New found lip combo

Hello everyone! Hope you are staying cool on these hot, humid days we have been having. I was experimenting a little with some products I haven't used very often and found this lip combo.

This is what it looks like. Now the question is, how did I achieve this? 

I used the Benefit lollitint. It is a purply hued stain. I applied it to my lips and topped it with eos lip balm because it is pretty matte. This was comfortable and stayed on throughout dinner. 

I have been trying to use more lip products lately. Normally I just use Chapstick or a plain lip balm. I'll share some of my favorite lip glosses in a later post. 

Have a great day. 

Makeup brush cleaning

Hello everyone. How often do you clean your makeup brushes? If you're like me, not often enough. I always put it off because I have a ton of brushes and it takes forever. Also, the makeup gets all caked up and won't come out without some serious scrubbing. I decided to try something new this time. 

I had always cleaned them regularly, dispite the messy & lengthy process because I am a germaphobe. I do not want all the dead skin cells and bacteria that collects on the brush to be reapplied to my face day after day. That would most definitely cause breakouts. 

I'm going to show off my new and improved brush cleansing routine. 

This cleanser was created for the beauty blender, which is the original egg shaped sponge used to apply foundation. I have a beauty blender and decided to go ahead and buy this, hoping it was helpful.  I am so glad I did! I should mention that I picked this up at Sephora, where they have all the little random things by the register.

When you open up the little container, there is a circular bar of soap. I wet the makeup brush and swirled it directly into the little, round bar & then rinsed under runningb water. It was magic! All the makeup rinsed right off and myaleup brush was clean! It was so quick and thorough. I sped through my entire collection of makeup brushes and layed them out to dry.

I also wiped off the handles with a makeup remover wipe. I was shocked at how well this cleansed my utensils and how quick it was. No more slaving over a sink of goozey, makeup caked mess! When I finished, I simply rinsed off the little round bar of cleanser and put the lid back on. Project complete!