What: Rimmel Fix & Perfect Foundation Primer
Where: CVS
Price: $7.29
Image from Rimmel London.
If you’ve been looking at my Friday Mugshots, I’m wearing Rimmel’s Fix & Perfect primer in most of them. It’s amazing the difference it makes. You just put it on after your lotion and before your foundation, and it smooths out fine lines, evens out your skintone a bit, and makes your foundation last so much longer. It even helped out with the shine control.
The only two problems I had with this are the color and the packaging. It’s a deep orange, which almost scared me away from using it entirely. Fortunately, it goes on mostly clear. (My face was slightly darker, but you couldn’t tell once I had my foundation on. It did reduce the need for concealer on my red blotches.) As for the packaging, it’s a tube that likes to squirt out way more product than is needed. A little of this goes a long way, so it winds up wasting primer. I wish it were a pump or a bottle or something that you didn’t have to squeeze. Failing that, I wish the tube had a narrower mouth.
I think the best evidence of this product’s usefulness I can give is the following anecdote: not a week after I had started using it, and not two days after I’d been bemoaning the appearance of my very own crow’s feet, I went to a friend’s wedding. I wore the primer under my foundation, and the lady sitting next to me was convinced I was in high school. (I am attributing this to the primer, at any rate. I’m sure it had nothing to do with the fact that I don’t look like a grown-up yet.)
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