Hands up who loves clean makeup brushes? Now keep your hands up if you wash them regularly- I'm talking, like, weekly. Oh, not so many hands now huh?
Yeah, I'm a bugger for not washing mine very regularly, you know the whole *I'll wash them this weekend when I'm off* however we all know that it never comes around. A fresh makeup brush makes the world of difference when it comes to applying your makeup, but we just make do without I guess.
Anyway, so when I finally do get round to cleaning my brushes, I like it to be very quick, easy and simple. I don't want to be hanging over the sink for hours on end and that is how I came across this effective way of cleaning by brushes that takes very minimal effort to do!
So firstly, I tend to turn down my water because I like to let it run the entire time and water that is too hot can ruin your brushes, making them fall apart or brittle.
Next up, I take a silicon oven glove (I got mine off eBay for roughly £2!), I wet the brush and then I pop a 10-pence-piece-sized dollop of baby shampoo (the one that I'm using is just Sainsburys own) on to the mitt and, taking my first brush, I swirl it around in circles, running it under the water several times. I repeat this until the water runs clear and then pop it onto a towel to dry.* Carry on going through your collection of brushes until they are nice and clean.
*For the towel, roll one side up and make sure that the brush ends are facing that way (so that they are on a downward slant) so that the water runs out of the bristles and not down into the handle as it can, again, make the brush fall apart.
I also added the hand sanitiser on here as I like to make sure that I use this the whole way through, just because I tend to squeeze the excess water out of the brushes before re-shaping them and popping them on the towel to dry (and what's the point in rubbing dirty hands over your now-pristine brushes?!).
Do you have any extra tips for me?!
xxx