The £3 Brush Perfect for Mac's Soft and Gentle

This is just a quick little post about something that a lot of people may know already, however, if you didn't, it's a lifesaver and is something I only found out quite recently.

When I bought Mac's Mineralize Skinfinish in Soft and Gentle the first few times I used it it was absolutely perfect and gave the most amazing highlight, however, after a few more uses it wasn't working well for me and I felt it ended up distributing a lot of glitter onto my face. Each blog post I'd read had commented on how the product gave a glow without being glittery and so I was confused as to why mine left me looking like a four year old caught playing with craft glitter. That was until I saw a tweet (thank you random tweeter) saying how using a stippling brush with Soft and Gentle gives a much better result, so I marched upstairs, grabbed my MUA Stippling Brush from an old jam jar used to store my brushes and swirled it round the golden dome. Using this brush doesn't seem to disrupt the product as much so there isn't as much glitter that comes to the surface and, with this product, less is more and as this brush is fairly sparse it works so well. I press the brush onto the whole length of my cheekbone and then swirl it round onto the apple of my cheek and it really completes my makeup after I've contoured and applied blush.

Here I've used a tiny bit of the cream blush from Sleek's Pink Lemonade palette and Soft and Gentle on my cheekbone

I wish I knew this when I first bought Soft and Gentle as I was verging on hysterical (not really) thinking I'd wasted a lot of money on what was essentially golden glitter. Did you already know about this tip or do you find a different brush to work better?