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The Best Lipsticks for Providing Color, Texture and Protection on your Lips

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Liquid Lipsticks

Available in a liquid form with a matte or glossy finish that doesn't transfer easily or require constant application. Their high pigmentation means you only need one swipe of the wand to achieve a striking color and sheen to your lips.

Revlon Liquid Lipstick

A tube of Revlon ColorStay Ultimate Liquid Lipstick featuring a sleek design with a clear body showcasing a brownish shade.
Features

A beautiful velvet lipstick that goes on easily providing a comfortable feel and a satin finish that lasts. The product is sold in twelve beautiful shades from nudes to pinks, reds, browns, corals and purples for a variety of lip looks that last all day and night.

Benefits

Food and transfer proof for up to twenty four hours even when you are eating and drinking. Only one coat of this full coverage longwear lip color is required.

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Wet n wild Liquid Lipstick

Wet n Wild Megalast Liquid Catsuit Matte Lipstick in dark red shade with open applicator and color swatch.
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Features

Has a lightweight formula which is moisturizing, creamy and smudge proof. The lipstick offers precision, performance, staying power and intense pigmentation without drying the lips.

Benefits

Goes on glossy yet transforms into a high pigmented matte finish with some serious staying power.

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Matte Lipsticks

These richly pigmented lip tints provides long lasting intense color and a velvety finish without the shine. They are usually more comfortable to wear than ultra matte liquid lipsticks because they aren’t as drying to your lips. It typically means that the product dries down to a flat finish with no shimmer, glitter or gloss.

Maybelline Matte Lipstick

A close up image of a Maybelline Super Stay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick in red featuring the applicator wand beside the lipstick tube.
Features

The long lasting formula of this highly pigmented liquid lipstick gives you super saturated color in a smudge free, matte finish. The product is available in forty super saturated shades ranging from classic red liquid lipstick to nude and bold bright.

The unique arrow applicator ensures a smooth application every time.

Benefits

Locks in color giving a flawless, color intense matte finish for up to sixteen hours with no transfer for a true ruby lip color.

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NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Matte Lipstick

NYX Professional Makeup Lip Lingerie XXL Matte Liquid Lipstick in pink shade with applicator and swatch.
Features

This lightweight and comfortable longwear lipstick contours and accentuates your lip shape setting it to a smooth matte finish for fuller looking lips.

Benefits

It doesn't crack, budge, fade or transfer for up to sixteen hours enhancing all complexions.

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Satin Lipsticks

Combines color with a soft subtle sheen providing a more moisturized look with a finish somewhere between a matte and a cream. Satin lipstick is ideal for those who prefer a more natural look for their lips with a semi matte finish that provides a soft, subtle sheen to the lips. They can be worn alone or over another color to create a more dramatic look.

Their formulas contain a high concentration of oils making the finish look more glossy and reflective. Their creamy texture and comfortable wear makes them a popular choice for those who want a balance between matte and glossy lipsticks. They often good color payoff and moisturizing properties making them a versatile option for everyday wear and are available in traditional lipsticks.

NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Satin Lipstick

A close up image of NYX PROFESSIONAL MAKEUP Shout Loud Satin Lipstick featuring a deep burgundy shade displayed in its black tube with a heart design on the cap.
Features

This pigment packed satin lipstick infused with shea and mango butters loads lips with intense, vibrant color. Choose from a variety of satin lipstick shades from bold berry lipstick to sultry red lipstick.

Benefits

Delivers up to four hours of hydration in just one swipe for the perfect pout.

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L’Oréal Paris Satin Lipstick

A tube of L’Oréal Paris Colour Riche Original Creamy Hydrating Satin Lipstick in a natural pink shade, displayed with the cap removed showcasing its creamy texture and elegant gold packaging.
Features

With a spectrum of gorgeous satin shades from bold to nearly nude, Colour Riche Lipstick offers a lip color that's perfect for every look and any occasion. The lipstick contains nourishing ingredients like Argan Oil, Omega 3 and Vitamin E for a long lasting lipstick look that doesn't smudge, smear, migrate or feather.

Leaves lips feeling soft and moisturized With a spectrum of gorgeous satin shades from bold to nearly nude, colour riche lipstick offers a lip color that's perfect for every look and any occasion.

Benefits

Conditions, soften, smooth and keep lips ultra hydrated with a creamy satin color. Provides a smudge resistant luminous finish for up to eighteen hours of comfort.

The lipstick leaves lips feeling soft and moisturized for a long lasting look that doesn't smudge, smear, migrate or feather.

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Cream Lipsticks

Balances color and moisture offering a creamy texture that glides on smoothly.

