By Holly Sosa
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I’ve been getting more into makeup in recent years. I love to play with it and create fun looks. For several years, I applied most of my makeup with my fingers. Knowing what I know now, that horrifies me, ha! The power of a good makeup brush is unmatched when it comes to makeup application, but it’s important to keep all my tools clean to ensure they’re working to their full potential.
It’s important to keep makeup brushes clean for a number of reasons. The most important is for sanitation. A dirty brush can cause breakouts and even spread bacteria. Typically, I clean my makeup brushes once every other week since I don’t wear makeup every single day. If I was using them daily, I’d clean them once weekly.
To clean my makeup brushes, I keep things simple with baby shampoo. I use a simple mixture of warm water and roughly a half a tablespoon of baby shampoo.
I dip each brush in the mixture gently, swishing slightly to ensure it gets soapy.
Next, I gently run the brush in circular motions over the palm of my hand in the sink, rinsing as the makeup washes out.
I repeat the process until the makeup no longer comes out onto my hand and the water runs clear.
To dry, I prop my brushes up, bristles down, over a paper towel. Doing it this way help to ensure that the water drains away from the glue holding the brush fibers in place, which could cause the brush to break or bristles to fall out.
I allow my brushes to dry for a good 24 hours before using them again.
If you’re a finger applicator when it comes to makeup, you really must try using makeup brushes (I use this set from e.l.f. cosmetics). For most beauty lovers, it’s a given, but I never knew what a huge difference they made until I tried one for myself. Now I’ll never go back to using my fingers and am a loyal brush user and lover.
How do you clean your makeup brushes? Do you have any tried and true techniques? Let’s chat brushes in the comments below.
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