Brush-painted mask in Afer Effects

Good afternoon,
after some online research I still cannot find how to make a very simple thing - paint a mask to an adjustment layer. I am trying to make the area under the shoe more even by using curves and painting appropriate masks for them.
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What is the easiest approach to get this done?

Not sure I have explained myself clearly. I want to even out the shadow area underneath the show - merely turn down the exposure value of brighter areas around it and bringin up the shadow area itself. Only manipulating luminosity of pixels.
I am more intrigued by masking options - is there a way to create easily nice and smooth masks via brush as it is done so often for stills in PS? I know I can use PS but once you start running into longer sequences, copying adjustments layers over tens or hundreds of frames is not sustainable.

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