5 Makeup Brushes You Didn’t Know You Needed

5 Makeup Brushes You Didn’t Know You Needed By Victoria Benitez

In the realm of beauty, your makeup application matters just as much as your skincare routine. So, where does one start when looking for cruelty-free and vegan beauty tools? Right here.

Originally, makeup brushes were made from animal hair due to its natural texture. We’ve come a long way since then, and as clean beauty pioneers, we’ve leaned on plant-powered ingredients since day one and have also looked to innovate ethically sourced cosmetic tools. Over the years, we’ve meticulously curated a minimalist collection to elevate your clean beauty routine with soft, multi-use makeup brushes.

Each of our premium, 100% animal hair-free Taklon nylon hair makeup brushes delivers smooth application and buildable, even coverage. Perfect for buffing, contouring, shading, detailing, and ensuring flawless looks without compromising your values. Whether you’re a beginner looking to build your makeup kit or a standalone brush to add to an existing collection, you’ll find everything in this handy makeup brush guide.

Contour Brush

Contour Brush

Whether you prefer a multi-step beauty routine or a simple soft sculpt, reach for the Contour Brush. Designed to simplify any makeup routine and easily blend harsh lines in a few sweeps. This contour brush expertly sculpts and defines facial lines when using a highlighter, bronzer, or blush. What makes this brush a favorite is its angled brush head, ensuring precise application with absolute control. This versatile tool delivers an effortlessly sculpted look, whether using powder, cream, or liquid face products.

We adore this brush for its ability to create stunning dimensional looks while sculpting the high points of your face with sweeping and controlled ease. The soft, cruelty-free bristles guarantee perfect product pickup and smooth blending over your cheekbones, forehead, and jawline for flawless definition. Plus, our commitment to eco-friendly practices shines through with the introduction of a new environmentally conscious brush handle

Buffing Brush

Versatility is critical when building your makeup brush kit. When creating our Buffing Brush, we knew we had to ensure that its densely packed bristles could effortlessly blend, blur, and buff any complexion product, whether powder or cream. The dense yet flexible bristles work to pick up and deposit the perfect amount of product onto your skin.

Buffing Brush

How your foundation sits on your skin will be the least of your worries with this clean beauty pro favorite brush. Its gentle synthetic bristles help to achieve a natural, airbrushed look while making the application process effortless. Even in those hard-to-reach areas, this buffing brush provides a seamless, soft-focus coverage for a natural and "lived-in" look. The dome shape allows for complete coverage and easy application without worrying about cakey or uneven foundation making it the perfect foundation brush. We love to pair it with our tinted moisturizer. You’ll quickly learn why it’s a holy grail and staple makeup brush for a reason.

Angled Eye Brush

Angled Eye Brush

It’s the precision for us. All eye and brow looks will speak for themselves with this brush. Meet our Angled Eye Brush that will have all your eye and brow looks sorted. This cruelty-free tapered eye brush was designed for lining eyes and shaping eyebrows with precision first in mind. This brush stands out because of its flat, angled design, which allows for easy and precise application. You’ll effortlessly achieve both thick and thin lines, whether using eyeshadow, gel liner, or brow pomade.

If you are looking for an innovative brush that’s multi-functional and understated, don’t sleep on this one. Quickly perfect a smudged eye look, learn to draw precise lines better, or touch up brows with its pointed, tapered tip. It’s the only angled eye brush you’ll ever need in your makeup kit to get perfectly sculpted brows and sharp eye looks.

Tightline Eye Brush

Finish any makeup with a fool-proof eye look with our Tightline Eye Brush. This essential tool helps to enhance and define eyes by adding depth and dimension. Using a flat eyeliner brush can impart a detailed finish to any makeup look and can create the illusion of thicker eyelashes. The flat eyeliner brush allows for precise application, making the technique much less intimidating with the right tool.

Tightline Eye Brush

Subtly define your eyes and elevate your eye looks with this versatile eye brush, pairing it with any eyeshadow powder, cream, or gel liner. Pair it seamlessly with your preferred color, considering your complexion to avoid a harsh appearance. Mastering the tightlining technique is made effortless with this brush - simply press the flat liner brush into the base of the lashes, creating small dashes along your lash line until achieving the desired tight-lined effect. Mistakes can often occur, simply use a Q-tip to clean up any liner.

Embrace beauty with ethics with these flawless complexion favorites – as if you needed another reason to add these makeup brushes to your beauty routine. Take our word for it: your makeup routine just got much easier. You can thank us later!

Kabuki Brush

Kabuki Brush

There are a few products that no matter what, you simply can’t replace. Our compact Kabuki Brush quickly became the gold standard within our beauty community. It’s become the can’t live without makeup brush. Its multi-use functionality sets the standard for ensuring seamless and even coverage. Its unique flat head shape was designed with larger areas of the face in mind. We love to reach for this brush daily to deliver moderate-to-full coverage, whether applying powder, cream, or liquid face products.

Its friendly travel size conveniently allows you to throw it into your bag for those on the go and unexpected touch-ups. This Kabuki brush is the comeback brush year after year, allowing for seamlessly blended makeup. The soft and absorbent bristles allow for complete control and ease when applying products like our foundation stick and bronzing powder. Our go-to brush gives you a healthy- looking glow with buildable coverage.