It took several skin and eye infections to learn an important lesson . . . the makeup brushes that touch my face and eyes need to be impeccably clean!
I was so young when I started acting in telenovelas that I had a lot to learn and absorb. At first, it was so common to have my makeup applied with shared brushes and products that I did not think too much about it. Then, when I started breaking out too often, it dawned on me that I needed to stop that right away.
Nowadays, I do my own makeup 90 percent of the time. I always use my own products, and I do not share anything with anybody. When I have to get my makeup done professionally, my makeup artists keep my sets of brushes and products in bags labeled with my name so nobody else would use them.
I can't stress this enough. Do not use any products on your skin, eyes, and lips that someone else has tried before you. There are cases in which the infections acquired from shared brushes have been so severe that people end up incapacitated from them. I also know of people who have acquired lifelong infections on their lips, such as herpes, from shared lipsticks and lip brushes.
Hence, I learned to be extremely careful and to be really consistent with brush washing several times a month. All you need is baby shampoo to clean your brushes and 24 hours to let them dry, preferably upside down.