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
$34.00
Great primer!...This primer is a great makeup base as it is hydrating, my makeup doesn’t seem to look as uneven as it does when I use other primers....Perfect Primer...I really liked how the primer felt when I applied it to my face. Some primers can be tacky when you apply it, this one went on smooth.
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: 2424729
Color: Yellowness Neutralizer (purple) - light to medium skin with discoloration & sallowness
$57.00
It also really left my skin smooth and overall one of my top primers....I have dry skin and really like the texture of this primer; it’s lightweight but also feels hydrating and on me has a natural finish.
What it is: A color-correcting primer that delivers an even complexion and radiant-looking skin that lasts all day.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, Dry, Combination
Concerns: Uneven Skin Tone
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Even your complexion with this color-correcting primer, which reduces dullness. Packed with ginseng, this illuminating formula adds radiance and hydration, corrects skin tone for up to 24 hours, and is ideal for fair to light skin tones with sallowness.

Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424703
Color: Redness Corrector - fair to light skin with redness
$57.00
It’s not like most of the color correcting primers I’ve used before where you have that light greenish still peeing out from under the foundation, this actually blends into the skin. ...Really like this primers feel - moisturizing and not greasy at all.
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.

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

$69.00
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

$17.00
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.

$99.00
This is one of my favorite primers for the warmer months (I use the Guerlain L’Or Radiance Booster primer in the colder months since it’s very hydrating). ...One of my favorite primers of all time.......This primer and the hourglass one are my favorite primers ever!
What it is:
A color-correcting and radiance-boosting primer.
What it does:
Météorites Primer smooths and color-corrects your skin tone for a radiant complexion. Infused with a delicate violet scent, it’s formulated with Guerlain’s signature Stardust Technology: a unique complex encapsulating a celestial powder that transforms light invisible to the naked eye into visible and soft-focus perfecting light to blur imperfections and provide exceptional radiance.

$57.00
Pretty good overall primer...Not sure it make a huge difference in redness compared to other primers, but otherwise loved the texture and staying power it gave my makeup....My makeup did stay well using this primer. If you like the smoothing aspect for primers I would say just use the traditional smashbox photo finish primer.
What it is: A color-correcting, green-toned primer that neutralizes redness while defending skin and perfecting makeup.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Silkscreen Complex (Antioxidants, Hyaluronic Acid, Probiotic Extract, Vitamins, and Algae): Nourishes, visibly balances, and defends skin.
- Algae: Calms and soothes stressed skin.
- Rose and Mushroom: Reduce the look of irritation.
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.
What Else You Need to Know: This primer forms a breathable, silky barrier that visibly perfects your skin.

$62.00
My new go-to primer....So thankful to BzzAgent for sending me this primer to review! This primer has a light, scent-free formula. ...This primer basically did its job as a primer with no noticeably different results from the many other primers I have tried.
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

$57.00
This product is different from other primers because it treats your skin while you prime. ...I usually only use silicone based primers so this was a pleasant surprise trying a non silicone primer that I actually would try under makeup.
What it is: A primer with a soft-focus finish that smooths the look of fine lines and wrinkles while visibly firming skin over time.
Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, and Loss of Firmness and Elasticity
Formulation: Lightweight Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- S6Pro Complex™: Is a proprietary blend of prebiotics and probiotic extracts.
- Marine Algae and Collagen Amino Acids: Support visible firmness and tightness.
- Peptides and Grape Extract: Minimize the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is gluten-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This primer with peptides, co









