How to Clean Makeup Brushes

So here's an easy tutorial on how to deeply clean your makeup brushes! You only need three ingredients that you can find in your kitchen or bathroom! Firstly, you need a hand washing soap or you can use a dish washing soap. Use a liquid soap, not the solid one. You also need extra virgin olive oil. This one cleans your brushes thoroughly and it also destroy makeup that sticks in your brushes. And the last thing you need is clean water. If you're wondering why we're sharing this, it's because Halloween just passed and all our brushes are filthy! Might as well share how we do it! ;)

Photography by Kiwi

Camera used was Canon SX50 HS

Step 1: Add about a spoon of extra virgin olive oil inside the container of water.

Step 2: It's time to add some soap in the mixture. You only need a spoon as well.

Step 3: Mix everything so that the oil and soap wouldn't be just separated with the mixture.

Step 4: Get ready to soak your brushes inside the container and rub it in a circular motion.

You can actually clean several brushes in one mixture. It depends on how dirty your brushes are.

Look at this dirty brush that has lipstick all over its bristles! It's too disgusting! Good thing it was able to remove all the sticky makeup. You can even see the measly pieces of makeup in the water! Good bye makeup residues!

If you really want to thoroughly clean all your brushes. Make your last mixture and clean everything again. You can also use your hands to make sure its 100% clean! Just place your hands below the pouring water from the sink. Then clean your brushes by moving it in a circular motion on your palm. This will be the final touches or cleaning.

Step 5: Rinse your brushes with clean water. Do some circular motion again to remove the soap.

Step 6: Place your brushes in a dry towel, make sure the bristles are facing downwards.

The gravity will pull the water out of your brushes which will make it easier to dry. And the adhesive that attaches the brush holder and the bristles will not be loosen by the water. So this tip concludes this tutorial. That's how we basically do it, but if you want an even more simpler brush cleaner, you can remove the extra virgin olive oil. You can also use Johnson's baby shampoo to clean your brushes. You can use it if your brushes don't get too filthy like ours. You can also use a fan or blower if you want to dry it faster! Hahaha! Thank you for reading and hope you learned something!