Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me. So today what we are
going to be taking a look at is cleaning our makeup brushes. Now, a lot of people
ask me how to do this and there have been a lot of things I've seen online,
some great techniques, some not so great. The goal of cleaning our brushes is
to get them clean but at the same time we also want to make sure we don't ruin
them, or break them, or set them up for, you know, decaying or eroding. We want to
make sure that our tools that we use for our makeup are super clean but also
going to last us a long time. Brushes can be very expensive if you go for very,
very good quality ones. So I have a few brushes we're going to look at today
with a few different products on, a few different densities as well. And we're
going to look at how to deep clean those brushes. But just before we get into that
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cleaning brushes. Why is cleaning your brushes so important? First of all,
I know it's like something that we're like, oh I should get around to doing
that and then we kind of never do, you know. But it is something that is
extremely, extremely important. There are so many different things that can happen
to your makeup and also to your skin if you don't clean your brushes correctly. I
didn't know what I was gonna say then. Let's talk about makeup first. Have you
ever put a brush into a product and you've
realized that it's kind of, the product's getting hard in places or you're getting
this layer on top of your product? That can come from oils that have gathered in
your makeup brushes from your skin, and then you're putting that back into the
product. This is easily fixable by just scraping off, you know, the top layer or
you can use tape to take it off as well, I prefer
the scraping way. But if you think about a makeup brush and what it does, so say
for example a foundation brush right, let's take this one. This is a brush that
I use for foundation, I really prefer a stubby really dense brush, I think you
get a better blend and a fuller coverage. But say I use this for foundation which
I have, and I leave it overnight, use it again, leave it overnight, use it again.
you know. It's going to start to get a lot of bacteria within the brush. Now,
it's important to deep clean these brushes because it is going on your face.
I know that seems really basic and really obvious. But the things that can
happen to your skin when you don't clean your brushes properly is not worth not
cleaning your brush properly. There are ways to clean a brush that are quick,
that can dry quicker as well, and there are ways where we can give them a deeper
clean to make sure that we are getting rid of all that crap that is living in
this brush. Now, these are my own personal brushes. In my professional kit, those
brushes get cleaned instantly after use, like quickly. And that is because it's
kind of a health and safety thing, right. Like you wouldn't use a lipstick, pass it
to a stranger, and then use the same one because of bacteria, and we all know now
how quickly things can spread, right. So we really, really want to make sure that
everything is hygienic instantly in a professional setting, and
that includes everything. So why not with your own brushes? I know it's your own
face but come on. And then we also think, you know, some of these brushes go around
your eyes, they go around your mouth, maybe accidentally in your mouth, I don't
know what you're doing with your brushes. So let's give these brushes a nice deep
clean. Okay, the first brush, let's talk about
the foundation brush I showed you. What I'm going to do with this to make sure
that it's completely clean and really, really clean. Because these can be a
little bit difficult because they are stubbier, we really want to get that kind
of deep, deep cleanse in this one. And we want to get in between all those
hairs that are really tightly compact. With this brush in particular, I'm
actually going to start with this one, this will be my first makeup brush I
would clean because what I want to do is keep an eye on the water and see how
dirty it is, and see how clean it gradually gets. I personally really like
to use those brush cleaning pads that you can put down and kind of, you know,
like gently wipe away the dirt. And it kind of gives that gentle... I want to
say exfoliation but it's not really, it's almost like a gentle scrub that helps to
really get rid of that dirt. Foundation as well, especially if it's like a white
brush, foundation will stain of course. So to start with I like to use warm water,
we're not using anything boiling or too hot because what we don't want to do is
get this area too hot. Everything that's keeping your hairs in place and even at
the height they are, is in this little bit here. We don't get inside here wet, we
don't want to get it warm. We want to keep it ideally as the state it is now.
So I will always be washing my brushes from this angle. So I have a sink, I have
some warm water. Now, I'm very sensitive to heat so I personally just like to
fill it up to a warmth that I'm like, this would be nice if it was a bath, you
know? Not too hot, not sauna, not jacuzzi. We're thinking baby bath, right.
