How to clean your make-up brushes!

How often do you clean your make-up brushes? 

Every few weeks? Every few months? Years? Never?!

It’s very important to clean your brushes because if you don’t clean them, then load of bacteria will start to build up inside your brushes and you are basically putting old make-up with bacteria inside onto your face which can cause you to break out or could even make you get acne!

Of course you don’t need to wash your brushes every time you use it. It all depends on how much you use brushes. For example: If you use brushes everyday then it’s best to wash them once a week. If you rarely use brushes then once a month. 

There are many techniques of how to clean your brushes so you can just go on the internet and type it in or go on YouTube and search on ‘How to clean your brushes’. The way that I am doing it makes the brushes clean and also help me save money.

The things that you will need to use to wash your brushes are:

·         Baby Shampoo

·         Baby Oil

·         Plate/bowl

·         Towel

·         Conditioner (optional)

You can purchase any brand of baby shampoo and baby oil. You can even purchase them from a cheap supermarket. It doesn’t matter on the brand, as long as you get baby shampoo and baby oil then its fine. The reason why it is important to buy it in ‘baby’ as baby shampoo does not have harsh chemicals that will not damage your brushes.

First you need to wet your brush head (make sure you do not go over the brush head otherwise the water will go up inside the brush which can break down the glue that is holding the bristles and the bristles will eventually fall out.

Secondly, pour a reasonable amount of baby shampoo and baby oil into the plate or bowl depending how much brushes you will be cleaning. Get one of your brushes and dip the brush head into the plate/bowl and using your palm, start to rotate the brush onto your pam. This will help give fiction to the brush head and allow the baby shampoo and baby oil get into the smaller area that you cannot get. 

Once you have done that, rinse the brush head with warm water and squeeze any excess water that may contain in your brush and place then to the side and wipe it with the towel. When washing your brushes, never have the brush head facing up because water will go inside the brush and can start to break the glue up. Just always have your brush head facing down. Another tip is do not let the water go above the brush head as around that area is the glue is holding the bristles together.

(Optional) – if you want to make your bristles soft, then condition the brush head with any conditioner and rinse it out.

After you have finished washing and rinsing your brushes, you then need to roll one side of the towel to help lay your brushes down. It is very important that you place the head brush down as you do not want any excess water going side your brush and breaking the glue. You could also lay them against a wall but make sure you have a towel at the bottom so the excess water can absorb any water reminding. Make sure you also reshape the head brush back to it forms otherwise the bristles will look like its having a bad hair day!

Leave the brushes to dry for a day and you can start reusing your clean brushes again!

I hope this will help you how to clean your brushes and can help stop you from breaking out!

See you guys soon.

Cindy x

All about me!

I have no idea what to write for my very first post, so i have decided to tell you some things about myself. I will probably start talking about fashion, make-up and other things later when I have something new to talk about!

My name is Cindy Lau. I was born on the 5^th of June 1998 and was born and raised in the UK. I was also born in Wakefield (near Leeds) but moved to Manchester when I was three. I’m Chinese and my Chinese name is ‘劉栢欣’ which means ‘Lau Pak Yan’. But people just call me Pak Yan because it will be a bit weird saying my surname first then my name. I was supposed to be called Kimberley but my mother decided to call me Cindy, after ‘Cindy Crawford’ (lmao I don’t blame her). My mother was born in Scotland then moved to Hong Kong and lived there for a few year then moved back to the UK and my father was born in Hong Kong. I have two brothers called James and Patrick and I have no sisters (thank god). I’m 4ft11. I have no idea why I’m not growing (probably the asian gene). I have been this height for like 6 years now and I still not have grown. I should consider drinking milk or doing sports… but who’s got time for that? My mother told me today that I have a year left to grow, yeah it looks like I’m not growing. 

Right now, I’m currently in college and I attend to ‘The Cheadle College’. I will be taking my second year at college this September. I am studying Business and Law. I also want to go to University to study Business Management. I am hoping to go to the same University as my older brother, James because it’s near home and town is literally around the corner (more shopping for me!). Also, my best friend (shout out to Mia) lives like 5 minutes from the University so I will get to drop by to see her.

I’m hoping in the future to be able to explore and travel around the world. I think it’s exciting to be in a different country that you have never been to because you will get to experience living in that country, eating different varieties of foods and also be surrounded by different people you have never met before. I have only been to Hong Kong as most of my relatives live there but I have visited to different countries such as Dubai, South Korea, France etc. (because I had to get on the next plane to Hong Kong lmao).

I’ve ran out on idea what to tell you about so I hope this was enough.

Speak to you guys very soon!

Cindy x