Brush Washer and Dryer

Have you ever tried to find a way to clean and dry your brushes ? Without having to lay them on a towel to dry over night? Then once its dry one side of your makeup brush is flat and out of shape? Well theres a tool that I found at my local arts and crafts store that was less then 10 bucks.


As I was browsing through Michaels, an arts and crafts store around my area, I always stop by the painting section and try and find things I can use for my makeup kit and my own makeup collection. I have found certain paint brushes that can be used in a makeup kit that works just as well and is very comparable to MAC brushes.  Not really needing anymore brushes, I started to look for palettes I can reuse for mixing product, then I stumbled upon this helpful tool for cleaning brushes. Instead of pulling a Martha Stewart and creating my own brush washer/dryer so I figured why not try it out. It is called Brush Washer $8.99 from Michaels arts and crafts.

Brush Washer with Drying Rack from Michaels arts and crafts $8.99

It is made of course for paint brushes but cleaning both paint brushes and makeup brushes have the same idea, meaning while cleaning the bristles of your brushes you never want to get water/brush cleaner passed the neck of the brush where the metal holds the bristles and the brush handle together. Doing this helps the bristles stay attached to the brush and avoid rusting on your brush. Hanging your brushes after cleaning them are a great way to make sure water doesnt seep into your brushes. This tool is perfect for this because it has a spiral wire to hang the brushes upside down until it is dry, so no more flat sided brushes and water stuck in the neck of your brushes.

I love using Parian Spirit Pro-makeup brush cleaner. BEST brush cleaner  dry's quickly and thoroughly cleans my brushes.

The only thing I dislike about this product is that the spiral wire cannot hold as much makeup brushes as is can with paint brushes. Paint brushes have a skinny end to it while makeup brushes stay the same size on the tip making it harder to put ALL makeup brushes on there to hang. That was the only down side I found, a better option I found is to put different sizes on the spiral wire.

Helps to put different sized brushes next to each other to fill up as much space with out it falling out.

To me this was a great under $10 investment and find it helpful and wanted to share. I am still in a search for a different type that could hold more brushes at one time but as of right now this will work and I'm okay with it. Yay for Michaels!

Happy Halloween!

Halloween is one of my favorite time of the year because its when the Spirit Store is open and selling Liquid Latex and fun face painting products and costumes! Whoo hoo!!

Most of all my family has gotten into dressing up and being characters, meaning i get to paint their faces and be creative with them. This year we did not plan as well as last year but it came out pretty funny! My husband, brother and boy cousins we The Blue Man Crew and to see how much fun they had painting themselves blue was HILARIOUS! I on the other hand decided to do something very different and did a sugar skull type look on my face. It came out better then I expected and was challenging! I have gotten so used to doing other peoples faces in all different ways that doing my own was a bit challenging, all in all I did it and it was fun!

Heres a Look at my Halloween:

The Boys, My Cousin and Judy!

My Halloween Look 

The boys

The Ladies!

The Products I used for this Look are:

The Skull Side:
-The Makeup Forever Flash Palette

 The White and the Black

-Translucent Powder to set the white and black
-Use dark browns, grays and black for contouring

The Plain Side:

Face:
-Makeup Forever HD Foundation
-Mac Mineral Pressed Powder
-Peach bluch MAC

Eyes:
-Stay Dont Stray Eye Primer from benefit
-Soft Brown e/s MAC
-Nylon e/s MAC
-Cake eyeliner
-False Lashes


The Boys used Blue clown paint from Ben Nye and translucent powder to set the look.

This was a fun look I wish I could have recorded it to show it step by step but it was a fun tedious look!
Hope everyone had a safe and fun Halloween!!!!