I’m going to let you in on a secret. I don’t like matte-based anything: lipsticks, foundations, or concealers. I’ve always struggled with dryness and stickiness post-application — and you know how they advertise their long-stay powers so boldly? It’s true. The pigment just doesn’t wear off, and not even my cleanser can compete with that level of commitment to the lips. Nope.
I remember buying my first high-end matte liquid lipstick years ago. When I tell you it latched onto my lips for dear life, I’m not lying. Anyhow — I decided to let these lipsticks redeem themselves in my eyes — or attempt to — one last time before I swore off them. I was sceptical because I knew that winter was coming, and I’m almost always afflicted with a case of dryness at this time of the year.
Though I didn’t think I’d be successful in my pursuit of finding a matte-textured lippie that doesn’t put the ‘ick’ in lipstick, I was. I found five such lippies that proved me wrong, and I’m revealing them to you. Ahead — the best matte lipsticks in the game RN.
Matte Melt: The Only 5 Lipsticks We Approve Of
Ingredient: Moringa Oil
The allure of burgundies and mulberries is much more apparent during winters — something about a darker colour palette that feels almost inviting and warm. That’s why I’m enlisting the expertise of cruelty-free, vegan E-Boy. This lipstick feels like it has bottled the cosiness of the season under its fine-tipped brush. While it’s endowed with smudge-proof and transfer-proof abilities, it boasts a buttery-soft texture thanks to the ultra-moisturising ambitions of Moringa Oil. This ingredient ensures that your lips are always hydrated, supple, and healthy regardless of how cold it is outside. This is also one of the best long-lasting matte-based lipsticks ever.
Ingredients: Castor Oil & Vitamin E
This matte-textured lipstick is power-packed with a fiery-red decadence that feels like you’re crushing freshly-picked cherries onto the lips. It’s infused with the lip-loving benefits of ingredients like Vitamin E and Castor Oil — delivering shots of moisture to the lips for as long as you wear the lipstick.
Ingredient: Vitamin C
Long live the clean-girl aesthetic — because this purple-pink bullet will fall right into sync with your soft-glam makeup. Powered by the pigmentation-guzzling Vitamin C, it brightens the lips over time too. The multihyphenate combines the efficacy of Vitamin C with other lip-loving butters and oils that drench your pout in all of its ultra-hydrating glory. This finger-size bullet is ideal for those who don’t like liquid-based formulas.
Ingredient: Maracuja Oil
This bullet bathes your lips in a luxe-looking decadence that feels air-light and pillowy-soft on the pout. It’s touched with a violet-ish payoff — almost like the colour of dried-up flowers that love letters are embossed with. While it glides onto the lips buttery-smooth, much of it is courtesy of Maracuja Oil. This ingredient moisturises the lips while preventing sun-induced damage as well as the degradation of collagen. It’s also infused with the anti-inflammatory Physalis Pubescens Fruit Juice to soothe and calm the lips during the cold-weather season. Yeah. The best matte-based lipsticks for dry lips.
Ingredient: Marula Oil
This velvet-soft, choco-brown lipstick feels like a cup of cocoa on Christmas. It embodies the deepest hue of brown — rich and inviting, there’s something about this polish that makes you want to do it on a pullover and head to a café for the rest of the day. It’s infused with multiple lip-loving ingredients: caffeine reduces pigmentation and smoothes creases over, Macadamia and Marula Oil moisturise and soften inside-out, and Evening Primrose Oil soothes inflammation and pain. Better than your lip balm, no?
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