Side Effects of Sharing Makeup Beauty Products
Don’t share makeup and skin care products! Do your's AND your friend’s skin a favor!
Beauty products, specially your makeup brushes, blenders and applicators are the source of transferring staph viruses and bacteria to one another.
What may look flawless onto your beauty blogger’s skin may cause breakouts on yours.
Always keep your beauty products clean and NEVER share your applicators with one another no matter how strong the friendship.
In every get together with either friends or your favorite cousins, there is always a famous drill. A clustered group is gathered around the mirror and there is a whole new level of hustle and bustle going around. The sound of the blow dryers at one corner followed by some hair styling going around in the other corner, some struggling with their eyelashes and the rest fighting over the beauty products such as the makeup pallets and makeup brushes! There is always a ‘scene’ created at such moments whether there is a hang out or a ‘hang in’.
Makeup Sharing with Friends:
Within these moments it is also certain that some of the individuals will swap their beauty products to give themselves the perfect glam. Or if one has the most outstanding brand collection, their beauty products are confirm to be shared among the individuals hence promoting a ‘sharing is caring’ aroma within the environment. Some friend may toss the perfect matching shade onto their friend’s eyelids, some will carefully put on the perfect eyeliner onto their best friends, some will snatch your brushes for highlighter and blush, all such moments are bound to happen within the cluster present in front of the mirror.
Sharing Beauty Products means Sharing Viruses and Bacteria:
Among the beauty products that should NEVER be shared are the brushes, applicators and makeup beauty blenders! According to the expert Dermatologist Dr. Adriana Schmidt, some people have more concentration of staph present onto their skins than others and they may not know it. Sharing their beauty products means transferring of those viruses and bacteria to one another which may lead to severe skin diseases. Once a skin care moisturizer is contaminated, it will remain so till the last swap. Moreover we are so inspired by the makeup bloggers that we forget the fact that what works on their skin type might not work on ours. Even dipping into a Wax container being used by more than one person is harmful to the individual.Read More