Lancôme Cream Lipstick

Lancôme L'Absolu Rouge Cream Lipstick in pink shade with an elegant black and gold case.
Features

This ultra creamy smudge resistant lipstick is enriched with moisturizing rose balm and hyaluronic acid providing lips with comfort and hydration. The lipstick glides seamlessly onto lips.

Benefits

Has a ightweight, comfortable feel with a highly pigmented semi matte finish.

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Tinted Lipstick

Provides a translucent wash of color ideal for a natural look which is buildable and moisturising. Their light texture means you don't have to worry about being so precise when you swipe on the tint. The sheer lip colors are easily smudgeable giving a lived in natural looking hint of color on the lips.

E.L.F. Lip Shine

e.l.f. Hydrating Core Lip Shine lipstick with cap, showcasing rich color and hydration core.
Features

A beautiful hydrating lip tint with a warm rose hue that enhances your lips natural look. The moisturising balm texture and matte finish leaves your lips feeling soft, smooth, healthy and supple.

Benefits

The lip balm hydrates and nourishes dry lips preventing them from drying out, offering eight hours of moisturisation.

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Covergirl Tinted Lip Balm

Features

This soft and creamy lip balm has a vegan natural formula containing a blend of hyaluronic acid and pomegranate oil to ensure lips look visibly healthier and renewed after one week of use. The lip balm is available in six deliciously colorful sheer tints delivering a subtle, natural looking shine with a semi glossy finish.

Benefits

Instantly hydrates and moisturizes ensuring smoother and supple lips.

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Metallic Lipsticks

Infused with metallic shimmery pigments providing a shiny, reflective finish. They provide medium to full coverage due to the added pigments and are available in a wide range of colors.

MAKI YIKA Metallic Lipstick

Maki Yika Metallic Pink Lipstick tube displayed alongside a close up of a model's lips wearing the same lipstick color.
Features

This long lasting cream lipstick is infused with pearlescent pigments that stay all day and won’t make your lips feel dry. The vegan formula is enriched with antioxidants and hydrating ingredients including vitamin C and rich Kakadu plum extract to help protect lips. The vitamin E hydrates to support a soft, glamorous pout all day.

Benefits

The lipstick is hydrating, has a high shine, is waterproof, hypoallergenic, long lasting and transfer proof. It provides full coverage lip payoff with just one swipe forming a film quickly and therefore is not easy to smudge.

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Oulac Pink Lipstick

Features

Influenced by dense glitter that creates two stunning effects, a thin coating for an even shimmer finish and a thick coating for a bold sense of metallic shine. The formula is infused with coconut oils and castor oil for a creamy for a creamy hydrating experience.

Benefits

Provides a highly pigmented, lightweight, full coverage sparkle finish with just a few simple swipes of metallic lipstick.

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Sheer Lipsticks

These translucent sheer lipsticks have enough pigment to tint your lips. They give a subtle natural wash of colour to the lip which is ideal for an everyday look that does not require much maintenance. They are available in traditional lipstick form. Their wetter consistency glides on easily and does not sit in the fine lines.

Clinique Almost Lipstick

Silver tube of Clinique Almost Lipstick in Black Honey with cap removed, showcasing the deep cherry shade.
Features

Offers a sheer, natural wash of color that enhances lips with a hint of berry. Its lightweight formula provides hydration and comfort making it perfect for everyday wear.

Benefits

The iconic shade suits various skin tones, delivering a flattering, effortless look.

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e.l.f. Sheer Slick Lipstick

Features

This smooth, easy to wear anywhere sheer lipstick provides a touch of dialed-down color and delicious shine. The nourishing smooth hydrating formula is somewhere between a lipstick and lip balm leaving your lips feeling soft and hydrated.

The formula is infused with meadowfoam seed oil and vitamin E to hydrate lips.

Benefits

The lipstick is Long wearing & transfer proof delivering all the rich color in a comfortable formula that lasts.

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Long Wearing & Transfer Proof Lipsticks

Revlon ColorStay Lipstick

Features

This waterproof. smudge proof lipstick has a no transfer formula which ensures color stays where it belongs on your lips. It is infused with antioxidant Vitamin E to help condition, protect and nourish for a naked lip feel.

Benefits

The powerful pigment blend delivers opaque, vivid matte color in one coat, saturating lips with vivid matte color and total comfort for up to eight hours. The lipstick ensures an effortless glide with precise application.

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Maybelline Super Stay Lipcolor

Features

It is available in ten high impact vinyl shades for your every lip look from brights to saturated red tones and even the perfect everyday neutrals.

Benefits

Delivers no budge vinyl color that lats up to sixteen hours, featuring a Color Lock formula that defies smudging and transfer. It is ideal for specific events such as weddings where you don’t want to keep on touching up your lipstick.

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