Your ultimate guide to using a BeautyBlender makeup sponge correctly!

1. Back to basics

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Okay, this may be painfully obvious for advanced aficionados, but BeautyBlender beginners, listen up: It bears repeating that spraying your implement is imperative for a flawless finish. (You can use plain ol' H20 from the tap, but spritzing it with a face mist is miles better.)

At the same time, it’s not an instance of the wetter, the better – expunge excess water by squishing your sponge over the sink. If it’s damp but not drenched, you’re good to go. Use brisk “bouncing” actions to buff in your product with the broader end of your egg, easing up and softening your strokes as you skim towards the jaw and hairline. This gentle graduation blurs out any discernible demarcation between your face and decolletage and sheers out the product for a seamless finish. Easy-peasy!



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2. Ctrl+Z your makeup mistakes

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Here’s the thing. While a sexy slick of emerald eyeliner is awesome and all, a split second’s distraction spells disaster: Streaky shimmer running down your cheek is well nigh impossible to get rid of without taking half your face-paint off with it.

This is where your BeautyBlender comes to the fore. Douse a dry egg with a good cleansing balm or oil like say, Caudalie’s covetable Make-Up Cleansing Oil, $32 from Sephora, then press the pointy end of your BeautyBlender into the glitter-festooned area. Hold for about five seconds to loosen the adhesives, then sweep off in one deft, decisive stroke – the specks will be lifted straight off.

3. “Skinstant” gratification

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Try stashing a BeautyBlender on your dresser to dab on your skincare – the soft sponge drives all of the good stuff from your serums and salves straight into your skin without any roughshod rubbing. Because hey, perfectly primed skin is of the essence, no matter the makeup look you’re gunning for.

4. Creams are cool, but powders are perfect, too

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Are you only using cream products with your makeup sponge? That’s a squandered shot at eking the most out of your egg, my friend. Conventional wisdom calls for creamy stuff to be used with your BeautyBlender, but sprinkle it with water and its pointy end becomes perfect for patting on setting powders into cumbersome corners and crevices without caking – think laugh lines and the V-shaped wedge at the inner corners of your eyes.

5. Photoshop away your pimples

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Laid down your preliminary layer of foundation? Switch to a stippling technique for targeted treatment. For precision coverage, pick up a tiny bit of creamy concealer using the narrow tip of your sponge – product-wise, my obsession du jour has got to be Nars’ nifty Stick Concealer, $40 – then dot onto offending spots and blend outwards to blur the boundary between blemish and surrounding skin. 

Now for the neat bit: Rein it back by pressing a piece of plush two-ply tissue onto your face. Don’t rub, just pat: This will take off any excess product and allow a sexy glimpse of your real skin to glimmer through, for that softly diffused, is-she-or-isn’t-she look the Koreans are so enamoured with.. No creases and crinkles after a night of gallivanting, too, from my experience.

Congrats on successfully laying the “foundation” of any beauty regime – and all using a single sponge to boot, too. Good luck being a BeautyBlender beauty!