This is Function Ii in our Leap Cleaning serial. If yous're just catching up, be sure to cheque out Part I where we teach y'all to Marie Kondo your makeup bag.

So you've gone through and ditched your expired, passé and impossible makeup, leaving just the most beautiful goodness. Feeling better? We sure are. But your spring cleaning work isn't quite finished. Today we're hither to tackle maintenance: how to take care of the beauties that were worth belongings on to, ensuring the best results, and a make clean, happy face. You lot do know to clean your makeup brushes regularly, right…?

Castor Care BASICS

One of the reasons we honey love dear (and strongly advocate) using brushes is that information technology's more aseptic than dipping your fingers straight into a product over and over once more. But that's only if you're cleaning those brushes on a regular basis. We'd recommend a shampooing every 1-iv weeks, depending how often you apply the brush.

How to Clean Makeup Brushes

Y'all should wash a brush like yous launder your hair: soak the fibers showtime, then lather it in a mild shampoo and rinse, pointing the brush downwards and keeping all the bristles in one direction so the pigment runs out and the fibers don't tangle.

To dry your makeup castor, press the water out, reshape it and lay it off the edge of your sink or on a towel and then information technology regains its natural shape. Visual learner? Cheque out the video of this technique on our Brushes page.

Can you lot apply dish lather to launder a makeup brush?

Nope—y'all wouldn't get that stuff near your own hair, and so please continue it off your brushes too.

Tin can you apply facial cleanser to wash a makeup brush?

Sure, if information technology's adept at removing the makeup from your face. If you use a very mild cleanser post-confront wipe (or three), it's not a practiced choice. A good brush shampoo lathers well and is only lightly workout, then if you dearest our PURE PLUSH or PURENESS cleansers, go for it. On the other paw, OIL OBSESSED (which is astonishing at removing makeup from skin) shouldn't exist used on your tools — information technology contains moisturizing essential oils that are so neat for your face, not so great for your brushes.

Daily Cleaning Tips

If yous're a fan of the smoky eye or have been working on your contouring skills, you probably learned this one the hard mode: you should clean a brush every time you apply it for a new color. Those gorgeous shades become greyness if you lot mix them together, so be certain to utilize a quick alter brush cleaner betwixt every shade: spray a tissue until information technology is slightly damp and rub information technology lightly into the bristles — you should never spray a brush directly. If yous observe yourself smashing the castor into your damp tissue, it's fourth dimension for a good old brush shampooing (see above).

What Not to Practice

Please don't soak your brushes (if you want them to last). We recommend pointing the brush down when you rinse it to keep water from penetrating and disintegrating the gum that's belongings it together.

MAKEUP Care Basics

Your favorite makeup gets you lot through dream-job interviews, terrible dates, unexpected breakouts … fourth dimension to requite it a little TLC in render.

Caring for Loose Mineral Makeup

Our minerals need to stay dry out to concluding, but nosotros know that swirling in the cap of products like ORIGINAL Foundation tin cause discoloration over time. Go that pristine, fresh-from-the-box look by wiping the inside of the cap (NEVER the top of pot) with a tissue spritzed with alcohol. Rubbing booze works well — make sure it'due south over 70% alcohol to disinfect as you clean, and expect until information technology dries fully before closing the product.

Caring for Meaty Powders

Keep. Them. Dry. This is admittedly key, merely if you lot discover your compact has changed color, you lot spill a different product on it, or otherwise feel compelled to clean, spritz a tissue with alcohol and remove the upper film to uncover new production.

Caring for Eye & Lip Liners

Keeping pencils precipitous prevents them from falling autonomously. But when you fish out your sharpener, merely sharpen the pencil tip to nigh xc%. Otherwise, yup, you're dorsum to increasing the adventure the tip volition break off. If this sounds weirdly high-maintenance, don't worry — if you lot apply your liner by gliding it at an angle, you'll naturally maintain a gentle signal. Just sharpen a little flake when y'all need to expose more product — which sounds/is way more than manageable.

Caring for Creams

Wet products tend to elapse faster, and the all-time way to tiresome this progress is to spiral the cap on fully after every unmarried use (no matter how late yous are).

What Non to Do

Cleansing wipes can take makeup off your confront, only yous don't want to use them on your beauty products. Non just are they very wet (without the fast evaporating quality of booze), but they contain humectants for retaining wet, and yous certainly don't need to moisturize your makeup.

Happy cleaning!