A month of Tosowoong (review)

Hi there!

Today I'm gonna tell you all about the Tosowoong pore brush.

 Classic Tosowoong brush and Accent brush (the smaller one for spot cleaning particular places on your face such as the side of your nose or your eyelid etc...)

First of all what is a Tosowoong Brush?

[TOSOWOONG] Clean Pore Brush

Miracle of Deep Cleansing by fine brush!

About 31 thousand bristles compact, it helps you to remove the dirt of your skin completely.

Brand : TOSOWOONG

Clean Pore Brush

Made in Korea

Features

Brand new & high quality

Made in Korea

310.000 of Micro fine brush.

Deeply cleaning without skin irritation

Elasticity and ultra flexible artificial hair can be used longer than animal hair.

Description

0.045mm fine brush hair deeply ceans pore waste, black head. it is mush cleaner to use pore brush than just washing face with hands.

Tosowoong pore brush is dense. so just rubbing skin softly cleans the skin well.

Evenly distributed pressures from artificial brush hair minimizes irritation on the skin. 

Special manufacturing created evenly dense artificial hair, animal hair easily changes, gets odor or gems reproduce. However, the artificial hair is hygienic and elastic, it can be used as semi permenantly.

(all this info was shamelessly pumped up here =P)

My experience with it.

This is the one that I have.

I've heard a lot of good about the Tosowoong brushes everywhere, so I wanted to try it for myself, the thing is, I don't like wooden brushes because I feel like when you wet them repeatedly, after a while they will get super dry and finally break. I've seen that happen before (not from the Tosowoong brand of course as I had never tried it) so that's what made me a bit skeptical abut the whole thing. The thing is, they also have plastic ones and when I discovered that, there was no stopping me anymore! I bought mine from Ebay so it was about 36€ with free shipping. It came at that price because it's a battery powered one. You push this blue button and it starts vibrating rapidly and you apply it to your face and use it in circular motions.  I usually do my entire face then I go back to places that need extra cleaning such as my T-zone , jaw line (I keep getting zits there these days) and my forehead (you can get hair product on your forehead and all over your face too when you have your hair down all day). 

Sometimes I use the Dermalogica instead of the Enzyme powder or I mix both . I like the result: clean and supple skin!

Since the soap is a powder, I usually put a bit in the palm of my hand and put some water then I rub my hands together to get it nice and foamy. Sometimes I mix my Enzyme Powder and the Dermalogica Daily Microfoliant when I need an extra scrub, otherwise I usually choose one of the two . I use this brush 1 or two times a day everyday except for weekends. It hasn't broken me out or made my skin excessively dry (which had been the case with another facial brush that I tried). I also use it with my Tea Tree Oil Face Wash from The Body Shop when I do get a breakout and the zits are way smaller the day after, two days after they're gone!

In conclusion, I would say that I am really satisfied by this brush. I have to admit that when I got it, I was a bit skeptical because the bristles looked longer than they did on the website and I thought that it wouldn't make any difference but it does, really. So I'm happy I tried. 

There are four different models of Tosowoong brushes, here they are in ascending order of price and also from the oldest to the latest. The last one comes with a special sponge so it can be used to apply your base makeup such as primer and or foundation for example. I haven't tried it yet but I have to admit that I'm tempted and have a hard time to choose between this and the Clarisonic brush. >_<' These brushes are available here with free shipping worldwide.

If any of you have tried this brush or other variations of the Tosowoong brush please give me your impressions in the comments down below, I would love to know what other people think of it.

I hope this post helped you understand this brush. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

Take care! Bye!

Sonam

How I wash and take care of my Makeup brushes!

Hi!

I thought I would do this post after watching a video of Naseem Delan where she explained what well known and very hyped up products she didn't fall for and why.

I've been watching her videos for a few weeks now and I'm happy to have discovered  her channel as she is a very sweet and authentic person, which is quite rare on Youtube these days.

I liked this video because she expressed her honest opinion about a few things including the famous Sigma Spa™ Brush Cleaning Glove (here you can see MakeupSavvy found a much cheaper dupe of it =)).

I'd like to talk about that because at first I thought that it seemed like another completely useless and over-hyped product and it's also way too expensive, but there's actually one good side to it: it sparked my imagination!

When I saw this I figured that I could use a simple object to take my brush cleaning to another level. Any makeup user or makeup artist knows how time consuming and plain boring brush cleaning can be so anything that can make me save up some of my precious time is more than welcome.

Here's what I use to wash my brushes:

Daiso Japan Makeup brush cleaning Detergent

and this:

I trimmed some of the bristles for smaller brushes or thick brushes with shorter bristles!

It's actually a brush that I use to wash my hair, it really gets in there when you want to scrub your scalp or if you need to detangle your hair when it's dry (doing it wet is a big no no!!!). This is quite inexpensive. I saw it on Ebay for a few dollars (if you follow the link you can see a few suggestions).

I also use this to make them dry, they're dupes of the brush guards and I got them for pennies on ebay here and here.

It allows me to put them upside down in a container so that the water will drip right out and not damage the base of the bristles where the glue binds them together (example here), it also preserves the shape of the bristles.

What I do: I take all of the brushes and wet them a bit then I lay them flat (so that the water doesn't get into the metal thingie ferule!)

Then I take them one by one and apply some of the soap on them and start swirling the bristles on the hair brush,

this will remove most of the residue as you can see here. Then I rinse,but  for my bigger or thicker brushes I wash them again to make sure that it's really clean

and then I put them in these brush guard things that I got from Ebay and put them head down in a glass container and leave them until they're dry. 

Voila!

These few steps may seem complicated but they're actually quite easy and they will help you keep your brushes far longer and save you some time and water because the brushes are very clean very fast.

Sometimes we pay big bucks for our brushes so the least we can do is take care of them as much as we can.

Th detergent that I use on the brushes is quite drying, when I used to wash my brushes with my hands I noticed that so maybe you would like to try something less harsh or more eco-friendly, for that I suggest using some liquid castille soap (example here). You can also add some olive oil with the soap that you use to make the bristles stay nice and shiny.

The picture that I linked of a makeup brush and what is inside is from Evgeny Cosmetics' Facebook Page, I thought that it would be a good way to show the inside of makeup brushes and understand why you should be careful when washing them. He used some sort of twine to keep the bristles together then there's glue binding them on the tips but I've seen the inside of another random makeup brush and there wasn't any twine so you can imagine that if the bristles are only held by the glue, it's quite delicate.

Also if you are interested in beauty and fashion you can visit Naseem's Youtube Channel she has some amazing makeup looks and also some fitness tips there. There's also MakeupSavvy's blog where you can find a lot of makeup tips and tutorials and even blogging tips too! I will soon make a section with my favorite beauty Gurus on the blog.

I also wanted to add this link that gives some more information about makeup brushes: link.

I hope this post helped you in some kind of way. If you have any questions don't hesitate to leave them down below, I will be more than happy to answer them.

Take care,Bye!

Sonam