Paul & Joe Moisturizing Foundation Primer is a botanical-rich moisturizing primer that locks in hydration and leaves skin comfortable, soft, smooth and supple all day long. It offers lightweight, and sheer, coverage coupled with a gorgeous luminous glow. It evens skin tone and extends the life of your foundations and tinted moisturizers. Shade 01, which is featured here, is intended for fair complexions with pink undertones. It offers very sheer coverage, and once blended it disappears– therefore it will not alter the color of your foundation. It has no detectable scent, even though the ingredients list fragrance.
According to Paul & Joe,
Paul & Joe Beauté Moisturizing Foundation Primer does more than just prep skin for makeup application. Its superior formulation corrects complexion for clear, naturally radiant skin. Featuring the same loved texture and finish of past Paul & Joe primers, the Moisturizing Foundation Primer S touts a higher concentration of orange flower water to condition skin, as well as two additional types of sodium hyaluronate.
This all amounts to superior hydration for dry skin and balanced moisture retention for oily skin.
With three universal shades to choose from, this primer is suited to correct any skin care concerns and enhance overall skin tone.
Formulated with five natural plant extracts, three types of hyaluronic acid, spherical powder and various oils, this primer not only conditions, it firmly clings to the skin and foundation, absorbs excessive sebum, prevents makeup from turning dull, and provides gentle coverage that lasts all day for radiant looking skin.
Directions: Before applying foundation, take the desired amount (about 1 pump) onto the palm and spread evenly over the entire face. Clean the dispenser nozzle after each use and cap firmly.
White Lily Extract – moisturizer, prevents irritation.
Full Ingredients:
Shade 01:
Top to Bottom: Unblended and gently blended
Available Shades:
Overall Assessment: This is a really lovely primer that moisturizes the skin– and offers it a beautiful luminosity– while it increases the longevity of foundations and tinted moisturizers. It is truly obsession-worthy , and it feels wonderful on the skin.
$36.00 for 1 oz. from their Official Amazon Store (Affiliate Links). Press Sample. All views expressed are categorically my own.
The Makeup Wars! Team is currently featuring our favorite face primers and foundation pairings, but I could only pick my favorite primer that I pair with all of my foundations and tinted moisturizers. It isn't that I don't love particular foundations– it's that I love so many of them, but their one unifying force is the primer that I pair with each of them– which is the HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer.
HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer is an ultra-luxe complexion perfecting primer that glides across the skin like velvet. It creates an even and ultra-smooth finish, it reduces redness and the appearance of fine line and pores, it provides the skin with SPF 15 protection, and it creates a perfect canvas for your foundations and tinted moisturizers. Furthermore, it markedly increases the wear-time of your makeup, but perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of using this primer is that it has the most luxurious silky texture that HOURGLASS aptly describes as airy and cloud-like. This tactile experience makes its use heavenly, and addictive! While it is white in the bottle, it blends into the skin invisibly and leaves behind no white residue.
According to HOURGLASS,
The perfect complexion starts with Veil Mineral Primer. As the first step in your makeup routine, it creates the ideal canvas for your makeup to effortlessly slide on and stay on for all-day wear. The silky, weightless texture smooths and evens out the skin for perfect application and wear every time. It’s the one product that will elevate your foundation to unprecedented performance.
Elevate your foundation to unprecedented performance with this state-of-the-art primer that extends the wear of foundation for a perfect complexion that lasts. With a texture unlike any other, this oil free primer not only creates a smooth, even canvas for makeup, but also conceals redness, minimizes the appearance of pores, fine lines and wrinkles, and provides broad spectrum SPF 15 protection, all in a supremely airy, silky, cloud-like texture.
Features:
• Multipurpose primer goes beyond traditional formulations, concealing redness (even rosacea) to even skin tone, while minimizing the look of visible pores, fine lines and imperfections.
• Creates a smooth, even surface so that foundation effortlessly glides on and stays on for all day makeup wear.
• First of its kind primer, with an airy, silky cloud-like texture, layers onto skin without added weight or a greasy after feel
• Delivers broad spectrum SPF 15 sun protection with mineral-derived sunscreens, Titanium and Zinc Oxide.
