It's super important to clean your makeup! Not just your brushes but your makeup too! This is essential when you're swapping makeup, using it on other people, or just for your personal makeup. Germs are gross and you don't want to spread them all over your face! This can make you break out and even spread diseases, if you're swapping. Disinfecting your makeup is super easy and can be really quick, depending on how much makeup you have. :)
What you need:
- Rubbing alcohol with 70% or higher
- Paper towels
- A spray bottle - one with a fine mist
Pressed Eyeshadow:
Gently wipe off the top layer of shadow and then spritz it until it's saturated with the alcohol and then leave it open to air dry.
Lipsticks:
Spray the entire lipstick and lightly pat it dry. Also spray the cap and let it air dry.
Lip or Eyeliners:
Sharpen off the outer layer and spritz it to saturate it. And let it air dry, spray the cap also.
Cream Blushes, Concealers, Eyeshadow, Gel Eyeliner:
Spray the surface and wipe off the top layer of product with your paper towel and let it air dry.
Not everything can be sanitized!
- Liquid products; like foundations
- Loose powder; like pigments and face powder
- Anything with a wand that gets dipped into a tube; Eyeliner, lipgloss, concealer, mascara
Pressed and loose powder, blushes, bronzers, pigments and other things like that shouldn't be sprayed with any liquids because it can ruin the product. But these products aren't very prone to collecting germs anyway so you should be okay. Just make sure you're using clean brushes.
I hope this was helpful! :)
OMG thank you for this post!! I've been wanting to know how its done! lol.. Nice blog! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, but I find alcohol kills my powders; i use this great product called beautysoclean, that I found at the Bay. they have wipes for mascaras and lipsticks. There is alcohol in it as well, but they have other ingredients that still clean, but soften the effect of alcohol A sanitizing mist too for powders, dries in seconds and doesn't change the consistency of my powders. They also have an awesome brush cleaner. Just wanted to share. I worry about sweat on my powders in the summer, so the sanitizing mist is great!
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