Good afternoon everybody!
Look at me on a roll with my blog recently. I'm actually loving blogging so much at the moment, its such a lovely little getaway from everyday life and working nine shifts in a row......(not cool).
I ended my previous blog saying that you may not see me very active here for a while because I'm working A LOT this week and then going ON HOLIIDAAAAY (excited faces all round!) next Saturday so I won't really have a lot of free time as I'll be packing and sorting last minute holiday bits and bobs before next week, but here I am anyway! Aren't you lucky little things ;)
I have a free morning today and my make up brushes are in need of a major cleaning session so I thought I'd show all of you how I go about it just as everyone has their own ways of doing it.
Firstly I'd like to say how important it is to give all your makeup brushes a wash every now and then, its actually disgusting how much bacteria and horrible things they catch on their heads and then you wipe all that over your face everyday, bleurrgh. I actually only found out how manky they can get a long time after I bought my first makeup brush (I only ever used to use one brush but now I use a lot more so THANK GOD I found out about washing them before) and cleaned it as soon as I realised the sorts of bacteria I could be putting all over my face. Having a dirty brush also causes a dirty face and then lead to spots which you use makeup and brushes to cover up and its just a vicious circle...
So these are all my brushes...
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| Looking as dirty as ever! |
I don't use a wide variety and I'm pretty sure I don't use them for all the proper job anyway!
I start off by making this little setup,
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| Please excuse the Extra chewing gum... |
I all my brushes laid out on an old flannel and then two tubs of water one or cleaning the brushes and one for rinsing them off.
I then place all the brushes into the 'cleaning tub' just to get some of the worst of the makeup off of them.
I then use my shampoo to clean the brushes. I am currently using the TRESemme deep cleansing shampoo as I find this is perfect for my ober thick hair and also is great for cleaning my brushes and making them smell lovely too.
I squirt a small amount of the shampoo onto my hand and then take a brush and swirl it around in the shampoo making small circles on the palm of my hand. Above you can see the old foundation that has come off of my brush onto my hand, it is quite messy work but the end result is worth it and it all washes off easily anyway.
Once the shampoo has got right into and between the bristles of the brush I rinse it off in the cleaning tub again, as you can see by the colour of the water this really gets all of the old foundation off the brush. I swirl the brush around in this water as well until I feel all the foundation has come off.
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| Think how much foundation and concealer we are wasting in this water, because most of it gets stuck in the brushes! boooo :( |
This is the colour of the water after cleaning ONE BRUSH. ew I know.
I change the water after every foundation/concealer brush because theres no point cleaning another brush in dirty water!
I normally use the same water for eyeshadow brushes as they don't really create as much dirt as foundation and concealer so the water isent as dirty as this anyway.
I then rinse off my brush in the 'rinsing tub.' You can see that the water is A LOT clearer than before which means the brush is clean! Wooohooooo.
If the water is still turning brown when rinsing then you probably need to repeat the whole process because the brush isent clean yet! After doing this process a few times you start to learn how much shampoo, swirling, cleaning and rinsing each brush needs and then you won't be ending up with brushes that are still dirty at the end.
So I repeat this entire process with all of my brushes (changing the water as I go along, and also washing the shampoo off my hand after every brush and using fresh) and then lay them out on something to dry. I was actually pretty stupid today as I cleaned my brushes before I have put any makeup on so I'm praying they will be dry by the time I need to put my makeup on for work.......
Thats all for today! I hope you found this post interesting or helpful in some way, and let me know your techniques for cleaning your makeup brushes and also if you recommend any makes of brushes as I'm currently looking for different brands and new types just to try them out. :)
Thanks for reading, and I'll hopefully be back sooooon.
Molly
xox
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