Facial Primer & Makeup Primer

After removing your makeup and using a Clarins moisturizing cream, prime, perfect, and color-correct with the SOS Primer for your skin’s exact needs. Explore these popular face primer makeup options to find your right fit:

• Universal Light to boost radiance
• Rose to minimize signs of fatigue
• Peach to blur imperfections
• Coral to visibly minimize dark spots, Green to diminish redness
• Lavender to visibly brighten sallow skin
• Rosy Gold Pearls to create a rosy glow, or Amber Pearls to warm the complexion with a luminous touch of bronze

Each shade boosts radiance, visibly neutralizes discolorations, visibly blurs imperfections, and primes the skin for flawless makeup application, which is why it is often considered the best makeup face primer.

Follow with the Clarins face foundation for your skin type, and the beauty result you’d like to achieve. SOS Primer’s instant setting effect primes skin and improves makeup wear, so it looks fresh and flawless for hours.

Not sure of your skin type? Explore the ‘Skin Types’ tab on Clarins’ beauty FAQ page for finding your skincare routine for a variety of resources regarding age, skin color, etc.

Does your skin appear to have redness, dark spots, and/or lack of radiance? Clarins’ range of SOS Makeup Primers offers color fixes for any beauty concern. The lightweight, oil-free, moisturizing face primer combines delicate pearls and soft-focus powders that boost radiance, and blur imperfections in one easy step—while allowing the skin to breathe. Use straight out of the tube as a facial makeup primer, spot-on as a targeted corrector, or use several primers at once—a different shade for each area of concern. Organic Sea Lily—a super-hydrating plant extract—delivers 24 hours of moisture to keep skin soft and supple.* Clarins’ Anti-Pollution Complex helps protect skin from the harmful effects of pollution and free radicals.

*Instrumental test: Individual results may vary.

Apply award-winning Instant Smooth Perfecting Touch after your Clarins anti-wrinkle, anti-aging skincare, and follow with your foundation. The perfect combination of makeup and skincare, this moisture-rich makeup primer visibly fills in wrinkles, fine lines, and enlarged pores—leaving skin visibly smooth, radiant, and foundation-ready in seconds. Mix with SOS Primer, or your favorite foundation, for an even, flawless effect. Take some makeup application tips from the Clarins pros.

Instant Poreless is a shine-defying, emulsion-gel makeup primer—with mattifying Organic Strawberry Tree fruit extract—that blurs the appearance of pores and imperfections, creating a smooth canvas for makeup application. The lightweight, oil-absorbing texture can be used before and after foundation application to keep makeup fresh and flawless throughout the day. All it takes is one quick pass of this shine-defying formula to give your skin a fresh matte finish.