I am super excited which at this point I think it’s obvious its easy to get me excited. I randomly found these little beauties when I was picking up prescriptions at Walgreens. I always make my way through the seasonal aisle to see what cute things I can pick up and the packaging caught my eye. With tons of multicolored sprinkles on clear packaging, the blending sponges all range in bright colors made to look like ice cream scoops sitting on top of a printed ice cream cone. So at $2.99 a piece I picked one up.
There are a lot of hit or miss blending sponges on the market these days and now we are seeing the sili-sponges flying out as well. I still have yet to try those. It took me a good two weeks before I tried the new Blending Swirl sponge. Every time I went to do my makeup I got too nervous that the sponge would ruin my face. I mean for $2.99 you don’t expect much, am I right?
I decided to finally give this a little run through last Friday when I was getting ready. I started my base with airbrush and wanted to use my Tarte Shape Tape concealer for extra perfection and coverage. Now if you don’t work the makeup the correct way your traditional cosmetic can pull the airbrush makeup right off of your skin. So you can see this could go horribly wrong. I laid my concealer down where I wanted in the way and amount I normally would and started to blend.
I found the Creme Shop blending sponge to be incredibly easy to use. With very light bounces of the sponge it blended everything out quick and easily. I was really surprised. My immediate thought was I need to go buy all of the sponges that are left at Walgreens! I actually really like these sponges. It has a texture that I imagine is similar to the sili-sponge. It definitely has a more dense texture than any blending sponge that you are used to. I find that to be a good thing. The sponge itself has very little absorbency. One tip I can give after using this a few times now, is to use a very small amount of product. With very little absorbency the sponge just blends the product out with little be soaked up. There was just enough absorbency to soak up water to expand the sponge and for cleaning. This is in comparison to the Beauty Blender and the Real Techniques sponge. Having a teardrop shape I was also easily able to get all the areas of my face.
Listen I’m not going to sit here and tell you this is the best blending sponge out there or it will work miracles on your face. I liked it. I am definitely going to go back to Walgreens and see how many more I can score, for $2.99 yes please! I’m just saying, I didn’t really have any cons for this sponge myself and I suggest giving it a try!
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