Primers Plus: 6 makeup primers with skincare benefits

Think your daily skin care routine is limited to moisturizer and sunscreen? Think again! With so many skincare-inspired beauty products available, you can blur the line between skincare and makeup once and for all. Case in point: makeup primers. Not only do primers prepare the skin for makeup application, many of them also have skin-friendly properties! From smoothing imperfections and hydrating skin to brightening dull skin and shrinking enlarged pores, below are six makeup primers with skincare benefits that we think are the best.

Blur

If you want to hide surface imperfections, check out the Touche Éclat Blur Primer from Yves Saint Laurent Beauty. Formulated with four nourishing skin care oil extracts—corn oil, apricot kernel oil, passionflower oil, and rice bran oil—this makeup primer can not only cover imperfections, it can also hydrate your skin!

Yves Saint Laurent Beauty Touche Eclat Blur Primer, $52

HYDRATE

Dry skin types, listen up! NYX Professional Makeup Hydra Touch Primer is formulated with soothing and hydrating ingredients such as chamomile, green tea extract and ginseng root extract to hydrate and revitalize the complexion, making it the perfect dry skin primer of the year. -round. Use it alone or under your favorite lightweight foundation for silky smooth, radiant skin.

NYX Professional Makeup Hydra Touch Primer, $14

ILLUMINATE

If your complexion looks a bit dull, brighten it up with Maybelline's FaceStudio Master Prime Blur + Illuminate. Created for all skin types, especially dull skin, this lightweight primer can brighten your complexion and protect your skin from the sun as it's formulated with SPF 30. The best part (beyond all its skincare qualities) ? You can buy it at your local pharmacy for less than $10 each!

Maybelline FaceStudio Master Prime Blur + Illuminate, $9.99

CORRECT COLOR

At Skincare.com, we're trying new trends in makeup and skincare. The problem is color correction. Color correction is a makeup technique that uses colored concealers to cover blemishes, dark circles, dull skin, and other imperfections that can interfere with a flawless complexion. With NYX Professional Makeup Color Correcting Liquid Primer, you can correct color and primer at the same time! To learn more about color grading, check out our color grading guide here.

NYX Professional Makeup Color Correcting Liquid Primer, $14

PORE MINIMIZER

If you love Maybelline's Baby Lips, you'll love the Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser. This lightweight primer works like magic to hide imperfections, minimize the appearance of enlarged pores, and leave your skin soft like a baby. Not only does this drugstore primer help give you a flawless complexion, it also contains bitter cherry extract, rich in antioxidants. Thus, it can not only temporarily correct your imperfections, but also protect your skin from aggressive environmental influences.

Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser, $6.99.

REFRESH AND TIGHTENING

If you're experiencing some of the premature signs of skin aging (like fine lines, wrinkles, dull skin) or need some extra hydration before applying foundation, Urban Decay's Brightening & Lifting Facial Primer is the primer for your skin. . Containing Matrixyl 3000, this anti-aging primer can reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles, and brighten and brighten dull skin. Result? Softer, smoother and more youthful complexion.

Urban Decay Brightening & Lifting Face Primer, $31