Brush Spring Clean

I love many aspects of makeup, but when it comes to cleaning my makeup brushes, I'm always trying to think of ways to make the process quicker and easier.

However, I now have Sigma's Spa Brush Cleaning Glove, and it has certainly sped things up, and I probably use less shampoo to clean it (so saving money), but when I pair it with the Bobbi Brown Conditioning Brush Cleanser - its a brush cleaning dream team!

I'll talk about the Cleaning Glove first..

'Face' Brush cleaning side

'Eye' Brush cleaning side

The glove is designed to work for both left and right hands, and is made up of an arrangement of different textures to help gently work into the bristles of your brushes to massage out the makeup residue that has built up. I squeeze a small amount of my brush cleaning product, whether thats baby shampoo or a specific brush cleanser, damp the brush slightly under gently running tepid tap water, then start to swirl the brush around on the glove to build up a lather. Sometimes it lathers so much, you can just add your next brush straight into the soap and swirl a 2 or 3 around together; which really helps to speed things up. Depending on how hard the makeup is to remove from the glove, you may have to repeat this process a couple of times, with a gentle rinse in between (being careful not to let the water run up into the neck of the brush), and its worth trying out different sections of the glove, to see which cleans it the best. I then gently squeeze out any excess water with a towel, and leave the brushes to dry on a flat surface, ideally near a radiator or window.

The two sides of the glove are aimed at 'Face' brushes (e.g. big powder and foundation brushes), and 'Eye' brushes (e.g. smaller, fluffier blending brushes). Although I'm sure its fine to use either side on any brush. I really like the fact that this glove doesn't let your hands get wet or hurt them at all in the brush cleaning process. 

So now lets talk about the Conditioning Brush Cleanser.. When I first used this on its own, it was really noticeable how quickly it broke down the makeup in the brush, and was left with a sparkly clean brush. Its menthol smell makes you believe you're giving your brush a really deep clean. It creates a powerful lather, so you only have to use a small amount. And because its more expensive (£12), than a standard baby shampoo, I tend to save this for brushes that have been using foundation and concealer, as these are what I normally find quite hard to clean.

So I really have no excuse to keep my brushes sparkly clean..

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