Hairspray to keep your curls or up do in place? Not a problem. A little hairspray on a brow brush to keep your brows in place? Perfectly okay. Hairspray spritzed over your face to keep your makeup in place? Not so much.
Setting sprays are great products, they can help increase the longevity of your makeup without looking as cakey or dry as setting powder does. There are plenty of great setting sprays out on the market, from expensive brands to brands that cost less than your daily cup of coffee.
Many beauty tips circulate the internet and one of the most popular ones is to use hairspray as a makeup setting spray to keep your makeup in place. Whether you’ve got normal, dry, oily, combination skin or eczema, rosacea or dermatitis, it’s best to give this tip a miss.
Hairspray should not be used on the face to set makeup, whilst it may help keep your makeup in place it’s really not the best option for doing so. Hairspray contains a lot of alcohol and other ingredients that are simply not healthy for the skin and can cause it to become dehydrated and dry. Along with alcohol, hairspray has many other ingredients that can cause your skin to become irritated, itchy, red and bumpy. Not to mention hairspray can leave the skin looking & feeling sticky and cause breakouts.
Overall, along with many other DIY beauty “tips” I recommend that you ditch the hairspray tip and opt for a makeup setting spray specifically designed for use on the skin.
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