The first step to any flawless makeup routine is a good primer. While there are many types of face primers available, people still go back to glow-giving, dewy primers. It’s no lie that a radiant skin simply goes to show that a person’s lifestyle is healthy and balanced. So, the next time you want to cheat your way to good skin, just get a good dewy primer!
What does a dewy primer do?
For real, a dewy face primer does more than just concealing your skin’s lacklustre complexion and enhances its radiance. In fact, many dewy, illuminating primers tend to have hydrating properties to perk up the skin’s natural moisture level. Of course, as any face primers do, they also help to increase your makeup’s longevity.
Read on to find out which dewy primers work best for your skin type and budget.
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The Wonderglow Face Primer by Charlotte Tilbury features ingredients that will give your skin an instant pick-me-up. It not only brightens but also adds the perfect amount of dew to your skin for a healthy, rejuvenated look.
On top of that, it contains soft-focus ceramic microspheres and BioNymph Peptide Complex to smooth out wrinkles and stimulate collagen for firmer skin respectively. Overall, this primer is suitable for all skin types, including mature skin that commonly needs a little radiant boost.
Marc Jacob’s Perfecting Coconut Face Primer is a skin-smoothing, makeup-extending primer that is infused with 5 types of coconut to nourish and hydrate the skin. This concentrated face primer is enriched with coconut-extracts to form a natural, vitamin-rich barrier between your skin and makeup. It is also best used on normal to dry skin types.
Natasha Denona’s Face Glow Primer Hydrating Underbase is a rich cream-based face primer that works like a face moisturiser. The Face Glow Primer hydrates normally dry, dehydrated skin and helps foundation to set nicely whilst giving a healthy glow to your skin.
Too Faced’s Hangover Primer is a creamy yet lightweight face primer that’s infused with coconut water for a powerful boost of hydration. This face primer is specially designed to brighten the appearance of dull skin but also to create a balanced and supple-looking complexion.
Smashbox’s Photo Finish Primer Water is perfect for busy people who are constantly on-the-go as it takes 1-2 spritz to prime and set the face. The mist spray instantly gets absorbed into the skin for lasting hydration and extra radiance. Additionally, it’s formulated with revitalising electrolytes to reawaken the skin and restore moisture, making it great as a midday skin pick-me-up.
Charlotte Tilbury’s Brightening Youth Glow Primer is a skin-brightening treatment. It can colour-correct, improve redness, reduce pigmentation and erases dark-shadows while instantly blurs, brighten and smooth the skin. Not only is the skin tone noticeably lifted and brighter, but signs of ageing are also visibly erased after 4 weeks of application.
CLIO’s Pre-Step Moist Primer is a moisturising primer that smoothes out your skin to create a perfect canvas for makeup. On top of that, it’s enriched with gold flakes and collagen to help fortify skin’s barrier, lock in moisture and set makeup in place for extended hours. Above all, it creates the highly coveted Korean glass skin look.
Bourjois’ Healthy Mix Glow Starter Primer is a non-sticky, non-greasy, hydrating face primer with a serum touch formula and ultra-refreshing sensation.
This primer is enriched with soft apricot-hued pigments with ultra-thin light-reflecting pearls that adds a luminous and rosy fresh look to your skin. It’s also suitable to be used as a strobe cream after your foundation to highlight your cheekbones and temples.
Milani’s Prime Perfection is a hydrating and pore-minimising primer that blends invisibly into the skin. Upon application, the primer balances the skin’s moisture level and gives an illuminating, flawless finish. Not to mention, this formula is free from animal-derived ingredients, so it’s vegan-approved!.