We have a show here in San Francisco called View From The Bay. I love it — it comes on after Oprah, and it’s a great, local, can-do show that gives you all sorts of great little tricks, cooking tips, and the like. Spencer and Janelle (I get to call them by their first names because they are in MY living room, right? :-) ) are really super hosts. I love Janelle especially — she will pretty much do anything, and always has a smile on her face.
I’m a little behind in episodes, but this past weekend, I tried to catch up on VFTB and Oprah. VFTB had an episode on cleaning out your makeup brushes. Their makeup/fashion host, Audrey Mansfield, shows you how to clean your makeup brushes — and to Janelle’s horror, has grabbed a few of Janelle’s makeup brushes, and has Janelle clean them on camera. Janelle asserts that she cleans them “every week,” but Audrey asserts that everyone should really do this every DAY.
HELL-OO……I had NO IDEA that I should be cleaning out my makeup brushes. And I’m a “bacteria fanatic” (I’m constantly throwing my sponges, etc. into the dishwasher, using and washing tons of towels to keep things clean, etc.) — and it NEVER occurred to me to clean my makeup brushes. As I watched Janelle’s water turn a not-so-pretty shade of brown, I slinked off to the bathroom, sudsed up a bowl, and started cleaning MY brushes. (As you can see from the clip, they actually have a very easy method that you can use — just put a little shampoo into a bowl and swish them around and spread the brush out with your fingers to get the makeup out). Oh…my…LORD! Ick ick ick! I turned the water TOTALLY dark brown, started over, brown again…started over…
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!!!! So I’m sharin’ this with you, Bond Grrls — maybe ya’ll all knew this already and it was just me, but if not, CLEAN your MAKEUP brushes! They are full of dead skin, bacteria, and just i-i-ick. I have a new routine now — thanks to View From The Bay.
But… I kinda wish I hadn’t known. GEE, and I was wondering why I get clogged pores?!