Big beauty blunders: Part 1 Using dry beauty blenders / sponges

I am a make up lover, but make up for me has always been relatively self taught so of course- I have made some blunders. Most of these blunders I have been doing for years totally unaware at the crime I am committing against my face. 

Now there are lots of mistakes I've been making that I've recently discovered, but my big faux pas using a dry beauty blender. 

Now I'm not saying it has to be the beauty blender brand, but the tear drop shaped sponge that we've all come to know and love and I'm sure majority of you have in your makeup bag of some shape or kind right this very moment. I had been using a dry blending sponge for many many years. Of course I had heard that you can use them wet, so I tried early on in the piece, I was maybe 15 and attempted to apply liquid foundation with a wet blender which I had not rung out and I remember their being water droplets dripping down my face and my foundation was a mess... So I continued to use my blender dry for the rest of time and lived happily ever after. Or did I? 

So here I am now, mid 20's and I only just learned that, as it turns out, beauty blenders work really well wet... It's almost as if they were designed that way 😉 *shock horror* 

I've been watching a lot of Mariaa Stark's beauty videos on facebook (she's amazing) and I've really learned a lot of stuff. So a few months ago, after discovering Mariaa I did an experiment, and just gave it a try for curiosities sake. I dampened my blender, and squeezed all the water out afterward. So that the sponge was damp, but not wet and dripping. Heres what happened...

• I used less product to do a full face of high coverage foundation 
• My skin looked amazing and flawless and almost airbrushed
• It was so much easier to apply - the sponge wasn't dry and scratchy and the product spread out and blended really well 

The consensus. I will never. Ever. go back to using a dry beauty sponge again. My foundation looks a whole lot better now and I am so impressed with how this one simple step has changed how my foundation looks and applies.

For the sake of sharing, the blending sponge I am using right now is the Modelrock base maker beauty sponge that I received in a beauty subscription box in December last year (yes it is still going strong) and no this is not sponsored. It is a great sponge. 

Tell me in the comments below - How do you use your beauty sponge?