How many of you take your sheets right out of the packaging and throw them on your bed? They’re crisp and clean and make you feel good to know you’ve dressed up your bed in something nice. Now as you admire your freshly made bed and start to mentally decorate it with pillows, take a moment to think of how your lovely product was made. Did I magically fall from the clouds? Probably not. It came from a factory. One that had to put the cotton through the looms to create the pattern, then through the sewing machines to create the seams, and finally through the packaging machine that takes and folds the products and shoves them in a bag. In your mind are these machines sterile? Does no one handle the sheets for quality assurance sneeze? Are there no rodents that may or may not have doodled on the cotton before it was run through the loom? If so, I’d like to know where THAT factory is because the fact of the matter is that thinking that way just isn’t realistic. Ideally, you get your sheets home, take them out of the packaging, and throw them in the wash. Get all the factory and warehouse gunk off them before you put them on your clean mattress and lay on them after a shower!

This same thought process should be applied when first using new makeup brushes. Yes, we all want to get them home, rip them out of their packaging and begin using them right away but keep in mind we’re talking about YOUR FACE! Think of how many hands have touched that brush before it was packaged. Did anyone have a cold? Did they use the bathroom and NOT wash their hands? How could you ever know? You can’t. So, please try to make it a habit of when you get new brushes, the first thing you do is give them a spa day. It’s also a polite way to welcome the girls into your brush family anyway. Lay them to dry and know that after they’ve had their R & R they will be ready for use and will deliver the best performance ever!

So this giant blog was basically a “note to self, don’t be gross and wash your brushes FIRST’. This has been a public service blog. LOL