How I Wash My Makeup Brushes!

 

Hey all you beautiful people! As I promised, here's my post on how I wash my makeup brushes! This was actually requested from someone so I'm super excited to write about this. It's a pretty easy thing to do so it'll be quite a short post. I hope you enjoy it anyway.

After a long week or two of making yourself look like an absolute stunner with all your favourite makeup brushes, things tend to get a little bit.. dirty. I know that for me personally, washing my brushes are such a chore! However, it's so important. Why? You are constantly using the brushes to touch your precious and sensitive face. Every single day, it collects so much bacteria and all the chemicals from your foundations and eyes-shadows clump up in the fibers of your brushes, so it's super important to wash them. Featured above are some of the brushes that I use frequently. I'll be showing you what I love washing my brushes with, and how I do it!

Products that I use? You can always grab a makeup brush shampoo at Priceline or Sephora, but I've found that the most effective way of cleaning my brushes, is with a deep clean shampoo that I would use on my hair! Also, for any lipstick brush or mascara brush that has lots of waterproof makeup clumped up on it, Olive oil is a great way to break all of that away and give your brushes a nice shine. My personal favourite shampoo for this can simply be bought from Coles or Safeway. It's not too expensive and it definitely lasts for a while. Herbal Essences Drama Clean Shampoo [CLICK HERE]. It retails for AU$7.10 at Coles but is on sale very often so I usually stock up when it is. You can really use any Olive Oil for this. This specific one is Ginvera Light Olive Oil that I purchased in Malaysia from Guardian.

Check out this dirty lil thing. This is my Sigma F80 Flat Kabuki Brush [CLICK HERE] which is one of my absolute favourite brushes. It gives an amazing finish for any foundation. I use this baby nearly every day so it gets pretty dirty, as you can see.

 Start by running your brush under some warm water. When washing brushes, always make sure it's facing downwards so that all the dirt and grime is being washed out of the brush, rather than facing the tip of the brush toward the water. Do this just so you can get it wet enough to lather shampoo on it.

 Put a pea sized amount of shampoo on the tip of the brush and start moving it in circular motions around your palm, then.. SQUEEEEZE! After doing so, you'll start to see all the dirt and grime spill into the sink. This part may be gross but I find it quite exciting. (I'm quite strange). You may need to repeat this a few times depending on how dirty your brush is. It's really as simple as that.

 Wash the brush downwards again to rinse off all the shampoo. (Make sure you do this thoroughly!)

 Here's the end result! Its good as new haha. Depending on what brush it is, put a tiny drop of Olive oil and rinse it off to give it that extra shine. Personally, I don't like putting olive oil on my brushes that I use for foundation or eyeshadow. But I do so with brushes that are used to apply oil based makeup.

I hope this helped all of you and that you enjoyed this post!
Love you guys,
XX
KARYNENGEE

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