Maybelline Baby Skin Instant Pore Eraser Face Makeup Primer Review

Because of the many rave reviews floating around online, I was really looking forward to trying this. Although my pores are generally not an issue I do have slightly enlarged pores between my brows and on my forehead.

The packaging for this gets 10/10. As well as being immediately eye catching in store, it is a pretty looking tube that looks adorable on your vanity. More importantly the tube is super easy to use and has a small nozzle at the end so you don't accidentally squirt too much product out.

The primer itself is a clear gel product that blends into the skin easily. It doesn't leave any kind of colour and has no noticeable scent. In terms of filling in your pores and making your skin appear like baby skin... It doesn't do that at all. At least not for me.

In fact, I didn't feel that this really did anything to my skin except leave it feeling like it had a thin layer of silicone on it. I have used other pore filling primers that are silicone based and don't mind the feeling of silicone on my skin - if the primer does what it claims to do. This however fell extremely flat for me. In fact I definitely prefer ELF's pore filling primer to this and think that is a much better purchase than this. It could just be my skin but this really didn't do anything to make my skin appear softer or smoother and it didn't fill my pores in.

I wouldn't repurchase this and don't even want to finish the tube - it will be gifted to a friend who wants to try it.

I have been experimenting with primers recently. My skin is quite strange at the moment, usually it's standard oily, but I have been feeling quite dried out recently with an oily T zone.

I bought this primer online before it came out here and was excited to try it. I've been a Maybelline girl since I started using make up. But this product let me down.

The packaging is ok, it's small for the price compared to say ELF that I find works well. It comes out easily and rubs onto the skin well. But that's where the plusses stop for me.

It felt like a slimey layer sitting on top of my skin, it didn't settle like other primers do. It didn't fill my pores, it just gooped over them. I wiped some away and attempted to put my make up on over top. It did go on okay, but very quickly my skin just looked like an oil slick and my make up started to slide. I ended up having to take my make up off and start again. I tried a couple of different times, with lighter applications, but it was always the same.

This might work better for someone without oily skin, but since my experience I have read a few people say that it's not for those with oily skin.

Not a huge fan of this product, does not seem to hide pores very well and is very oily on skin. Do not recommend for oily skin types. However it does leave a smooth base to apply foundation or BB cream on top, but not worth it honestly because it doesn't seem to do anything and not a very good smoothing product on skin for people with bumps or acne.

I was pretty excited to find a primer that minimised pores and was affordable for me!

I had high hopes for this but was disappointed. It did diminish my pores a little bit, but made my skin feel oily and clogged. I ended up stopping using it as I don't feel it was helping my skin at all and would just feel greasy.

As soooo many people have been getting excited and saying this is their new favorite pore hiding primer, I decide ok let's try this... so wasted my money. Packaging is cute and i would only use this product if my others were suddenly all emptied in some awful accident though I'd probly still not us this product.. When I first put a pea size amount on the back of my hand it visually reminded me of the nyx clear primer, after rubbing it on my face it felt sort of smooth but spread around it just disappears and disappointed me. For this product to possibly work you would need to cake it on =/

I bought a tube of this a while ago off beauty joint. It wasn't too expensive and I really like trying new primers so I thought it would be good to give this one a go.

It comes in a cute looking mint green squeeze tube. If you have the baby lips balm, then you'll know how the writing is in that style. I like it although I'm sure it's marketed for a much younger audience then me! It's not a very big tube at all, only 20mls but you do only need a small amount so it will last a while.

This comes with the very detailed instructions of 'smooth onto areas with visible pores'. I like to use maybe a bit smaller than a pea sized amount. I have rather large pores on my cheeks and I also use it on my chin and forehead. It is a clear silicone type gel and the best way to use it is to pat it into your skin. Since it is for pore filling, you don't need to use it over your entire face, just pat where needed. It's also best if you wait a few minutes before applying your foundation.

I find this does give me a smooth result, not completely poreless but I can see a difference. I find that it doesn't really last all day and I do notice my foundation sinking into my pores in the afternoon.

If this lasted all day, I'd definitely buy it again but I've used better primers so although I'm glad I tried it, I wouldn't repurchase it.

This product was good at blurring pores and making them smaller. But that's about it. As for a primer. Definitely not.I felt like my make up just slid off. It couldn't set at all. Product is a little greasy also.

I purchased this product on a buy one get one half price deal, I was excited to see a primer that claimed to reduce pores for such an inexpensive price.

My hopes were high for this product but as I started to use it as a part of my daily makeup routine, applying it after moisturizer and before foundation. I found that it took awhile to be dry enough to be able to apply foundation on top of it, it also didn't reduce my pores at all and made my foundation unable to stick to my skin causing it to slide over the primer.

Now to try and fix these issues I tried using a smaller amount and applying it a different way, this helped with the slipping foundation, but I was still disappointed with the lack of reduced pore size, I also noticed a very greasy unpleasant feeling on my skin.

Although this product didn't work for me how i would've liked it to, it did smooth out my skin and provide a very soft feeling.

I would not purchase again.

I had high hopes for this as Maybelline has been a go-to for my skin and primers and it promises such lovely results!

I first picked it up as it was on sale and could not wait to get home and try it out. The packaging was super cute (although a little small) and I'm not above admitting i may have purchased it due to the hype and prettiness of it. The texture was silky and silicon like and since other primers I have used have felt similar I was pretty amped to see it in action.

What a sore disappointment. It seemed to stay on the surface of my skin for a long time, and be too oily to apply make-up for about ten minutes. Even when it had "soaked in" my foundation seemed to skim over it and not stay very well, in fact doing the opposite of what a primer should do. I saw absolutely no difference in my pore size, and when applying it over blemishes, instead of creating a smooth surface it made them look more obvious and bumpy.

Possibly good for someone with dry skin who or someone who prefers powder make-up, but otherwise a definite avoid ladies.

I love the whole idea of this product! Primer! Smoother Pores! Wow! Not so. The first time applying it to may face I felt like I was doing something wrong, my skin looked the same, and the product didn't want to soak in. Second and third attempt, used a little less, but still didn't soak in properly. I tried to follow up with my normal makeup routine each time but found it was slipping everywhere like putting water on wax. Disappointing. To use up the last of the tube(I hate wasting products) I now mix a little with my tinted moisturizer(10.0.6FaceTheDay) for the days I don't want full makeup, AND, it works! The combination of the 2 products together actually make my skin look great! Not quite what it was designed for but at least I'm still getting my moneys worth.