The best hydrating primers for dry skin

Dry skin can be your foundation's worst enemy. As base products often cling to and accentuate dry patches of skin and rough texture, a dry complexion can leave your base looking uneven and less than perfect,

Prepping your skin with a hydrating primer is the perfect way to smooth your complexion before applying your favourite base product. Creating an ultra-smooth and hydrated base, a primer designed for dry skin will help your makeup to stay in place and looking perfect all day long.

Our Top 10 Picks of the Best Primers for Dry Skin

1. Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base
2. GUERLAIN 24H Hydration Parure Gold 24K Radiance Booster Perfection Primer
3. By Terry Cellularose CC Serum
4. Illamasqua Hydra Veil Primer
5. Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer
6. Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Hydrating Travel Size Primer
7. NYX Professional Makeup Plumping Honey Dew Melon Infused Dew Me Up Face Primer
8. NARS Cosmetics Radiance Primer SPF 35
9. Armani Luminous Silk Hydrating Primer
10. Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Blur Primer

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Which is the Best Hydrating Primer for Dry Skin?

To help you find your glow-inducing, moisturising primer, we've curated a list of our favourite primers for dry skin to ensure your base looks perfect all day long.

1. Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base 50ml

Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base 50ml

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Infused with ultra-nourishing shea butter and vitamins B and E, the luxurious Vitamin Enriched Face Base glides over the skin, enveloping your complexion in a veil of moisture which effortlessly preps your skin for makeup. Doubling up as a primer and moisturiser in-one, the hydrating formula helps to smoothen uneven texture and soften the skin for a radiant, healthy-looking glow.  

• Why we love it: Smells divine and acts as a moisturiser/primer hybrid!

 

2. GUERLAIN 24H Hydration Parure Gold 24K Radiance Booster Perfection Primer 156ml (Various Shades)

GUERLAIN 24H Hydration Parure Gold 24K Radiance Booster Perfection Primer 156ml (Various Shades)

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Add a touch of gold to your base with the Guerlain 24K Radiance Booster Perfection Primer. Crafted with 98% naturally-derived ingredients, the formula boasts a luxurious gel texture and promotes instantly unified skin with up to 24-hour hydration. It even works to visibly correct imperfections and smoothen skin texture.  

• Why we love it: It features a sensorial texture that instantly blurs the skin!

3. By Terry Cellularose CC Serum 30ml (Various Shades)

By Terry Cellularose CC Serum 30ml (Various Shades)

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Correct, illuminate and perfectly prep your complexion before makeup with the BY TERRY Cellularose CC Serum. Featuring the consistency of a serum which sinks into the skin effortlessly, the hybrid primer and corrector formula hydrates the skin and appears seamless under your favourite base product.  

• Why we love it: Packed with skin-loving ingredients to create a lit-from-within finish.

4. Illamasqua Hydra Veil Primer 30ml

Illamasqua Hydra Veil Primer 30ml

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With a one-of-a-kind texture which feels refreshing on the skin, Illamasqua Hydra Veil perfectly preps your skin and hydrates dry complexions to create the perfect canvas for makeup. Enriched with conditioning ingredients including microalgae, vitamin C and B and plant extracts, the dry skin primer promotes fresh, balanced and hydrated results.  

• Why we love it: Moisturises and hydrates to minimise the look of dryness.

5. Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Hydrating Travel Size Primer 25ml

Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Hydrating Travel Size Primer 25ml

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If you’re looking for a primer to take with you on-the-go, invest in your skin and choose Laura Mercier’s Pure Canvas Hydrating Primer. A handy travel-sized formula enriched with olive oil extracts to deliver deep hydration, the nourishing formula also protects against harsh external factors that may contribute to dryness. Providing the perfect base, this smoothening primer creates the illusion of a dewy complexion while minimising the look of imperfections.  

• Why we love it: Even when on-the-go, it revitalises tired skin and helps your makeup to stay in place.

6. Armani Luminous Silk Hydrating Primer 30ml

Armani Luminous Silk Hydrating Primer 30ml

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This luxurious Armani primer encourages a smooth, glowing canvas to ensure your foundation sits perfectly on your skin. Translucent polymers and crystal-encapsulated pigments help to reflect light and blur the appearance of imperfections while adding a natural-looking radiance for a soft, supple complexion.  

• Why we love it: Leaves skin looking energised and feeling as soft as silk!

7. Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Blur Primer 30ml

Yves Saint Laurent Touche Éclat Blur Primer 30ml

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A new generation of the Touche Éclat, the Blur Primer features a transparent gel formula that allows optimal light diffusion along with advanced blurring technology to help create the appearance of a mattified and illuminated complexion.  

• Why we love it: You can wear under foundation, or alone as a skin-perfecting base.

8. NYX Professional Makeup Plumping Honey Dew Melon Infused Dew Me Up Face Primer 78.9g

NYX Professional Makeup Plumping Honey Dew Melon Infused Dew Me Up Face Primer 78.9g

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For a primer that does it all, look no further than NYX’s Dew Me Up Face Primer. Combining the golden glow of honey with an ultra-hydrating formula that not only revives dry skin, but also leaves you looking refreshed and radiant. What’s more, the dewy primer plumps the skin with moisture for next-level hydration.  

• Why we love it: An all-in-one product that saves a lot of room in your makeup bag and promotes a radiant-looking base!

9. Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer 40ml

Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer 40ml

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As its name suggests, Too Faced Hangover Primer soothes and nourishes skin in need of a little TLC. Hydrating with a blend of coconut water and skin-reviving ingredients, the cooling primer leaves a dewy finish to your complexion and soothes the look of redness to create a bright, fresh canvas, ready for any base product.  

• Why we love it: Soothes the appearance of redness for a balanced-looking complexion.