15 Best Drugstore Primers to Achieve That Perfect Look

Airbrushing is a technique used in magazines to create the flawless look on the celebrities we see on the covers. When you use the Maybelline Master Prime, you can indulge in that air brushed look instantly and naturally. Not only does this primer prepare your face for that incredible look, but it protects your skin from the sun’s harmful rays, too. Combine good looks with pampering with this primer. Spread this luxurious cream on before you continue with your makeup regimen, and your face is going to look like you stepped right off the red carpet and into class.

When it comes to an excellent primer, you can’t do better than the Rimmel Stay Matte. Available for under $15 at any department store, you can wear this matte primer alone, under makeup, or as a concealer if you only need a small spot covered. To make this deal even better, a little goes a long way with the Stay Matte Primer, so rest assured you will get your money’s worth. Consider this the best of every world, and pick up a tube for your own makeup bag. When you are busy juggling school, friends, and a busy schedule, sometimes the all-in-one is the best route of all.

Cover Girl has done it again with the perfectly customizable primer. We all love their Tru Blend line of cosmetics, and their face primer is certainly high on the list. This inexpensive option is going to provide you with the smooth coverage you want, allowing you to achieve that magazine cover look right out of your room and into your day. This creamy formula blends in with your skin tone, giving you the perfect canvas for makeup perfection. Love the look you achieve with this flawless primer, and rock your day from the moment your feet hit the floor.

As you well know, you can use any primer you have on your eyelids just as you can the rest of your face, but what better way to set up your day of flawless makeup than with your own eyelid primer? Specially formulated for your sensitive eyelids, this primer is going to hold your eyeliner and shadow in place from morning until night. With the delicate, soft sponge shaped just right for perfect application, you’re going to get the precision you want right from the start. Survive the gym, biology class, and literature looking like a fashion diva through it all!

Tests. Finals. Exams. Meetings. You spend your day running from one thing to the next, often getting up early and going to bed late. You are very familiar with fighting tired looking eyes by Wednesday. After all, how is a girl supposed to look fresh and ready for anything when she’s so tired from running around and doing everything? With this primer, you can moisturize your skin and give your face that fresh lift you need. Feel wide awake and ready to take on your day with this fresh primer from Too Faced.

Have you ever noticed how babies have the softest and most perfect skin? They have completely flawless skin, and they don’t even have to try. If only there was a way to hold onto that as you grow! Now, you can get that same soft, smooth look with the Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser. This creamy primer spreads across your face smoothly, instantly erasing any pores or imperfections. Embrace that baby soft skin and achieve the perfect makeup look with this primer!

It’s hard not to be envious of those girls that go through their day without their eyeshadow moving. It seems as soon as you put your eyeshadow on, it’s determined to sweat off before you even reach school. With the Milani Eyeshadow Primer, you can rest assured your eyeshadow is going to stay perfectly in place all day long, no matter what your day asks of you.

In a world of instant selfies with your besties, you need to be photo ready at a moment’s notice. You never know when you are going from doing homework to doing a selfie with friends, and you know if that ends up on Facebook, you want your crush to see you looking as flawless as you are. With the Revlon Photoready Perfecting Primer, you will be ready for that close up anywhere, anytime.

Have you ever taken a selfie then realized that your eyeshadow has sweated off? Have you felt like you looked amazing then saw the photo and wished that you still had that perfect smoky eye that you put on that morning? With the Wet N Wild Eyeshadow Primer, you’ll have full confidence that your makeup is going to stay in place, all day long. No more surprise selfies, you’ll know from the moment that photo clicks, your makeup looked flawless.

By now, every girl only expects good things from MAC, and they have done it again with their Prep + Prime makeup primer. Not only are your pores and lines going to disappear, but your skin is going to get the moisture it has been craving while you indulge in that red carpet look. This is the primer that ensures your makeup is going to stay in place through all the demands of your day. Grab a bottle today and experience all the best MAC has to offer.

This creamy primer feels like it came straight out of heaven when you spread it on your skin. Achieve that perfectly soft look as you spread it evenly across your face. You can wear this alone for a natural look, or use as the perfect primer for any makeup you will put on. This time of year, feeling like an angel happens a lot and now, you can look the part just as easily. With this silky formula, NYX will certainly make you feel as glorious as an angel with this primer.

With the Holidays here glitter eyeshadow is in, but as you well know glittery eyeshadow is some of the hardest eyeshadow to get to stay in place. It seems you no sooner have it spread on then it falls off and you are left without any shadow at all. Thanks to the makes of Elf, we now have a glitter primer that is specially formulated to handle glitter eyeliner and eyeshadow. Step out in confidence knowing you can rock that holiday look in style. Your glitter will stay in place all day long.

As you know, there’s no end to the wonderful things coconut can do for your hair and skin. Marc Jacobs has combined this miracle fruit with the best of the primers, giving you a perfecting primer that will do exactly as its name says. Spread a creamy layer over your skin before you put on the rest of your makeup, and give your skin the luxurious hydration it needs from the first quarter to the last. Sweat has met its match with this perfecting primer.

Between math and geometry, physics and chemistry, and all those other classes and worries, you have enough problems in your day. Why not erase one of those problems with the No Poreblem Primer? This top secret formula is going to erase your pores instantly, giving you that flawlessly smooth look you have been dreaming of. This creamy primer feels like silk as it glides over your skin, perfectly covering each pore it touches. Take on the problems of your day with confidence, knowing that at least one of your problems is under wraps for good.

Another fabulous primer that can be yours for under $15, Olay’s Fresh Effects is going to give you that flawless base you want for pure makeup perfection. Not only is this going to fill your pores and smooth your skin, but it’s going to moisturize and protect your skin from damage. When you want the freshest feeling with your makeup routine, reach for the Olay Fresh Effect bottle, and love the results you get time after time after time.