This Wednesday I washed my brushes...and so should you . Think of all of the beautiful make up you'll be wearing for the Holidays, you know you wanna put on that make up on with fresh brushes. For inspiration look at my pretty wet brushes (I don't even remember my blending eyeshadow brush being that light in color)...

I used the Sephora brush cleaner...it is supposed to be antibacterial , I don't think it matters, but it was cheap enough ,so I let the sales associate talk me into it. She gave me a great tip though, if place the soap against the edge or in the sink and then swirl the brush into it it really get the soap in and gunk out. It makes sense, the soap is playing the role of the make up and touching all the place the make up did.

It was really sad though. I would have taken pictures of me washing my brushes if I realized how awful it would look. Considering all the make up stuck in my brushes it is a wonder I never looked like a clown leaving the house. Uggghhh the memories and that didn't even include all the the stuff I can't see. I am committed to washing them once every two weeks from now on. I would be lying if I said I could do every week.

So I was doing what I've been doing since I got broke, pining after more Sephora brushes and watching make up vids on youtube. I've been really wanting the Sephora professional platinum fan, stipple, pointed eyeshadow and bronzer/kabuki brush. This desire is being egged on by youtube videos of people apply MUFE HD Invisible Cover Foundation with a stippling brush. In my thirst to quench my desire I started playing around with my new foundation. I had come across someone using a kabuki brush to apply their MUFE foundation and since I have a synthetic BS one that I've recently stopped using with my MMU, I decided to give it a go. It worked great, probably not as great as the stipple I pine for, but better than and faster than my foundation brush . I find that if I squirt it directly onto the brush instead of my hand it saves product. The makeup doesn't absorb into the brush the way it does the back of my hand. The densely packed bristles not only were string enough to carry the makeup all over my face, but did so evenly. I dotted it all over my face and then buffed it in like MMU. I would highly recommend this to anyone who likes the MMU buffing method or is like me and on a make up/clothing/entertainment diet or famine and has a synthetic kabuki lying around. I don't know how this would fair with a natural kabuki. I imagine real hair would not be stiff enough. My BS brush is very soft to the touch, but is also stiff.

Sorry if this is old news for you guys, I'm kind of slow.