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Original Sponge.

Beauty Blender Original Sponge

About this product

A makeup sponge designed for blending and applying foundation, concealer, and other liquid or cream products for a smooth finish.

The Guru Index verdict

73%

Approved

Approved · 73%
4Reviewers
3Approved
0Mixed
1Skip

What the gurus are saying

Gurus acknowledge the Beauty Blender's historic importance in establishing the beauty sponge category, but current opinions are mixed. The sponge works well initially, though reviewers report durability issues: foam breaks down with cleaning, black specks appear as it degrades, and longevity ranges from six months to a year. Some find the current formula thicker and less effective than expected or than generic alternatives, making the premium price feel unjustified to those disappointed with recent quality.
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What the gurus are saying.

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Approved
"I know even at half off, $10 seems like a lot for a sponge, which it is, but there is something special about the original beauty blender sponge. There's a lot out there, but I wanted to throw it out there if you guys are also like me and you know that there's just something special about the original beauty blender. I love that it will be 50% off. It's a great time to stock up if you're a makeup artist or whatever."
All 2 takes from Allie Glines
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"If you do not have this in your routine and you want to make your powders look better you need a beauty sponge. This one's the original Beauty Blender. You can obviously use this for all your cream products too which is so nice, but you guys know I love to use a sponge after powder and I feel like it really makes the biggest difference."
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"I know even at half off, $10 seems like a lot for a sponge, which it is, but there is something special about the original beauty blender sponge. There's a lot out there, but I wanted to throw it out there if you guys are also like me and you know that there's just something special about the original beauty blender. I love that it will be 50% off. It's a great time to stock up if you're a makeup artist or whatever."
Approved
"I'm actually going to use a damp sponge to apply this. This is a new one from Beauty Blender. I just thought, you know what, it just works."
Skip
"I used to get a lot of uses out of these like sometimes these would keep going after like a year but the last time I went to use this one I was all ready for the day and I look in the mirror and there's black specks all over my face which is from this degrading that was a bummer. Usually these last forever I don't know if it was something with the color or something but yeah these are normally kind of expensive."
All 4 takes from No BS Beauty
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"An old beauty blender. I replaced it with a new one that I got from TJ Maxx. They last a long time, but the more you start to clean them, some of the foam starts to kind of break apart. I used this one for probably a year, though. Maybe six months, maybe a year. So, I would say that's a good outcome for that."
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"I used to get a lot of uses out of these like sometimes these would keep going after like a year but the last time I went to use this one I was all ready for the day and I look in the mirror and there's black specks all over my face which is from this degrading that was a bummer. Usually these last forever I don't know if it was something with the color or something but yeah these are normally kind of expensive."
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"My other generic beauty blender was just much better. It didn't absorb as much product and it felt like it had a more natural finish. I picked up two of these and it's disappointing. I don't remember beauty blenders being this thick. I was instantly disappointed even getting these on sale. I could have got the generic and probably got 10 of the generic ones and I like the generic ones better. They just don't soak up as much product. They feel fluffier, they absorb more water. I don't get it."
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"I got a beauty blender sponge online when it was on sale the other day and that thing is just, compared to this one, it's terrible. I thought beauty blenders were like the best sponge but that one just all it does is soak up product. I had much better luck with this one."
Approved
"When Beauty Blender came out with their Beauty Blender, the beauty sponge, it changed the game. It changed the makeup game for everyone. People went wild for it. Professionals, non professionals, everyday consumers, everyday makeup wearers."
All 3 takes from Robert Welsh
The DownFall Of Beauty Blender | have they become irrelevant?
"Beauty Blender revolutionized, quite literally, the beauty sponge. They revamped something that was considered quite old fashioned and from the 90s, from the 80s even, and kind of made everybody want to use it. They gave a whole different technique, finish, a whole different way to do makeup using a sponge. They made such an impression on the beauty industry as a whole that Beauty Blender has become a blanket statement for all makeup sponges. The term 'beauty blender' didn't exist until Beauty Blender came out. Like Sellotape, Hoover, Chapstick, Biro. You know what I mean? Those are brand names, but you use them to describe everything."
The DownFall Of Beauty Blender | have they become irrelevant?
"Beauty Blender made such an impression on the beauty industry as a whole that Beauty Blender has become a blanket statement for all makeup sponges. Lately, things don't seem to be as revolutionary for Beauty Blender as they used to be. There were a few slip ups along the way that maybe made them not the experts in something like they used to be. They were the experts in makeup tools, and then they tried to go into other stuff and made themselves the least in certain categories. Other brands have kind of stolen their shine a little bit with their own product."
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"When Beauty Blender came out with their Beauty Blender, the beauty sponge, it changed the game. It changed the makeup game for everyone. People went wild for it. Professionals, non professionals, everyday consumers, everyday makeup wearers."
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