Illuminating Face Primer

Sephora customers often prefer the following products when searching for Illuminating Face Primer.

If you're looking to create the ultimate facial glow, an illuminating primer is one of the best ways to go. The primers listed below are designed to illuminate the skin, giving it a dewy, youthful glow.

ValentinoV-Lighter Illuminating Face Primer and Highlighter with Hyaluronic Acid

Size: 25 mL·ITEM: 2542843

Color: Rosa - ideal for fair-to-light complexions with cool undertones

586 Reviews

$59.00

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I didn’t like this as a primer because it felt heavy under foundation compared to other brands of illuminating primers from Becca, too faced, hourglass, and Charlotte Tilbury. ...GREAT Illuminating Primer!!...Omg, I am obsessed with how glowy and luminous this illuminating face primer is! It pairs well with my makeup and leaves my skin radiant throughout the day!

What it is: A multitasking lightweight makeup primer formulated with skincare ingredients to provide up to 24 hours of hydration and a rapidly visible glow.


Highlighted Ingredients:

- Roma-Light Complex™: Light-reflecting, color-boosting pearls to enhance skin’s natural luminosity.

- Hyaluronic Acid: Visibly plumps skin.


What Else You Need to Know: Formulated with hyaluronic acid for up to 24 hours of hydration and ultra-fine light-reflecting pearls for a luminous look, this multitasking primer and highlighter can be worn alone, under or on top of your foundation. It is available in two shades: Rosa, ideal for fair-to-light complexions with cool undertones

$25.00

I love this primer. It’s hydrating and illuminating....Pure canvas primer...Other make up primers often make me break out but this one doesn’t.

What it is: A primer that smooths skin for even makeup application and improves skin’s radiance.

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Skin-Perfecting Complex: Blend of rose extracts that work to moisturize, protect, and smooth skin.
- Porcelain Flower: Promotes long-term radiance.
- Encapsulated Luminous Pearls: Provide light reflection on skin for natural radiance.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.

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$16.00

This primer does great job covering the pores and making the flawless application of the foundation, but it still feels like my skin can breathe with it and I think for this price it’s a very great primer and can be better even then some expensive primers...I love this product in my makeup routine. One of the best primers I have ever used.

What it is: A primer with a lightweight gel-in-cream texture that adds moisture and radiance to the complexion for skin that looks glowing and plumped up.

What Else You Need to Know: Reveal your natural radiance. With its hybrid gel-in-cream texture, this face primer revives skin radiance for up to 12 hours. What’s its superpower? A formula infused with intensely hydrating polyglutamic acid. As fresh as it is light, it melts into the skin for an immediate boost of hydration. Plus, with luminous micro-pigments, this illuminating primer creates a perfecting veil of light for a healthy, fresh-looking complexion.

It also makes foundation easier to apply and boosts skin radiance. Not only does it enhance makeup results, but it also improves hold

$46.00

I also enjoy that it is light enough for my skin tone as I find some illuminating primers are too orangey....I love a primer that gives me a glow! Since I live in NYC my skin tends to get dry in the winter and this primer is perfect for that.

What it is: A primer that smooths skin for even makeup application and improves skin's radiance.

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Skin-Perfecting Complex: Blend of rose extracts that work to moisturize, protect, and smooth skin.
- Porcelain Flower: Promotes long-term radiance.
- Encapsulated Luminous Pearls: Provide light reflection on skin for natural radiance.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance.

What Else You Need to Know: This p

$40.00

The only type of banana I like is this banana bright face primer from olehenriksen. It’s both hydrating and illuminating! ...New favorite primer. Very illuminating and makes makeup last all day.

What it is: A vitamin C-infused, illuminating face primer with banana powder-inspired pigments that delivers instant radiance while improving and extending makeup wear.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Dullness and Uneven Texture, Fine Lines and Wrinkles, and Pores

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin C: Helps target visible signs of aging.
- Banana Powder-inspired Pigments : Instantly illuminate.
- Vitamin E: An antioxidant that helps nourish and condition skin; also helps stabilize the vitamin C in the formula.

$30.00

The Hydro Grip + Glow illuminating Primer hydrated my skin and also had my makeup lasting a long time. ...Makes your face looking glowing...The Milk Hydro Grip + Glow Illuminating Primer grips makeup well while adding a subtle glow.

What it is: A clean, long-wearing, illuminating primer that grips makeup for up to 12 hours and hydrates with hyaluronic acid for a soft, radiant, golden-hour glow.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Blue Agave Extract: Grips makeup for up to 12 hours.
- Hyaluronic Acid and Niacinamide: Hydrate and smooth for plumper-looking skin.
- Light-Reflecting Pearls: Add a warm, luminous glow.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.

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$28.00

I love love this product. It really does illuminate!...My face actually looked like it was illuminating. Best primer I’ve ever used!!

What it is: A weightless, silicone-free, gel primer enriched with ultra-fine pearls for a lit-from-within glow.

Finish: Radiant

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Concerns: Dryness

MAKE UP FOR EVERMini Step 1 Primer Hydra Booster

Size: 0.5 oz / 15 ml·ITEM: 2424786

Color: Hydra Booster

328 Reviews

$24.00

Very hydrating and illuminating I like it a lot under the full glam highly recommend...Great primer!...Loving this primer! Makes my makeup go on flawlessly. There is no “pilling” or build up like with other primers.

What it is: A mini-size makeup primer that boosts skin's hydration and radiance for up to 24 hours while extending makeup wear.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaEaze Drop'lit All-Over Glow Enhancer

Size: 1.22 fl oz / 36 mL·ITEM: 2590099

Color: Pink Pearl - opalescent glow for light skin tones

275 Reviews

$34.00

It looks really natural on its own where other illuminating primer do not give that a fact they do not look natural enough, and they are to metallic looking, but this one really looks wonderful on the skin....The only reason I would deduct stars is the actual color kind of blends away and for an illuminating sheen I don’t know if it’s worth the money.

What it is: A visible-glow enhancer with skin-loving ingredients for natural-looking illumination.

Coverage: Light

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Liquid

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.

What Else You Need to Know: This all-over-visible-glow enhancer has a lightweight, sheer formula that visibly hydrates, brightens, and reduces pores immediately and all day. You can wear it three ways: alone, mixed with foundation for a soft-looking glow, or as a hydrating base to extend makeup wear.

Clinical Results: In a consumer study:
- 100% agreed it made their skin look brighter
- 100% agreed it instantly made their skin feel more nourish

$55.00

This is a nice primer but for the price I think there are other options....Okay so my face tends to breakout with primers (I've tried so many) that are sort of greasy, but this primer is amazing!

What it is: An invisible, weightless, scentless primer, with broad-spectrum SPF 50 and hyaluronic acid, that primes, supports, and hydrates skin.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Pores, Dryness, and Redness

Formulation: Cream

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Broad-Spectrum SPF 50: Helps protect skin against harmful effects of the sun.
- Vitamins C and E: Visibly brighten and nourish skin.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Moisturizes skin’s outer layers for up to 24 hours.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban.

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“It's not too greasy or too highlighting, something I've not liked about most newer primers. Sometimes you just need a primer that does what it says on the tin without making your face look like a disco ball”
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