Up today on the blog is the Yves Saint Laurent Touche Eclat
Blur Primer! This primer is very eye catching, I mean who can pass on sleek packaging and gold flakes?! So to start off lets talk about what the primer claims to do. The
primer is supposed to blur imperfections, illuminate the face, even out your
skintone, and smooth out your skin’s texture. Also, it contains a few
nourishing oils including corn, kernel, passiflora, and rice bran oil. After
using it a few times, I have to say that this product might not be not worth
it. At a $52 price point, I found that it didn’t do much different than other
much cheaper primers.
As someone with combination skin, this primer made me end up
looking like a greasy mess. Don’t get me wrong, I love looking dewy and even
the slightest bit oily but this primer just looked all sorts of wrong. I didn’t
really change up my foundation routine or set more of my face just so I don’t
get as oily because I feel like that’s counteractive. The primer definitely
smoothed out my skin’s texture and skin tone, but didn’t do much else. I
noticed no difference in pore size, which is really upsetting! At the same
time, I noticed that the days I did ended up using this primer, my makeup just
looked really bad and patchy.
So who would we recommend this primer for? Probably someone
with really dry skin. Also, a lot of the reviews online recommend it for more
mature skin so maybe it’s worth trying if you have more fine lines or wrinkles.
Despite not loving the YSL primer I’m definitely not giving up on it and am
going to try it a few more ways to see if it works better with certain products.
The primer is on sale at Nordstrom right now so you can check it out at the link below:
Yves Saint Laurent "Touche Eclat Blur Primer"
The primer is on sale at Nordstrom right now so you can check it out at the link below:
Yves Saint Laurent "Touche Eclat Blur Primer"
XO, RLS