How To Clean Your Makeup Brushes

It's really important to ensure you wash your makeup brushes regularly after use. When you apply concealer or foundation to your face, bacteria is picked up from your skin onto the brushes, which then sits there until the next time you use the brush, except this time the bacteria is swept across your face and onto your skin. Causing you to break out in spots and blackheads. Gross isn't it? 

To clean your brushes you will need:

• Your sink
• Bowl (optional) 
• Shampoo/conditioner/brush cleaning product
• A towel 

1) Begin by lining up the brushes you'd like to clean. One at a time, run your brushes under lukewarm water rinsing out all of the residual makeup. (Tip- try and avoid water touching the part of the brush where the handle meets the brushes, as this can cause the glue to loosen and eventually break your brush).

2) At this point you can either fill a bowl with lukewarm water and a squirt of shampoo or you can do what I usually do (saves time and washing up) and squirt the shampoo onto your hand and swirl the brush in your palm rinsing out with water every so often. 

3) Keep repeating step 2 until the water runs clear from the brush. Once clear wipe your brush clean, and try and get the bristles as dry as possible (without damaging them!)

4) Lay your brushes on a towel or a cloth and leave to dry (I usually do them in the evening and leave them to dry overnight). 

5) Use the beautifully clean brushes, and see the affects on your skin! :) 

Hope you found this blog post helpful! How do you clean your brushes and do you have any tips on how to?