Latest hauls^^ [8] Mizuho facial brush

For those of you who have been following my blog in the past, you might have recalled that I am in love with a Japanese brush maker Mizuho.

I have purchased their makeup up brushes and I am totally in love with its softness and durability. I have also purchased another nose cleaning brush from them and since then I do not have any break outs in my nose area... I guess they did their cleaning job pretty well?

This time around I have ordered their overall facial cleaning brush. Not that my clarisonic is failing me, but lately I only use my clarisonic only on days when I put on makeup and I want a more thorough cleansing.... sometimes clarisonic can be quite harsh on my drier skin during winter months and therefore I wanted something milder.

This brush comes in 2 colors according to the website, pink or black. Luckily my friend in HK told me pink was the only color and I didn't mind this lovely pink at all!

The hairs of this brush is made of goat hair. It is quite soft to play around it on my hand and it's not poking me at all.

Correct way of placing the face brush on its stand, with the bristles facing downwards (remember, gravity triggers water to flow downwards!)

This is the wrong way.... water will get back into the brush and cause the glue disintegrate! Do not do this at home!

Some people uses this brush just to foam up facial cleanser, but you can totally use a foaming net to perform such function and it is cheaper too!

I use it to cleanse my face as the hairs are not poking at all and I want cleansing action to be done in some hard to reach areas....  (like nose areas, etc)


This is what I use for my daily morning cleansing:

It's the Naruko Raw Job's Tears Supercritical CO2 Foaming Wash. It is not the squeaky clean kind so it's appropriate for a morning wake-up wash. The cleanser by itself does not really come up with a lot of foam as the name suggested, so I usually need the help of a foaming net. But even with a foaming net, the foam is rather "sparse"....

So with this Mizuho facial brush, I wet the bristles and used a pea sized foaming wash from the tube:

And viola:

With a quick circular motion I come up with dense foam that my other washing net cannot come up with! And not only the foam is really dense, I like the goat hairs on my face too... my clarisonic is a bit harsh on me sometimes especially during the winter months when my skin tends to be on the dry side.


I am in love with Mizuho brushes!

Mizuho Pore Cleaning Brush

Of the 2 Mizuho brushes I got, one was the powder brush that I have blogged about here, and the other one is this pore cleaning brush.


This pore cleaning brush comes is a sleek cylindrical packaging:

With its 尺 logo and "Presented by Shakuda":

More information on this brush at the back of the packaging. From the Japanese Kanji, it says it's cleaning little nose! Cute!

Contents:

A detailed brochure of the brush. Though it's entirely in Japanese, the diagrams are pretty easy to understand. You will need too foam up your facial soap and apply the foamed up cleanser with the brush to cleanse your pores.

Yes I know, I have my Clarisonic, which has been doing a decent job, but sometimes I want to have some deep cleaning around my acne prone area for a good thorough clean job. I have tried silicone cleansing brush like the ones below, but it wasn't that effective to me. I felt like rubbing rubber against my face and I don't think the silicone brush bristles are actually reaching into my pores.

The actual brush itself:

This brush reminded me one of the painting brushes I used to own. I find the frosted acrylic and satin aluminum finish extremely sleek and sexy. The design of the brush is quite thoughtful. A string is attached at the end of the brush so you can hang the brush up to air dry it after every use.

Close up of the hair bristles. Unlike regular makeup brushes that uses soft animal or artificial hair, this nose brush uses finer but yet harder squirrel hairs, and I guess that makes cleaning of tiny pores effective. It must be fine but yet hard to reach those tiny pores! Since it's doing a great job deep cleaning, it is advised to use once or twice a week only.

Once again, the 尺 logo and "Presented by Shakuda" on the frosted acrylic handle.

Mizuho Powder Brush

Along with my recent beauty haul of My Beauty Diary masks, I have also hauled 2 Mizuho brushes and one of them is the Powder Blush.

Bobbi Brown actually sells their version of Powder Brush for a whopping $60usd+tax. 

MAC also has a powder brush which is their 138 tapered face brush for $52usd+tax. Still pricey :(

I got mine for $380hkd. 

Powder Brush is actually a very nice and versatile brush that pick up just the right amount of powder from loose foundation or 2-way cake foundation so the application of foundation won't look too cakey on your face (see Mizuho's video demo on this brush here). In addition, because of the shape of this brush, it can be used as a blush brush, contouring, setting concealer, or even a highlighter brush. Just make sure you wipe of the excess blush powder before using it as highlight or you will end up getting a Rudolph the reindeer nose!

And the other thing is Bobbi Brown brushes are typically made in China. Mizuho's brushes are made in Japan, that's certain a plus and great quality assurance!

Close up of the brush:

The hairs are super soft and they are really dense. The brush pick up just the right amount of powders and when using it as a blush brush, I like how nice and soft the blush was applied on to my face. I actually prefer this more than my MAC 168 large angle contour brush as the 168 gives me a hard blush application on my cheeks.

This brush is particularly useful when traveling because I can use it multi-purposely for setting foundation, applying blush, or even highlighting. One less thing to carry around when traveling is definitely a good thing!

For more information, please check out Mizuho's website at http://mizuhobrush-shop.com/

(unfortunately, the site does not ship internationally, and I am not sure where else people can order this online from... sorry girls!)