So my sink isn't, isn't swimming water but we have enough water in there. What
I'm gonna do is put shampoo directly into this sink. So I basically want to
start with getting rid of all that surface color and dirt that we can see. So
what I'm not gonna do is completely submerge my brush in water, I'm gonna
almost like take from... I imagine like the pad to be like
the beach right, and then the water to be like the shore, and we're just gonna dip
our feet into that water and keep hopping
backwards and forwards to the water, back into the sand, if that makes sense? And
start to gradually get rid of that dirt. Once I see all that kind of like surface
foundation, surface makeup is completely gone, what I'm then gonna do is I'm gonna
put the smallest, smallest amount of shampoo directly into my hand,
and I'm just gonna hold my brush on top like this, and I'm going to use my
fingertips to push. I'm not... you don't want to push like up into like
this but I'm going to push very gently into the areas where maybe foundation is
still on the brush. So I'm going to really, really make sure I'm getting into
all those little pieces, pieces? All those little areas, and almost massaging into
the brush. Not going this way remember, we don't want any water, anything to get
down into here. Then I'm going to go back into my beach and the shore method, you
know. And then rinse, rinse the rest of that off. With my fingers like this, I'm
going to kind of just wring out the water, I don't want to squeeze too much
because I don't want to push any water up here. I just want to gently pull
forwards like this. I then personally like to have another bowl of water just
next to me where I will rinse any shampoo or anything like that off the
brush. Then I will leave it to dry on the edge
of something, laying like this. Or, if you have
a tool where you can hang your brush upside down, that's perfect as well. We
don't want to leave it up like this, we don't want the water traveling down
into the ferrule right here where all the glue is, and where everything's holding
this brush together. So that's somewhat of a deeper clean. If you want to do more
of a gentle clean, say you just have like blush on a brush. You can literally just
go from the water to the pad, water to the pad. If you don't have like a
cleaning pad like this, something that is very slightly textured is absolutely
fine to use also. You can use like one of those color switch things is a good idea.
I personally, if you have like a Dollar store near you, or a Primark, or a Pound
shop, get one of those hair donuts. They're a little bit harsher but if
you're very gentle you can, you can just be very gentle with it but do exactly
the same thing. A brush like this where I haven't stained it too much with color and
it's more of a powder product, it's going to clean a lot easier, so that should
really, really give you no trouble. And it's... this one isn't dense in any
way at all as well, it's very, very soft and fluffy
so that's going to clean super, super easy. Same with things like your fan
brushes. Big, big powder brushes like this tend to clean very easily as well. But
let's say perhaps you use a product that's completely waterproof. Let's
say it's like a cream eyeshadow that sets really hard. Or maybe you've used a
brush to do a liquid lipstick or an eyeliner or
something that you know is just gonna be like, you look at that brush you're
like, okay that's, that's set hard and now I need to clean it. Now you can use
makeup removing oil to clean these brushes but let's be super, super careful
okay. So you can use like a cleansing balm or makeup remover oil, the smallest,
smallest amount. And you need to be in control of this the whole time, so use
like a tiny, tiny pool in your hand here. Do the smallest amount, and gently put
the brush into that product. Now remember, let's not go like this, and let's not go
crazy because we definitely do not want oil getting into the ferrule here because
that's going to break down the glue, and your brush is going to be ruined. I had a
brush once that I loved. I love, love, loved it. I don't know what happened because I'm
good at cleaning my brushes... oh, I'm not good at cleaning my brushes, when I clean
them, my own personal ones, I'm like just get them clean. It started to, something
happened where the hairs were coming out but also the brush was losing its, its
shape as the hair started to get looser and looser. Some were coming up, some some were,
you know... staying in place. And it was just the
strangest brush, and I really miss it. I think it's discontinued as well.
But that's why you have to be careful, everyone. Be careful with that oil. It can
be difficult to remove these kind of products just using shampoo or your
brush shampoo, whatever it is you're using. Washing up liquid, whatever it is
you have. So after the oil cleanse part, I will then go back to my normal method of
cleaning brushes. And then hopefully all that color is gone. You can repeat the oil
part but the brush kind of... it's better if the brush is dry because once that oil
hits the water it emulsifies and doesn't... it isn't as great as it was, you know. Do
bear in mind as well that depending on the brush you've used, and in what
product you use, your brush is more than likely going to be stained, and that's it.
This green one for example, I used this in some green body paint,
and I just know that it's gonna be forever green. However, as long as I know
it's clean and no green is coming off when I wipe it on a tissue for example,
or a white cloth, then I know that is clean from that green product, and clean
enough to then reuse. I have many brushes that have been stained by pink, purple,
red. The color doesn't bother me as long as they work and they are clean. So after
I've done this, like I said, you can lay them all flat on.... a towel is a good one.
Leave them overnight to dry. There are certain products that I really love that
you can leave them to dry on as well, I can link those below for you. And they
kind of ensure that you're laying your brush down rather than leaving them the
wrong way around, and that they're gonna dry, air dry nicely as well. Before
you place your brushes down to dry, do you remember to kind of just gently
squeeze your brushes, almost back into shape. You don't want them to spread out,
you don't want them to dry spread out. So just very gently squeeze them. It gives your
brushes almost that shape back and they will dry in a much nicer shape. Once they
are dry in the morning you, can gently buff them on like a towel, and they'll go
back to their nice normal shape. So there are a few things as well that I would
recommend not doing when it comes to cleaning your brushes. I think we have
all seen... and don't get me wrong, some people love these, I personally don't
like them because I had a bad experience with them.
