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. ...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: 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.
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
Size: 1 oz·ITEM: 2745362
Color: Magic Hour - medium/deep skin tones
$52.00
It effortlessly conceals pores and fine lines, leaving my skin looking smooth and flawless. Unlike some primers that can feel heavy or dry, this primer adds hydration to my skin. ...I personally love this primer, it is so soft on the skin, and it also does not irritate or leave a sensationunder my make up, which I do find common in a lot of other primers. 10 out of 10 would recommend.
What it is: A tinted skin enhancer, hydrator, and blurring primer all in one.
Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily
Skincare Concerns: Dryness and Dullness
Formulation: Lightweight Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- S6Pro Complex®: Visibly smooths and balances skin.
- Licorice: Evens the look of skin tone over time.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also gluten-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Providing sheer coverage with a lit-from-withi
$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
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. ...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! ...It’s the blue primer for me...The perfect primer
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.
$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.
