Jessyka Ann wrote:
why would someone blow on brushes? I have never done that and I'm no MUA! lmao

I guess she prefers to blow

Glamourpuss Make-UpHair wrote:
This is a little different, but thought I'd add it anyway...

I once had a shoot for a girl who was putting together her comp card.  She had her hair back in a ponytail and it looked slightly damp. 

When I went to g work on it, it turned out that it wasn't damp, just very GREASY and smelly.  I thought I was going to die!!!  I refused to work on her and she got sent home.

For me, that was a horror story!

I had a model with head lice! I had to throw away everything that touched her...my cape, comb,brush. GROSS!

Elegy Ink wrote:

I literally screamed in horror when I saw this! ugh thats so gross I wanna cry, and I've never even had this!

Never had it??

Darling I don't want you to poop yourself but... Everyone has lash mites!

Angelah_ wrote:

GROSS!  The only time I reuse fake lashes is when they are on myself.  Hell, I've used one pair over 15 times already, hahah.  But to switch them from girl to girl is so disgusting.

yes it is disgusting,

But actually you CAN reuse them (if they still look like new) but you have to follow these rules:

1. Clean from the glue
2. Remove any makeup with milk or makeup remover, etc...
3. DESINFECT it with 70%+ Alcohol (I use 99%) to kill all bacteria (I sink them for 10 min in alcohol)
4. Let them dry in original package
5. Curl them back with curling tong or you can also use hairdryer

x

Mz Chio Makeup  wrote:
2) One of the greenlights at MAC, was testing the lipsticks on herself with cold sores instead of using a wand or dipping it in alcohol, so I had to say something- GO HOME.

LMFAO

Reby wrote:
Why is blowing on brushes bad ?

deposits saliva on the brushes....you may as well just lick the person's face

Manda Marie88 wrote:

deposits saliva on the brushes....you may as well just lick the person's face

ew. ok thanks.

Claire Dickinson wrote:
This isnt about cleanliness BUT- I was working with a girl once (another MUA) and the model had tired eyes.

So the MUA put some eyedrops in one of her eyes, but she didn't actually LOOK at the product..... and had put EYELASH GLUE into this models eyes!!!!!

We rushed her to hospital and managed to save one of the models eyes.

Safe to say I always check my products twice AND that MUA never workd in this industry again O_O!

Scary times.

D:


stfu!!!

what happened to the other eye?!

Jen Johnson Makeup Art wrote:
Someone said they don't touch a person with a cold sore(soar)...so what do you do? You're on set and you gotta put lipstick and liner on her what d'ya do?

Recently, I've tossed a lip liner because a girl had a cold soar and a lip brush. I had to put lips on her. But even after sanitizing the crap outta of each, it was better to be safe than sorry, so both went in the trash. As I was waiting for another model to come sit in my chair I was watching the other MUA... holy moly, I cringed with the eebie geeebies... she used same liner on every girl no wash-no sharpen, same face brush no wash, HOLY MOLY... No hand sanitizer (I santize after every face), no alcohol to soak lip liners, eye liners in, no sharpener to sharpen after each use. I NEVER EVER DOUBLE DIP.. not even my chips and dip...WTF?? Crazy grossness was happening. OH and NO disposable mascara wands!!!! OMG that's just plain nuts... sorry but have to mention this... it was a M.A.C. girl. **I'm just sayin****

Please, please, please tell me you said something!

Elizabeth Gerbino wrote:

the moisturizer lady made me LOL. I bet it's funny looking back on it....

Kaylene Scherb wrote:
Eyelash mite:

fuck that nearly made me throw up. jesus fucking christ, im like choking back. that is SO scary. I want to burn my eyelashes off or dip them in alcohol.

Just Kiss N Makeup wrote:

fuck that nearly made me throw up. jesus fucking christ, im like choking back. that is SO scary. I want to burn my eyelashes off or dip them in alcohol.

agreed!! that is disgusting. i rarely wear make-up and i was curious why the root of my eyelashes always itched. i guess this is the reason. disgusting.

Jessika Dorian wrote:

In a way, I think they're kinda cute

I agree to be honest >_< Probably because I wasn't scared because I know we all have these little guys.

But yeah, I gotta admit I'm one of those people who use my fingers in powder at makeup counters. In my defense - most counters don't have anything else to apply things with. When I first went into a -real- makeup counter that had stuff I was so embarassed that I'd used my fingers...
Oddly, even the staff at Myer counters (uum a chain store, slightly upmarket for all you non-aussies) when they ask if you need help, never hand over a cotton tip or anything. Wtf? Hence why I thought it was normal to use fingers, I guess I just assumed that they would clean the counter makeup regularly...
And I use the product on the back of my hand - god never my face. I grew up with coldsores, and the first thing I learned was NEVER EVER touch anything while I have them, and be paranoid cos other people are stupider than me. I worry about people who don't make sure they themselves are clean before touching anything. I carry babywipes and antibac everywhere where I may have to touch someone/product.

