HOW TO: Clean Your Makeup Brushes

Makeup brushes gather a lot of bacteria, especially if they are used every day. Today, I am going to show you how I clean my makeup brushes. I have tried a couple of different methods, but this is by far the fastest and most efficient way I have found of cleaning them. I recommend washing your brushes about once a week if you're doing your makeup every day, but if you only use your brushes once or twice a week, you could probably get away with washing them once every two to three weeks. Cleaning them is important if you want to avoid breakouts from transferring all of that bacteria to your face over and over again.

I did a previous blog post All About Makeup Brushes if you are interested in what kinds of brushes to use for different makeup applications.

These are the items I used: