When it comes to makeup, there is nothing quite as iconic as a tube of lipstick. The perfect shade of lippy can light your face, give you an instant confidence boost, and make you look more vibrant and awake. While there is no shortage of beauty brands that offer pout perfection, there are only a handful of lip products that you can swear by for durability and texture.
Our panel of Her World Beauty Awards tried and tested the market’s best lipsticks and picked out their favourites that could make an onlooker weak at their knees. Finding the perfect lippy just got a whole lot easier.
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Dry lips feel hydrated and comforted. The high-shine finish looks like a translucent stain, and its colour changes according to your body chemistry – so it’s your very own personalised tint. The shine goes away after food and drinks, but lips stay moisturised.
We love that this colourless lip balm has a high SPF(SPF30/PA+++), which is quite rare among lip treatments. It leaves lips soft, and with a velvet-matte finish. You need to reapply it after food and drinks.
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Lips feel soft and moisturised in the morning even after cleansing. You can use it in the day, but lipstick won’t cling well to this rich formula.
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Fine sugar granules suspended in a vitamin-rich balm make this gentle enough for daily use. Nourishing oils keep lips hydrated as you slough off flaking skin.
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Rub this no-rinse scrub over your lips until the sugar grains in it melt. It’s the perfect on-the-go scrub-balm, and is more suitable for those whose lips aren’t severely chapped.
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Smooth and creamy, it doesn’t tug at lips at all, it offers good colour payoff, and also hydrates with argan oil.
The colours are so intense that just one light swipe deposits plenty of pigment. It also hydrates, so your lips feel comfortable.
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The colours are so intense that just one light swipe deposits plenty of pigment. It also hydrates, so your lips feel comfortable.
Non-sticky, super-smooth, and so lightweight that it almost feels like dabbing on a pigmented powder. Lips look fuller – never dry – and a pretty stain remains at the end of the day.
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This makes dry lips feel so incredibly moisturised that you won’t need to prep with a balm beforehand. Its long-wearing formula means you don’t need touch-ups at all.
Not only is its finish super-glossy and opaque, it glides on like butter,moisturises like a lip oil, and stays put like a stain.
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One coat is all you need for total opacity.This budge-proof liquid lipstick doesn’t dry our lips, yet stays on all day – even after food and coffee.
While its texture is very light, just one layer of it delivers highly pigmented colour. Even better – the colour doesn’t transfer once it dries.
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You only need a small amount of this creamy product for full coverage. And it’s buttery enough not to settle into the lip lines.
Two dabs are all you need for an intense finish. Thick and creamy, it glides on smoothly and conceals all signs of dryness.
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This multi-tasker is your lipstick, balm, gloss and stain. Made with butters,oils and antioxidants, it plumps up, moisturises, and gives a natural flush that stays put for more than six hours.
This glossy, pigmented stain is only just slightly more viscous than water. Yet, once it sets on your lips, it feels like you’ve just applied a balm. It goes on evenly with no patchiness.
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