As a keen ballroom and latin dancer I’m constantly scanning for the best makeups and applicators, all to make me look young and gorgeous in the dance competitions (always a challenge, frankly, and not getting any easier as the years take their toll). Good quality makeup products are a must – they should not only achieve aforementioned miracle, but also stay in place all day, despite repeated rounds of cha cha and jive and forced beaming at judges, and ideally they should provide the perfect mask, hiding the fact that the dancer is exhausted, has screaming quads and is wondering why she didn’t taken up a sensible hobby, like birdwatching.
However even the best makeup needs to be applied smoothly and evenly, and without good brushes, a Mona Lisa can descend all too quickly into Van Gogh’s Sunflowers – beautiful in their own way of course, but those thick brush strokes just won’t cut it when one is trying to win a nice shiny trophy.
So I’m super excited to discover Glow & Restore makeup brushes. They’re designed by beauty influencer and MUA Lucinka Hodnett (@bylucinka) and really are rather special. As a professional makeup artist, Lucinka understands exactly how to design the perfect, high quality brush for a beautiful finished look.
All the Glow & Restore brushes are 100% vegan, with bio-responsive, precision gradient bristles. The round and slightly curved angle of the bristles enables the brush head to get around the contours of the face for a professional flawless finish and they feel so soft on the skin it’s like a gentle caress. They’re advertised to work in harmony with the skin’s natural elasticity for seamless buffing, sculpting, and blending, reducing irritation and micro-damage while maximising all-important glow – and they really do.
The range has a large range of brushes, of all shapes and sizes, for applying both cream/wet products and powder. A clever feature is the colour-coding – cream-coloured for wet products and cappuccino-coloured for powders, so it’s super easy to grab the right brush.
Having tried them I can confirm that the finish is so smooth – you can’t see any lines or flaws – just pure perfection. I tested the powder brush set – a large, a small and a blush brush, plus a really useful flat triangular powder puff and a sponge, worth £54 but currently on offer together at £40 the set which is excellent for such fabulous-quality brushes.
I really love that the Glow & Restore website has great information and advice on each of the different brushes – how and when to use them, so if you’re new to makeup, or even if you’re not, do take a look.
With Mother’s Day around the corner, these would make a fantastic treat for Mum. But don’t forget to treat yourself too – you deserve it – do head to the website.
By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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