Putting Clear Nail Polish on MAC Brushes

[jacquieboo]

Hey, guys. How many of you put clear nail polish over your MAC brush labels?

Here's a question for you:

Do you put clear nail polish over the brand names of all your brushes, or just the MAC ones.. because they're "MAC"?

Am I the only one who finds this slightly obsessive?

I've read some of the most RIDICULOUS complaints regarding makeup brushes.

My thoughts: Brushes are bound to stain with everyday use. The bristles can't stay in perfect shape forever. They're going to curl/have fly aways. Unless you do makeup tutorials on YouTube or work at a makeup counter and NEED to remember the #'s of the brushes, I don't see the point of using clear nail polish over the logo. There should be more concern with how the brush works, rather than the way it looks.

I'm all about taking care of your brushes, but people take it way too far.

Anyone agree?

 

[l1onqueen]

Well...I started doing it because whenever I watched a video tutorial the guru would say get your 242 brush, and I wasn't always sure which one it was! The other thing I started to do was customize my brushes with a certain nail polish color on the since my sister would swipe my brushes when hers got ratty!

 

[nez_o]

I do this. I see no problem with it either. But, I also do this because if someone says to use to 217 brush (or any other brush) in a tutorial, I don't know which brush it is.

I am very new to mac, and makeup in general. Maybe in the future when I am more comfortable I may not do this, but for now, I need to.

 

[BeautyizPain]

I dont see anything wrong with this at all...MAC brushes are an investment that with great care can last years and years..there is nothing wrong with trying to keep them looking great for as long as you can including how the label looks...and secondly if you ever want to sell them down the road it will be easier to do so with a label intact...

 

[stronqerx]

I don't do it on my other brushes, cause for some reason the brand never rubs off. I always wondered why the number rubbed off so easily on my mac brushes and not less expensive ones like (ie: sonia kashuk). Personally I started doing the clear nail polish because yeah they're mac, I am not even going to lie. I like seeing my brushes look clean and with the silver engraving of the number, it makes them look fresh. Personally I am not that ocd about my mac brushes. Both of my 239's are stained blue, but they work fine, so I am not losing sleep over it lol, eventually it starts to fade away. There's nothing wrong with wanting to keep the number on your brushes or caring less if it rubbed off, to each his own.

 

[xxManBeaterxx]

I'm not a makeup artist, nor am i youtube guru so theirs really no need for me to preserve the lettering, but i still put clear nail polish over them.

I only put them on my mac brushes. Just as the poster above me stated, writing on my other brushes never wear off, just the mac ones. I mainly want to preserve my face brushes, espeically since they were an expensive investment i like to keep it the way i bought it. And for many others, its nice to know which brush your using sometimes, the lettering of many of my eye brushes wore off and i often have to check back on the website to remember the number when ever a friend asks me or if im trying to copy someones tutorial on youtube.

 

[TISH1124]

I am OCD...I put clear polish over all my brush labels....My lipstick name labels, blushes etc....I like everything to say clear and legible....

 

[malaviKat]

I put polish over the label. But I've done this to my inexpensive powder brush and my Sigma brushes as well. I figured that since I was in the habit of doing this with MAC, I'd extend the courtesy to the rest of my collection. I fully admit to being anal retentive though... one only needs to look at my collection to see the truth of that statement.

I like the way a crisp label looks on a MAC brush. I treat my brushes very well and I look upon them as an investment. Some of them are so expensive it's hard to see them in any other light, to be honest. I only wish I'd been more particular about some of my MAC labels when I first got the brushes. Some of them were picked out by MAs and they had very shallow stamping so the labels don't show up as well as others. No amount of nail polish can help me there!

(I'm less anal retentive than when I started... I used to mask off the label before I put on polish so my lines were perfectly straight.) !

LOL

 

[malaviKat]

Quote:

Originally Posted by TISH1124 I am OCD...I put clear polish over all my brush labels....My lipstick name labels, blushes etc....I like everything to say clear and legible....

You are a woman after my own heart.

 

[Mochahantas]

I put clear polish on my MAC brushes.

Yes, I put it on there because I want to preserve the name. I don't see the big deal. Some call it obsessive, I call it my money, so I do what I want.

We pay over 50 bucks for some of these brushes. Why someone would question other trying to preserve the lettering on the brush is beside me. But, oh wellz!

 

[gigiopolis]

I don't do it because 1) I have really excellent memory, 2) I can't think of a time where I'd need to refer back to the brush number anyway, and 3) I sort of like it when brushes have that "used" kind of look - not abused, of course, but tenderly "loved". But also, I don't think it's OCD at all if you feel like you want to do it. There are many other aspects in life that I'm EXTREMELY OCD, it's just that brushes doesn't seem to be one of them. Hell, I can spend hours arranging books by author alphabetically, and then by genre, and then by size.

I don't have many other different kinds of lipsticks (especially from one brand), or products period in which I'd rub off the label, but if I did, I would definitely protect them in case I run out and need to buy another one ASAP!

 

[LMD84]

yes i put clear polish over my mac brushes. and only my mac brushes because all my other cheapie make up brushes have no logos or numbers on them. if they did i would put varnish on those too! i like to see what i have got. and i like knowning the number because i keep track of all that i have in a database. that way i don't stupidly go out and buy a brush i alreayd have (unless it is purposley done!)

 

[elektra513]

I like the thought of me having these expensive ass brushes 10 yrs down the road and they still look as good as new.

So yeah, I put clear nail polish on the labels. I also keep them clean. It's not OCD imo. Most of mine are MAC brushes anyways...

To me it's just like keeping Tiffany jewelry clean...you never know--they might become family heirlooms, lol.

 

[t4ruh]

oo good idea. i'll have to try this.

 

[User38]

I have a lot of brushes...several sets in fact. I have never put clear polish on any of my brushes because the number is not important to me after I have bought it and use it. I instinctively know which brush to use where and when.. and as far as labelling my products, again I usually go with my instinct and knowledge of color in order to do my makeup. Some of my brushes are about 20 years old.. MAC, old Kolinsky's, Grumbacher, Trish McEvoy, NARS, etc.... I love them and use them, but will not obsess about their names or numbers

 

[bellydancer]

I like keeping the mac logo and numbers too but instead of using clear nail polish I just keep a brush guard on them.

 

[saccharinity]

I put clear nail polish on my mac brushes so I can simply identify it. If I want to ask a question about a brush, replace a brush or swap a brush away then knowing the number is useful even though I am not a professional makeup artist.

 

[makeupmakeup]

I do this to help keep the #'s on them. I don't use all my brushes all the time So when i watch a tutorial or someone tells me to use such and such brush for the look i can find which brush it is, it also helps when iam doing somones makeup and they want to know what brush it is so they can go get it themselves. I guess i like to have nice looking brushes when i do other peoples makeup!

 

[nichollecaren]

Heck, at 50+ bucks a pop, i'd dip the whole handle in polish to keep my investment pristine. I'm a bit odd tho...the idea of adding something to it (like painting the ends pink) just irks me, cuz it wont look 'new out of plastic' again.

no apologies here.

 

[gildedangel]

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Originally Posted by nichollecaren Heck, at 50+ bucks a pop, i'd dip the whole handle in polish to keep my investment pristine. I'm a bit odd tho...the idea of adding something to it (like painting the ends pink) just irks me, cuz it wont look 'new out of plastic' again. no apologies here.

I am the same way! I can't stand when something of mine doesn't look like it did the day I got it. I don't add any personal details to any of my things really....