If your new year’s resolution includes investing in new brushes, here's the roundup review our 25 the bestselling makeup brushes in 2019. Best sure to also check out our current most popular brushes.
Z-11 Blending Brush
This brush has your back when it comes to blending out transitions for flawless graduation, picking up and depositing just the right amount of shadow, and setting eye primer and concealer so it doesn’t crease. Like the rest of the Z Series fam, it’s soft as silk, so your skin will love it.
Z-10 Eyeshadow Brush
This eyeshadow brush is dedicated to easy, smooth application of eyeshadow. The volume of the bristle makes it an ideal brush for even application and natural gradation.
Koyudo FU-PA02 Foundation Brush
The gentle touch of this cute Koyudo brush is thanks to its densely packed yet soft bristles. It's the perfect tool for anyone wanting to apply makeup in a more professional way. You'll find it ideal for applying cream and liquid-type foundations, with a smooth finish and even graduation.
Z-5 Eyeshadow Brush
This eyeshadow brush has large, soft bristles - perfect for easy and smooth application of base-layer eyeshadow across the entire eyelid, and for blending eyeshadows.
Z-1 Powder Brush
This is the holy grail of powder brushes. It’s lightweight, fits in your hand like it was custom-designed just for you, and hits that sweet spot of price, performance and quality. Use it for powder, bronzer, blush... even highlighting and contouring.
Chikuhodo FO-1 Powder Brush
The FO Series is the industry's first natural makeup brush made with silver fox bristles. The softness is comparable to gray squirrel, with the strength of goat hair. Encasing the bristles is an elegant olive tinted aluminum ferrule, with a hard maple wood handle that rests smoothly in your hand.
Chikuhodo T-7 Medium Eyeshadow Brush (Takumi Series)
The Takumi series use the highest quality Saikoho goat hair, making it one of the most prestigious makeup brush series. The volume and moderate size of the bristles of this eyeshadow brush makes it ideal for even application and natural gradation across a variety of eye areas.
Chikuhodo GSN-9 Eyeshadow Brush
This eyeshadow brush is dedicated to easy, smooth application of eyeshadow by focusing on the shape of the bristle tip. Enjoy the soft, airy touch of this brush. Eyelids will brighten up in beautiful colors with this eyeshadow brush.
MK-2 Powder Brush, Maki-e Series
This seductively beautiful brush is made from high-quality squirrel hair, making it supremely soft on the skin. It’s ideal for both loose and pressed-style powders and is a wonderful brush for base coats, blending touches, and finishing powders.
Chikuhodo FO-5 Eyeshadow Brush
The industry's first natural hair brush made with silver fox hair bristles. It has the softness comparable to gray squirrel and the strength of goat hair. Enjoy the silky touch on your skin, the benefits of full, dense tips, and the earthy, sophisticated design.
Mizuho CMP527 Eyeshadow Brush
A combination of grey squirrel hair and pony hair makes this brush excel in depositing the right amount of powder every time. The bristle shape is designed to fit the eyelid perfectly.
Z-3 Contour Brush
The rounded-flat shape of the bristles of this brush, made of soft grey squirrel hair, embraces the curves of your face to create a natural and perfectly contoured look.
Koyudo Fu-pa01 Pink
The gentle touch of this brush is thanks to its densely packed, soft bristles made from Tankoho goat (even finer than Sokoho goat). It can pick up pigment very well and deposit powder evenly. Perfect for applying loose or pressed powder foundation and blush.
Z-2 Highlight Brush
Give your skin a natural, radiant glow with this highlight brush. The bristles are made from high-quality squirrel hair, so they shape naturally into a fine tip for smooth, precise application.
Chikuhodo GSN-10 Eyeshadow Brush
This soft eyeshadow brush is ideal for adding and blending colors across the lids. You'll be able to create deep and rich gradational shadow for your eye.
Chikuhodo GSN-5 Liquid Foundation Brush
This brush is the one to reach for when you need a quick and light application of foundation. The bristles are ideal for blending the foundation colors and it will help you effectively apply it, needing less amount of foundation.
Chikuhodo FO-4 Cheek/ Highlight Brush
The FO Series is the industry's first natural makeup brush made with silver fox bristles. The softness is comparable to gray squirrel, with the strength of goat hair. This versatile brush can be used for blush, highlights, and shading.
Chikuhodo T-6 Large Eyeshadow Brush, Takumi Series
This voluminous bristles of this eyeshadow brush are designed for easy, smooth application of eyeshadow over a large area of eyelid with a natural gradation.
Chikuhodo T-7 Medium Eyeshadow Brush, Takumi Series
The Takumi series are brushes of true craftsmanship. Artisans at Chikuhodo use the highest quality Saikoho goat hair, making it one of the most prestigious makeup brush series.
Z-8 Cheek Brush, $92
As one of the largest brushes in the Chikuhodo line, this unique cheek brush enables you to effortlessly apply color across your cheeks for a flattering, delicate glow.
Koyudo Saikoho Small Eyeshadow Brush, Cherry Birch Series
It uses the highest quality goat hair "Saikoho" which delivers you an extra soft feeling. Japanese Cherry Birch handle (Mizume-zakura) is also a special feature that will highlight your makeup set. Ideal for smudging liners or applying shadow along the top and lower lash line for creating a smokey effect. It creates a defined crease with pressed or loose eyeshadow pigments. The soft tip allows the right amount of product pickup to achieve a detailed eye look.
Mizuho CMP510 Foundation Brush
Versatile foundation brush that can be used for both powder and liquid foundation. Round, dense bristle made of very fine synthetic fiber offer a great balance of touch and durability. With this brush, you can create an even, thin layer of base foundation with powder, liquid and mineral foundation.
MK-12 Portable Cheek Brush
Functional and fancy, the MK-12 Cheek Brush is about the size of a tube of lipstick when retracted. This brush is ideal for applying blush and highlighter over cheekbones, adding a little radiance and definition to decolletage, and touching up T-zone throughout the day with a dust of powder foundation.
Z-9 Powder Brush
The firm, dense bristles of this powder brush are longer than those of Chikuhodo's standard brushes, which allow you to set any kind of powder flawlessly to your foundation. Look beautiful all day long.
