Review (4/5): 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.
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.
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.
I will dock my rating one star for the following:
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.
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.