Anti-Bacterial

I started to clean my make-up brushes the other night and I thought, why not blog it! There may still be some out there that are unaware of the importance of keeping your brushes clean, so this is for you. I admit for the longest time I did not clean my brushes because I didn’t know that I was supposed to. But now I do about once a week (depending on how much I had used my brushes that week). I have been using this method for cleaning my brushes for a while and haven’t really tried anything else because it so easy and affordable and I never run out of the ingredients.

What you need is dawn soap and extra virgin olive oil ( the antibacterial soap is to kill the germs and the oil is to prevent you brush bristles from drying out)

Next Rinse you brushes in luke warm water (hold them upside down!!)

 then begin gently swirling them around on your dish.  Once I get enough soap on them I rub them with my hand then rinse until I don’t see any more makeup coming out of them. For your really dense foundation brushes you may have to repeat.



eww look at all that make-up

It is very important to hold the brushes upside down because you don’t want any water settling in the where the bristles are. It can loosen the glue that hold the brush on the handle causing the handle to eventually slide off over time.

Once you have rinsed and cleaned all you brushes you need to find a place for them to dry. DON’T I repeat don’t lay them on the side, this is for the same reason I wrote about earlier, you can loosen the glue if water settles in the wrong place.  So they need to dry upside down. I usually just get a paper towel and set my larger brushes on there upside-down and if you lean them against something they can dry that way. Make sure you smooth you bristles with your fingers it they look frizzy and spread apart from the water and you don’t smooth them down nicely or they will dry looking spread apart and funky. If I’m confusing you just look closely at the pics of my foundation brushes.



And for my smaller brushes because they can’t hold themselves up I had to get a little creative. You can’t just set them in a cup because the bristles will dry bent so they have to be suspended.  2 rubber bands, 2 straws, and one cup later, TA-DAA!!!! The brush dryer!!! Creative yea?

Lol I know this isn’t the most fabulous way to dry brushes but it's been working for me. I do eventually plan on purchasing Sigma’s “dry N’ shape” but until then ……

So anyway I suggest you do all this before bed it will take hours for you brushes to dry especially the foundation/kabuki brushes they are all nighters.  

A few more words of advice for the days that you don’t clean you brush purchase a daily brush cleaner to kill the germs!! And pour your liquid foundation onto either a make-up plate, or the back of your hand. Pouring directly onto your brush will make them super hard to clean because the foundation will be stuck inside the center of the bristles, and dipping the brush inside the bottle of foundation transfers bacteria into you foundation bottle. Eeek!!!

Hope you've enjoyed todays post. have a good day!