I have very oily skin and I struggle to find anything that keeps my eye shadow from creasing within an hour and make up creasing, no matter what mattifying products I use, I'm just an oily person. I've yet to find a setting spray to truly make my make up last all day, the only thing that does is hair spray! I decided to give this a go as it was cheap compared to other setting sprays, and I figured it couldn't hurt. I found this wasn't useless as it does hydrate your make-up, and prevent fading and increase the longevity of make up, but by no means is it a miracle worker.
The product comes in a simple black pump bottle with white writing. The writing scratches off pretty quick so it looks ugly, but to be expected for the price. The pump does tend to spray the mist unevenly so you may end up with quite wet patches on certain areas of your face. The scent is barely detectible, it just smells fresh. This dries down pretty quickly and doesn't wet your make-up like the Australis one. I was impressed to find that this did prevent my eye shadow from fading as quickly and improved the longevity of my eye shadow, concealer and foundation, and this did far more than more expensive setting sprays have done for me. This is very hydrating and is great as a make up mist. However, don't expect this to perform like the Urban Decay setting spray and prevent your make up from budging, it didn't for me, I still ended up with shiny worn make up by the end of the day. However, this did enough to improve my make up to justify the price and I would use it again.
A long time ago I picked this up in an iherb order. e.l.f. makeup etc is just so cheap that I can never hold back from popping a few more things into my cart. I think I was also on the hunt for a new spray anyway as my Urban Decay one I had just finished and I really didn't want to spend the money to repurchase.
I actually really like the packaging of this product. It has a black square bottle with a sprayer on the top. I find the spray on this is really quite fine so I would even compare the spray to my beloved Urban Decay spray.
To me I don't smell anything when using this. Sometimes I wonder whether I have gotten tricked into purchasing water in a spray bottle (although it was quite cheap so I don't really mind that much if I was). My favourite reason for using something like this is because I have a tendency to over powder my face and make it look very cakey. With a few spritz of this product the cakey-ness goes away and I look like I have skin again. I don't think the ingredients of Aloe, Green Tea, Cucumber etc actually do anything for my skin but it is a nice spray. I really don't think this does make my makeup last longer but it certainly makes it look nicer while it is on my face and I love that.
I think I would repurchase this when I run out. I don't think it does anything special, but I don't think that the more expensive versions of this can be justified when they don't do anything different than this product.