Too Faced Primed & Poreless Skin Smoothing Face Primer Review

Hey guys! Today's post will be an addition to My Sephora Mini Haul reviews. Makeup primers could be a quick fix product for those who have troubles with pores, redness, dullness, or even dryness. This Too Faced Primed & Poreless Skin Smoothing Face Primer is one of those best selling primers out there. What is it? Too Faced describes this product as:

Our one-of-a-kind makeup primer was scientifically formulated to wear under bronzers and foundation powders or alone to achieve the look of flawless skin without makeup. Vitamins A & C, Mulberry Extract and a powerful dose of Retinol virtually banish pores while tired skin is left hydrated, firmer, and detoxified. Primed & Poreless creates the perfect canvas to allow powders, bronzers and foundations to airbrush onto the skin seamlessly and perfectly blended. Skin appears brighter, fresher and younger. Color stays true and in place all day. 

More To Love: 

• Erase Pores & Imperfections: Virtually erases pores, softens lines and perfects your complexion leaving skin ready for bronzer, powder, makeup or nothing at all. 
• Customized Formula: Provides an airbrushed canvas as it preps skin for bronzers, powder products and liquid foundations. Bronzers glide on without grabbing or looking heavy. Powders float above imperfections. Makeup applies like magic onto skin. Color stays true and in place all day. 
• Mulberry Extract & Arctostaphylos UVA URSI: Protect, brighten and lighten skin for a renewed freshness and soothing effect. 
• Retinyl Palmitate & Cyclodextrin with CAVAMAX Retinol: Restores moisture, elasticity and suppleness with a powerful combination of anti-wrinkle, youth enhancing, skincare ingredients. 
• Camellia Oil & Vitamin A: Essence of the white tea plant and the free radical fighting vitamins are nature’s most powerful antioxidants. Skin looks firmer, brighter and more resilient, even up close. 
• Colorless: Great on any skin color! The nude tone becomes invisible once applied.

*Vegan-friendly

**Paraben-free

(retrieved from Too Faced) 

This primer came in a squeeze tube in such a sweet pink color. The primer was nude colored but turned clear after applied. It feels powdery and velvety, glides on smoothly, and does a great job in filling pores and blur lines. I use my fingers to apply this product. The formula contains silicone which visually smooth skin, though some might actually break out from silicone should watch out.

 You need just a tiny bit for each application, a tube would last for a very long time. I find that this primer doesn't correct any redness or discoloration, as their main concern is to banish pores and lines. I also think that this won't help too much in evening skin tone. But it is true that it makes my skin appears brighter. As for the oil control, it does an okay job. Under powder/foundation, it helps those products to stick better and didn't change the color. This primer tends to be matte rather than dewy, glowy, etc. Barely has no scent to it. 

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I believe the vitamins infused to it haven't improved my skin condition so far. Maybe they only help in fixing how the skin looks like by the time we're wearing the product. And yay, it didn't make me break out/made my skin irritated! So would you try this primer? Yes or no? :D   

Bottom line: Great for those looking for pores/lines concealer! The brightening effect is a sweet bonus. Feels silky, velvety. Slightly mattifying and helps prolong makeup wear. Not very good in concealing discoloration nor helps with redness/evening skin tone.           


I purchased mine at Sephora for $30 (1oz.). Psstttt.. Too Faced Primed & Poreless Primer also comes in oil-free  (Pure) and bronze tinted-SPF 20 infused version. Primed & Poreless (pink packaging) series also came up with priming powder & finishing veil (loose powder) and pressed powder to enhance your makeup wear.