Burberry Beauty Brush

a little Burberry wave is spreading in the german blogosphere (at least it reached me :P). after drooling over Maria's awesome Burberry haul over at Lipstick Love and seeing Me at Innen&Aussen followed her by purchasing some blusher and lipstick, i also couldn't hold back myself since the conditions seemed so nice ;)
because Burberry Cosmetics appeared a bit basic and boring to me at first glance, i never looked further into their line. so i didn't know that they had an online shop in germany and even sold their beauty assortment on there, i thought it was only available in a few bigger department stores or niche beauty shops here.
normally i wouldn't get tempted to order anything from the online shop when the delivery costs are 20€, but for any reason they offer free shipping these days (don't know until when) so we all took the chance to try something from this rather unknown (beauty-)brand.
while the other girls tried the blushes and lippies, brush-addicted like i am of course i would get curious about this product type first. unfortunately Burberry only offers this one brush in their range yet (i saw a brush-preview on Café Makeup with a lot of great ones a while ago, but they don't seem to be available by now - btw, SO sad that Café Makeup closes it's doors :( i wish those fabulous beauties the best for the future, though!). and because the few reviews i found on it all were very positive, my choice was made and i went for the Burberry Beauty Brush ;)
this little sucker cost me 45€, luckily the shipping was free. and it was the fastest delivery i have ever experienced in my whole online-beauty-shopper-career ;) i ordered almost 4pm on a bank holiday and received my order via UPS less than 20h later at 9am the next morning. wow.
and because i was so amazed with their service, i have already orderd two more blushes from Burberry in the meantime (you know i also can't resist blushes :)).
the products come in a super chic looking bag with a black bow, even the invoice had it's own classy envelope haha.

the brush itself has a little velours-pouch that's like a mini brush roll. it's a stubby kabuki-type brush with a square shiny anthracite metal foot  and the Burberry emblem engraved in it.

the goat brush hairs are rather loosely packed in comparison with a "real" kabuki, but this brush is originally made to serve as a multipurpose tool for the perfect application of all the "Glow" products by Burberry (this includes blushes and bronzers, but of course you could also apply every pressed or loose face powder with it).
the bristles are soft and made of a good blend with mostly natural ending hairs. it feels smooth when swept on my skin, however it's still uncomparable to the softness of squirrel hair and feels a bit rough when patted on. it's soft like my MAC kabukis (a bit softer than the 182, same softness as 181) and a lot softer than the Edward Bess Luxury Face Brush. it's more similar to the EB brush in function because both are rather loosely packed/quite fluffy.
the Burberry Beauty Brush washes nicely although it bled quite a bit of dye while the first wash. it only lost <10 hairs until now and dries quickly without loosing the shape.

pre wash

post-wash

here you can see the delicate natural ending hairs.

my only complaint is about the handle: it feels very light what i don't like. i think they should have packed a little weight in there so it would lay better in your hand. also the edge of the ferrule is quite harsh, this should've been sanded for such an expensive brush. next is how the brush it put into this handle: it's round at the bottom, then attached into this frame-like square handle but is not square-packed. so if you squeeze the hairs to the side, there is a little gap between brush hair and handle. looks not so good. moisture could easily collect in there after each wash, cutting down the longevity of your brush. also you could probably scratch yourself with one of the edges when you apply a powder product heavily, buffing it in. all this didn't happen to me, but i worry it could.

the harsh edge & the gap :/

otherwise i still enjoy this brush. i use it to apply my loose setting powder but also for bronzer. because the goat hair is stiffer than squirrel hair, it's great to buff in shimmery bronzers so that you get more of the bonzey glow effect instead of all over shimmer. i like to use it with the Guerlain Terra Inca.

in comparison to some other natural hair kabuki-type brushes:

MAC 182 - Burberry Beauty Brush - MAC 181 - Edward Bess Luxury Face Brush

MAC 182 - Burberry Beauty Brush - MAC 181 - Edward Bess Luxury Face Brush