Ashley Gravelle wrote:
Ugh. Back when I was in school I remember one girl who had HORRIBLE skin. And did absolutely nothing about it. Really dehydrated, acne, etc. Of course no one wanted to work with her but I got stuck one day.

She had a really nasty blemish on the side of her face that I said I wasn't going to touch (remember, we're in class, so it was ok) and she just flat out said "Oh no, it's no problem" and POPPED IT THEN LICKED HER FINGERS AND WIPED IT ON MY TOWEL. I almost threw up and refused to work on her.

Then at the end of the class I noticed she used all her kit products on herself (I'm anal and keep my own bag of MU) and saw her licking all her brushes that obviously weren't cleaned at all since they were leaving streaks on her tongue.

Ugh. How people like that manage to work in the industry is beyond me. I always make sure to clean everything as much as possible and even get all of my metal tools autoclaved (yay for having friends in tattoo parlours).

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

DreadDoll wrote:
Not to hijack the thread... but I'm curious about what everyone considers hygenic?
Everyone has different standards right?


Personally, I grew up with a microbiologist mother, who in turn made me into a germaphobe.
I think I'm obsessivley clean about my kit.  I

Just wondering how everyone keeps their shadow and blush palettes sanitary?

My mom is a germaphobic RN lol. and in turn, my brothers and I are complete germaphobs! i scrape EVERYTHING out of my palettes, lip glosses, lip sticks etc etc with a clean spatula,onto a clean palette....which is first sprayed down with alcohol and wiped off, in between EVERY model. i wash my hands and alcohol them before touching makeup, a models face, anything. i hardcore shampoo my brushes after every shoot. harsh on the brush, maybe, but i make sure not to pass anything funky to the next person they touch!

Dashee wrote:

yes it is disgusting,

But actually you CAN reuse them (if they still look like new) but you have to follow these rules:

1. Clean from the glue
2. Remove any makeup with milk or makeup remover, etc...
3. DESINFECT it with 70%+ Alcohol (I use 99%) to kill all bacteria (I sink them for 10 min in alcohol)
4. Let them dry in original package
5. Curl them back with curling tong or you can also use hairdryer

x

thankyou for pointing that out!

SoAddicted wrote:
When I 1st began modeling I had a makup artist lick his liner brush to give me a more presice line on my eye lid. I smacked the brush right out of his hand and told him NO you will not ut that in my eye.

thats nasty!!!!

Sara Vipond Artistry wrote:
I worked in a boutique where we were pretty good about being hygenic:  each artist had their own set of brushes that were sprayed down with alcohol between customers and washed every night, lipsticks were shaved for each customer, disposable mascara wands. 

But I had plenty of customers that were nast.  Women with pink-eye would come in and ask for eye looks.  Women with cold sores would ask for lipstick.  We were expected to just do it, but I would always ask what the deal was with their faces and tell them I couldn't do it.  Most people backed off when I brought up "for hygenic reasons," but some totally didn't - they didn't care!  I'd always throw away the brush after I used it then go and wash my hands for about ten minutes.

When I was in college, I worked at a counter in Macy's Herald Square and we had one set - ONE SET - of brushes for the whole counter.  The same brush set that was sitting out for customers to touch and feel.  This is the biggest Clinique counter in the tri-state area as far as I know and we were expected to use one set of brushes on the hundreds of customers that would ask for makeovers each week.  Did we have brush cleaner?  No.  I was told by a manager to just wipe them on a dry tissue until there was no more color before using on another customer.  I tried to avoid doing makeup at all costs but when I had to, I just made do with cotton balls and q-tips because there was no way I was going to go rub some staph covered brush all over someone's eyelid.

We also didn't have a sink.  The closest sink was at the Shiseido counter which was right across from us, but much too far for most of my coworkers to walk.  They would just spray their hands with water or alcohol, whichever was available, and get to work rubbing germs and bacteria all over people's faces.

I've worked for other makeup companies, and while none were as bad as Clinique in the nastiness department, they still weren't as clean as they could/should be.  This is why I tell everyone I know, never EVER have your makeup done at a counter or store.  You don't know what is going on between the trifling customers who touch in the makeup and the trifling employees who don't clean up after them.

I'm happy to say all of the real artists that I've assisted and worked with have been very hygienic.

JasmineBowen wrote:
As for Donald Trump---when I worked with him, as a model, he wouldn't even shake our hands "Hi, thanks for being here 12 hours a day while I do NOTHING"...nope. Just come in, pose for pictures, and he's off, while we are stuck at his convention...."being the fun girls, handing out candy" *rolls eyes*

Completely off-topic from the original thread, but a couple of my friends worked at his convention here in Toronto two years ago, and they said he was ridiculously nice. Like, shaking everyone's hand, smiling, getting names, endlessly posing for personal pictures, nice.

My horror story: a MUA came to a shoot with a cold.. was telling me her life story and she would cough and cover her mouth with her hand.. which she later used to apply foundation to my face, needless to say, without sanitizing. I didn't even realize because I was too intrigued by the photographer setting up the lighting, but when I realized.. shudder.