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TOP 10 BEST MAKE UP PRIMERS FOR MATURE SKIN

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Are you entering your more seasoned era and looking to enhance your make up mastery? Whether you’ve dabbled in adding a primer to your repertoire or not, mature skin deserves a more considered make up routine, which is why here at Cult Beauty we’ve assembled a collection of the best make up primers for mature skin. 

As we age our skin changes, leading to complexions that look duller, begin to show fine lines and wrinkles and even experiences oiliness. But don’t worry, we have just the solution...  

From formulas that tackle dryness to ones dedicated to shine control, the best make up primers for mature skin enhance your complexion, tackle your skin care bug bares and ensure your base stays in place – no matter your skin type.  

So, without further ado, it’s time to discover the top 10 best make up primers for mature skin. 

OUR TOP TEN MAKE UP PRIMERS FOR MATURE SKIN  

  1. Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Primer Hydrating
  2. Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer
  3. Charlotte Tilbury Wonderglow
  4. LANEIGE Glowy Makeup Serum
  5. 111SKIN Rose Gold Radiance Booster
  6. Shiseido Revitalessence Skin Glow Primer
  7. Hourglass Veil Mineral Primer
  8. Grown Alchemist Skin Defense Primer
  9. Chantecaille Ultra Sun Protection Sunscreen SPF45
  10. GUERLAIN Météorites Base Perfecting Pearl Anti Dullness

THE BEST MAKE UP PRIMERS FOR MATURE SKIN  

Lightweight with a silky, soft texture, Laura Mercier’s Pure Canvas Primer Hydrating is the dew-delivering formula that creates a smooth, velvety base. Packed with moisturising olive extracts and marine hydra botanicals, this skin care infused make up prolonger cocoons complexions in long-term moisture, while ensuring your look stays locked in until you decide to wipe it off. 

Ideal for: all skin types 

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If extending your beauty look is your end game, Urban Decay’s All Nighter Face Primer should be the first step in your routine. Softening fine lines and creating velvety base over your skin, this blurring solution feels featherlight on the face, doesn’t sink into fine lines and wrinkles and adds a dose of dew. Oh, and did we also mention that you won’t need a touch up for up to eight hours? 

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Inspired by the luminosity of candlelight reflected on skin, Charlotte Tilbury’s Wonderglow offers a lit-from-within radiance you can use in up to three different ways. You can layer it on before foundation, as a traditional face primer. Use it alone to perk up a lacklustre complexion or add a drop or two of the formula to highlighter after you’ve finished your look. Packed with hydrating hyaluronic acid and a potent peptide complex, this base player ensures that your skin has a soft-focus sign off after every use. 

 Ideal for: a dewy finish 

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Flooding skin with much-needed moisture, LANEIGE’s Glowy Makeup Serum not only pro-longs your look but acts as a skin-softening serum too. Smoothing texture, this innovative formula features a ceramide hydration gel, pink diamond powder and Light Fit Prep Technology to support your moisture barrier while boosting a luminous finish. Plus, it also creates a lightweight adhesion on the skin to prevent your make up from slipping and sliding throughout the day.  

Ideal for: smoothing skin texture 

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Complexion giving you an SOS call? Dab on 111SKIN’s Rose Gold Radiance Booster for a shot of luminosity. Smoothing and hydrating dry and sensitive skin, this comforting serum is packed with moisturising rose water extract, niacinamide and pure gold extracts to transform tired-looking complexions into radiant, fresh-looking skin.  

Ideal for: plumping and radiance 

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Working to blur pores, brighten complexions and support your skin barrier, Shiseido’s Revitalessence Skin Glow Primer is the answer to a seamless, diffused looking finish. Infused with pre-biotic skin care actives including kefir and niacinamide, this nourishing formula is lightweight, glowy and ensures your base won't move (for up to 24 hours!) Have we just found the best make up primer for mature skin? 

Idea for: a skin care enthusiast 

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Taking make up prolonging mastery to a whole new level is Hourglass’ Veil Mineral Primer. With an innovative formula that conceals redness, minimises the look of pores and even ‘waterproofs’ your look, this is a superfecta product that goes above and beyond its traditional call of duty. Gliding on like silk and enhancing skin without feeling greasy, it defends against everything from tears and tantrums to trickles and thunderstorms... 

Ideal for: redness 

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Melding botanical extracts, peptides and antioxidants, Grown Alchemists’ Skin Defence Primer not only keeps your make up safe, but works as a veil for warding off pollution, dust and other environmental aggressors. Ideal for city dwellers, this airy formula is packed with protective pre-biotic peptides, reishi mushroom extracts and ashwagandha to lessen the look of fatigue, comfort your complexion and ensure your skin looks hydrated and your make up looks matte. 

Ideal for: a matte finish 

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Infused with cherry blossom, lemon balm and white tea extract, Chantecaille Ultra Sun Protection Sunscreen SPF45 is the invisible shield that guards your skin from damaging UV rays while simultaneously enhancing your make up. Offering a no white cast finish that’s suitable for all skin types, this potent potion ensures a firmer, plumper looking complexion that looks smooth and matte.  

Ideal for: sun protection 

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With an innovative fresh-gel texture and cutting edge ‘Stardust Technology’, GUERLAIN’s Météorites Base Perfecting Pearl Anti-Dullness Primer neutralises excess sebum, helps conceal blemishes and offers a luminous finish. Utilising diamond powders encapsulated in microspheres and multi-coloured pearl flecks, this face primer delivers light-reflective properties that simultaneously colour correct the complexion.  

Ideal for: oily and combination skin 

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And there you have it; a list of our top 10 best make up primers for mature skin. Now all that’s left to do is pick your preferred finish, apply your favourite foundation and leave everyone wondering how your skin looks so radiant... even after eight or more hours. 

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Rina Teslica
Rina Teslica Writer and expert

Rina is Cult Beauty’s Junior SEO Copywriter and has always had a passion for beauty and skin care (rich moisturisers are her obsession). What started as a love for The Body Shop and their famed Born Lippy lip balms (in ‘Watermelon’ of course!), she is now more interested in finding products with proven effectiveness instead of broken promises. A loud and proud VIEVE fan, Rina owns nearly every item of the range and recommends the brand to anyone who will listen... When she’s not intently reading ingredient lists, you can find her either immersed in multiple true crime podcasts or co-hosting her own parenting one, with an *extra* hot cappuccino in hand.

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