Sephora Daily Makeup Brush Cleaner

This is the smaller, travel-sized version of the product.

 I admit, I'm not the biggest germophobe around, which isn't good for someone obsessed with makeup. It is vital that makeup, especially makeup tools are kept clean. No one wants pink eye or an infection from bacteria-laden products!

So, to combat my cleaning apathy, I purchased this little spray from Sephora. It is their Daily Makeup Brush Cleaner, which can I say smells amazing. For some reason, I just love how my brushes smell after I use it. It isn't too perfume-y, nor is it a bleach cleaning product smell. It reminds me of the way certain hair sprays or detanglers that I can't name off the top of my head smell. 

The spray does not require rinsing, so this in not a deep cleaning way to get your brushes spic n' span. This is a daily, or in my case 3 or 4 times a week, spray down of your favorite and most used brush heads. If there is a light dust of color on the brush when you spray the product on, just lightly wipe it on a towel. Then enjoy your disinfected and wonderfully smelling makeup tools.

New Purchase: EcoTools

 

While perusing my local drugstore, I came across a little package of lovely make-up brushes with a little bit of a discount. Seeing as I am poor, but have a small beauty-shopping addiction, I had to buy it. If I'm gonna indulge in my vices I might as well quell my urges with things on sale. I also was really needing to replace my blush brush, which in all honesty wasn't really even a true blush brush. It was an old and shedding BareMinerals powder brush, but it did the job. 

Debating between a Revlon set and this EcoTools one, I decided "Hey! Why not add some more eco-friendly products in my life?" and I snatched the last discounted package up. Inside the small burlap tool-holder contains five brushes with smooth, what I think is bamboo, handle and extremely soft bristles. In fact, when I first opened the package I walked around with the contouring blush brush and just swished it around my face enjoying the texture (Yeah, I know I'm weird).

In the set, you get a nice contouring/blush brush, a concealer brush, an eye shadow brush, an angled eyeliner brush, and a "detailer" brush, which I've been using as a lip brush. So far, no complaints about any of them. I have been using the blush, eyeshadow and angled brush almost everyday. I've even started to use the eyeshadow brush more than my trusty Urban Decay Naked (1) brush that I hold close to my heart. It is really great for packing on glittery shadow like Naked's Sidecar without the fall-out. It also blends darker colors really well. In the future, when my new SD Card arrives for my Nikon, I'll post some better photos of the brushes and their application results. For now, you'll just have to make due with my iPhone's snapshots.