How to Clean Make Up Brushes with Witch Hazel

To allow your colors in your make-up to ring true, you need to wash your make-up brushes with witch hazel after every use. Make-up accumulates inside of the bristles of make-up brushes and will carry over from one use to the next. So if today you are wearing green eyeshadow, that green will be mixing with tomorrow's purple. Follow these simple steps to clean your make-up brushes after every use with witch hazel.

Things You'll Need

• Your set of make-up brushes
• 1 bottle witch hazel
• 1 empty spritz bottle
• 1 roll of paper towels

Instructions

Make Your Make-up Brushes Ring True

1. Take the bottle of witch hazel and fill the empty spritz bottle with the witch hazel. The spritz bottle will make for easy daily cleaning of your make-up brushes with witch hazel.

2. Spray the bristles of the make-up brush with witch hazel. Saturate the make-up brush bristles with the witch hazel.

3. Lay a paper towel flat on a hard surface. Brush the make-up brush with the witch hazel on it back and forth on the paper towel. You will notice color coming off on the paper towel. Re-spritz the make-up brush and keep brushing until no more color comes out. Change to a clean paper towel when the first one is covered with the make-up color.

4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 cleaning all dirty make-up brushes.

5. Use your make-up brushes as soon as you are done brushing them on paper towels, or pack them in your make-up bag for next time.

Tips & Warnings

• You will have to repeat spritzing the make-up brushes with witch hazel and brushing them on paper towels longer with cream make-up than with powder.

• Daily cleaning of your make-up brushes with witch hazel should not replace weekly deep cleaning of your make-up brushes.