What is it: A gel-based ingredient-driven face primer that smoothes and blurs your complexion while gripping your makeup to help it last longer. Rihanna can do wrong, so it should come as a surprise that Fenty's Pro Filt'r Instant Retouch Primer landed on our "best primers" list. This particular product acts like Photoshop for your skin. It creates a filter-like finish before you apply makeup so that your pores look practically invisible. It has an oil-free formula that actually absorbs excess sebum so your skin stays shine-free from morning till night. Enriched with ingredients like Silicone Hyaluronic Acid and Squalane for skin that looks and feels healthier Our ‘light-infused’ face primer helps to even the look of your skin tone and the advanced blurring technology creates an ideal canvas for your makeup, helping your makeup last all day.

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The line between skincare and makeup is increasingly blurred—and primers are perhaps the most multi-purpose product out there. That in mind, most makeup primers are going to contain loads of skincare-like ingredients. “I often search for hyaluronic acid which helps skin retain moisture, resulting in skin producing less sebum, or oil. The great news is hyaluronic acid is friendly to all skin types so a primer emphasizing this ingredient will likely be universal,” says Fleming. After that, you’ll probably find a mix of hydrating, oil-absorbing, or radiance-boosting ingredients depending on the primer’s purpose. The Best Makeup Primers Benefits: treats skin whilst prolonging make-up wear | gently exfoliates with malic acid | blurs enlarged pores This is technically considered a “complexion booster,” but any beauty insider will tell you that it’s one of the best primers going. It’s tinted and you need to find your shade, but it’s by no means designed to provide coverage. Instead, it gives a glowy sheen that simultaneously brightens, blurs, and moisturizes. The secret sauce, so to say, is the brand’s glossy oil, which quite literally gives a glass-like finish wherever it’s applied. I always go for full face application, but you can be more strategic with your placement if you’re not doing heavy glam. I think as long as it’s a simple, silicone-based primer, you can’t really go wrong. But, of course, it all depends on your skin type and texture, which means you may end up trying a few before you fall in love. This luminizing face primer is a water-based formula that comes in a universally flattering shade. Mirror-flat pearls blur imperfections and give skin a just-had-a-facial glow.YSL Blur Primer contains the optimal light diffusion technology of Touche Éclat Illuminating Pen in a transparent gel format to allow for easy application. Use underneath your foundation to boost the radiance of your foundation, or use alone for a radiant 'no makeup' makeup look. This gel primer is infused with 24-karat gold for some serious shine. Not only does it boost skin's radiance, it also helps minimize lines and tighten the face. The splurge-worthy product also has a pleasant cooling sensation. An irresistible complexion instantly illuminated. Skin texture looks smoother and skin luminosity appears boosted.

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This has the friendly hyaluronic acid I mentioned before. It blurs texture, reduces shine, and fills in pores creating the smoothest canvas of skin, ‘primed’ and ready for glam,” says Fleming. With just a thin layer (feel free to apply it with your fingers), your skin is going to look plumper, firmer, and mattified. “Make sure you allow time for your moisturizer to absorb, then, with your fingertips gently blend byTerry Hyaluronic Hydra Primer over areas you’d like to filter.” And water-based primers are essentially lightweight moisturizers that make your skin feel, uh, slightly moisturized (maybe slightly dewier? Slightly matter? Slightly something-er?). Here’s a hot take: I, personally, am not a fan of water-based primers. I don’t think they do anything special for your makeup, especially if you’re already wearing a moisturizer, and they offer none of the same skin-smoothing properties as a silicone primer. I, as future queen, will force nobody to wear a water-based primer.WATER (AQUA), BUTYLENE GLYCOL, GLYCERIN, PEG-150 DISTEARATE, POLYSORBATE 80, NIACINAMIDE, ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS (ROSEMARY) LEAF WATER, MELISSA OFFICINALIS FLOWER/LEAF/STEM WATER, MENTHA PIPERITA (PEPPERMINT) LEAF WATER, SODIUM HYALURONATE, SODIUM ASCORBYL PHOSPHATE, MENTHOL, PENTYLENE GLYCOL, PROPYLENE GLYCOL, PEG-240/HDI COPOLYMER BIS-DECYLTETRADECETH-20 ETHER, PEG-40 HYDROGENATED CASTOR OIL, PHENOXYETHANOL, ETHYLHEXYLGLYCERIN, CAPRYLYL GLYCOL, DISODIUM EDTA, TRIDECETH-9, 1,2-HEXANEDIOL Beauty gurus on YouTube have sworn by Tatcha's Silk Canvas Protective Primer for years now, and it's 100 percent worth the splurge—especially if you're trying to blur out large pores. This velvet-like primer acts as a literal barrier between your skin and the rest of your makeup to keep clogged pores at bay and smooth over imperfections before you even have to apply any foundation. You can also swipe it on your eyelids; it doubles as an eyeshadow primer.