|
 Hygiene is an important part of any daily professional practice and the makeup and beauty industry practitioner should adhere to a high level of hygiene, both personal and client-side. Dangers of cross-contamination through unhygienic application of makeup and beauty products can cause a host of health problems through the transference of bacteria and viruses across products, brushes and skin.
Do you honestly know if your last client has herpes? What about an eye infection, or worse? That means if you have used the applicators sold with mascara, lip gloss, concealers, liquid eyeliners, highlight pens and the like directly from the pot or product to your client or with your pro brushes and back again, any and all of those germs and viruses are now breeding and waiting to be transferred to your next victim!
Single use and disposable brushes and avoiding “double dipping” are the responsible and professional standard that should be adopted by all practitioners as part of a healthy and hygienic working practice and by doing so, will ensure that clients and products are not being cross-contaminated. This, together with dirty hands, is the key cause of contamination and, therefore, the spread of germs and infection. |
|
Dirty hands (80% of germs are transferred from hands) |
Sounds obvious and should be, think of the Swine flu ads where you see how long germs linger and are easily transferred. Hand washing is the single most important step in preventing the spread of germs leading to disease and infections. We all use our hands much more frequently than we realise.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
Dirty brushes and accessories |
Again, this is common sense, but one that seems to be overlooked all too frequently and brushes and tools get put away without being sanitized properly. Did you wipe that eyelash curler with a cleaning product after use? Will you remember when you used it last and can you be sure that client didn’t have an eye infection?
|
|
Read more...
|
Common sense when you think about it. Would you put milk that has gone off into your coffee? If a product doesn’t look or smell right, don’t use it, throw it away. Respect the shelf life of products.
|
|
Read more...
|
“Double dipping” is a term that all professional makeup artists and beauty professionals should be aware of. It means reloading the same product by dipping the applicator into the container more than once and reapplying.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Bacteria - the facts you need to know |
Bacteria live in all our lashes and using mascara, whether on yourself or as a professional makeup artist on clients, means that it’s very easy to contaminate not only your mascara tube, but your customer.
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
|
+ Safe Beauty
