Why You Should Spend Money on Facial Mist (and the Top Five to Invest In)
Contessa Schexnayder is a makeup artist and has been shackled to the beauty industry for over nine years, working for such lines and retailers as Nars, MAC, Bobbi Brown, Blue Mercury, and Space NK. She is a self-proclaimed ingredient know-it-all, and likes long walks on the beach.
With all of the lotions and potions beauty companies are hustling the last thing you need is another useless product to waste money on. Keeping this in mind, I can say with great confidence that you need some facial mist in your life. Not only does it set your makeup, but it also helps with: calming, hydrating, replenishing, adding radiance, and irritation. Mists are beauty lifesavers and can take you from looking tired and lackluster to bright and dewy in seconds. Trust me.
I’ve rounded up the five best misters on the market. And if you can’t get behind shelling out for water to spray on your face, we’ve added some alternative uses (i.e. scolding your cat, warding off zombies, pretending you went to the gym).
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