First, get your not clean brush:
Then get your brush cleaner. I read somewhere once that you can use baby shampoo and after trying it out, I found it works great. I also like that I can buy the travel size bottle of it since it is cost effective and doesn't take up much space. I pour a small blob into a paper bathroom cup.
Then I fill the cup 3/4 full with water and stir vigorously with the make-up brush. Try using a whisking motion for best results.
Rinse out your brush.
Straighten the bristles out if they are messy and let the brush dry! A toothbrush holder works great for thin handled brushes (which for me includes all but my face powder brush).
Now your brush is clean! This does not work well with super cheap versions of synthetics (I lost my costuming face powder brush finding this out) but any quality brush should have no problems.
Hm, what should be done with the cheap ones then?
ReplyDelete(I just got my first cosmetic brush, a lip brush -- haven't tried it out yet, but thinking ahead is cool.)
Well you can always try washing it once it gets gunky. I would just suggest a whisking motion and making sure to not smush the brush on the bottom of the cup.
ReplyDeleteSince a lip brush is so tapered there is a good chance this will work. What lip brush did you get? I've been try to find a cheap one for a while now.
Ah, I see. The one I got was actually a little three-buck dealio off Etsy, so no brand to evaluate that I know of!
ReplyDeleteAh. I try to buy my brushes in person to get a feel for them. Let me know how cleaning it goes and how the brush performs! If it does good then I will totally look into getting one (since I need a lip brush).
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