If you're looking for a way to smooth out the skin on your face, you might consider using a face primer. A face primer is a product that helps prepare your skin for makeup application. It can help foundation last longer and provide better coverage, and it can also help concealer stick better to the skin. Here are some of the best mattifying face primers available today.
Size: 0.68 oz / 20 mL·ITEM: 2572865
Color: Translucent
$20.00
Pore Eclipse Mattifying Primer gifted by Milk Makeup excels in creating a matte, pore-blurring base that lasts all day. ...Milk makeup makes the best pore blurring primers hands down so I was super excited to try the mattifying one. ...Excels in creating a matte, pore-blurring base
What it is: A mini lightweight water-cream makeup primer with skincare benefits that blurs the look of pores and fights shine for a long-lasting, soft-matte finish.
Finish: Matte
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Oil and Pores
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Helps minimize the appearance of pores.
- Bakuchiol: Helps visibly smooth skin texture and even skin tone.
- Lentil Extract: Helps reduce shine.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
$20.00
Dosn't really Mattify...The texture is great no complaint there Smooth and silky, but it doesn't really mattify and I dont find it works as well as other Mattifying Primers....The only primer that doesn’t give me a rash. It also does a great job of mattifying the skin to prepare it for smooth makeup application.
What it is: A mattifying primer for combination-to-oily skin that delivers maximum all-day shine control while improving and extending the wear of foundation.
Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Blue Agave Extract: Helps to mattify the skin.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is oil-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Mattify skin, fight shine all day, and smooth the look of pores without feeling tight or dry with the Pro Filt'r Mattifying Primer. Paired with Pro Filt'r foundation (sold separately), this oil-free primermade with Blue Agave Extract and blurring powderhelps makeup blend better, last longer, and stay fresh all day without caking.
$36.00
I’ve tried other mattifying primers before and they leave me feeling dry and make my makeup look dull and cracked. ...Not Very Mattifying...I bought this primer with the hope that it would mattify my face and keep it matte.
What it is: A mattifying primer for combination-to-oily skin that delivers maximum all-day shine control while improving and extending the wear of foundation.
Skin Type: Normal, Combination, and Oily
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Blue Agave Extract: Helps to mattify the skin.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is oil-free and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Mattify skin, fight shine all day, and smooth the look of pores without feeling tight or dry with the Pro Filt'r Mattifying Primer. Paired with Pro Filt'r foundation (sold separately), this oil-free primermade with Blue Agave Extract and blurring powderhelps makeup blend better, last longer, and stay fresh all day without caking.
$46.00
Personally, I prefer my primers to have more of a matte finish, rather than be sticky. ...This blurring primer is truly impressive at minimizing my large pores.
What it is: A primer that smooths skin for even makeup application and reduces the appearance of pores.
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Skin-Perfecting Complex: Blend of rose extracts that work to moisturize, protect, and smooth skin.
- Silica Beads: Instantly blurs and smooths the appearance of imperfections.
- Red Clover Flower Extract: Controls oil while actively decreasing appearance of pore size over time.
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.<
ITEM: 2787570
Size: 1.01 oz / 30 mL
$34.00
just try it. if you oily, this will mattify you for DAYS. even just trying it on your hand, you'll see how smoothing and mattifying it is....fantastic matte primer!...If you're looking for a mattifying primer that reduces the appearance of pores, this is absolutely the one for you!
What it is: A non-comedogenic oil absorbing primer that delivers an immediate and extreme matte finish while tightening the appearance of pores. Extends makeup wear to up to 12 hours and dermatologist tested.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Liquid
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Alkaline pH: Absorbs excess oil to visibly balance and mattify.
- 15 Percent Mineral Silicate Complex: Tightens the appearance of pores.
- Micro-Hyaluronic Acid: Visibly plumps and prevents dryness.
Size: 0.5 oz / 15 ml·ITEM: 2424760
Color: Shine Control
$24.00
Too matte for me...I’m an oily girl in the warmer months and this was just too mattifying for me....Matte Look...Matte look I get very oily throughout the day and I’m always trying mattifying and poreless primers so i was so happy when I got shine control through influencer and you only need a small amount and work it into the skin and my skin felt velvety and I wasn’t shiny by the time I got home from work !!!
What it is: A mattifying makeup primer that absorbs oil to control shine, delivers a blurred, velvety finish, and extends makeup wear.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Oil
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Achieve a blurred, matte complexion for up to 20 hours with the Mini Step 1 Primer Shine Control. This comfortable formula is made with mineral clay powder, absorbs oil, and controls shine while extending the wear of makeup.
Size: 1 oz / 30 ml·ITEM: 2424679
Color: Shine Control - for oily, normal, combination skin
$41.00
Good primer, but not worth the price...I don’t feel that the results justify the price of the primer. Have I seen any other primers mattify my skin better than this primer? ...Most primers just seem to melt into my oily skin and don’t mattify at all.
What it is: A mattifying makeup primer that absorbs oil to control shine, delivers a blurred, velvety finish, and extends makeup wear.
Finish: Natural
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, and Combination
Concerns: Oil
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Ginseng: Known to protect, promote radiant-looking skin, and maintain a smooth complexion.
What Else You Need to Know: Achieve a blurred, matte complexion for up to 20 hours with the Step 1 Primer Shine Control. This comfortable formula is made with mineral clay powder, absorbs oil, and controls shine while extending the wear of makeup.
ITEM: 2683431
Size: 0.34 fl / 10 mL
$15.00
I don’t even know how I stumbled on this brand, but I bought the primer, setting spray, and mascara. This primer has an instant mattifying effect. ...If you’re not a primer person- try this!...I still can’t get over how beautiful my skin looks with this primer on. Usually primers do nothing for me. I also really love how it tones down my glowier foundations on days that I’m looking for a soft matte finish.
What it is: A clean, pore-minimizing and blurring primer that hydrates with niacinamide and plumps & firms with collagen peptides for a silky feel + a matte finish.
Coverage: Light
Finish: Matte
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Niacinamide: Hydrates and helps to reduce redness, pores and hyperpigmentation
- Collagen Peptide: Plumps and firms skin to reduce signs of fine lines & wrinkles
- Poreaway Complex (Pistacia Lentiscus Mastic Gum): Visibly tightens pores, reduces imperfections and controls oil
$34.00
Absolutely love this primer! It’s a perfect mix of mattifying, blurring, & hydrating. ...Must have primer!...This is the best primer I have ever used. I have oily skin, I have tried primers targeted for oily skin, mattifying and they end up making me super oily or they make my face look heavy.
What it is: A primer that blurs, absorbs oil, and primes the skin, leaving a cloud like finish without mattifying.
Finish: Natural
Formulation: Cream
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Shea Butter: Boosts moisture and nourishes skin.
- Sodium Hyaluronate: Hydrates the skin and leaves it looking plumper.
- Polymethylsilesquiloxane: Increases long wear of makeup while reducing the appearance of pores.
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, and cruel
ITEM: 2656320
Size: 1 oz / 30 g
$34.00
This instantly mattifies my face and that lasts the whole day....Mattifying for sure!...This is a good primer for anyone looking to mattify their skin!!
What it is: A sweat-proof, waterproof, aluminum-free primer that absorbs excess sweat and oil to visibly tighten pores, mattify skin, and prolong makeup wear.
Skin Type: Normal, Oily, Combination
Concerns: Oil, Pores, Uneven Skin Tone
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Bamboo Marrow Powder: Absorbs excess sweat and oil.
- Horsetail and Sage Extracts: Absorb excess sweat and tighten the look of pores.
- Squalane: Prevents dry skin.
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,