- Renewing Your Makeup Kit

The best tricks for renewing your makeup kit. A few simple tips to put everything in order!

Renew your make up case. Save time in the mornings!

Empty your toiletry bag and put some order in it!:

! Discard all broken products.

! Discard all products beyond their use-by date.

! Check the expiry date on each product. Make up products, once open, should be discarded according to their ingredients. Follow these guidelines:

- Mascara: about three-four months after opening. If you use it a lot it may be that it doesn’t even last three months.

- All texture products in powder form such as shadow, matt powders and foundation -last about two years.

- Foundation in cream form, correctors, shadows or rouges in cream form: these last about a year and a half.

- Lipsticks: about two years.

- Lip gloss: about two years. See when the color or texture changes; it is possible that if you have exposed it to temperature changes then it may have gone off.

- Check the product packaging, a symbol such as this one normally appears and besides it a number and M (for months). The number tells you the number of months for which the product will last in a perfect state once opened. It is also important for you to ask when you buy. Products which last over 36 months will not have this symbol.

- Face creams and cleansers have different shelf lives, depending on their ingredients- They can last from 3 to 12 or 24 months.

Clean all your products with a damp towel, and dry them with a soft cloth. They will come out looking new.

Don’t forget to clean all your brushes, and you’ll see how much easier it is to put make up on. Here’s how:

Natural hair brushes.

! Clean them with a mild shampoo, with a neutral fragrance.
! Rinse them in cold or lukewarm water (avoid using hot water)
! Apply a hair pack or intensive hair conditioner
! Allow it to take effect for a few minutes.
! Rinse again, until you are sure there is no remaining soap.

Synthetic-hair brushes

! Clean your synthetic-hair brushes with a grease-removing product, such as washing-up liquid.
! Rinse them in lukewarm water and ensure there is no remaining soap.

TIP: Always leave your brushes to dry on a towel; never let them dry vertically in a cup, as in this case the water would enter the brush’s handle and ruin it, besides which the hair will part.

- New sponges and powder puffs
- Buy new sponges and powder puffs. They are very accessible and you will feel as though you are trying out a whole range of products for the first time.

TOILETRY BAG

! Wash your toiletry bag in a washing machine, if the material and shape allow it. Otherwise clean it with a damp sponge and eliminate all left-over pencil shavings, broken pencils, bits of make up, etc.
! If you can, buy yourself a new toiletry bag with separate compartments so as to keep all your make up products in order. They’ll last longer that way.
! Acquire small, transparent toiletry bags to store your cotton wool, sponges, and powder puffs, keeping things more hygienic.