Clean Brushes = Better And Healthier Application

Hello everyone =)

I'd like to take a moment and talk about cleaning your makeup brushes. I myself have been struggling when it comes to properly cleaning my brushes. I didn't want to spend money on special cleaners and so I tried the method that I saw on youtube - mix extra virgin olive oil and a detergent so stuff you have lying around in your kitchen. I tried it several times but I hated that method. Not only that it takes a lot of time to clean more brushes, I felt like I couldn't get them reeeally clean... The other thing is that the drying process takes forever and the brushes then were a little fluffier and didn't dry into their original shape and a lot of bristles fell out while cleaning and rinsing. I know I don't have the best quality brushes but I it kinda surprised me..

So I decided to go for the more expensive method but it works amazing for me.

I now use the Sephora Daily Makeup Brush Cleaner. I only do one spray for each side of the brush, then I go with the brush on my paper towel to remove the pigments from eyeshadows, eyeliner or anything else I had on my brush. If the brush is really dirty, eyeshadows are easier to clean, thicker consistencies like gel liners are a little harder, obviously, I use another spray of the cleaner. Then I let them dry on the paper towel like that and they are dry in maybe an hour or so, very quickly.
The brushes are very soft and amazing to use then. Mostly I was surprised with how my angled brush felt when I was doing my eyebrows. It was like new.

This bottle contains 60 ml of products so I'm a little afraid that if I don't find another method, it might get a little expensive. But this is the best method I've used so far. I used to use baby wipes for a long time but this works a lot better. You get rid of all the pigments and bacteria and your brushes really do feel like they're new.

You probably ask how often you should do this. I try to clean the brushes that i use every day almost everyday. I mostly don't do eyeshadows if I'm in a hurry so the only brushes that I use are my angled brush for eyebrows and angled blush brush for contouring. You should clean the other brushes mostly when you need to use them for another color. But every week or two, I like to clean all the brushes that I used in that period of time, it depends on how much I've been using my brushes. The pic on the top is from a week ago or so when I did a bigger cleaning, I took all of the brushes that I like using the most and cleaned them.

I know this is not probably going to help a lot of you because it's always easy to just buy a cleaner and not deal with alternative methods, I just wanted this article to remind you that you SHOULD clean your brushes =) I know it's something that a lot of us put off doing and I don't blame you, I forget/get lazy myself :D

That's all from me now,
I hope you're having a great day =)
Lena