• Oil free formula is appropriate for all skin types, even sensitive, blemish-prone skin.
• Repels water so makeup looks freshly applied all day long.
• Vegan
Directions: Apply ½ to 1 pump of Veil Mineral Primer to clean, moisturized skin prior to concealer, foundation and powder application. Works with any cream, liquid and powder foundation. Ingredients: Zinc Oxide 4.20%, Titanium Dioxide 2.45%. Alumina, Cyclopentasiloxane, Hexyl Laurate, Isododecane, Peg-10 Dimethicone, Polyglyceryl-4, Isosterate, Polysilicone-11, Polymethylsilsesquioxane, Stearic Acid.
Free of: Parabens, Fragrance, Sulfates, Nanoparticles, Oil, Phthalates, Gluten and Synthetic Dyes.
Vegan-friendly and Not tested on animals
Overall Assessment: If you like to use makeup primers, then you really need to try HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer– it, without question, lives up to its cult status! A+
I am nothing short of obsessed with Jane Iredale, the exquisite quality of their cruelty-free products coupled with their healthy ingredients makes this a particularly wonderful brand to use. Their high-performance mineral makeup, which is filled with skincare ingredients, is modern, infinitely wearable, natural looking and very flattering. Here are some of my top picks for the fall.
Jane Iredale Naturally Glam Eye Shadow Kit ($59.00 for .34 oz. from Jane Iredale, Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Skin Store, Citrine Natural Beauty Bar and StrawberryNet): I have to state for the record that the second that I touched this palette, I was shocked by the extent to which I reveled it its exceptional quality. Unlike many mineral eyeshadows, these ultra-finely milled gems are each so creamy and velvety to the touch that it's hard to believe that these silken beauties are actually powders. Their luxe textures coupled with their extraordinary pigmentation has made this beautiful palette one of my favorites to use. Boasting buildable coverage, these shadows glide across the skin effortlessly, deposit color evenly and are very long-lasting. I am able to get all day wear with a primer, but I do not have oily eyelids.
According to Jane Iredale,
From elegant to edgy, our silky smooth shadows deliver the style you want while staying put for long-lasting, crease-free color. Use alone, layer or blend together for different looks.
Naturally Glam includes five shades: Feather, Lace, Chenille, Satin and Velvet. Super-saturated, yet totally wearable shadows with just a touch of lid-lighting shimmer.
Features:
Generous base shade with perfectly sized detail shades
Packaged in a sleek mirrored rose gold compact with a dual-ended wand for effortless application
Use each shade alone, layer or blend together
Formulated with minerals, botanical extracts and silica
Left to Right: Feather, Lace, Chenille, Satin and Velvet
Ingredients: Mica, Boron Nitride, Dimethicone, Pinus Strobus (Pine) Bark Extract, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Extract. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77489, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Carmine (CI 75470), Chromium Oxide Greens (CI 77288). Not Vegan. Eye Shadow Kit Naturally Glam: this product may contain Carmine. Gluten-free.
Look like you're glowing from the inside out with a refreshing wash of color that creates a breathtaking just-blushed look. Formulated with minerals and antioxidants to soothe and nourish your skin.
Ingredients: Mica, Boron Nitride, Dimethicone, Pinus Strobus (Pine) Bark Extract, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Extract. May Contain: Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891), Iron Oxides (CI 77489, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Carmine (CI 75470), Manganese Violet (CI 77742), Ultramarines (CI 77007), Red 6 Lake (CI 15850)(Aka 201), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850)(Aka 202), Red 27 Lake (CI 45410), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360). Not Vegan: this product may contain Carmine. Gluten-free.
Glide on this moist, cream to powder blush stick for a radiant flush that's soft, dewy and completely natural looking. Hydrating and easy to apply.
Features:
Cream to powder blush.
Can be applied under or over minerals for a natural or more dramatic look.
Great for on-the-go touch-ups.
Easy to apply stick form.
Provides a radiant, lit-from-within glow.
Directions: Apply to apples of cheeks with fingers or Foundation Brush and blend toward the temple for a radiant glow.
