Your makeup drawer can become disorganized very quickly, regardless of how properly it’s kept. Tracers of translucent powder, spilled foundation, and dropped palettes are all possible results of hectic mornings. Furthermore, if you don’t clean brushes and blenders frequently enough, they can readily gather dust and pathogens. Then there’s the propensity to throw everything into your makeup drawer in a last-ditch effort to clean up before leaving.
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Makeup Items You Should do Away With Asap
Additional Items
Small household items such as bobby pins, misplaced hair ties, and contact lens packaging can easily find their way into your makeup drawer. Spend some time removing anything that isn’t needed and putting it somewhere else. It’s okay as long as you’re intentional if it’s convenient to store a few clips in the drawer to keep your hair out of your face as you do cosmetics.
Expired Cosmetics
The majority of other makeup will last you one to two years, but once more, it’s best to discard it if you’re not sure when it expires. There is a chance that utilizing expired items will cause rashes or infections, especially if the product comes into contact with your skin. When your holy grail product begins to smell terrible or separate, looks clumpy, or oxidizes right away after application, you’ll know it’s time to part with it.
It can be tempting to hang onto an eyeshadow palette you never use or an incorrect blush hue you purchased years ago since makeup can be pricey. However, clearing out items you no longer require frees up storage space for the items you do use frequently.
More than three months old mascara
Speaking of items touching your eyes, a lot of eye makeup is designed to last longer than regular makeup. The one to keep an eye out for is mascara. Three months after opening, it should be thrown out to prevent illnesses, per the FDA1.
Eyelash curlers, tweezers, and more tools
Everything that comes into contact with your hands and face and could potentially harbor bacteria should be cleaned on a regular basis. Cleaning your tweezers, favorite lash curler or false lash applicator, brow spatula, mascara shield, pencil sharpener, and other tools you use for makeup application on a regular basis is essential.
Certain tools, like tweezers, require sanitization after each use in order to maintain their sterility. Luckily, the same common household materials can take care of them all. Just use hydrogen peroxide or rubbing alcohol to clean them. Before using your tools again, make sure to give them a thorough air drying and water rinse.
Messy Makeup Packaging
Messes are unavoidable because most makeup drawers are stocked with liquids, compacts, and powders. Your liquid foundation may be spilling out of its pump or your eyeshadow palettes may be covered in a layer of pigment if you haven’t cleaned them in a while. Make a commitment to using a moist paper towel or makeup remover wipe to clean off bottles and palettes as soon as you see them. This will lessen the likelihood of spills spreading and products being wasted.
If you happen to have a damaged blush palette or shattered bronzer on your hands, you can fix it by using rubbing alcohol once more.
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