hello gorgeous welcome back to my
channel one of my most requested videos
is how I clean my makeup brushes I
talked about this a lot on snapchat I've
done quite a few snap tutorials about
how I dry my brushes and I show my
drying rack and everything like that but
today I'm going to break it down for you
to show you exactly what I use to clean
my brushes and my Beautyblender give you
two different options one is a product
that you can buy it you know it's a
little bit higher end at sephora and one
you can get at your drugstore so if you
want to see how I do this then keep on
watching so times like when I'm
traveling or when I'm doing makeup for
say a wedding party or I just have short
times in between doing my makeup and I
need my brushes clean and I don't have
enough time to allow them to dry
naturally sometimes I'll just take a
makeup wipe today I'm
using my Clinique, I'm using the pep start
ones just happened to be the ones i've
been using lately and i will do a quick
clean with my brush now this
is not a thorough clean it's not gonna
get off all the dirt and bacteria but
it's going to do a quick wash of the
excess product so that I can go ahead
and use the brush later it will clean it
of excess and not completely soak the
bristles so that it will dry much faster
and although it's not perfectly clean
it's still cleaner than it was and it's
good enough for a second use tomorrow
so all I'm going to do is reshape the
bristles like so and then hang it upside down
ok so to
clean my beautyblenders I'm going to go
with warm water not really hot because I
want to burn my hands and not cold
either i want to get it just a nice warm
temperature and then what you do is you
get your beautyblenders really good and damp
so I've noticed that if my beautyblenders
are actually dry and I start to
clean them it doesn't get them as clean
as if they are completely wet and the
other thing is that if I wring them out
before I put soap on them it takes a lot
more soap to get them clean so what you
want to do is get your beautyblender as
expanded as possible and as filled
with water as possible
my favorite soap to clean my
Beautyblender and my brushes with is actually
the BeautyBlender solid it looks like
this and it comes to the little scrub
pad which comes in really handy for the
brushes I don't really use this for my
Beautyblenders I kind of feel like it's
too rough on them but for the brushes
it's fantastic and then if I'm in a
pinch I don't have any, honestly a bar of
Dove soap does only great job I feel
like you have to use a little bit more
maybe a lot more than the beautyblender
soap because the BB soap is
obviously made for that but the Dove
soap does a really great job alright so
now that this is completely filled with
water and it's totally expanded I just
take it and swirl it around on the
Beautyblender soap the solid soap and as you
can see like all of the makeup is
starting to come out and then I just
rinse it out under the running water and you
can already see it's getting much
cleaner fill it back up with water again I
kind of like to squeeze it as I'm going
to so that it will hold more water
inside and just keep swirling it around
get it good and clean
so to really get it out I kind of just
like squeeze out everything I can and I
wait to make sure that everything coming
out of the beautyblender is clean so
sometimes clean will be completely clear
if it's an older beautyblender or it
will just be running totally pink from
the dye and the actual beautyblender
itself this is a newer one well actually
both of these are so you're only going
to see you the pink coming out of it
but as you can see it's just lightly
tinted pink and it's totally clean now
and to dry them afterwards I just take a
paper towel and moosh them down to get
out the excess water so that they can
dry completely and then you get to
completely clean beautyblenders alright
so now moving on to the brushes just a
quick tip for you guys never ever ever
soak your brushes in water because this
is what will happen I thought that the
easiest way would be to make some hot
soapy water stick your brushes in the
water let them soak and then clean them
and this is the result so don't do that
learn from my mistakes don't mess with
your brushes keep them in excellent
condition like this alright so I'm going
to show you the two different soaps
for cleaning your brushes and honestly
you're going to get the same results so
dampen your brush first with I like to
use warm water swirl it around get the
soap really good inside the bristles and
then use your pad here and as you can
see all of the makeup comes off on to
the scrubbing pad depending on how dirty
my brush is, sometimes I like to repeat
this process like twice so I'll just
rinse it honestly that one time got this
one really good and clean it looks like
but after touching it I can feel there's
some product left in there I'm going to
repeat the process and yeah there's more
product in there you can tell if the suds
are like kind of tan because I think I
use this last on my paint pot my mac
paint pot in "Soft Ochre" so you can see
that shade coming out
so get it really good and clean then
rinse it and then start shaping your
brush back to the way that it's supposed
to look this is the flat shader brush
from Mac and want to save the 224 so I'm
just squeezing out the excess in the shape
it's supposed to be and then I'm
going to pop it in my drying rack to dry
so I bought this brush drying rack on
Amazon I want to say it's less
than $10.00, I will link this exact
one below for you if I can't find it
then I'll link the exact closest dupe
and it is awesome and it breaks apart
for travel into three individual pieces
this comes apart so it's really really
easy to pack up and take with you I
always put either a towel or a paper
towel underneath of it just to catch any
extra drips that might come off with
your makeup brushes that way it's
catching any excess and you're not
making a mess on your countertop
so now I'm going to show you the exact same
process using the Dove bar soap I'm
just going to swirl this around on
the Dove bar and as you can see the
excess eyeshadow is coming out from this brush
I've got my soap
really good in the bristles so I'm just
going to use my scrub pad here to get it
out if you don't scrub pad it's not
really that serious you can do this with
your fingers and get it clean
it just might take little bit longer this kind of
is a little bit of a hack or a shortcut
and you can create one of these on your own
with just any type of like acrylic board
and some dots from a glue gun then I'm
going to turn this back on to warm water
and just rinse it out and then if I need
to I can repeat the process but as you
can see this is clean now there's
nothing else coming out of this I try to
also turn the water off in between so I'm
not running too much water there we go
alright so I'm going to reshape my
brush bristles
and stick it and my drying rack to dry
the really cool thing about this rack is
that it is all different sizes you can
actually see how dirty this is from my
brushes drying. as you can see, this is very
well-loved if you can't tell but there's
different sizes for different brushes
and if you don't have a ton of bigger brushes
like me I don't really use a ton of bigger
brushes because I use a Beautyblender you
can actually double up and put several
brushes in these larger holes alright
guys so that is how I clean my makeup
brushes pretty simple pretty
straightforward I hope maybe you picked
up a tip or two most importantly don't
soak your brushes in water take a
lesson from me alright well I hope you
enjoyed this video thank you so much for
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