Those brush cleaning like tools, right, where you have the bowl that looks like a
mini fishbowl, or like a mini coffee thing you get in like a pancake
house. And then, though... that machine where you stick the brush in and you turn it
on and it spins, spin, spins your brush. I really don't like them. I...
I worked with someone once and they were like, oh use my cleanser thing. This was
in a salon. I was like, oh I've never used this let me try it. Stuck my brush
in one, used it, completely ruined my brush. The hairs were spread out like
this, and that was the brush done, it never went back to its normal shape even after
I'd cleaned it myself and tried to reshape it. I used one of those net mesh things
that go over. And I feel like it took longer to then get the brush, put it in,
spin, spin, take it out, then change the, the
size because they were different... of the extensions for a brush this big or a
brush this big, you know. So personally for me, I felt like that took a
really long time. And when I start cleaning my brushes I just want to get
my brushes done, we all know it's not exactly a fun task. Something I'm
extremely guilty of...
... and I've definitely done is leave my brushes over
radiators. I've done it, and you know what, I probably still will do it. Is it bad
for my brushes? Yes. But if I haven't... say I'm gonna do a job or something and I, I'm
just like, oh crap I haven't cleaned my brushes. If I need them to be dry for the
next day, more than likely I will do that. That is an emergency example. The reason I
wouldn't do that is because of the heat, of course, getting to the metal part of the
brush. Does it work? Sure. Should you do it?
I'm saying no but, but... [Laughter]
Do not throw your brushes into a sink full of water, you don't want to get the
handle of this wet. Again, one by one, patience. Do not put them in the washing
machine or tumble dryer please, please, please.
We've all seen, have you seen that TikTok? Where the person's like washing
them in like, I think she's like, oh it's just like a soup. Don't soup your
brushes, don't soup your brushes. And then they all go into this pillowcase. And
they throw them in the tumble dryer, and it just, I just... you know what, it probably is
quick but your brushes are going to last you, like what? Three or four months after
that. When you're cleaning your brushes also, I know we really want to give them
a deep clean but do make sure you're not pushing like this. This goes for like
applying products as well. You don't want to push, push down. What you're going to
do is start to push the hairs almost back on themselves, it's almost like
you're going to give your makeup brush in growing hairs, you know. So you're
going to push them back on themselves and then you're going to get patchy
brushes that kind of start to look like this, you know. Like they have...
And you're going to have patchy makeup,
you're going to have patchy application. Be very, very gentle with them. So don't
rub backwards and forwards really harsh. Really gently, really smoothly. Treat it
like it's a new... I was about to say newborn makeup brush.
Yeah, like your two favorite makeup brushes have just had a child.
And you're giving it it's first bath. If you really, really then want to go on and
completely like sterilize, and I mean like... these, your
brushes will be fine to use and hygienic to use after they're dry but if you want
to be super, super safe you can always use the fast giant antibacterial
cleanser. However, do be careful. Some of them can be quite high in alcohol
content and it can actually kind of ruin your synthetic brushes, so do be careful.
Quick drying, and then you can immediately use them afterwards once they are dry. Let's
very quickly touch on beauty sponges. These for me, are the easiest thing to
clean, because ideally you should be using them very,
very, slightly damp, and I don't even mean wet, I don't even mean, you know, like
ringed out to death. And, so that means you can clean them right before you use
them, if you have to. I again, like to just use a shampoo method or, or some kind...
or a kind of antibacterial soap. You can buy cleansers for your sponges, use the
tiniest, tiniest amount, squeeze it in with the sponge and really
squeeze the sponge. Almost like you're, you know, I don't know. What's those
things that people hold and it exercises this part?
Exercise. Like really, really, really give it a good, good squeeze. Put in a bowl of
water and squeeze it, wring it in and out like, you know, it's a sponge. Suck it in,
wring it out, suck it in, ring it out. And do this until the water is running
clean. And also, do it until the water isn't
giving you off that foamy kind of like bubble vibe, where it's giving out the
products that you clean it with. Because although it's clean, you don't really
want that laying on your skin. So make sure it's completely wrung out and then
you can go ahead and use it because it's clean, and it's wet you might as well use
it now, you know? Well, I hope that answers some of your questions. If you do have
any questions regarding cleaning your brushes please leave them for me below,
and I will try and answer a few of those myself. Thank you again to Skin Rocks for
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