A refreshing spritz of setting spray is all it takes to keep your beauty look flawless all day. Photo: Charlotte Tilbury
Whether you’re after a matte, glowing, or hydrating finish, today’s beauty mists and setting sprays promise to keep your look fresh from day to night.
From lightweight refreshers to long-wear finishers, here are the latest picks worth a spritz.
Light as air
Charlotte Tilbury’s Airbrush Matte Setting Spray, now available in a new matte formula, is a light-as-air, waterproof, mattifying formula that primes and sets makeup for up to 16 hours.
The product is meant to keep oil at bay, with no melting, no fading and no creasing for your makeup.
This waterproof product is supercharged with powder blur technology, a formulation inspired by best selling airbrush flawless finish, for a blurred, soft-focus matte finish.
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Instant glow
The D’Alba White Truffle First Spray Serum includes two layers of formula: oil and serum.
Its oil layer contains avocado oil, sunflower seed oil and chia seed extract while the serum layer contains white truffle extract and is full of natural antioxidants.
Use it as a serum for antioxidant benefits, a mist for instant hydration and a setting spray for a glowing finish.
Hydrating formula
La Prairie’s Skin Caviar The Mist is meant to refresh, energise and smooth skin throughout the day.
Containing caviar hydroessence, it is rich in restructuring proteins which helps bring thirsty skin much-needed hydration.
An ultra-rich cocktail of more than 300 different natural nutrients, including energy-rich molecules which contribute to stimulating skin’s energy, this ultra-fine mist prevents trans-epidermal water loss and helps seal in hydration.
No touch-ups required
Urban Decay’s All Nighter Long Lasting Makeup Setting Spray is a lightweight vegan setting and finishing spray that keeps makeup fresh, smudge-proof and transfer resistant for up to 16 hours.
The spray locks in your makeup while keeping it from settling into fine lines, keeping your skin cool with no touch-ups required.
After applying makeup, shake the bottle well, hold it eight to 10in away from your face (close your eyes) and spray two to four times in an “X” and “T” formation.
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Soft-focus finish
Laura Mercier’s Translucent Hydrating Setting Spray Ultra-Blur creates a seamless, soft-focus finish that sets makeup without compromising hydration or comfort.
It is designed to blur the appearance of pores and fine lines, set and keep makeup fresh for 24 hours and hydrate the skin and control shine without drying it out.
