Make Up Primer - So Your Makeup Lasts Longer Than You Do!

Make up primer is a great way to prepare your face for makeup, especially as you grow older. Aging skin tends to wrinkle, darken, sag, and bag more often, which means you’ll need help in keeping yours in place. Primers create a smooth canvas on your skin, which enables your palette colors to do stay put.

Primers have come a long way. In days past, they were not even available, and if you could find them, the product was rudimentary at best. Now a wide array of primer products exist for your makeup convenience. Not only will they better prepare your face for makeup, they help the makeup you put on stay in place longer. Over the course of a regular day, your makeup can fade. Primers help keep it looking fresh and alluring all day long and into the night!

Primers work by filling in fine lines and by giving your makeup something to adhere to. If you’ve ever used ridge fillers for your fingernails, you understand the concept. Fill in the ridges and smooth out the nail before you apply polish. That’s exactly what primers do for your skin and your makeup.

Besides filling in lines, make up primer also helps to fill in large pores that can also cause creasing in makeup application. As you age, your skin expands. That’s why your pores appear to get larger as you grow older. It’s not an illusion though. They really do! Primers also give your makeup better coverage which helps you better conceal imperfections. Lines around your mouth, brow lines, and forehead lines especially benefit by using them. Many aging women now rely on primers and include them in their daily makeup routine.

Before Make Up Primer

Before applying any makeup or primer, you must always prepare your skin. Always wash your face with a mild facial soap and pat dry. If you have large pores, use a toner with salicylic acid to help close them. Apply a daily facial moisturizing lotion and wait at least 10 minutes, or until your facial skin feels smooth and dry. Then apply your primer in a thin layer over your facial skin.

How to Apply Make Up Primer

A primer should be applied after your moisturizer but before foundations if you’re using one. When you apply makeup primer before foundations, your makeup won't rub off or smear.

For the best application, wet a sponge and wring it out till its just moist. Add a small amount of primer to the back of your hand to help warm it up. This allows better coverage to fill in fine lines and wrinkles. Dab your sponge in the primer and apply all over your face, paying special attention to areas where you want the best coverage. (i.e. wrinkles, lines, large pores, scars, etc.) It's essential to let it sink in for a few minutes to allow it to penetrate into your skin. You may also choose to apply primer with your fingertips to the areas where your makeup doesn’t last a long time, like your chin, lips, eyelids or over your entire face. You can also use eyeshadow primer, just for your eyes. This is especially good for older women who have a harder time keeping eyeshadow in place. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion is one of the best overall eyeshadow primers around, at the right price! Rub primers around with your fingertips to warm it up before application.

Makeup Primer Ingredients

Makeup primer contains waxes, polymers, and/or silicones. These ingredients form a bond with other cosmetics, which allows cosmetics to have more longevity. For example, lip primers can keep lip colors fresher longer, and stop feathering and/or bleeding of lipsticks. Makeup primer used on the eye lids can stop eye shadow from collecting in creases as much. When you use a primer under foundation, it often takes less foundation to get the same good coverage, so you’ll save a lot of money by using them!

Primers are oil free and fragrance-free and are usually a gel formula, which allows an even and precise application. They work especially well with oily and/or combination skin as they reduce excess shine and absorb oils. Makeup primers also work well for dry and sensitive skin as it nourishes and protects your skin and calms minor skin inflammations.

Women who have facial scars may also find make up primer to be essential, especially for scars that have creases. When you have heavy creases in your skin, makeup can actually draw attention to facial scars, by collecting in the creases. Primers temporarily fill in and level the crease, which leaves a smooth surface. Add a touch of pre-warmed concealer to the area, and cover with foundation to completely hide it.

Primers come in a variety of tints you match to your complexion or they can be transparent. Tinted make up primer can help cover subtle age spots or skin discolorations. If you opt to use foundation over primer, use a clear make up primer. Some women even prefer to bypass foundation completely and only use tinted makeup primers.

If you have contact dermatitis, allergies, or milia, which are tiny cysts under your eyes, then do not use primers. If you are someone with a flawless complexion, you are extremely fortunate and in the minority. You don’t actually need to use one, but may also benefit from using one. I really don’t know one woman who can’t benefit from using them.

Benefits of Makeup Primers

Makeup glides on smoothly and blends easily

Using a make up primer is one of the best ways to make your makeup stay on longer. The makeup primers are relatively new products on the market but now are gaining more and more popularity!

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