MAC Prep + Prime Fix+ Setting Spray has the best record for dry skin at 17 of 17, with reviewers calling it hydrating and not tight. The best pick sold on Amazon is Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Dewy Setting Spray at 11 of 12. The weakest record here is Fenty Beauty You Mist Setting Spray at 19 of 29, mostly because of a dry or tight feel.
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Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for dryness. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.
Wear time and comfort pull in different directions. 62% of Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray reviews and 61% of Fenty Beauty You Mist Setting Spray reviews praise how long it makes makeup last, and both also draw dry or tight complaints.
Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.
MAC
Best for a hydrating feel
17 of 17 reviewers who weighed in said it works on dry skin. 62% of all its reviews call it hydrating and not tight, and 8% noticed no effect.
Milk Makeup
Best for a dewy finish
33% call it hydrating, and reviewers who list dry skin agree: 5 of 5. The catches are shine (21%), big droplets (12%) and a dry or tight feel (12%).
Morphe
Best for a fine mist
31% praise the fine, even mist and 27% call it hydrating. The catch is shine: 35% say it makes skin shinier, and 23% noticed no effect.
Urban Decay
Best for making makeup last
62% say it makes makeup last. Among reviewers who list dry skin, 12 of 13 said it works, though 16% mention a dry or tight feel.
Charlotte Tilbury
32 reviewers weighed in, more than for any other spray here, and opinion is mixed: 23% call it hydrating while 30% say it feels drying or tight. It does better at Sephora, 19 of 25, than at Ulta, 3 of 7.
NYX
54% praise how long it makes makeup last and 23% call it good value. For dry skin the catch is comfort: 23% say it feels drying or tight.
Fenty Beauty
It has the weakest record here at 19 of 29, even though 61% praise how long it makes makeup last. 29% say it feels drying or tight, and it does better at Ulta, 16 of 21, than at Sephora, 3 of 8.
The 7 products ranked here carry 41,719 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for dryness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Aug 2016 and Oct 2026.
A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (0 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.
Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.
Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.
Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.
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MAC Prep + Prime Fix+ Setting Spray leads at 17 of 17, and reviewers call it hydrating and not tight. Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Dewy Setting Spray follows at 11 of 12, then Morphe Continuous Setting Mist at 10 of 11.
Some of them do, by these reviews. A dry or tight feel is the main complaint for Charlotte Tilbury Airbrush Flawless Setting Spray (30%) and Fenty Beauty You Mist Setting Spray (29%). Reviewers mention it less often for Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Dewy Setting Spray (12%) and not at all for MAC Prep + Prime Fix+ Setting Spray.
Mostly yes. Among reviewers who list dry skin, 12 of 13 said it works. It is praised for wear time (62%), but 16% mention a dry or tight feel.
Milk Makeup Hydro Grip Dewy Setting Spray is the best pick sold on Amazon, at 11 of 12. Morphe Continuous Setting Mist (10 of 11) and Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray (17 of 21) are sold there by the brand too.
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