Q&A for How to Choose Makeup Primer

Yes, my personal favorite is the: too faced hangover primer.($31), benefit porefessional primer ($14) and the Bioderma Sebium Pore Refiner ($19).

Use pore-filling, smoothing primers to flatten out any texture from the acne scars. Find a foundation that matches your skin tone with golden undertones, perhaps with medium to full coverage if you want to cover the acne scars more.

For the darkness around your mouth, use a peach or orange color-correcting concealer underneath foundation. This will neutralize the darkness. Find primers, foundations, and concealers that are mattifying to reduce the shine from natural face oils. Use a pore-filling primer to smooth the skin and to prevent cream makeup from looking textured.

You can combine various primers, but use small amounts of each. You could also apply each primer to the specific areas that need the most attention from a particular product.

Maybelline Super-stay 24 Hour Liquid Foundation is so good for oily skin because it's really matte.

If you wear face makeup, it'll clog your pores unless you wash your face after you wear it. If a primer works for you, then use it!

Dermalogica Skinperfect Primer SPF 30. I recommend this one because it really helped me out with my dry skin on my face.

If you have normal skin, it just comes down to whether you want your primer to be luxury, or whether you want coverage. Drugstore brands work just fine and keep the costs down.

Bobbi Brown Vitamin-Enriched Face Base! It's sold at Sephora (or you can get it online), and it's definitely worth the price.

You can try both a mattifying and a hydrating or illuminating and apply the mattifying one where you are oily and the luminizing one where you are more dry or just to the high points of your face if you are more normal there. If you only want to buy 1 primer, just apply your skincare and then lotion all over, let it sink in 15 minutes or so, and apply a mattifying primer to your t-zone.

Make sure you use a balancing moisturizer first (both hydrating and mattifying). Then, follow up with a hydrating and soothing primer to make sure your skin does not dry out over the day and produce more oils. Look for dimethicone on the ingredient list, since this helps to mattify the complexion and fights the accumulation of oil. Soothing ingredients like niacinamide, centella asiatica, and chamomile, further up the redness-reducing benefits. Prepping skin with a green-tinted primer, is also one of the most effective ways to knock out rosacea-induced redness.

Use a mattifying primer, which will make your skin less shiny. Fenty beauty has a really good mattifying primer; you can buy it at Sephora.

Using a nourishing moisturizer like Neutrogena's hydro boost (almost like a gel cream) and then a primer like The Ordinary's high spreadability fluid primer would work really well together. Both hydrating your skin and setting a flawless base for your makeup.

Always take a small quantity of primer when applying 10 to 15 minutes before you start your makeup application. This will help you to avoid your face looking dark or blackish. Minimal application is the key to retain natural-looking makeup.

If you need an oil-controlling primer, you could use Maybelline's Master Prime (the clear one). e.l.f. matte Putty Primer is also very good.