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Makeup brushes are very like a drawer full of fancy cutlery – there’s so many of them but you really only know what one or two are actually for. And unlike a silver service you can’t just start with the smallest one and work your way in (like who hasn’t done that at a Wedding or Swishy Event?), there are various brushes designed for a specific use in the pursuit of pixel perfection and sometimes it can be hard to know where to start. But becoming your very own makeup professional …

As Instyle magazine announces it’s best beauty buys for 2015, there are many beauty, skin and hair care addicts like myself who wait with bated breath to get the industry and professional’s nod of approval on our next batch of beauty buy ‘must-haves’. Scouring and testing hundreds of new products to market, a panel that includes professional make-up artists, hairstylists, dermatologists and industry insiders make it their business to understand the chemistry behind …