Primer Serums

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Looking to perfect your makeup application and achieve a flawless, long-lasting finish? Look no further than best makeup primer for oily skin primer serums. These power-packed beauty essentials are designed to create a smooth canvas for your foundation, while also providing nourishing benefits for your skin. Whether you're seeking a blurring effect, hydration boost, or oil control, our collection of primer serums has got you covered. From lightweight formulas to those infused with skin-loving ingredients, discover the perfect primer serum to enhance your makeup routine and help your look stay put all day.

BuxomPlump Shot™ Collagen-Infused Lip Serum Plumper

Size: 0.14 oz/ 4 mL·ITEM: 2435147

Color: Clear - clear

174 Reviews

$40.00

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Rather than a gloss, this is more like a satiny finish lip primer serum that fattens up your lips. And it works better than any other lip plumper I’ve tried. ...It almost feels like a primer for your lips! Very tingly and pepperminty which I like as well and that feeling lasts quite a bit!

What it is: A collagen-infused lip serum clinically shown to visibly plump lips and decrease the appearance of fine lines—plus it now comes in sparkling shades.

Formulation Type:
Lip Gloss & Lip Plumper

Benefits: Plumping

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Pure Vegan Collagen: Helps promote fuller-looking lips over time.
- Hyaluronic Acid Filling Spheres: Smooth the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
- Tripeptides: Promote fuller-looking lips over time.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and mineral oil. It is also cruelty-free.

Fashion FairFabulous Face Priming Serum

Size: 1 oz/ 30 mL·ITEM: 2477057

Color: Peach-tinted - all skin tones; translucent finish

29 Reviews

$53.00

All in all, I can definitely see myself picking this primer up again in the future!...Great serum primer and evens skin tone...Love this primer. I use it like a primer/ moisturizer. I want it to work on its own.

What it is: A do-everything serum-primer to visibly even tone and texture, boost radiance, and prep your skin for seamless makeup application.

Finish:
Natural

Skin Type:
Normal, Oily, Dry, Combination

Concerns: Pores and Uneven Skin Tone

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Shea Butter: Smooths, visibly plumps, and delivers an abundance of fatty acids, antioxidants, and vitamins.
- Citrus Unshiu Peel Extract: An antioxidant-rich ingredient that visibly brightens and reduces hyperpigmentation.
- Niacinamide (Vitamin B3): Promotes visibly bright, glowing skin.

$81.00

This is a great primer serum for my oily skin. I always like to use hydrating products under my makeup and target oily areas with other primers and this works amazing for both. ...I really enjoyed this primer. I have oily skin and it helped my skin stay matte longer than other primers I’ve tried. ...Amazing Primer!

What it is: A primer that creates a luminous finish, visibly evens tone, and visibly plumps skin while creating a soft glow effect.

Highlighted Ingredients:

- Squalane: Helps replenish the moisture barrier, leaving skin soft and supple.

- Powder Technology: Imparts an elegant silky texture for better blendability and a natural finish.

- Elastomer Technology: Provides a soft-focus effect, which minimizes the look of pores and evens texture.

What Else You Need to Know: Optimizing foundation coverage for all-day wear, this non-sticky, smooth formula is suitable for all skin types.

LANEIGEGlowy Makeup Serum

ITEM: 2352441

Size: 1.0 oz/ 30 mL

753 Reviews

$43.50

Better primers out there...Slight glow, not bad but not great.serves just as a primer but too expensive to buy again....This product was gifted to me by Laneige to review for you guys, and it is hands down one of my favorite primers now! I have combination skin so I’m always having to mix primers to try and get a “glowy” look that I love for my makeup and this primer has helped with that!

What it is: A lightweight and hydrating Korean priming serum hybrid with Diamond Mineral Powder for visibly smooth and long-lasting makeup wear.


Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily


Skincare Concerns: Dryness, Dullness, and Uneven Texture


Formulation: Serum


Highlighted Ingredients:

- Diamond Mineral Powder: Creates a visibly translucent glow and smooths skin’s appearance.

- Light Fit Prep Technology: Helps makeup last longer.

- Ceramide Hydration Gel: Delivers and locks in moisture for an oil-water balance.


Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens

ILIATrue Skin Radiant Priming Serum

ITEM: 2196780

Size: 1 fl oz/ 30 ml - sheer

1K Reviews

$71.00

Reminds me a bit of the Milk Hydrogrip primer but in a serum form w/ most skincare benefits. ...Very good primer! I feel like this primer leaves your skin super soft and does not cause piling as much as some other primers I’ve used.

What it is: A clean, silicone-free, ultra-breathable primer that protects against harmful environmental stressors and preps skin for seamless makeup application.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Beta Glucan: Helps to reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
- Hibiscus: Helps to protect against free-radical damage.
- Mastic: Helps to mattify and refine skin throughout the day.

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

$43.50

I’m not typically a fan of traditional primers but this one doesn’t feel like a primer at all. ...Nice priming serum...This is very different than other primers I have used. This has more of a serum texture which makes sense since it's a serum and primer in one.

