Urban Decay

Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer.

Primer

About this product

A primer designed to grip makeup and extend its wear time.

Full ingredients

Aqua/Water/Eau, Butylene Glycol, Polyacrylamide, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Glycerin, C13-14 Isoparaffin, Phenoxyethanol, Caprylyl Glycol, Pullulan, Laureth-7, Tocopheryl Acetate, Tetrahexyldecyl Ascorbate, Silica Dimethyl Silylate [Nano]/Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Nannochloropsis Oculata Extract, Carbomer, Sodium Lactate, Potassium Sorbate, Triethanolamine, Sodium Benzoate, Litchi Chinensis Pericarp Extract, Polysorbate 20, Sodium Hyaluronate, Hexylene Glycol, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-1, Palmitoyl Tetrapeptide-7

Guru Score

82%

Yay

Early verdict · Few reviews so far

What the gurus are saying

This primer's grippy sensation both anchors makeup and feels comfortable on dry skin, particularly on the nose where foundations can slip. It holds makeup in place through significant movement, making it a reliable pick for anyone whose makeup needs to endure dancing or vigorous activity.

Synthesized from 2 expert reviews · most recent take September 2026

What they liked

Provides strong grip
Comfortable for dry skin
Works where foundations fail

What they flagged

Nothing. None of the experts who reviewed it raised a problem.

Type

Primer

Key actives

Vitamin C Hyaluronic acidVitamin EPeptides

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

Sephora → Ulta → Amazon → Google →

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What the gurus are saying.

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Alexandra Anele

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"It's meant to be like a very grippy base for your makeup. So if you have a difficult time with oiliness in your T-Zone but you feel like you want a little bit more grip to the skin, this is a really great option because it's like relatively moisturizing but it's not too dewy. So you can see that it adds like a nice hydration to the skin but really what this is for is just kind of like creating more of a grip so that my makeup is going to last. [...] It's not like a particularly wet primer."

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"I'm going to start off by mixing these two primers okay all nighter and the smoothing one from Smashbox"

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"I'm going to use the Urban Decay All Nighter which I'm hoping is hydrating enough for my current skin situation."

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"My primer of choice is the Urban Decay All Nighter Primer. Currently it's nice and hydrating. It really creates a grip for the skin, so something for your foundation to really hold onto, all of your products to hold on to so that they last."

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"I'm going to use the All Nighter Face Primer from Urban Decay just for grip and a little extra something, because she's in a music video and her makeup needed to last with all that dancing."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

✓Yay

"I do really like this and it'll probably be half off at Sephora as well. It has a slight amount of that grippy sensation and yet it doesn't feel uncomfortable on my dry skin, so I actually really love to use this on my nose area in particular, where a lot of foundations fail me."

What the evidence says.

Independent of what the gurus think, this is what the published research supports about the main active ingredients here.

Vitamin C

Topical vitamin C is an antioxidant with reasonable evidence for dullness and uneven tone. It breaks down in light and air, so how a product is formulated and packaged matters as much as the percentage on the front.

Source: DermNet

Humectants and emollients

Ingredients like these draw water into the surface layers and slow how fast it leaves. The evidence is for comfort, softness and hydration rather than for changing the structure of the skin.

Source: DermNet

Peptides

Peptides are short protein fragments meant to signal repair. The evidence for them is thinner than for retinoids or vitamin C, and it varies a lot by the specific peptide, so the category is more promising than proven.

Source: NIH, National Library of Medicine

Frequently asked.

What is Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer?

A primer designed to grip makeup and extend its wear time.

Is Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer worth it?

Yes. All 2 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 82%.

What is Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer's Guru Score?

Urban Decay All Nighter Face Primer holds a Guru Score of 82%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 2 expert reviewers we have collected.