'As good as high end products': Shoppers say this £5.50 Rimmel sweat-fighting primer is a summer makeup essential
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Maintaining a fresh, healthy glow in the summer is no-mean feat, particularly in the midst of a heatwave.
Make up is a tricky field to navigate in the summer, with many products just slipping and sliding around your face by lunchtime. If this is the case, then you'll need a hardworking makeup primer. Enter the Rimmel Fix & Perfect Makeup Primer.
Despite its humble price tag (it's now just £5.50 in the Amazon sale), shoppers have been seriously impressed by the primer's ability to minimise flaws and imperfections, as well as keep excess oil under control, ensuring your foundation stays in place from dusk until dawn.

Now on sale for £5.50, the Rimmel London Fix and Perfect Pro Primer has been described as the 'perfect primer' by Amazon shoppers
Shoppers call the budget-friendly primer a 'brilliant primer at great price', with many even claiming it's 'as good as high end products'.
The affordable primer has many strings to its bow, claiming to smooth, brighten, mattify and protect - ensuring you get a flawless base whether you put foundation over the top of it or wear it alone.
If you're looking to keep shine at bay this summer, then this could be the product you need in your beauty arsenal.
The transparent and oil-free primer from Rimmel London has a gel-like consistency, but creates a velvety base for your foundation while simultaneously smoothing over pores and fine lines for a long-lasting, even makeup application.
According to hordes of beauty obsessives, you won't have to worry about getting excessively shiny or having your makeup slide off by midday. Instead, it will make your makeup look as though you've just applied it.
'Impressive,' raved one shopper in their review on Amazon. 'Very nice to use and leaves skin feeling soft and definitely helps my make up last longer.'

The gel-like, oil-free texture feels light and fresh on the skin yet blurs pores and fine lines and helps your makeup stay in place all day
Another shopper agreed, adding: 'A must buy. This is the best I've tried blurs fine lines make up goes on great. I even wear without make up. Great for sensitive skin also.'
A third claimed the results after using the Rimmel Fix &Perfect Primer are so impressive that they find they can wear it alone.
They wrote: 'I love this primer, it makes my skin feel so silky and like velvet. Make up goes on so much nicer and I also use it without make up, as makes my skin look better with blemishes. Been using for over a year now.'
Whether you have oily, dry, or combination skin, the Rimmel London Fix and Perfect Pro Primer is a solid option. Tone-evening, pore-refining and mattifying, it's a reliable product to add to your stash, especially now it's on sale.