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I’ve been a bad, bad girl … I have not cleaned my makeup brushes in a very long time. Well ever really. So it’s no wonder why my skin has been a little temperamental lately now that I’m starting to wear more makeup again!

A dirty makeup brush can mean more acne because every time you use it you’re potentially picking up toxins, dead skin cells, oils and bacteria that are sitting on your skin, so next time you use it you’re putting all of that yucky stuff right back on again. Especially if you’ve been using your brush when you’ve got active acne. Anything you touch your face with or apply to your face should be clean, clean clean, so keeping your makeup brush toxin-free is essential.

Washing your brushes will also extend the life of the brush. Which makes sense if you think about it. Anything you look after, take care of and regularly wash is naturally just going to last longer. So if you’re like me and made a big investment when you purchased your top quality brush, then you want to make sure you get as much use out of it as you can.

And this goes for all sponges and tools that you use to apply your makeup. Everything needs to be regularly cleaned!

How to wash your makeup brush

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Honestly the best advice I can give you is to not even wear makeup at all because having nothing on your skin will always be the healthiest way. However, I know from personal experience how fantastic makeup can be to cover spots, so while your acne is healing there are some types of makeup that you can confidently wear without it making your skin worse.

I often get asked for advice on makeup brands but brand-wise I’m not really the best person to ask because when I’m shopping for makeup I do a lot of research to find a good one then stick with it for years. But I can tell you a few important tips that will definitely help you to find the best ever makeup that’s just right for you.

1. Only wear mineral makeup

I’ve blogged a bit about this one in the past. Mineral makeup is a gift from heaven for acne prone skin. So if you’re currently using any liquid foundations, go and throw them away because they’ll do more harm than good.

Mineral makeup is better because it sits on the surface of the skin so does not and will not clog your pores which means it won’t make your acne worse. I wore mineral makeup every day when I was clearing my skin and I managed to go from severe acne to clear skin while wearing mineral makeup every day. So this just proves that the makeup did not make my skin worse. Having said that, I did make sure I washed it off every night before I went to bed or even earlier if possible.

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I find it really hard to choose a mineral makeup brand because there are just so many available. Bel wrote a tip in the acne & makeup page about a great new line called Inika, which she thinks is the best mineral makeup she’s tried yet.

Sorry Bel, but I was thinking ‘Oh yeah, another one’. But they do have a very convincing website. I LOVE it how they say their products are vegan friendly …although to be honest, I kind of thought all cruelty free makeup brands where? What ..do they put milk and eggs in them? Here’s some text from their website:

It is our mission to introduce the world to a new era in cosmetics, one where you don’t have to compromise color or performance, to be kind to your skin and gentle to the earth.
We have created pure and natural mineral cosmetics that are 100% certified Vegan and Cruelty Free and many of our ingredients are certified 100% Organic. Inika do not use potentially harmful chemicals, toxins, talc, bismuth oxychloride, parabens or GM ingredients.
Inika cosmetics are made of Australia - quite literaly made from the very rocks that form our land. Inika is so pure that it is actually good for your skin.

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I’ve been looking for one of these for AGES. I was reading the Organic Beauty Experts blog today and she had a great article about a new nail polish brand - Priti which apparantly is safe to use because it’s soy based and contains no formaldehyde, toulene or dbp. The nail polish remove is also made from soy, which err ..just sounds healthy.

This nail polish is great for pregnant women, kids and well just anyone that doesn’t want to put any more toxins into their body. That’s me!

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I’ve just created a makeup and acne page in High on Health. You can view it by clicking here: http://www.highonhealth.org/makeup/

I wanted to show you my technique of applying mineral makeup that I’ve been using over the past year or so. It did a really great job at covering my acne when it was really bad. I also went from severe acne to clear skin while using this makeup almost every day so I think that is some indication that the makeup does not cause breakouts! which is really awesome

Please let me know if you have any additional makeup tips, I’d love to hear from you. I’m not a makeup artist (ssssshhhhh! I should really have got my makeup artist friend Nic to show you these tips) but this technique has been working so well for me I thought, oh well …it’s definitely great information that I can pass on.

So, enjoy the video series … In the future I’ll be adding any additional makeup and acne information that I find to that page. http://www.highonhealth.org/makeup/

Fran