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Extend the life of your makeup brushes

I love my makeup brushes. I hand picked each and every one of them for a particular reason. There are two brushes in particular that I could not live without while on a job. Luckily I take great care of them to extend their life.

Great makeup does not stop at the right eyeshadow color and the perfect brush. Sanitizing plays a huge role, not only in the health of your skin, but also in the longevity of your brushes life. You could spend $50 on one single brush and it could be the softest and most effective brush in your kit…but two months later it starts to feel scratchy. Perhaps it doesn’t blend as well as it used to. You get angry. You say to yourself “I just spent $50 on a brush that is supposed to be great, yet two months later it is practically useless!” The answer lies within sanitation.

Protect your investment…

Brushes and makeup tools are an investment. If you spend good money on buying them in the first place then you need to follow that up with taking proper care of them. “How do you do that?” It is really quite simple. As a makeup artist working on jobs consistently and using my brushes on many faces, I end up sanitizing them several times per week. For someone using brushes only on themselves, you do not have to be as extreme on the cleaning as I am, but you really should still be sanitizing your brushes. (more…)

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