Brush's

Pat · July 12, 2015, 2:49pm

I’m curious as to wither you can clean brushes that have been used with genesis paints and cleaned with the normal brush cleaner and then cleaned well in hot soapy water if you could use them with miracle blend air dry paint?
I hope I explained that properly. Thanks for taking a look.

honojane · July 12, 2015, 3:03pm

If you cleaned them really, really well, you could, but it is difficult to get the ferrule’s cleaned out and residue tends to stay in there eventually leach out and contaminate your paints. I don’t think it’s a good idea, but if you really can’t afford to retool, you could probably do it. Do the whole cleaning process a couple of times to be sure.

mamadar82 · July 12, 2015, 3:22pm

Honestly i wouldnt. I know theyre expensive but its much more expensive and disappointing to ruin hard work if it doesnt work out. I replaced all my brushes when i switched to air dry.

Pat · July 12, 2015, 3:51pm

Thank you ladies, I’m going to heed your warning and get new brushs😊

Angel76 · July 12, 2015, 5:21pm

You can clean them with regular dawn dish soap, however I would buy new ones, just so you have seperate ones for different paints .

Pat · July 12, 2015, 5:56pm

Thank you and judging from what ya’ll are saying I’m going to get new brushs.

Meandmydollie · July 12, 2015, 5:59pm

I bought some new Maxine’s Mop Brushes from Brushesandmore.com. I thought they were pretty good prices.

https://www.brushesandmore.com/product_detail.asp?productNumber=458

heartstringsnursery · July 13, 2015, 12:31am

Get new brushes!

honojane · July 13, 2015, 12:51am

Bette, that sounds like the voice of experience. No beating about the bush! Just the facts. And probably that’s the best advice too.

heartstringsnursery · July 13, 2015, 12:53am

yes ma’am. hate to see anyone else make the same mistake.

honojane · July 13, 2015, 12:54am

Just out of curiosity, what happened when you made that mistake? Did the paint not take?

heartstringsnursery · July 13, 2015, 1:17am

worse. not only did the paint not take, the vinyl turned green underneath. it was awful. not just because of the work involved, but it was a custom ordered Victoria and I had to replace the kit to the tune of $159 and redo it. It was already rooted with a thick head full of Delta Dawn hair, so that was another $60. Get NEW brushes!

Pat · July 13, 2015, 2:07am

I will listen to the voice of experience. Thank you all for your im’put and very good advice

honojane · July 13, 2015, 4:00pm

New brushes it is then! Thanks Bette. I think that question is now answered forever! LOL