Primers are a must-have for almost any makeup routine. They help keep your face smooth and ready while you apply your other stuff, and they can also be used to set your makeup or as a spot treatment for blemishes. Here are some of the best colored primers on the market.
ITEM: 2640779
Size: 0.5 oz / 15 mL
$32.50
It neutralizes the color before i put on foundation. The primer sinks into the skin and doesn't emphasize my pores....My new favorite primer...This has become my favorite primer and I don’t usually use primers. It’s light weight and has a nice clean smell.
What it is: A mini color-correcting makeup primer that quickly neutralizes redness and hydrates for up to 24 hours while extending makeup wear.
Concerns: Dryness, Redness
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect and promote radiant-looking skin and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Neutralize redness on the go with a travel-friendly version of MAKE UP FOR EVER’s bestselling primer. Perfect for addressing flushed skin or blemishes, its green pigments correct redness in skin for up to 24 hours.* This primer is powered by ginseng to help balance texture for a smooth and even makeup application. (*Instrumental test on 20 subjects.)
Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424703
Color: Redness Corrector - fair to light skin with redness
$55.50
One of the best color correcting primers ever! I have naturally pink cheeks and acne scars so I’m always looking for a good color corrector. ...I like this primer a lot. It doesn’t have that nasty silicone feel that a lot of primers do.
What it is: A color-correcting makeup primer that quickly neutralizes redness and hydrates for up to 24 hours while extending makeup wear.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, Dry, Combination
Concerns: Redness
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Neutralize redness all day with the Step 1 Primer Color Corrector - Redness Corrector. Green pigments correct red tones in skin for up to 24 hours, while vitamin B5 hydrates for up to 24 hours. Powered by ginseng, this formula works to make skin look more radiant and balance its texture.
$13.50
Preferred Eye Primer...I've tried so many eye primers, but i keep coming back to this one. I do my make up every day at 6am, and have greasy eyelids by lunch with every othe primer. ...best eye primer!...This is the best eye primer. I’ve eyes the urban decay, Nars, two faced, mac eye-primers in the past ... and by far this is the best eye primer.
What it is: A long-wearing, waterproof primer that goes on sheer and won’t let you down for up to 12 hours.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens.
What Else You Need to Know: Meet your new partner in prime. Morphe’s long-wearing, waterproof primer goes on silky smooth, dries down sheer, and won’t let you down for up to 12 hours. The non-creasing formula keeps your color in place so you can slay all day.
ITEM: 2820082
Size: 1.01 fl. oz. / 30 ml.
$22.00
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
$67.50
I have dry skin and this primer doesn’t look cakey or cling to dry patches like many matte primers do. ...This Primer-my ♥️!!!!! The best product for my skin
What it is: A radiant foundation primer that delivers up to 24 hours of hydration, enhances makeup, and leaves skin looking luminous.
Finish: Radiant
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Iris Extract: Brings comfort to the skin.
- Red Hibiscus Extract: Known for illuminating properties.
- Natural-Origin Hyaluronic Acid: Contains hydrating and plumping properties.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also gluten-free.
What Else You Need to Know: The Dior For
ITEM: 2517779
Size: .34 oz / 10 mL
$22.00
I also really loved the skincare in this making it different than any other primer....Smashbox PhotoFinish mattifying primer. Free thru!...I got it thru being an Influencer & im so happy I did. Finding a good primer that works for me is so hard!! Just because I have large pores and acne scars.. along with uneven texture and color.
What it is: A mini oil-fighting primer with a matte finish to defend your skin and perfect your makeup.
Finish: Matte
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Silkscreen Complex (Antioxidants, Hyaluronic Acid, Probiotic Extract, Vitamins, and Algae): Nourishes, visibly balances, and defends skin.
- Witch Hazel, Salicylic Acid, and Zinc: Mop up oil.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.
$16.50
The perfect primer...I have tried many primers. I love that this primer is blue since I have found the white primers sometimes show through or look odd if not enough mascara coverage. ...It’s the blue primer for me...I love everything about this mascara primer especially the fact that it’s blue. I’m use to seeing white primers but never blue so I love the change with this one!
What it is:
A lash primer infused with ingredients known to condition and a unique blue shade that preps lashes for larger-than-life volume and amplifies the effects and color intensity of mascara.
What Else You Need to Know: This primer preps lashes for ultimate volume while conditioning for mascara application and intensifying the color of your mascara.
$62.00
Nice primer...This is a lightweight primer it isn’t tacky like gripping primers. I like both types. ...It does help makeup stay and it isn't tacky like some primers. I felt while using the product my skin looked more like skin after my makeup application rather than a nude wall of color.
What it is: A primer that smooths skin for even makeup application and visibly plumps the skin to improve the look of fine lines and wrinkles.
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Skin Perfecting Complex: Blend of rose extracts that work to moisturize, protect, and smooth skin.
- Minerals: Mineral-enriched water sourced from France known to decrease dullness.
- Glycerin: Attracts moisture to the skin for flawless makeup application.
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 syn