Beautiful horsehair brush
This brush is definitely horsehair. I was comparing it to the Vie Long website, and it looked like a mix brush, but this is 100% horse hair.<br /><br />The handle is beautiful acrylic. The picture doesn't do it much justice. But the bottom half of the handle is clear with what looks like a white cloud or fog swirls. The upper half is a dark red blood like color. Sitting the brush upside down on a brush stand with the light shining on it really brings out the colors. tl, dr; the brush handle is pretty.<br /><br />The hair is horse hair, so there's not much else to say about that. It's soft like a badger and the bristles are strong like a boar. So the brush handles like a well broken in omega brush.<br /><br />I will dock my rating one star for the following:<br />1.) the brush stinks. Stinks worse than a brand new boat brush. Maybe I've been spoiled by Simpsons and Semogue brushes. But this one stunk something mighty.<br />2.) the bristles are brittle. I'm serious. If you hold the brush, it looks like a boar so you abuse it like one, then you'll have a bad time. The bristles are brittle and squishing the hairs like a boar and badger and the hairs will break. The brush demands a paint brush motion rather than swirling.
Rating: 4 stars