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
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. ...This has become my favorite primer and I don’t usually use primers. It’s light weight and has a nice clean smell....My new favorite primer
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 neutralizes the color before i put on foundation. The primer sinks into the skin and doesn't emphasize my pores....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.
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
I'm loving the reformulation of these primers....I'd recommend a normal color correcter and a separate primer.
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.
$46.00
What it is: A primer that provides a 24-hour hydrating glow or a 24-hour pore blurring matte, while its rollerball visibly lifts, sculpts, and depuffs for snap-back skin energy.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Bakuchiol: Reduces the look of fine lines.
- Caffeine: Energizes and improves look of tired, puffy skin.
- Cloudberry: Rich in vitamin C to brighten appearance.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, and triclosan. It is also vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: One primer, two finishes: Choose a 24-hour hydrating glow or 24-hour pore-blurr
ITEM: 2820082
Size: 1.01 fl. oz. / 30 ml.
$24.00
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
$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.
$65.00
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
$21.00
The holy grail of primers...This is by far and away the best primer I have ever used. Most hydrating primers leave my skin a bit tacky and my foundation has more of a Dewey finish. ...Best primer for oily skin...One of the best primers I have used. I have oily skin and this primer does its job.
What it is: A blurring primer that visibly minimizes pores, absorbs excess oil, and eliminates shine while hydrating and visibly plumping with tripeptides.
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Boosts hydration, visibly evens skin tone, and reduces the appearance of pores.
- Tripeptides: Visibly plump and firm to reduce signs of fine lines and wrinkles.
- Poreaway Complex (Pistacia Lentiscus Mastic Gum): Visibly tightens pores, reduces imperfections, and absorbs excess oil.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This noncomedogenic, translucent primer blurs, absorbs excess oil, reduces redness, and smooths fine lines.
Size: 0.5 oz / 15 ml·ITEM: 2424778
Color: Pore Minimizer
$34.00
Great Primer...It lasts all day and I had no issues with caking, something that has happened with other primers in the past....My absolute favourite primer. I used many primers in the market but the compares to it.
What it is: A mini-size smoothing makeup primer that visibly reduces the appearance of pores and fine lines for a smooth texture and blurred finish.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Pores
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Reduce the appearance of pores for up to 24 hours and instantly smooth skin's appearance with the Mini Step 1 Primer Pore Minimizer. Innovative polymers and silica visibly blur and smooth fine lines and skin’s texture, while ginseng maintains balance. The translucent formula works on all skin tones.
ITEM: 2738763
Size: 1.01 oz / 30 mL - for all skin types
$51.00
I think this primer is the best primer I’ve ever tried. It helps my makeup not move at all through the day and it isn’t oily or clogging like other primers I’ve tried. ...The primer is very hydrating, but not as sticky as some other primers!
What it is: A hydrating primer with advanced capsulated technology that visibly boosts radiance, giving a smoother makeup application for a glowy look all day.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, and Combination
Concerns: Dryness
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Beta Glucan and Hyaluronic Acid: Intensely hydrate.
- Omega Fatty Acids: Prevent moisture loss.
- Black Tea: Visibly brightens and refreshes.
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 i
