How can you straighten your brush? Please answer!?

Question

The square-looking brushes. Like... for post colors.

How can I straighten it? With alcohol? pressure?

Answer 1

What did you do? Leave them sitting in water and found them permanently bent? LOL I have made that mistake in the past. NEVER LEAVE YOUR BRUSHES DIRTY OR SITTING IN WATER. As soon as you are through painting rinse them out and put a little soap on the bristles and gently work in through and then rinse thoroughly. This will keep your brushes nice for a long time. It is much cheaper than buying new brushes all the time... believe me I learned the hard way.

If you need to reshape your brushes clean them good and then put soap in them and form the bristles the way you want them to be and let it dry. It won't hurt your brush and it helps it keep its shape until your bristles are retrained to be straight. You can rinse the soap out later before you use them again.

If all else fails take a small piece of aluminum foil and wrap around the bristles and flatten the way you want the bristles to be and let dry. Good luck. Next time wash them out right away and lay them flat to dry and you won't have this problem.

Answer 2

This is a long shot. Bent hair are usually evidence of either bad brushes or abuse. Usually it means the end of the brushes life.

Clean thoroughly and wrap paper around the brush. Leave the top open. Flatten (only if it is a flat brush) and apply light pressure with a book. Do not squish just ensure the flat shape stays. Let dry over night. Pray a lot and maybe, just maybe your hairs will be straight again.

Answer 3

I did this twice and it worked pretty well. But I tested on a brush I didn't care about. I took Elmer's washable glue and put it in my brush and then formed the bristles how I wanted them and let it dry. Kept it like that for a few days, and then washed it out with warm water. Worked pretty well on the natural bristles of my oil brushes.

As I said you might want to test it on one first. I wasn't really sure how it was going to work myself. Might try it as a last resort since the other ideas seem pretty good as well.