Recently I have been doing a lot of face painting with greasepaints, they work really well for painting and last really well on the skin, however when it comes to cleaning them off my brushes I have been having a complete nightmare!
The greasepaint's are not water based so do not just rinse off, you need to use a soap based product and really scrub the bristles to remove the paint.
When flicking through Cute the other day I was drawn to a cute device called a Brush Egg, it looked a little basic however had some really good reviews and was only a $1 so I thought why not try it out.
The device has arrived today so excited I thought I would have a quick go and see if it really works!
As you can see from the image above my brush was pretty dirty, the greasepaint was fairly thickly on the bristles and in desperate need of a clean.
The product actually is around the size of a medium hens egg and looks like one that has been cut down the middle, it's made of thick rubber and came packaged in a small clear bag.
On the flat side of the egg there are two different selections of bristles, one looks a little like a draining board and the other a brush bristle.
The back of the egg once opened has the name embossed in a pretty font across the bottom of the egg.
On the very bottom there is a hollow area, I assume this is a finger hole, the product actually comes with no instructions so it is all down to guess work!
The bristle area of the egg is fairly soft to the touch and gave way when I pressed on it but gave enough resistance that it would allow some resistance on the makeup brush bristles.
To use I took my brush egg and squirted some face wash onto the bristles, I have found my face washes are the best products to remove the facepaints because they are already designed to help remove stubborn waterproof makeup.
Next I ran the Brush Egg under the water to get some lather and proceeded to simply run my brush back and forward over the bristles.
Immediately the facewash got to work and started breaking up the greasepaint, the movement of rubbing the brush over the ridges helped spread the face wash onto all the bristles and within seconds my brush was looking spotless. I added a small amount of wash to the small bristle section of the Brush Egg to make sure I had got everything removed from the brush then simply ran both under the tap.
The egg came clean with just a small amount of water and the brush was spotless!
I have to say I am extremely impressed, normally these brushes take me a few minutes each to clean and I usually end up with face paint spattered all over the sink and all over my hands.
Non of this happened, the paint dripped evenly down the ridges and into the stream of water, there was no spatter and my hands were completely clean and it took around 40 seconds to fully clean from start to finish!
I can not believe something so simple worked so well!
For me this is a 10 out of 10! I can not believe I have managed this long without one in my beauty bag!
Now where are the rest of my brushes :-)
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