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How to Clean Your Makeup Brushes

So you could buy the expensive (and pointless) makeup brush cleaner from insanely expensive makeup companies (MAC!), oooooor you can make your own! :)


You will need:
dish soap or Johnson's Baby Shampoo
olive oil
a plate
water 
paper towels or a dish towel 
dirty, dirty, DIRTY makeup brushes
The soap is going to remove the bacteria, grease, and color left on your brushes while the olive oil helps to condition the brush bristles and keep them from drying out.
First, add equal parts of the oil and soap onto a plate. Start with about a teaspoon of each, then add more as you go along, if needed. 

Next, swirl your dirty brush in the mixture. You will see all the leftover makeup start to flush itself out of the brush. 

After you’ve swirled it around for 10 seconds or so, rinse the brush in lukewarm water to get all of the soap out. Continue to rinse until the water runs clear and the brush is no longer soapy.

**Make sure not to get water into the handle of the brush!**
 If you get water in there, the glue that holds the bristles together and onto the handle will loosen and your brushes will not be good brushes anymore!

Finally, once you’ve washed off all of your brushes, gently reshape them and lay them on an incline (with the bristles pointing down) to dry. Let them dry overnight before you use them again.
And thats it! Your done! :)

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