This is a crucial responsibility of any makeup and beauty practitioner and as a member of the SBA, fundamental to belonging to the Association and adhering to the Code of Conduct. We know it can be a hassle and sometimes, especially when it’s busy fashion weeks, with catwalk shows morning, noon, and night, you will be challenged.
- Use disposable mascara wands. Never wash mascara wands that come with a mascara tube on your clients. They will not be 100% clean and you will be risking your client’s health.
- The same goes for all products that have inbuilt brushes and applicators and, of course, pen products. Remember the syringe!
- Put you makeup brushes, tools and applicators into a simple pvc bag, lantern bin when you have used them and keep unused tools separate. Put a red ribbon on anything that you use for “dirty brushes” so you don’t get mixed up.
- Wash you brushes after every session, daily. Use an antibacterial washing up liquid under warm water until the water runs clean and leave to dry naturally overnight or in the airing cupboard.
- Use your pencil sharpener before applying any product such as lip and eye pencils and before you replace in your kit.
- Use a sanitizer wipe to clean tools such as tweezers, eye lash curlers, eye lash placer etc. They harbour germs and everyone forgets about these tools
- Wipe down your makeup bags, carry cases, mirrors and wash your work towel every session (have a number of small black towels that will carry you through a week.
- Don’t rely on brush cleansers and a tissue – the germs will still be lurking.
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How to wash your makeup and cosmetic brushes
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The most important reason is, of course, to keep them clean from germs ensuring as a pro makeup artist or beauty practitioner, you are not passing on your last client’s germs nor those left in the tools from bacteria breeding in product. You cannot carry out your craft with dirty brushes well as there will be product build up on the brushes that will affect application technique. Your will not get a flawless finish from dirty brushes and tools. Makeup colours left from your last client will mix with colours of a new client. Makeup pigments bind with the oils from skin, making brushes sticky and dirty and makeup colours can change, becoming darker or more orange due to oxidation and to mixing with skin oils or dust.
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+ Keeping your pro makeup kit clean
