I recently had my hair and makeup done by a professional HMUA for a trial for my wedding. I don’t put on a lot of makeup myself and it’s been many years since I’ve had my makeup done professionally. I had a few concerns about hygeine but I didn’t want to say anything as I’m not sure if I was overreacting or not. Can you please tell me what you think of the hygeine practices below?

  1. Eyeshadow (powder) - dipping the brush directly into the powder?

  2. Liquid liner/cream blushes - dipping brush directly into pot?

  3. Eye-liner pencil- she sharpened and then drew on my eyes directly (and water line)

  4. mascara - she had this small tube (like sample size but big enough for more than one application say. (It also looked branded, not like a refillable one), she used the applicator directly that was screwed on top of the tube on my eyes.

Is this normal practice or am I overreacting?

  • Shmeestar
    OPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The sharpener was definitely not clean, I could see that it had been previously used.

    Yeah I’m not sure about the mascara, I couldn’t tell if she was using for multiple people but she put the applicator back in the tube which I didn’t think it was quite right but wasn’t sure as maybe she then dumps what’s in there and cleans it (although that seemed unlikely)

    Fairly sure she double dipped the creams/liquid liner