'Flesh' blender wastes much less product
Following is a transcript of the film.
Nico Reyes: As we speak, I will be testing out the Leia Ultraflesh blender. It is this very odd-looking make-up applicator that is purported to not solely mix your make-up seamlessly, however use much less product, since it isn’t a sponge and it isn’t absorbing something.
I am pondering we must always do a half-face state of affairs. So we’ll do my make-up on one aspect with the Ultraflesh blender after which the opposite aspect with my common sponge, simply so we are able to actually examine and see the variations. It is purported to mimic the sensation of skin-to-skin contact. This primary sort of bumpy aspect is meant to be for really mixing the make-up, after which this clean aspect is meant for use for making use of it or stamping it onto the face. It’s weirdly gooey and really, very squishy. It has the identical texture of these, like, slappy fingers on a string from the early 2000s that you’d get at Chuck E. Cheese or one thing.
Step one is moisturizer. I ought to point out that the product order I will be utilizing is the one which they used of their video showcasing tips on how to use this. The little tiny slapping sound it makes is actually disagreeable to me. Ooh, I feel I placed on an excessive amount of. Now let’s do that aspect with my sponge. I by no means use my sponge to use moisturizer, however simply to be honest, let’s do it. The aspect that I used the Ultraflesh blender on undoubtedly feels extra slippy and perhaps like there’s nonetheless extra product on it. The aspect that I used my common sponge on feels just like the moisturizer is just about already into my pores and skin or simply again into the sponge.
The subsequent step goes to be basis. I might say that I exploit round three to 4 pumps with my common sponge on my whole face. Since I am simply doing half my face with the Ultraflesh blender and it says that it is meant to make use of 50% much less make-up, I feel I am simply going to begin off with one pump of basis and see how that appears. I am undoubtedly noticing loads of pilling of the moisturizer that I utilized, so I feel that I will really begin once more and use method much less moisturizer this time round. I might say that it would not look as melted into the pores and skin because it usually does with my sponge. I’m very pleasantly stunned that that one pump of basis really lined even this a lot. Like, I do not suppose I want so as to add extra. So, I simply moist my sponge, which additionally jogged my memory that this Ultraflesh blender would not even must be used moist, which is sort of good, ‘trigger I am unable to inform you what number of instances I’ve sat down and needed to rise up, go moist my sponge, and are available again. It is actually annoying. From what I can inform in my mirror, this aspect nonetheless appears to be like much more shiny than this aspect does. That is what I meant in regards to the sponge actually having the ability to press the make-up into the pores and skin. With the Ultraflesh blender, I really feel prefer it’s extra simply transferring product round than it’s mixing it into my pores and skin.
Subsequent is concealer. I really feel like I am in all probability most nervous to make use of the flesh blender with the concealer, as a result of I like to make use of loads of concealer, however I will attempt to restrain myself and simply use the tiniest quantity. One thing about utilizing that is simply making the make-up seem like it isn’t meshing with my pores and skin very effectively. It is simply sort of sitting there, which, I do not know if I like that. I am getting by my sponge aspect so shortly, in all probability as a result of I exploit a sponge nearly each single day. I am so used to it. I’ll say that I am nonetheless liking how my sponge aspect appears to be like greater than the Ultraflesh blender aspect.
The subsequent product is cream blush, and it says to simply dip the Leia into the product and apply it like I’ve been with the textured aspect. So simply mild tapping motions. Thus far, the entire merchandise have been layering simply high quality with out lifting something beneath. I did should dip again in for extra product with my sponge. So I am undoubtedly utilizing much less product, I simply do not know if I like how the end appears to be like.
Subsequent we’ll do bronzer. They are saying to begin on the brow, then transfer to the cheeks and apply no matter is left over on the nostril and chin. Each side are trying actually good to me. I feel the extra product I exploit with the Ultraflesh Blender is making it look higher one way or the other. Each side are beginning to look much more even and equal.
Contour is subsequent, and this one will get utilized just a little bit in another way. I will apply the product on the again of my hand and use the graceful aspect to sort of stamp it onto the areas the place I need to contour, after which change over to the textured aspect to mix all of it in. Now we’re working into some issues, as a result of after I was mixing that contour in, it undoubtedly lifted the merchandise beneath. I do not know what I did in another way this time or what occurred. My strain was the identical as I have been doing this whole time. That is actually disappointing, ‘trigger I used to be actually beginning to love the way it was trying on this aspect, and now it is simply all tousled, and I am unhappy.
The final product we’ll apply is highlighter, and it says to make use of the pointed finish of the Ultraflesh blender to use it to the cheekbone.
I actually did not have the best hopes for the Leia Ultraflesh blender to start with, however then it began to work nice, after which all of it simply went downhill, and I do not know why. I did point out just a few instances that I assumed that the merchandise seemed like they had been sitting on high of my pores and skin as a substitute of soaking in. So perhaps as soon as I obtained in the direction of the tip, it lifted all of that off. I feel general I’ve to say that I desire my sponge.
