The high grade powder brushes and blush brushes

There is usually no difference between powder brushes and blush brushes, both are used to apply powder, therefore should have good powder hold capacity. Most professional makeup brush factories believe that powder brush and blush brush are the same, so we will use powder brush to represent both type brushes in the following.

The powder brushes have different grades depending on different demand. The significant difference is on the bristle material. The powder brush bristle is usually goat hair, while goat hair has more than 20 grades, for the top grade powder brush, the most popular hair is ZGF top grade goat hair. ZGF is the best goat hair, most of MAC powder brushes are with ZGF hair, then is BJF and HJF goat hair. For the high grade powder brush, the hair material should be at least HJF goat hair, and with different hair, the brush price will have big difference, for example, with the same ferrule and handle, the brush price with ZGF will be ten times of the brushes with BJF.

Besides the goat hair, the top grade powder brushes can also use chinchillas or squirrel hair, which will be much expensive than even if ZGF goat hair. The powder brushes with chinchilla’s hairs may reach $200.0 per piece.

Although the hair material is the most important, the ferrule and handle material are also very important. The most common ferrule material is copper for high grade powder brushes, some lower grade will use aluminum; and the handle material is usually wooden, some can be bamboo. The wood material also varies a lot. It can be schima superba, mahogany, rubber wood, birch wood, Dalbergia odorifera, sandalwood, etc. Different wooden handle will have different price. The most popular and cost-effective material is birch wood.

The powder brushes can have flat top or slant top or natural shape depends on different usage. The size also varies, the large powder brush diameter (the part connects the handle) usually 18mm and 16mm; and the length of each part can also be different.

So during your custom makeup brushes, it is best to know your product positioning, as well as your detailed imagination on the brushes, so that you can evaluate your budget and then send enquiry to your makeup brush suppliers accordingly.