Lately I’ve been doing something during my makeup routine, which is so simple I can’t believe I haven’t been doing this all my life, but has made a huge impact. Ok, here it comes… I’ve gotten a pack of baby wipes. Yep.
This is such a trivial thing I’m almost embarrassed to share it, but if I haven’t thought about it before, maybe you haven’t either. Every time I sit down to apply my makeup, I take a baby wipe (just your regular, cheap baby bum wipes). I use this to spot clean my makeup brushes, especially the one that I use with my gel eyeliner. This way the gel liner doesn’t dry up inside the brush and it’s ready for me to use again next day. I also spot clean the angled brush I use to fill in my eyebrows, so that I’m never surprised by an unexpected super heavy application. I use it to spot clean my beauty blender, by squeezing out some of the foundation with the wipe. Of course washing makeup brushes and sponges is still necessary on a regular basis, but for the quick, daily mini-clean, a baby wipe is perfect. I use it to clean mascara smudges off my face, and off the mascara bottle itself. I use it to wipe eyeshadow fallout off my cheeks, and my desk. The baby wipe is pretty much my super quick one-stop-shop for cleaning everything while and after I do my makeup.
I clean any smudges or mistakes off my face first using a corner of the baby wipe, then I use another corner of the wipe to clean the dirtiest brushes and squeeze my beauty blender, and lastly I ball the whole thing up and wipe my desk. Wham, everything’s clean, and it took next to no time and effort. Revolutionary, I tell you.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m the last person on earth to start doing this but hey, I wanted to share this nonetheless. The tiny, trivial thing that makes my morning just that touch smoother and easier.
Unfortunately wipes are quite bad for the environnement since you can only use them once :/
Well, cotton pads with make up remover are kinda one-use only as well, so… I don’t see an alternative that can be used several times except a wetted cloth, but that won’t work as well as the baby wipe.
Honestly, when growing up, I always used baby wipes because I didn’t use make up regularly and for some reason my mom didn’t have make up remover, so yeah! I always try to use the same one as much as I can before it dries up, usually I only need one :)
re-usable cotton pads exist! I mean, they’re not as multi-purpose as baby wipes, but they do the job ^^
Oh, that’s cool! Never seen them, but happy to know there’s an alternative :D