Everyone From Jessica Alba To Chloe Morello Swears By This "Dot" Makeup Hack, And After Trying It, I Absolutely Do Too
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I think I'm not alone when I say that I love any hack that makes my life easier — especially beauty ones. While I love doing my makeup and all that comes with it, there's no denying that it's a time-consuming task!
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However, I recently discovered probably the easiest makeup hack to ever exist and now I'll never apply my everyday makeup any other way. The backstory: while scrolling through Instagram one day, I saw Jessica Alba with dots of makeup all over her face that needed to be blended.
As I watched the video, I heard the voiceover of makeup and skincare influencer, Chloe Morello, explaining an easy trick to achieving glowy, dewy makeup within minutes. She's supposedly the one who helped this hack go viral and I was impressed that even Jessica Alba gave it her stamp of approval.
The hack is dotting on multiple types of liquid or cream makeup — foundation, concealer, contour, bronzer, and blush — all at once. Then you generously apply setting spray to all of it, which is supposed to dampen the products enough to easily blend them all out. The hack avoids having to apply layers on top of layers of makeup which can look cakey and take up more time.
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It sounded simple enough so I of course tried it out myself. Here's how it went!
Step 1: The key to this hack is to use cream or liquid products and for the first step, Chloe advises applying all your products at once by applying dots in the areas those products would typically be applied.
My products of choice were:
• MAC Fix+ Stay Over Setting Spray
• Fenty Beauty Match Stix Matte Contour Skinstick
• Rare Beauty Soft Pinch Liquid Blush
• Too Faced Born This Way Super Coverage Multi-Use Concealer
• My foundation brush, contour brush, and liquid blush brush (not pictured: a damp sponge)
Note: I skipped foundation and this was a personal preference but if you prefer more coverage, you can absolutely include your favorite foundation.
I applied dots of my cream bronzer, concealer, and blush where I normally would if I were to apply each product on its own.
I'm not going to lie: it felt a little taboo to cover my face in all this makeup at once because I am very used to finishing blending one product before moving on to the other. However, this was multitasking at its finest!
Step 2: Once the makeup was applied, I followed Chloe's direction of spraying setting mist all over my face to stop the products from drying out so I could easily blend them.
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Step 3: Chloe said to blend the lightest color — the concealer — first. I used a brush to blend the concealer that was on my face. Then I took a damp sponge to blend the concealer around my eye area.
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From there, I sprayed some more setting spray before blending the next lightest makeup on my face which was my blush. I spritzed a little more spray before blending out the last of my makeup, which was the contour.
I went back in with my damp sponge to make sure everything was blended nicely and there weren't any awkward lines of makeup on my face.
I topped off this natural, everyday makeup look with some eyebrow gel and mascara.
Overall, this makeup look took me seven minutes from start to finish. Normally I would spend about 20-30 minutes on a simple, everyday makeup look so this was very impressive of me!
Not only was this hack convenient and easy, but I also loved how natural the results looked. Usually, when I wear daytime makeup during the week, I skip some steps due to lack of time and because I want it to look natural. After learning this hack, I don't think I'll ever apply my daytime makeup the same way.
