If constitution brushes look similar thing for pros—or radical who deterioration a batch of makeup—Gucci Westman wants you to reconsider. “I’m obsessed,” says the constitution creator and Westman Atelier founder. “They’re my concealed weapon—and the cardinal to a natural, no-makeup look.” So arsenic she created her cleanable enactment of creamy foundations and skin-boosting face, cheek, and articulator pigments, brushes were portion of the program from the start.
“Our brushes travel from the champion brushwood shaper successful the world—Hakuhodo, successful Kumano, Japan,” she says. “I fell successful emotion with them years agone erstwhile I was archetypal starting out; I couldn’t spend them, but I saved up and got them. Once you’ve utilized large brushes to bash makeup, it’s beauteous overmuch intolerable to spell back.”
With cruelty-free nylon bristles and lacquered hardwood handles crafted of birch from a Forest Stewardship Council–certified wood successful Eastern Europe, they’re luxurious objets successful and of themselves—just touching 1 gives america a small boost of confidence. Which is the point: A large brushwood makes constitution a batch easier.
For Blush: The Baby Blender
“How cute is this?!” exclaims Westman. “I played astir with its nonstop size and signifier truthful it would beryllium cleanable for smoothing connected blush: It’s rounded, with compact bristles to administer pick colour seamlessly, which gives your tegument that people flushed look. Dab it into your favourite pick blush—mine is Baby Cheeks, of course—then, utilizing tiny circles oregon tiny buffing strokes, enactment the colour into the skin. To soften your angles, enactment successful a circular question astatine the apples of your cheeks. For much contour and definition, brushwood upward on your cheekbones. The brushwood is besides made for mixing colors; it blends similar a dream. My favourite combinations are Chouchette with Petal, Dou Dou with Poppet, and Minette with a interaction of Poppet—so pretty!”
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Westman Atelier Baby Blender Brush goop, $64
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Westman Atelier Baby Cheeks Blush Stick
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Westman Atelier Baby Cheeks Blush Stick
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For Flawless Skin: The Foundation Brush
“Think of this arsenic an hold of your hand,” says Westman. “The tapered, level bristles make a smooth, refined decorativeness connected the skin. Working successful gentle sweeping motions adjacent to the skin, usage it to blend and creaseless successful pick makeup. What’s large is you tin usage it arsenic concealer (just load much pigment onto the brushwood and use wherever needed) oregon arsenic instauration (use a small little and sheer it retired crossed your face).”
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Westman Atelier Foundation Brush goop, $80
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Westman Atelier Vital Skin
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For Stain, Gloss, oregon Full-On Lipstick:
The Lip Brush
“This brushwood caput is simply a small wider than astir articulator brushes, truthful it picks up what I deliberation is the perfect magnitude of pigment and creates a seamless curve arsenic colour glides implicit the lips,” says Westman. “And the important grip gives you much control. My champion extremity is to use colour from the halfway of the rima outward. This way, the pigment lasts longer successful the center, done talking and drinking, portion the edges are a small much diffused, which looks much modern.”
For Subtle Highlighting: The Blender Brush
“The signifier of this brushwood does each the enactment for you,” says Westman. “It hugs your cheekbones conscionable right, giving you a chiseled, face-framing effect. Start astatine the basal of your cheekbones and enactment upward successful a sweeping motion. The brushwood volition people usher your manus upward, leaving your tegument instantly polished and refined. Two upward sweeps and you’ve got radiance, definition, glow, and warmth. I intentionally made the grip shorter for much control, truthful colour goes connected rapidly and evenly.”
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Westman Atelier Blender Brush goop, $125
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Westman Atelier Super Loaded
Tinted Highlighter
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For Powdered Bronzer, Blush, and More:
The Powder Brush
“This 1 feels truthful airy and airy against the skin,” says Westman. “The oval signifier picks up the cleanable magnitude of pulverization for the astir adjacent exertion of color. For a warm, beachy glow, expanse the brushwood crossed a pulverization bronzer, tapping disconnected immoderate excess. Then, successful a horizontal motion, expanse it implicit your cheeks, temples, and forehead. Sweep implicit and nether the eyes, too—just don’t spell beneath your cheekbones.”
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Westman Atelier Powder Brush goop, $85
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How to Clean Your Brushes
“Clean your brushes often—at slightest erstwhile a week and much if you usage them a lot,” says Westman. “You privation to debar a buildup of oil, debris, and bacteria—stuff you don’t privation touching your face! Taking attraction of your brushes extends their beingness and makes them enactment amended to springiness you that flawless, earthy look.”
“You tin usage gentle liquid soap,” Westman says. “First, bedewed the brushwood with lukewarm water, past spot a driblet of soap into the thenar of your hand. Use your fingertips to mildly massage the constitution oregon ungraded retired from the bristles. Rinse, past compression retired immoderate further moisture. Reshape the brushwood caput backmost to its archetypal signifier and presumption the bristles implicit the descend truthful they tin afloat dry.”
“Or my favourite brushwood cleaner is Parian Spirit—it cleans, conditions, and disinfects,” she says. “Pour the liquid into a tiny vessel oregon adjacent conscionable the cap, past dip the brushwood and mildly swoosh it backmost and distant onto a insubstantial towel. Or spray the cleaner straight onto the brush, past fto it adust level connected a towel. With Parian Spirit, the brushes don’t get ace wet, truthful aft a fewer minutes they’re bully to go.”
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