SarahElizabeth: Make Up Brush Cleaning!

When it comes to cleaning make up brushes it can become a big job, and a good brush cleaner can be expensive! But this is my guide to an easy and cheap way of successfully cleaning your brushes.

You will need:

· Face wash.
· 3x small bowls.
· 2x small old but clean towels.
· Warm water.
· Dirty make up brushes.

First of all instead of an expensive brush cleaner, face washes also do the job just as well. Although pick wisely as sensitive washes do work much better and are better for your brushes.

This is the face wash I used. The ‘Simple kind to skin refreshing facial wash gel’

To begin squirt a small amount of the face wash into one of the small bowls. Fill the other two with warm water.

To start off dip the end of the brush in to the warm water (making sure not to get too much of the brush wet as this could disturb the glue further up in the brush causing the bristles to fall out )

From here get your damp brush and dip the end into the bowl of facial wash. Making sure the product has picked up onto the brush.

Now on your towel gently swirl the brush in circular motions. Keep going until all the old make up is out of the brush. You should be swirling the brush in the excess facial wash off the brush.

Once you think the make up brush is clean dip the brush in the second bowl of water to rinse it. You will know when the brush is clean as when you go to rinse the brush only clean water will come out rather than any of the old make up coming out of the brush in the water.

For drying lie the brush down on the spare towel. The brush must be laid down as if it is stood up the water will get into the glue ruining the brush. The brushes could take several hours to dry but don’t try and speed the process up by using a hair dryer as this will burn the brush and ruin the shape of the brush. If you have any specific shape brushes like a fan brush reshape the brush in to its correct shape whilst it is still wet.