Ingredients: Ethyl Macadamiate, Isostearyl Neopentanoate, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Silica, Copernicia Cerifera Cera, Moringa Pterygosperma (Moringa) Seed Oil, Isopropyl Jojobate, Cera Alba (Beeswax), Ozokerite, Citrus Tangerina (Tangerine) Peel Oil, Tocopherol, Ascorbyl Palmitate. May Contain: Mica, Iron Oxides (CI 77489, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Red 30 Lake (CI 73360), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850)(Aka 202), Red 27 Lake (CI 45410), Titanium Dioxide (CI 77891). Not Vegan: this product contains beeswax. Gluten-Free.
Jane Iredale PureMoist Lipstick in Susan, Lisa and Karen ($25.00 for .1 oz. from Jane Iredale, Neiman Marcus, Skin Store, Citrine Natural Beauty Bar, Soft Surroundings, Beauty Expert, Adore Beauty and StrawberryNet): The formula is smooth, creamy and it glides across the lips effortlessly while depositing color evenly. I have two colors, Abigail and Cindy, and both have the perfect amount of cushion for comfortable wear. I get about 3-4 hours of wear before needing to apply, and while there is some transfer to the glass or mug when I drink, it is minimal. They have the emollience of a tinted lip balm, but the staying power of a lipstick. Furthermore, neither shade migrates, nor do they settle into lip lines. They have a wonderful fruity smell and light taste, but I find that it very quickly.
Shades Shown:
Susan is described as a soft cool pink.
Lisa is described as a creamy rose beige.
Karen is described as a creamy matte fig red, but I find it to have less of a matte finish and more of a low-sheen finish instead.
According to Jane Iredale,
Vivid pigments blend with nourishing natural oils and superfruit extracts for petal‐soft lips that feel, look and taste amazing.
Features:
The proven soothing properties of Moringa Oil saturate the lips with Vitamins A & C, while Coffee Seed Extract infuses with even more antioxidant protection.
Orange Peel Wax, plus ultra moisturizing Avocado and Sunflower Seed Oils, protect the delicate lip area and give a luxurious,conditioned and quenched feeling to the lips.
The organic Pomegranate and Blackberry Fruit Extracts are unique, luscious flavors that stimulate the senses.
Ingredients: Triisostearyl Citrate, Olus Oil, Persea Gratissima (Avocado) Oil, Copernicia Cerifera Cera, Jojoba Esters, Moringa Oil/Hydrogenated Moringa Oil Esters, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange) Peel Wax, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Euphorbia Cerifera (Candelilla) Wax, Punica Granatum (Pomegranate) Extract, Rubus Fruticosus (Blackberry) Fruit Extract, Camellia Sinensis (Green Tea) Leaf Extract, Coffea Arabica (Coffee) Seed Extract, Vaccinium Macrocarpon (Cranberry) Fruit Extract, Ascorbyl Palmitate, Tocopherol, Isononyl Isononanoate, Isopropyl Myristate, Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Propylene Carbonate, Polyhydroxystearic Acid. May Contain: Mica, Iron Oxides (CI 77489, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499), Red 7 Lake (CI 15850) (Aka 202). Vegan and Gluten-Free.
Jane Iredale Smooth Affair Facial Primer and Brightener ($48.00 for 1.7 oz. from Jane Iredale, Nordstrom, Skin Store, Neiman Marcus, Birchbox, Adore Beauty and Soft Surroundings): This is a wonderfully hydrating primer that blurs the appearance of fine lines and pores while giving the skin an ethereal glow. While it smooths and brightens the appearance of the skin, it significantly extends the wear-time of foundations, tinted moisturizers and any other finishing products. It has a lovely light citrus aroma that is uplifting and pleasant, but it is neither cloying, nor long-lasting.
According to Jane Iredale,
This skin-quenching primer prepares the skin so makeup goes on easier and lasts longer. It also helps maintain skin's youthful appearance and minimize the appearance of pores and fine lines while bringing out your natural radiance.
Features:
A skin-quenching primer that prepares the skin so makeup goes on more easily and lasts longer.
