Thread: First Brush: Recommend a good Silvertip?

There is a huge difference in best to silvertip (in my oppinion), I find that best tends to be stiff and sometimes rather prickly, a good silvertip is soft yet firm and no spikes (spikes being stiff pointy hairs). If you have the opportunity to feel the brush in a store first then do that as some "silvertip" aren't all that great I remember buying one a year or two ago that was so prickly that I may as well have used my old badge hair brush (I promptly returned that brush with a complaint).

As for price I wouldnt say you need to spend $500 but if you want a quality silvertip for the most part I would suggest buying a brush from a reputable brand for around $90-$130, though I have only baught a few brushes so maybe someone with more experience in this field would be better at suggesting a brand/price range.

The problem about suggesting brushes is that no matter what other people say or recomend its all down to prefference, I think there are a few members who baught silvertips but found that they preffered a stiffer bristle so they switched back to super or best. Size is the same way, I personaly like a mid ranged brush, of around 24mm with a medium length, as it produces a good quantity of lather yet leaves room to manuver on my face, unlike the larger brushes where I find its like painting a model car's detail with a 4" brush, in other words just blob it on and hope it worked, and small brushes have lots of control but I find producing lather more time consuming. Its realy all down to what you want, sometimes you just have to try out a few before you find one you like.

Hope this helps.