How to Clean Acrylic Nail Brushes

 How to Clean Acrylic Nail Brushes

In this blog post, I want to share some very simple tips on how to clean acrylic nail brushes.
Since it is very important to maintain our main work tool.
On the YouTube channel nail art, I showed you a few months ago how to differentiate a kolinsky quality brush from a synthetic one.

- How to Clean Acrylic Nail Brushes And Nail Art Accessories

Now I want to show you how I clean my acrylic nail brushes, and thus extend the life of each one of them.

Sometimes I am asked if you can clean the acrylic brush with acetone, and from my personal experience I do not recommend it.
In this video you can see the explanation why I never use acetone to clean my kolinsky brushes, and by the way you know in detail what brush you can use to apply acrylic nails.


After watching the video, we will continue with these simple steps to clean or repair an acrylic brush.

How to clean and repair our acrylic nail brushes.


First step.- The first option is our monomer (whatever brand it is) and this happens because by dipping our brush into the monomer, we are continuously cleaning it and the coat of your brush is hydrated, and this prevents clumps of acrylic on it.


It also depends on the way we clean it, you can clean your brush on a napkin in a circular way, if the splint of the brush is rounded.
When the splint is flat, we will clean it by sweeping or sliding.
If you do not know what type of splint your acrylic brush has, do not worry in the video above I explain it in detail.
So, before thinking about disposing of your brush, try clean monomer and, if you can, insert a marble into your godet, to help you separate the hair from your brush.
When the first step does not work we will go with the second.



Second step.- With vegetable glycerin, believe it or not, vegetable glycerin, in addition to being useful for beauty treatments on our skin and hair.
It is also used for cleaning brushes, whether synthetic or made of another material, in this case it would be a kolinsky quality brush.


As an extra tip you can also clean your makeup brushes with it.
You can find it in any supermarket (Soriana, Walmart, Costco, etc.) or in health food stores, it has an economic cost, and it cannot be missing at home.
It is the same procedure as with the monomer, you are going to pour a little glycerin into your godete and with circular movements you are going to clean your brushes, until they no longer have lumps, and it is very important to shape the tip.
You leave them for one night and the next day as new.

If the second step does not work, we go to the third.


Third step.- Shaper by Organic Nails, with this method you have no loss, this restorer for brushes has an effect that helps to contract the bristles of your brushes, making them return to their original tip.
It is only for the use of kolinsky bristles, marla and sabers.
Not suitable for synthetic brushes.

conclusion
When none of the above steps work, it is best to cut the affected hairs.
And use the brush for other uses, just as I did when it occurred to me to clean it with acetone, at least some part of my brush I could rescue.
I hope these tips help you, I already tried them and they worked for me.
I hope they work for you too.
See you soon.