Anti-aging benefits. Helps to prevent trans-epidermal water loss.
Smooths, brightens and nourishes skin.
Minimizes the appearance of pores and visibly reduces the appearance of wrinkles.
Directions: Apply a pea-sized amount all over the face using fingers until absorbed.
Jane Iredale is a certified cruelty-free cosmetics brand, recognized by both Leaping Bunny and PETA for our voluntary commitment to no animal testing at every stage of product development and manufacturing. This pledge to cruelty-free makeup and skincare has always been at the core of our brand. We believe it is an essential element in our holistic approach to creating responsible, healthy beauty. Being an animal-friendly skincare and makeup brand means we believe that testing our products and ingredients on animals is cruel and unnecessary. Our commitment to no animal testing includes not allowing third-party animal testing for product registration purposes. We also do not sell our products in markets where testing on animals is required. Overall Assessment: If you haven't tried Jane Iredale makeup, I highly recommend it. These lovely products featured are among my most frequently reached-for favorites these days. Jane Iredale products are proof positive that you can do away with the undesirable chemical compounds without sacrificing extraordinary textures and high quality. A+
HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer is an ultra-luxe complexion perfecting primer that glides across the skin like velvet. It creates an even and ultra-smooth finish, it reduces redness and the appearance of fine line and pores, it provides the skin with SPF 15 protection, and it creates a perfect canvas for your foundations and tinted moisturizers. Furthermore, it markedly increases the wear-time of your makeup, but perhaps one of the most satisfying aspects of using this primer is that it has the most luxurious silky texture that HOURGLASS aptly describes as airy and cloud-like. This tactile experience makes its use heavenly, and addictive! While it is white in the bottle, it blends into the skin invisibly and leaves behind no white residue.
According to HOURGLASS,
The perfect complexion starts with Veil Mineral Primer. As the first step in your makeup routine, it creates the ideal canvas for your makeup to effortlessly slide on and stay on for all-day wear. The silky, weightless texture smooths and evens out the skin for perfect application and wear every time. It’s the one product that will elevate your foundation to unprecedented performance.
Elevate your foundation to unprecedented performance with this state-of-the-art primer that extends the wear of foundation for a perfect complexion that lasts. With a texture unlike any other, this oil free primer not only creates a smooth, even canvas for makeup, but also conceals redness, minimizes the appearance of pores, fine lines and wrinkles, and provides broad spectrum SPF 15 protection, all in a supremely airy, silky, cloud-like texture.
Winner of the InStyle Best Beauty Buy award for Best Primer: 2014, 2015 & 2016.
Features:
• Multipurpose primer goes beyond traditional formulations, concealing redness (even rosacea) to even skin tone, while minimizing the look of visible pores, fine lines and imperfections.
• Creates a smooth, even surface so that foundation effortlessly glides on and stays on for all day makeup wear.
• First of its kind primer, with an airy, silky cloud-like texture, layers onto skin without added weight or a greasy after feel
• Delivers broad spectrum SPF 15 sun protection with mineral-derived sunscreens, Titanium and Zinc Oxide.
• Oil free formula is appropriate for all skin types, even sensitive, blemish-prone skin.
• Repels water so makeup looks freshly applied all day long.
• Vegan
Directions:
1. Apply ½ to 1 pump of Veil Mineral Primer to clean, moisturized skin prior to concealer, foundation and powder application.
2. Works with any cream, liquid and powder foundation. Ingredients: Zinc Oxide 4.20%, Titanium Dioxide 2.45%. Alumina, Cyclopentasiloxane, Hexyl Laurate, Isododecane, Peg-10 Dimethicone, Polyglyceryl-4, Isosterate, Polysilicone-11, Polymethylsilsesquioxane, Stearic Acid.
Free of: Parabens, Fragrance, Sulfates, Nanoparticles, Oil, Phthalates, Gluten and Synthetic Dyes.
Vegan-friendly and Not tested on animals
Overall Assessment: If you like to use makeup primers, then you really need to try HOURGLASS Veil Mineral Primer– it, without question, lives up to its cult status! A+
