My buddies all the time ask how my make-up lasts so lengthy on sizzling summer time days. My secret is a $30 spray that I purchase yearly.

• I am an enormous fan of MAC Beauty’s Prep + Prime Repair+ spray, which I exploit to lock in my make-up.
• The product retails for $31, and one bottle often lasts me the whole 12 months.
• It retains my make-up in place so nicely that my buddies continually ask the way it’s potential.

“Amanda, how is your make-up nonetheless on? It is midnight,” my sister just lately requested after we spent hours dancing the night time away at a live performance.

I shortly laughed, as a result of my sister is not the primary individual to ask me this. The truth is, it wasn’t even the primary time she requested me.

Her query is one I have been getting repeatedly since school after I found a beloved magnificence product for myself: MAC Beauty’s Prep +Prime Repair+ spray.

It was 2018, and I had been helping a magnificence editor with a photograph shoot for a style journal I used to be interning at. It was an unpaid place, so on the finish of the day, she handed me a bag of make-up in return for my work.

One of many gadgets inside was an unassuming, clear spray bottle from MAC Cosmetics.

I might by no means heard of the product earlier than, however shortly found numerous make-up artists raving about it on-line. Of their evaluations, they typically used it because the final step to lock in make-up and assist it final all day.

On the time, ending spray was a overseas idea to me. I assumed the one approach to set your make-up was with extreme powder.

However as soon as I attempted utilizing the make-up as artists steered, I by no means regarded again.

Technically, Repair+ is not a setting spray

The $31 water-based product was designed by MAC primarily to hydrate pores and skin by making use of it earlier than different merchandise, and to refresh make-up after a number of hours of wear and tear. 

In my expertise, it does each completely. It really works nice as a hydrating base for make-up, and it offers you a pleasant glow if you happen to spray it in the course of the day.

However I’ve discovered that after I use Repair+ extra like a setting spray as the ultimate step of my routine, I can accomplish each hydrated pores and skin and lasting make-up in a single step.

From concert events to theme-park days, the spray all the time works

Whereas buddies, co-workers, and even strangers have commented on the lasting energy of my make-up, nobody has been extra impressed by Repair+ over time than myself.

The product stored my make-up from transferring to masks all through the pandemic, and it prevented my basis from working on humid days at Disney World.

It additionally achieved the final word objective of conserving my make-up contemporary as I attended concert events this summer time.

The glowing make-up I wore on the Eras Tour nonetheless regarded contemporary after Taylor Swift’s three-hour set, and the sharp eyeliner I wore to a current emo present withstood pouring rain — all because of the spray.

I’ve tried a lot of different setting sprays over time, and there are nice ones in the marketplace. Plus, a lot of these choices are cheaper than MAC’s.

However personally, I’ve by no means had to purchase multiple bottle of Repair+ per 12 months (even with my sister stealing spritzes of it each probability she will get). 

So $31 per 12 months to make sure that my make-up all the time seems to be flawless? I might say that is a steal.