Hi there lovely faces! Today I’m going to review the
three brushes that come in the Real Techniques Duo-Fiber collection. This is a limited edition
collection, you can already buy it online and it’ll release in Boots at the end
of this month.
As you probably already know, the face behind Real
Techniques is Samantha Chapman, one of the pixiwoo sisters. I can’t tell you
how much I adore Sam and Nic! (And their brother Jim and his girlfriend Tanya
Burr)
The one thing I don’t understand about this set is the
duo-fiber thing. All RT brushes are 100% cruelty-free, which means their
brushes are made out of synthetic taklon hairs. Normally duo-fiber brushes are
made out of real and synthetic hairs. At least, that’s what I always thought.
The white hairs do feel different though, they aren’t
as soft. That makes the brushes a lot less soft than the usual RT brush. I like that the brushes have
different coloured handles to the original sets, but still indicate the
category by the coloured names.
Duo-Fiber Face Brush
You can use this brush for
powdering your face or highlighter. I wouldn’t use it for brush or contouring; rather
use it for blending out your blush or contour. It’s too “flat” for that. On the back of the
packaging it says “For lightweight application + blending of face powder or
pigments”, I agree with that.
Duo-Fiber Eye Brush
On the packaging it says “Add
finishing touches to the eyes”. This kind of brush is great for applying colour
in your crease or blending that. At the moment I’m using it to powder little
areas of my face if I’m only wearing concealer. I think you could also use it
to put on concealer if you wanted to.
Duo-Fiber Contour Brush
On the packaging it says “For
controlled contouring and sculpting”. Again, this is quite a “flat” brush (I hope
you’ll understand what I mean by that by looking at the pictures above haha),
you have to be careful you don’t end up with a stripe across your face. I
always blend out my contour and blush, because I like a more natural effect, so
for me it isn’t a big problem.
What’s the verdict?
Well, if I’m honest, if you have
a lot of brushes already (or similar ones): don’t bother buying these. These brushes
aren’t that bad, but definitely not as good as the normal RT brushes. I will
use them a lot, because I don’t have that many brushes.
I hate to say this, but I think
there are better brushes out there (used for the same purpose/effect) and I
wouldn’t recommend these brushes to my friends.
Real Techniques Limited
Edition Duo-Fiber Collection € 24.99 – via Enchantra.com When you use the code RT you get a 10% discount on all of the Real
Techniques brushes!
Lots of love,
Laurie
Disclaimer: No one of the companies mentioned are paying me to write about the products I’ve mentioned in this post. All opinions are my own and 100% honest. This is NOT sponsored. All pictures are taken by me except the one of Sam.
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