REVIEW: Daiso Makeup Blending Sponge

So, if you follow my blog or any of my social media, you'd know my favorite makeup tool is the blending sponge. It's just quicker and requires less effort than using a brush or my fingers. I also like that when my base is applied by a blending sponge, it's not so heavy and doesn't look cakey.

I've bought two of the Daiso Makeup Blending Sponges a month and a half ago. Each costs Php 88 only so I thought that even if they were terrible, I wouldn't feel so bad since they're so cheap. I did test them before taking them to the counter. Be careful because some of them are not as soft as the others. Afterwards, when I came home, I put them in my storage box, and completely forgot about them (I do that a lot lol).

Fast forward to the past three days and I had to break them out because my Beauty Blender grew molds! The horror! I'm not sure why or how it happened since I make sure it gets dried out in the open, sometimes, if I can watch it, I even put it out in the sun. No way was I gonna let that thing touch my face again.

Now I started using the blending sponge from Daiso. First thing I noticed about it is that it holds more water than the original Beauty Blender under the faucet. It squeezes out pretty easily though, since it's so much softer. And a hell of a lot bouncier. Just like the Beauty Blender, it doubles in size once wet.

Daiso Makeup Blending Sponge dry and wet

I can squeeze all the way through it, unlike the Beauty Blender, which is more dense. It's a little bigger too so it covers a lot more areas on my face. You can see in the photo the tip is also pointy so it's great for those little corners of the face like the sides of the nose and the under eye area.

Excuse my toddler's hand. She wanted to get into the squeezing action too lol.

One thing that I don't like about it is that it soaks up more product than the original Beauty Blender. I like a light coverage but this one tends to sheer it all out. I have to use double the product with this one. 

All in all, I think this is not a bad makeup tool. At Php 88, this is actually great.  I just find it so wasteful to buy another Beauty Blender, really, that thing is so expensive and it's just going to grow molds. I don't think it's not inevitable since the climate here in the PH is humid. I wouldn't recommend this one though if you're on a budget, because even if it's cheap, the fact that it uses more product, you'd actually be spending more. However, if you need an alternate blending sponge, this one is fabulous!