Proper Make Up Brush Cleaning

Make ups are on the top list of must haves for women. We often do personal research up to when or how long our make ups could last or probably when is the best time to change for the next season. For most, we often worry as to how to keep in clean for sanitary purposes. But we, girls, tend to forgot one very important thing. Our vanity for cosmetics comes along with appropriate make up brushes for better application.Too focus in maintaining our make ups, yet, we forgot how to maintain our brushes and keeping it clean all the time.

Ideally, it's recommended to clean our brushes at least once a week. Yes, once a week, and most of us feels like it's every day. We feel lazy and come up with reasons like we don't have time to really follow such rule especially when most of us really have  bunch of it. If you don't feel like following such rules, you may just vary to how often you use it. Just make sure that you really keep it clean. However, if there are irritations on your skin, you might consider to make it often as you can or better yet, daily.

For those who attempts to clean or maintain their brushes and yet, doesn't know how to do it properly, here are some simple steps:

1. Prepare your make up remover. I also prepared a water solution just for better comparison how make up remover really cleans the brushes compared to just cleaning it by using water alone. 

By the way I'm using my self-made make up brush remover. This is ideal if you have lots of brushes. 

It would bring your pocket huge savings.

2. Dip your brush unto the make up remover. Make sure that the liquid substance doesn't reach the tip of your brushe's hair. Otherwise, will damage your brush easily. Make sure that silver part won't get wet. Refer to the image below:

3. Prepare a dry towel or wet tissue. Rub or slide your brush side ward, from one side to another. Make sure that you do it gently. This is how you will maintain the hair of your brush to stay intact and in good condition. 

Going to left

Going to right. And just repeat until the color of the make up residue fades on the towel or tissue.

Here's how water differs from make up removers in terms of cleaning the brushes:

4. Air dry your make up brush. Take note on how you properly dry or set your brushes after cleaning. Make sure that you place it on top of a clean dry towel or tissue on a lying position. Or if you have your make up brush cover, place it on a glass and have the brush face down. It's a no-no placing your brush upward. It won't make any difference as to when you dip your brush in the water up to its tip based on instruction #2. By having the tip of the hair brush wet, will damage your brush in no time no matter how good the brand of your brush is. Refer to the images below:

flat lying position

The cover will protect the hair of the brush as you place it facing downward. Just make sure that it doesn't go through the tip as you cover so to avoid damage of the hair brush.

 

 

 

Brush facing downward

5. Holla and you're done. Good luck. Hope this quick simple steps would bring you great help. Watch out for my DIY Make up remover. I'll be posting it as soon as I finish my make up remover supplies. 

Thank you for taking time to read this post. Till next time. :)

Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation

Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation - B10 Beige - Pastel

Since then I love make ups. But I got hooked to it at about 3 years ago. I’ve tried almost different kind of brands from foundations (powder and liquid), lipsticks, & blush-ons. The only thing I’m not good at is anything about eyes. Applying eye shadow is not my forte at all.  My skin is the combination type. Rarely do I use liquid foundation because it normally gets sticky on my face. It gets drier and cakey when I try to blot some powder for finish touch. I tried using Dior Sculpt Lifting, it’s really smooth on my skin however, when my face gets too dry it tends to be so thick and heavy on the feeling. Until such then, I kept using powder foundations by Dior, Chanel and MAC.

Last year, I had a great time make-up bonding with my friend. She get to introduce me to Chanel Vitalumiere Aqua Foundation. It’s the best foundation I ever had. It met my very basic requirement, having a natural look. It’s very lightweight, has not accentuated any dryness and it gives a very smooth finish. It doesn’t give you any single greasy feeling. Since, it’s water-based which makes it very light on skin, it won’t give full coverage when you have pimples on the face. On the other hand, it’s non-comedogenic, which most not likely to cause allergic reactions nor will not even clog your pores. It would perfectly work for those with pretty good skin.

When I get to feel I wanted a natural look for the day, I just basically apply this and add some light color blush. It also works well with powder foundation for medium coverage or will actually depend on how you would want to end your finish. If I prefer a matte look finish, I just blot some powder foundation on my face. This foundation is really amazing with an added bonus of a lovely scent this makeup has.  I’ve been using this more than a year now and I even stock it in case I don’t have time buying a new one. I just can’t afford to miss. It’s the only liquid foundation my skin adored. It lasts for 7-8 hours. A simple powder touch would do to keep you all day. No need to re-apply this foundation all over again.

TIPS: Shake the bottle well before use to bring out the sensorial qualities of the texture. Application works best if you use your fingers.

CLAIM: CHANEL VITALUMIERE AQUA is a new-generation texture with unique makeup result. Rapid and easy application. It is exceptionally delicate and light, an incomparable “second-skin” perfecting result is achieved. Its formula, endowed with a UVB sun filter and mineral sunscreen, protects the skin from damaging sun rays (SPF 15).

AVAILABLE SHADES:  B10 Beige-Pastel, B20 Beige-Tendre, B30 Beige-Sable, B40 Beige-Desert, B50 Beige-Sienne, BR10 Beige Rose-Pastel, BR20 Beige Rose- Tendre, BR30 Beige Rose-Sable, B020 – Beige Ocre-Tendre

PRICE:  Mall Price – Php 3,200, glamrunway.multiply.com  - Php 2,500