Oh good morning lovelies! After the craziness of Black Friday we are excited to get back to our Makeup Organization 101 Series! I don’t know about you but it is time to make room for all those packages being delivered! So since we are getting all of our brushes cleaned on the regular, we are ready for Part 4! Which is basically getting everything ELSE in our makeup and hair arsenal cleaned.
Sanitize Your Makeup
1. You can use one of two easy options to sanitize your lipstick. Either go over your lipstick with a sanitizer wipe or put your lipstick in the freezer overnight to kill germs and bacteria. Make sure to let it come back to a room temperature before applying to your lips or the consistency will be off.
2. Use isopropyl alcohol and a disposable mascara wand to clean glue off of false eyelashes.
3. Pour alcohol into a small spray bottle, then spritz any pressed powder cosmetics you have to disinfect them.
Makeup Tools
4. Clean out your pencil sharpener with some isopropyl alcohol and a cotton swab.
5. If you have a cloth makeup bag, turn it inside out and run it through a wash in the laundry. Let air dry. If your makeup bag is made of vinyl, leather, pleather, etc. then empty out your makeup bag, flip it inside out, and use makeup remover wipes to clean the inside.
6. Get your eyelash curler de-gunked by using a lighter. You can do this by gently lighting the curler for 5-10 seconds with the flame, to warm the dried mascara gunk. Clean the curler immediately with a tissue.
Hair Tools
7. To clean the dust from the back of your blow dryer, pop off the grill and use an old toothbrush to get it cleaned. This picture is so gross but it is a reality. On the same note, my girl Ashley who is the master of hair says you should be replacing your blow dryer every 4-5 years anyways. This was news to me so I am passing that on. We will be doing some more in-depth hair posts with Q & A, tips, tricks and information from some of our favorite stylists in the near future so make sure you are subscribed to the blog for those!
8. To get your curling iron looking shiny again, just grab a piece of steel wool and scrub it off. Or get a new one with our awesome NUME codes!
Skin Care Tools
9. Mix baby shampoo and hydrogen peroxide with water. Unclip the brush from your Clarisonic, and let it sit brush-side down in the water for 15 minutes.
10. Make sure your loofah is being cleaned regularly by tossing it in the washing machine — but do not put it in the dryer!
Whew! How does that feel? So fresh and so clean? Clean? Ha! Hope so! Now with everything looking so gorgeous, you’ve got space for your new holiday gifts and it is time to get those dream makeup spaces put together!
What does your dream makeup space look like? What does it function like? What kind of space do you need and have available? Lets make 2016 the year of organization and let us help you achieve that! There are so many cost and space effective ways to organize your makeup and we are excited to show a video tutorial of ours up next. We will also show a beautiful, DIY makeup table we did by repurposing an old sewing table with one of these colors. As well as showcasing a round up of our favorite spaces and organization tips. We would love to see yours as well- so send us your links and we will add them to the showcase! It is so fun when we can all share ideas and information to achieve optimal results!
XOXO- M&D
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If you missed our earlier posts on the series you can catch up with Parts 1, 2 & 3 here!
Comments (28)
Great stuff good to know. Hey I have a question
How do u keep your cream eye shadow from drying out.
Glad you liked it
For cream shadow you can use witch hazel or if you have something more gel based like gel liner, you can use either a clear primer (not oil control) and glycerin base like MAC has a glycerin spray, I have picked it up at the art store as well. You just mix 1/8th teaspoon of both and add it to it with like a bobby pin or something to mix it up and break it up 
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I can’t believe I haven’t done most of these cleaning things before:/ Thanks for the great tips!
WOW! I had no idea a loofah could be washed. Thanks for putting all of these tips together. =]
Brandy
willbakeforshoes.com
Thanks for sharing! Gonna bookmark this one, I always forget how to clean my beauty tools!
Thanks for posting all these great tips. I am the first to admit I can get a little lazy with the maintenance of the make up tools, so this has given me a good kick-up-the-butt to get cleaning!
The tip about the glue on the eyelashes is BRILLIANT! I had no idea you can get them that clean again. I’m bookmarking this straight away - thank you!
Lottie xx
http://lottielamour.co.uk
Great advice! I always struggle cleaning so many of my makeup tools because I don’t know what’s good or safe for them, so this has really helped!
Great tips for cleaning everything! I had no idea you can put a loofa in a washer. I just replace mine all the time. I’ll have to try this instead!
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I have the same thing happen to me sometimes
I always forget to sanitize my lipstick. I don’t wear it so much that I remember. I am sure after sitting in my bag for a while it builds up with bacteria. ewwwww! I focus a lot on my make up brushes, cleaning them regularly! Thank you for this tips! They’re going to continue to be so helpful!
Great Advice- I need to do a better job at cleaning and not just replacing everything.
Val
These are excellent tips! I like to keep my makeup tools/area looking spic and span, and this will definitely help. Thanks for sharing!
A lady of my same heart! Love it!
Great tips! I definitely need to do some of these!
I think we all do at some time or another!
I am SO bad about washing my makeup brushes… I don’t know why, but I just seriously hate doing it!
It’s the bane of every makeup artists existence. Haha. When you have 200 brushes to wash at the end of a long day you consider throwing them away! Ha
These are such helpful hints and a good reminder to keep these everyday items clean! I’m seriously so bad at cleaning my makeup brushes - need to make that a New Year resolution this year. - Katy
That’s a good resolution! Just organizing it all!
I really need to do better at keeping my makeup brushes and other beauty related items cleaned. These are really great tips!
Thanks Julie! Btw- You have such great style!
Great tips, especially the one for Clairsonic! Never would have thought it necessary. Thanks for the tips!
Thanks! So glad you visited
Thank you so much for these tips. I just started organizing my makeup, etc. and these tips will help get me so fresh and so clean, clean ?
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Really great tips! My make up and the tools I am using are not always that clean and very often I rush into the bathroom to clean some of my brushes that have become too dirty! I work as a cleaner (http://batterseacarpetcleaners.co.uk/) and as a general I keep my home and my stuff very clean… but my make up is often neglected. Thanks for the tips! I believe that they will be really helpful for me!