Washing your brushes is so important. If you think about it, there is so much dirty makeup, oil and bacteria trapped in an unclean brush, and if you don't wash them properly your just rubbing that all back into your skin! ew!
All those fancy brush cleansers can be really expensive to repurchase over and over again. This technique is used by oil painters and artists to keep their brushes in perfect condition and it works perfectly on your own make up brush too.
These items can be found in your own home so basically you don't need to buy anything! score!
What you will need
A plate
A basic type of dish soap, i'm using fairy liquid. This is to disinfect and cleanse
Extra virgin olive oil (to recondition the bristle hair after its been stripped of oils and disinfected by the soap)
Brush guard
A cup
Step 1
Put the washing up liquid and extra virgin olive oil onto a plate, don't worry if both the liquids touch just don't mix them.
Step 2
Dip the brush into the fairy liquid and rub on the palm of your hand under cold water, hot water will make the brush hairs brittle and the glue that holds them together melt.
Step 3
After you have removed the fairy liquid from your brush, rub it into the oil then massage it in with your fingers and wash off under cold water.
Step 4
dab your brush down with a towel. Don't rub at it as it will make the hairs frizzy.
Step 5
If your serious about the condition of your make up brushes invest in good brush guards. Place your brushes in to the guards and place upside down in a cup. Make sure these are upside down as if they are the right way up the excess water from the brush will go inside the handle of the brush and weaken the glue the hairs are attached by, causing your brush head to fly off mid make up application.
I recommend these
get cleaning!
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