My Brush Cleaning Essentials!

So, lately I've been on a brush buying spree.
Real Techniques, Zoeva, Ecotools, Sigma...brandless brushes from China, you name it.
I am loving brushes! Not sure if I'd want to splurge on Hakuhodo and stuff yet though...

If you want reviews on them, do tell. I've been very out of touch with the blogging world (yet again)

I love having new brushes in hand, more than buying makeup now I guess.
Probably because brushes last longer than makeup, if you take care of them.

But y'know, with every brush you buy, you also need to clean them.

These are my brush care essentials :D

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1) Daiso Detergent for Puff and Sponge (BND2)

This is a favourite with a lot of bloggers and vloggers! I can assure you, it's for a good reason. I have two other brush cleansers, one is from Cyber Colors and the other one is the Daiso Makeup Brush Cleaner. Let me tell you, NOTHING cleans my sponges and brushes like the detergent does. You simply add a bit of it to water, dip your brushes in, swirl and take it out. Use your hands (this will dry them out though) or a silicone egg, mat or glove and swirl it around. Wash it under some running water, being careful not to get water into the glue. You'll have clean brushes in no time.

2) Silicone Mats, Brush Egg and Glove (BND2~6)

Sigma made popular the brush gloves, says it'll make it faster. It's basically a silicone oven glove with fancier ridges. Instead of that, I read from My Women Stuff about the silicone mat and the brush egg dupe. It's basically the same thing. I got my brush egg from a local seller though, had I known it's sold for USD1+ online, I'd have bought it online! HMPH! There's also this oven glove you can use to keep your hands kinda dry. It's effective but some of the makeup stained my mat :T darn it!

3) Brush Tree Dupe from Aliexpress (BND14~40)

There are a lot of people putting their brands on this brush tree dupe, so it honestly depends on how much of a shopper you are. You'd have to wait a long time for an online order perhaps, or get it more expensive immediately. All depends on you. Do you need it? Yes, absolutely! I have a review up. It honestly is very helpful and helps dry brushes faster. I still put them outside to air-dry of course.

4) Alcohol to Sanitise (BND3~5)

Of course you'd need to sanitise your brushes. I use 70% alcohol solution. 90% would dry them out way too much. I just spritz them, and sometimes I mix it with the cleansing solution but it really depends on my mood. Honestly I sometimes skip this for my personal brushes, I need to look up on ways to sanitise my brushes more effectively. Do leave tips if you have any!

5) Kitchen Utensils Container (BND1~3)

This is for me to store my brushes in my drawer. Helps a lot :D

6) Handwash Basin Thingy (BND1~3)

I recently discovered this and found out that I like it more than the silicone things :O It's cheaper too. I found a small one at the supermarket and immediately bought it. Tested it out and well, it works!! Mostly for face brushes, but still works for small ones too. The ridges aren't too close together so it won't be as effective to clean eye brushes.

7) Hand Towels (BND1~5)

Before you put your brushes on the brush tree, wipe them off dry with a towel first, definitely a must!

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I need to help my mom clean her makeup brushes. Hers are so dirty -3-; and dusty, I dunno how she's not broken out from it...but yeah, these are my essentials :D

Hope that helps, kinda.
If my writing is a bit off, well, I AM a bit off right now.

But yeah, I hope you can get your essentials at such a deal too :> no need to splurge on things when cheaper things works just as well.

Do you use any of these things? Do tell me what your essentials are!

'til then, take care!

-Nisah-

OH MY. Wrong product.

So like, I was very excited to use the Tony Moly "Berry Berry Body Scrub Wash", thinking it was the same like the "Herb Flavor Body Scrub Wash". I only tried the tester to the Herb one, liking it, thinking to myself that I should get the Berry one since it's smaller and well, cheaper.


This is what I wanted, or rather, something similar:
http://www.tonymoly.com.sg/joomla/our-products/body-hair/herb-flavor-body-scrub-wash?vmcchk=1

Oh boy, I was wrong not to test it out.

Turns out that it was the scrub type of things I have abundance of.
Damn.

And the worst thing is, I doubt it works even better than them. I tried a bit of it, quite disappointed and well, I got disappointed again that it's just the same like any other scrub. Albeit, expensive like shit.

I'm not saying it's a bad product, it's just that, if I were to buy a body scrub, I already know what brand I'd buy. It's either St Ives or Cyclax. And to top it off, it offers more product that the Tony Moly one.

I'm debating whether to keep it or sell it off, since I only tried a bit of it.
I'll even pitch in the sample given since I won't use it either way.

Sigh.

So disappointed ):

If only it offered more than what my other scrubs do, I'd be happy.

I'm quite upset that I got the wrong product.


NOTE TO SELF:

Even if it looks the same on the outside, same packaging, offering different variety, ALWAYS ALWAYS, test it out.

So disappointed.

On another note, I'm using the SkinFood's "Peppermint Pore Diet Peel-Off Mask" now. lol.

It's tingly right now, and tight.
I'd take a picture but I unevenly distributed it so lol no.

But if I were to just give an overview, it's like the Daiso's nose pack, although it's not unbearably smelly. It has the same texture on the face but smoother in consistency. But it dries fast too.


Sigh.

I'll just cry to myself.

-Nisah-

Things I need to use up!

You know how I always have this impulse buys when I go to a certain shop that sells skincare and cosmetics? Yeah, it's accumulating like hell.

I have a lot to use up.
And some probably give away or sell.
Because it doesn't suit me.

Cassis Rose Body Mist, Sea White Exfoliant Gel, Bio-Essence Deep Exfoliating Gel and
Etude House Aloe Vera Cleansing Cream

Yes yes, the Body Mist is oldddd but at least it doesn't make me have allergic reaction like that Cherry Blossom one!! Which is unfortunate. I'm nearly done with this so I'm fine.

The Sea White is kinda old, so I don't use it on my face. I use it like somewhere random, my leg or something. The Bio-Essence one, I still use on the face but it does't make much of a difference nowadays. I doubt it removes dead skin cells like it says...

As for the Etude House Cleansing Cream....I just stopped using it because it contains Mineral Oil. I used it again tonight, to see if I have a bad reaction to it. I have a lot of cleansing creams, one from Daiso, one from the Hada Labo (not a cream though lol), the Kanebo sample...haish.

I'll work on using it. I have other cleansing creams too so yeah, I should focus on using one at a time to finish up.

I need to work on using up the first three things before I decide to buy that scrub from Tonymoly.

I shall call this project, 'Project FINISH IT'.


Yeah, finish it, Nisah, FINISH IT.


- Nisah-