Lipsticks shouldn't just provide pouts with a high-shine — they should also nourish, protect and plump. Photo: Makeup By Mario
There is more to lipsticks than the function of them making your smackers look nice. A great formulation will also be able to nourish your lips, keeping them healthy and moisturised.
Here are the latest products in the market that can protect your pout.
Makeup By Mario’s Supersatin Lipstick is a classic, creamy satin lipstick with a soft sheen, developed with a formula that enables it to glide on with ultra comfort grips lips in wearable shades.
This unique formula has 18 shades, each named after a NYC neighbourhood or area code, where founder, makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic is from.
Prep and exfoliate lips with a lip scrub and overline lips with lip pencil before applying the lipstick, to create the look of fuller, lifted lips.
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A unique collaboration between a beauty brand and a cinema icon comes in the form of the Augustinus Bader x Sofia Coppola – The Tinted Balm.
The two names have partnered to create the ultimate lip tint in three shades, featuring Bader’s proprietary TFC8 technology.
Shade 1, a brightening, subtle tint, is based on a favourite sheer deep pink lipstick Coppola hoarded after it was discontinued, Shade 2 is a red coral she likes to wear in summer or when she’s at the beach and Shade 3 is a burnt, earthy plum.
The lip product is meant to enhance your lips with a sheer wash of colour that builds with each application, while also nourishing, plumping and renewing for softer, smoother, healthier-looking lips.
Formulated with a hydrating blend of plant-based butters and oils, including shea butter, vitamin E and candelilla wax, each application moisturises the lips and protects them from environmental stressors.
Guerlain’s Rouge G has been reinvented in 2024 in a new ultra-care version in 40 accompanying satin or velvet matte shades.
Through an eco-design approach and an array of nine jewel cases that can be customised as desired, the design of this iconic lipstick has also been modernised.
The lip product itself is 89% skincare-based, crafted from formula exclusively developed with natural-origin waxes which includes a lily oleo extract.
Created with lily flower paired with sweet almond oil, this exclusive complex has smoothing, hydrating and plumping properties, meant to protect and reinforce the lips’ regeneration.
Available in a satin or velvet matte finish, this new-generation formula boasts an ultra-light texture for a bare-lips sensation.
Sisley’s Phyto-Lip Balm is a hydrating and plumping lip product designed to moisturise the lips with an instant beautifying effect and a long-lasting feeling of comfort .
Its melting, sensory texture was developed to nourish the lips all day long, containing shea butter and the Hydrobooster complex (microspheres of hyaluronic acid and konjac glucomannans), as well as padina pavonica extract and vitamin E acetate, which protect lips from external aggressions.
Available in a clear or a rosewood version, there is also a fresh pink shade that reacts to the pH of lips, giving them a custom colour.
It is easy to apply and offers buildable intensity, housed in a gold and white zebra-striped refillable case.
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The Gloss Bomb Oil Luminizing Lip Oil n’ Gloss from Fenty Beauty is a new and limited-edition hybrid lip oil-gloss in three slick, shimmering shades.
This gel-oil textured product has a glass-like shine and shimmering effect finish with a lightweight, non-sticky formula, with oil locking in hydration with hyaluronic acid for nourishing wear.
Lips are conditioned thanks to the inclusion of shea butter and vitamin E, and it features an exclusive coconut-vanilla scent, perfect for summer.
It is available in three new shades: $uperfine $uga (white gold), Fro$ted Bunz (amber gold), and Coppa Cookie (copper).
