A good setting spray should be a staple in every makeup bag.
The spray ensures your makeup stays flawless all day or all night long.
Makeup artist, Sophie, from Brisbane, has compared the Charlotte Tilbury Setting Spray and the MCo Beauty setting spray in a now-viral video to see which one is worth the investment.
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The MCo Miracle Flawless Setting Spray costs, $28, whereas the Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray is sold for $54.
The makeup artist started her video by saying “the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray is my absolute favourite setting spray”.
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“I am finally trying the MCo Beauty setting spray, that is supposed to be a ‘dupe’ for the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray,” Sophie said.
“So, let’s see if the MCo beauty one can come anywhere close to being as good as this.”
The Brisbane makeup artist was impressed at how similar the packaging was on the MCo setting spray when it was compared to the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray.
“I have worked with MCo Beauty in the past and I have absolutely loved every product that I have tried from them, but this video is my complete and genuine opinion,” she said.
Sophie also noted that she had purchased the setting spray with her own money.
She put the setting spray to the test after taking her base makeup off.
She sprayed it and immediately said that “straight off the bat, it’s a very nice, fine mist and I like how it sits on my face”.
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Sophie noted that the Charlotte Tilbury spray “does spray a bit harder than the MCo beauty one, which isn’t a bad thing either way”.
The makeup expert informed her viewers that if they love a fine mist then they’ll love it.
She let the spray dry and then decided to do a swatch test to compare both sprays.
“This is my favourite way to test setting sprays and to actually see how strong they are,” Sophie said.
She then painted two swatches of pink eyeshadow on her hand, side by side, to test the sprays.
“First, we are going to do the Charlotte Tilbury spray, I already know that this one holds up so beautifully,” she said.
The makeup artist then covered one of the swatches with some paper towels so none of the spray got on it, and then gave it a light spritz and let it dry.
Sophie then did the same with the MCo beauty spray, and let both swatches dry.
While they dried, Sophie spoke about what she noticed the spray had done to her face.
“First of all, there is no tight feeling on my face which is great. I hate that feeling of a setting spray when it literally feels like you’ve sprayed your face with a hairspray,” she said.
“But this doesn’t have that at all. Up close I feel like there is definitely a slight film on my skin but honestly the film just looks a bit radiant, a bit glowy and I think it looks really beautiful.”
Sophie concluded that she was very impressed with how it felt almost identical to how the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray would feel on her skin.
Once the swatches had dried, Sophie went in for a smudge test.
She started testing the Charlotte Tilbury spray as she said she “knows it doesn’t smudge”.
“It’s such a strong setting spray,” she said.
Sophie then went in with a clean finger and tested the MCo swatch and said it didn’t smudge but when you “rub it too much, it does start to budge”.
Overall, Sophie found the setting sprays were quite similar.
“The only real difference I can actually feel when touching these swatches is that the MCo Beauty one feels a lot wetter and dewier,” she concluded.
In comparison, “the Charlotte Tilbury one feels completely dry; almost a matte feeling”.
Sophie finished her analysis by saying she didn’t think the MCo setting spray was an exact ‘dupe’ of the Charlotte Tilbury setting spray.
However, she did say the MCo setting spray was an amazing setting spray given the price and if you wanted a setting spray that “gets the job done but is affordable, it’s the way to go”.
Sophie’s video garnered more than 41,000 views and people in the comments praised her comparison.
“The best review I’ve seen so far of these products,” said one.
“Such a great review, I normally fast-forward these videos, but I watched the whole thing,” added another.
“Here before this goes viral,” said a third.