The biggest makeup mistake ruining your glow

As a beauty editor I've tried truckloads of products each with the primary goal of ensuring makeup stays put, and while primers and setting sprays are great, I’ve discovered the single most amazing product that puts the others to bed.

It's a mask!

More specifically, the Go-To Skincare Transformazing sheet mask.

When I first met the beauty brand's creator, Zoë Foster Blake, she was adamant this mask would change my face (and life, as a result). But the thought of using a mask before applying a full face of makeup seemed excessive. Until I tried it.

For only $9 ($7.50 if you buy the six-pack), you can keep your skin hydrated and bright all day long, no matter what foundation (liquid, cream or powder) you apply over the top.

The sheet mask is drenched in a serum that contains kakadu plum (hello, vitamin C!), finger lime (for that glow and hydration. It also encourages collagen production, which is always a good thing) and tasmanian pepper leaf (another great antioxidant that your skin will love), and makes a good case for always prioritising your skin prep before applying makeup.

Honourable mentions must be made to niacinamide, for it's super brightening powers, and hyadisine, for all the moisture retention and line plumping it provides.

Apply the mask to your face 15 minutes before you begin your makeup routine. You need 10 minutes for the mask to sit and another five, once the mask has been removed, to really allow your skin to dry.

Each pack comes with excess serum, which provides two options. Either lather your decolletage, shoulders and arms with the rest or secure the pack and save the excess for the next day/hangover/event. A little really goes a long way.

Transformazing was released in March, and has since become a skin prep go-to for beauty buffs. So, if you're serious about plumping up your skin, enhancing your skin's luminosity and keeping your makeup in place throughout the day (or night), you've got to add this to your beauty kit.

Just an FYI, not allowing your skin the pleasure of using it before getting glam is the single biggest mistake you could possibly make... besides not cleansing your skin, of course.