I grew up in Connecticut, where taste in paint brushes (and paint) runs toward the traditional. So I started with big oval handle paint brushes and angled trim brushes and that was that.

For an expert and artful makeup application, those tools consist of an array of brushes. The array can seem endless—and each brush may seem shockingly expensive. But you don’t need to buy ...

Blow-dry brushes may seem like a new invention, but they’ve actually been around since the ’80s. While the blow-dry brushes of the past were cumbersome, today’s iterations are more ...