadow gods every single day i got a lot of i got a lot of space my eyelids are slightly hooded so you can see that like i got creases you know uh so transfer can be a problem i do have quite a bit of space from my lash line up to my eyebrow if you have if you don't have that much space you're not going to want to use the big blending brushes that i am going to be showing you you want to use something much smaller i'm going to start off with a classic i have a few brushes that are similar to this guy this is the mac 217 this is a universal blending there is a tiny fine hair on my nose when i first got into makeup this is what all of the okay seriously it's still there when i first got into makeup this is what all the makeup artists pretty much always started off with it was the mac 217 i'm going to go in with my mac 217 and it is kind of just like a basic beginner blending brush it's nice and tapered super soft it has like a nice dome shape it gets a little bit thinner as you turn it you can rough it up make it you know a little more fluffy if you want or you can kind of do that taper it a little bit more this is an old guy this is tried and true morphe has a brush just like it that i use fairly often which is the m433 might be a little bit i guess it's a little bit wider but they're quite close so if you are looking for a cheaper a much cheaper version this one might be like 15 maybe it's more expensive i can't actually remember now but the morphe one is definitely cheap and i use them interchangeably like i guess the mac 217 is maybe a little bit more tapered and this is slightly more like rounded on the top it's like a little bit more round i guess comparatively that is like a great beginner point for anyone uh however if you are on this like smaller lid space size if you really don't have that much room to work with this might be a large blending brush for you so do keep that in mind now when i say that the brushes get smaller as the shades get darker for example today i started off with my transition shade and i was using the morphe m573 brush which is quite large but again i have quite a lot of real estate real estate going on up here and i wanted a light wash and then just to kind of like blend it outward which is why i use this brush very similar to the mac 217 even the morphe whatever i said m433 but uh it is a larger version maybe a little bit more like pointed i started off with that for detail i started going in with this which is also from morphe the m456 brush which if you compare the two it is much smaller and when you turn them this one gets a little bit flatter you can see it's a little bit more flat as you turn it so i started off with this one for my transition and then i started picking up darker shades and working them on the outer and inner corner of my eyes what i like about this brush is that it is because it's a little bit flatter it's a great blending brush because it's a similar design but it also helps pack on a little bit more pigment so what i did with this was i picked up the products like on the flatter tip of the brush patted it down and then started blending into the uh transition shade and then you can kind of go back and forth between these so if you wanted to look at like the steps in terms of size we have them like that so this is the one that i use for my transition shade this is the morphe m433 then we have the mac 217 and then the morphe m456 brush these are four brushes that i use constantly sometimes if i use the mac 217 and m433 again i use them entertain interchangeably if i use those for my transition shade like to start off typically it's because i want like a little bit more precise application maybe my shade is or the shade that i'm going with is a little bit dark so i don't want it to just kind of like be all over the place this transition shade was a lot lighter which is why i used a fluffier brush but if say i did go in with something that's a little bit darker and i went in on these brushes sometimes to go in and blend i will go in with this guy clean which kind of acts as like a little bit of an eraser because it's not placing down any extra pigment it's sort of like picking up what you put down so if you put a shade down and you're like that's too much i need to take it back a little bit going in with a clean brush and usually if it's like a little bit fluffier is going to help soften that those are the ones that i would start with if you have a lot of real estate like me and this brush is like a typical blending brush for you then you might want to try the morphe m521 brush which is basically that but a little bit larger so it's not quite as tapered it's a little bit more domed and it's just a larger brush in general this is typically what i would use if i need to clean up a little bit like out here or say i just take my like eyeshadow out a little bit too far and i just need to like blend it into my foundation a little bit more this is what i use now if you have huge eyes something like this this is like a highlighter brush or something but i'm just saying i've seen some people use these kinds of brushes and thave smaller eyes than me and i'm like i don't even understand how you're doing that but it happens this is another morphe brush it's from like a nondescript the non-descript collection that i'm always referencing and it has no name which is really annoying but uh actually this one is very similar once again from morphe i use a lot of morphe brushes i use a ton of brushes but honestly as far as blending goes an