Illuminating Face Primer

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If you're looking to create the ultimate facial glow, an illuminating primer is one of the best ways to go. The primers listed below are designed to illuminate the skin, giving it a dewy, youthful glow.

ValentinoV-Lighter Illuminating Face Primer and Highlighter with Hyaluronic Acid

Size: 25 mL·ITEM: 2542850

Color: Ambra - ideal for medium-to-deep complexions with warm undertones

277 Reviews

$59.00

I didn’t like this as a primer because it felt heavy under foundation compared to other brands of illuminating primers from Becca, too faced, hourglass, and Charlotte Tilbury. ...Illuminating Primer...I received a sample size to review and was highly impressed by how brightening the primer was even on its own! Worked well on my oily/combination skin.

$16.00

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

$46.00

I also enjoy that it is light enough for my skin tone as I find some illuminating primers are too orangey....I love a primer that gives me a glow! Since I live in NYC my skin tends to get dry in the winter and this primer is perfect for that.

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

$40.00

The only type of banana I like is this banana bright face primer from olehenriksen. It’s both hydrating and illuminating! ...New favorite primer. Very illuminating and makes makeup last all day.

What it is: A vitamin C-infused, illuminating face primer with banana powder-inspired pigments that delivers instant radiance while improving and extending makeup wear.

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

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

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Vitamin C: Helps target visible signs of aging.
- Banana Powder-inspired Pigments : Instantly illuminate.
- Vitamin E: An antioxidant that helps nourish and condition skin; also helps stabilize the vitamin C in the formula.

MAKE UP FOR EVERColor Correcting Step 1 Primers

Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424737

Color: Fresh brightner - fair to light skin with dullness & uneven tone

802 Reviews

$41.00

If you have pale skin and are looking for a primer to help illuminate your face and make up routine, I highly recommend the MUFE Step 1 primer in the tone Fresh Brightener!...Perfect Primer...I really liked how the primer felt when I applied it to my face. Some primers can be tacky when you apply it, this one went on smooth.

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.

$30.00

The Hydro Grip + Glow illuminating Primer hydrated my skin and also had my makeup lasting a long time. ...Makes your face looking glowing...The Milk Hydro Grip + Glow Illuminating Primer grips makeup well while adding a subtle glow.

What it is: A clean, long-wearing, illuminating primer that grips makeup for up to 12 hours and hydrates with hyaluronic acid for a soft, radiant, golden-hour glow.

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Blue Agave Extract: Grips makeup for up to 12 hours.
- Hyaluronic Acid and Niacinamide: Hydrate and smooth for plumper-looking skin.
- Light-Reflecting Pearls: Add a warm, luminous glow.

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 in recyclable packaging.

What

$28.00

I love love this product. It really does illuminate!...My face actually looked like it was illuminating. Best primer I’ve ever used!!

What it is: A weightless, silicone-free, gel primer enriched with ultra-fine pearls for a lit-from-within glow.

Finish: Radiant

Skin Type: Normal, Dry, Combination, and Oily

Concerns: Dryness

$25.00

I love this primer. It’s hydrating and illuminating....Pure canvas primer...Other make up primers often make me break out but this one doesn’t.

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:

MAKE UP FOR EVERStep 1 Primer Hydra Booster

Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424695

Color: Hydra Booster - for dry, normal, combination skin

294 Reviews

$41.00

Very hydrating and illuminating I like it a lot under the full glam highly recommend...Great primer!...Loving this primer! Makes my makeup go on flawlessly. There is no “pilling” or build up like with other primers.

What it is: A makeup primer that boosts skin's hydration and radiance for up to 24 hours while extending makeup wear.

Finish:
Radiant

Skin Type:
Normal, Dry, and Combination

Concerns: Dryness

Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.

What Else You Need to Know: Refresh dry or dehydrated skin instantly with Step 1 Primer Hydra Booster. Its rich, creamy texture features ginseng, glycerin, and glycols to boost skin's hydration and a radiant look for up to 24 hours, while the invisible wear extends makeup. This primer works perfectly for all skin tones.

Fenty Beauty by RihannaEaze Drop'lit All-Over Glow Enhancer

Size: 1.22 fl oz / 36 mL·ITEM: 2590123

Color: Bronze Jasper - warm bronze glow for deep skin tones

272 Reviews

$34.00

It looks really natural on its own where other illuminating primer do not give that a fact they do not look natural enough, and they are to metallic looking, but this one really looks wonderful on the skin....The only reason I would deduct stars is the actual color kind of blends away and for an illuminating sheen I don’t know if it’s worth the money.

What it is: A visible-glow enhancer with skin-loving ingredients for natural-looking illumination.

Coverage: Light

Finish:
Radiant

Formulation:
Liquid

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

What Else You Need to Know: This all-over-visible-glow enhancer has a lightweight, sheer formula that visibly hydrates, brightens, and reduces pores immediately and all day. You can wear it three ways: alone, mixed with foundation for a soft-looking glow, or as a hydrating base to extend makeup wear.

Clinical Results: In a consumer study:
- 100% agreed it made their skin look brighter
- 100% agreed it instantly made their skin feel more nourish

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