#my credentials are that i have super sun-sensitive rosacea I live in greece and my family loves the beach wayyyyy too much

[forg3tfully]

the civilized human can just buy sunscreen in a normal bottle. sprays are for when you can't wash your hands and don't wanna have to touch your face to apply. Plus, the way sunscreens are formulated and how finicky they are to use, by spraying onto your hands first you're possibly messing up and not even getting the desired protection to stick onto your face. the guy in the gif is doing it a little clumsily and not even getting the sides of his face, but a proper face sunscreen that comes in a spray bottle is meant to be sprayed on, that's why it's in a spray bottle. You pay more to get it in the spray bottle.

the only exception is body sunscreen which you shouldn't be using on your face, anyway, unless it says explicitly it's meant for both face and body on the bottle (in which case 4 times out of 5 they should have a proper fine mist nozzle you can use hands-free), lest you risk irritation. For those you have to use hands since they have terrible spray nozzles which imo are messier to use than other types and are just a useless gimmick

after my friends expressed horror watching professional hockey player nathan mackinnon spray suncreen straight in the face, i'm actually curious...