Rimmel Stay Matte Primer Review

I have used this primer many times,as its matte this is why I purchased it,I dot it over my skin then use a small blending eyeshadow brush to buff it into my skin around my nose,cheeks and forehead,this gets the product into my pores and when I place my foundation on over the top it's a clear canvas,I have high end primers but this Rimmal one does just a good job as them,I still have some as I am typing this as I can rely on it for a matte finish with a matte foundation

Oily skinned gals you need to give this a try! I have naturally very oily skin which is great for me in the ageing department but makes it horrible for applying base makeup. The thing I love most about this primer is that it has no silicone feel, that's what I loathe about mattifying primers - they're so slippery and greasy feeling, like do I want to add that to my already oil slick face?! No. So this beauty is fantastic! It's semi thick, creamy white and blends out smoothly (leaves behind no white cast either). Any foundation I choose to use will work over this, the product doesn't ball up, look patchy, cakey or streaky like with the silicone feeling ones. Whether you're on a budget or not you should definitely give this a try, foundation wear time is prolonged, application is flawless and the finish is beautiful for hours!

Throughout the day my skin is seriously oily and I mean seriously oily. You can literally see the oil on my face and my makeup is just sliding off and patchy, so after looking around I decided I would try a primer to help make my makeup last and face less oily.

What more can I say other than I flipping love this product! It has honestly changed the way my makeup looks because it actually stays on my face whereas before I may as well not even worn any it looked so bad. It keeps my face matte, it doesn't get oily and so, therefore, my makeup lasts all day.

The product itself was smaller than I expected, it's only 30ml but the price is pretty good and it's worth it regardless! I haven't noticed that my makeup goes on smoother, it's just keeping it matte. This product is also great because you can also apply it over top of your makeup if you forget or think that you didn't apply enough, and it doesn't leave marks or mess up your foundation at all. I just used a stippling brush and dabbed it on all over when I tried this and it worked really well.

Would I recommend this product or repurchase? Hell yes! If you have oily skin, you need this in your life. I have no idea how I lived so long without haha. But seriously, it's worth a shot if you've tried other primers and haven't had any luck.

I bought this to use under my liquid foundation to stop me from looking shiny and I'm really not a fan. Not sure if it's my technique or I just don't like the matte look. It makes any foundation applied over top look cakey and dry and I find it makes everything cling to the tiny hairs on my face, which is not a great look. Other people seem to love it so maybe it's my skin that's not oily enough for it to work properly.

I grabbed this in a hurry as I needed a Primer for that night & didn't want to spend more than $20. This was all Farmers had for under $20 at the time. What a waste of money!

I find it thick & heavy and it just sits on my skin and everything on top slides off. It does minimise the appearance of my pores but that's useless when my foundation just slides off or sits strange. I found where I have hair on my face (upper lip, close to hairline) it did this weird thing where it kind of separated a bit.

I can get quite oily skin, but it usually doesn't tend to happen till the afternoon at work.

This felt good going on and seemed like it could be a winner, but every time I've tired it it does the opposite for me, I would be oilier earlier and felt really gross.

It doesn't have any smell and the product itself doesn't feel oily on application.

Really dis pointed lucky it was a trademe purchase just to see if I liked it.

It is a good sized tube, maybe it will work for others

This was the first matte primer I purchased so don't really have anything else to compare it to. That being said, I probably wouldn't repurchase.

I have oily/combination skin and tend to get quite shiny in the t-zone during the day. I found that although this product helped keep the rest of my face matte (less oily) during the day, it didn't really work around and on my nose. This was because I had such an issue applying makeup on my nose after putting this on my face, my foundation just wouldn't stick on my nose and would be really patchy and my pores were just accentuated more than usual. It's super thick, so much so that at times I found it hard to blend into my skin.

Been using this product for about 2-3 months now. It makes a beautiful base for the rest of my make up, although I wish it was a bit more heavy duty - more mattifying. I have very oily skin and my skin only stays matte for 2 hours tops. Although I would recommend it to people with normal skin or people with skin that's just a little bit oily. Smells a little bit like PVA glue in my opinion but you can't smell it once it's on your face. Makes me skin look smooth - I would definitely buy again purely based off of how it makes my makeup look in comparison to other drugstore primers that didn't work as well for me.

I picked this up when farmers had 30% off Rimmel as I had been wanting to try this for ages! I had literally gone and picked it up and put it down so many times but when it was on sale I finally picked it up.

It comes in a white tube with a purple lid and is quite small, I guess with primers they go a long way so you don't want heaps of product when purchasing but its so inexpensive you don't really notice. I prefer a pump primer than a tube though as I don't like to estimate how much product I need (I always over estimate).

The product itself is quite a thick white paste like liquid, it's a lot thicker than other primers I've tried. The smell is almost like sunscreen but not quite, its very mild so you don't notice it at all but I do like that it's not artificially fragranced. It goes from white to clear and I would say it has more of a satin finish than matte as it doesn't take all the shine from my face and it doesn't feel drying or anything like a matte one would.

I also was under the impression it would make the finish of my makeup matte but all my dewey foundations still remain dewey, they just don't budge at all. I really like the staying power of the primer and my make up stays put all day but is super easy to remove, its a win win! I actually prefer that its not a mattifying primer for my whole look as I do prefer dewey makeup.

I'm not to sure if I'd buy this again, I do want to try some other primers but this could make its way permanently into my makeup bag. Summer will be the true test for how good this primer is. Its nothing amazing but it is quite good for the price and does pretty much do whats asked of it.

Although I have repurchased this a few times, I'm still kind of torn, mainly because I haven't found any other primers that work any better.

The packaging is kind of plain and the tube makes it really hard to get the last bit of product out at the end unless you cut it. I would have preferred different packaging.

It is probably the thickest primer I have used as it comes out of the tube as a thick white paste. That being said, it applies quite nicely and doesn't leave any of the colour behind which I was worried about.

It makes quite a nice base to most of the foundations I own, although it doesn't keep my foundation as matte as I would like. I have oily to combination skin and I thought that this might stop the oil showing through, but it didn't.

For the price I can't really complain as it does its job for the most part. Might be better suited to people with skin thats not too oily as this can affect it, but overall, I would recommend this primer to most people trying to find something cheap that does its job.