How do you store your makeup brushes?
I store mine in glass cups (like for drinking) and have them 1/3 to 1/2 filled with glass beads to help the brushes stand up.
— Christine
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Hey Christine, I store my brushes in some pencil holders from World Market and a large planter I found at Marshalls. I have been looking for glass beads to fill them with, do you mind sharing where you get yours from and what brand you use?
save-on-crafts.com has them! There’s just one type 🙂
How do you store your double ended brushes, Christine?
The same way, I just don’t care about one side. I probably only have one or two!
My face and cheek brushes are stored upright in a plastic tumbler and the larger third of an three way divided office container that looks a bit like a metal mesh tumbler. Eye brushes are stored upright, even the double ended ones, in a few plastic office desk drawer containers. Strangely, this has had no negative effect on the double ended ones.
big Star Wars mug!
Glass jars purchased from the dollar store that were meant to hold candles.
In the e.l.f. brush holders I mentioned recently (I also use them for eyeliners). No beads or anything, they’re just free to rustle around in there ha ha
Same..cups with beads.
I store my brushes in a large metal mesh cup, but I am looking for a different kind of container – one that has compartments so I can store the differently sized brushes better.
I store mine in the big Rephr brush containers that used to be sold at the start of that company shipping brushes to you in- it works out so well, but I’m going to get some of those glass beads, too, to help them stay up straighter. Nice idea! Thanks Christine!
I have a few square glass vases from the dollar store, they work very well. I divide my brushes: I have a Sonia G vase, a Wayne Goss vase, a synthetic eye brush vase and a synthetic face brush vase. I don’t use beads on the bottom as they are only a few inches high.
I have my brushes in silver mercury glass candle holders. Each one is about 4-5 inches tall. I have the brushes divided by function like eyes, highlighter, blush, and other face.
I store mine in dice cups, since they are inner lined with soft material (fake velvet). I was worried about the finish of my brushes on the edges of a glass tumbler or the bottom. I got them off Amazon. It is not perfect but I’m using 4 dice cups and it seems to work wells o far.
I guess I’m the only one keeping them in cases, a little like pencil cases, but not exactly.
I bought a pack with 4 pleather cases, 4 differents sizes, with beautiful sunseed design on them, and I store my pencil, and eyeliner in the smaller one, then, my eye and small brushes into the next bigger one, and big brushes in the next bigger one. The biggest case is perfect for putting makeup to travel.
I don’t use them everyday, so I’m worry about dust and I have a dog, and even if she is short-haired, they are everywhere, so, dog hair too, even if they are for the moment stored in a closet.