What it is: A multifaceted, silicone-free formula with antioxidant-rich skincare ingredients that provides lightweight hydration and soothing benefits.

Coverage: Light

Finish: Natural

Formulation: Liquid

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Pentapeptide-59: helps to reduce signs of sensitization, including visibly reducing redness.
- Rosehip Seed Oil: Packed with Vitamins A and C to support natural skin elasticity, hydration, and healing.
- Sea BuckThorn Oil: Rich in antioxidants like Vitamin E, carotenoids, and lycopene that protect from free radical damage.

Ingredient Callouts: This product is cruelty-free, and gluten-free.

$439.00

Plays great with other serums/moisturizer and look amazing when wearing foundation (no primer needed.) ...Best HA Serum...This HA serum is amazing. I have tried many samples of the regular HA serum by Sturm, and the Darker Skin Tones one absorbs into the skin far better and feels lighter to me. 3 to 4 drops is more than enough for my face and neck.

What it is: A fast-absorbing hyaluronic serum was specially developed to meet the beauty needs of darker skin tones.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Skincare Concerns: Fine Lines and Wrinkles, Dryness, and Loss of Firmness and Elasticity

Formulation: Serum

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hyaluronic Acid: Leaves the skin looking refreshed and radiant.
- Purslane: A strong antioxidant that stimulates the body and supports skin health and rejuvenation.

$49.00

Bye Bye, Primer!...I have always struggled with short lashes and have always used a primer before mascara to provide the length. I've been using this lash serum for a couple of month now and I am very happy with the results. ...i tested this out and my lashes grew really fast but ive heard that lash serums aren't good for you so i stopped using it. it didn't really burn for me as i didn't apply it close to my water line.

What it is: A cult-favorite serum that promotes longer-, thicker-looking lashes in as little as eight weeks with full improvement in as little as four months.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- L-Proline: An amino acid essential for healthy, fortified lashes.
- Hyaluronic Acid: Conditions and protects to prevent breakage while bringing hydration to dry, brittle, damaged lashes.
- Vitamin E: Supports lash health.

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

What Else You Need to Know: Infused with vitamins, peptides, and amino acids, this serum is beloved for its ability to visibly enhance short, thinning, brittle lashes.

$52.00

It is easier to use than runny serums, and it sticks to where you apply it. No stinging vitaminC serum running into the eyes. ...Considering this may be more of a skincare than makeup or primer, I really can't get past the smell.

What it is: A balm-to-serum stick supercharged with non-irritating 15 percent vitamin c to dramatically brighten the look of uneven skin tone and to target texture.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

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

Formulation: Serum stick

Highlighted Ingredients:
- 15% Vitamin C (THD): Visibly brightens, protects against oxidative damage, and targets age spots.
- 1% Alpha Arbutin: Lightens the look of dark spots and diminishes the appearance of acne scars.
- 0.5% Ferulic Acid: Fights the formation of fine lines, wrinkles, and age spots.

Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agen

$22.00

Perfect lip primer!...I love using this as a primer for the lips sort of and then applying other lip products on top! ...The pumping lip balm serum by Sephora works great. The applicator is easy to use and serum glides on smoothly and effortlessly.

What it is: A balm-textured serum enriched with hyaluronic acid that visibly plumps lips and smooths the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.


Highlighted Ingredients:
- Hylauronic Acid: Boosts skin hydration.


Skin Type:
Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily


What Else You Need to Know: Much more than just a moisturizing balm, it’s a plumping, smoothing care product. This lip serum balm, with its light, comfortable texture, can be applied at any time of day to intensely nourish and plump up lips. Day after day, its filling and smoothing action diminishes fine lines and wrinkles.

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“I have big pores and some fine lines and this product minimized them; This also left my skin looking so smooth and to top it off it kept my make up in place all day”
Gel Serums
“this is one of my favorite lip serums! the color is a really pretty soft pink and has a nice cooling sensation. didn’t really notice too much plumping but it’s still a good serum”
Primers For Wrinkles
“This is one of my favorite pore filling primers. This is a really lightweight, hydrating, smoothing primer”
Primers For Normal Skin
“But my makeup didn’t stay put as long as separate primers do. I think this product would be great for dry/normal skin”
Eye Serums
“Easily the coolest (literally and figuratively) eye serums/packaging I’ve ever tried. I love the eye roller to help further depuff my eyes”
Water-Based Serums
“I have been looking for a water-based serum of Vitamin C since I hate the feeling of sticky and oily on my face and this is such a perfect one for me”
Pearl Serums
“I received this product complimentary from Laneige. This serum is amazing! I dont normally use serums. The serums I've used in the past either felt too oily or made me break out”
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“The Ordinary is launching our Growth Factors 15% Solution - An age-support serum containing a 15% solution of growth factors to help minimize and repair visible skin damage to regenerate the look of aging skin”
Lightweight Serums
“After using this product while on vacation and normal use, I've seen it change my hair! It is very lightweight, smells amazing and tames all my baby hairs, so my hair looks shiny and smooth”
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“Go to for KP & neck exfoliation. Amazing for feet and elbows too. Super effective yet gentle enough for every day”

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