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Best Sheer Lipgloss
What's the Best Sheer Lipgloss that you've tried?
For sheerer gloss, I love Bobbi Brown High Shimmer Lipglosses, Sephora Ultra Shine Lip Gels, MAC Lipglasses, and Chanel Glossimers.
— Christine
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Sephora Ultra Shine is great! Such a nice texture and a good range of colors and finishes.
I don’t wear gloss much and haven’t tried many, but I like the Sephora gloss balms. They’re quite sheer and very comfortable and moisturizing.
I’m not a big sheer lip gloss fan so, none really.
Same, I’m just not very interesting in sheer lip balms. Pigment all the way!
I agree on the Bobbi Brown and MAC glosses! Will check those Sephora glosses when I get the chance 🙂
Sadly my favorite lip glosses are the (now discontinued) Armani flash lacquers. Fortunately I stocked up when I heard they were discontinuing them. For ones that are still available…I love Chantecaille’s two gloss formulas, Smith and Cult glosses are amazing, almost like a balm/gloss hybrid and they aren’t talked about really at all, Bobbi Brown glosses are nice. Tom Ford, Burberry and byTerry have nice formulas, but I’d like a better color selection overall. Burberry has a decent range, just not a ton that I’m drawn to. Really have to recommend Smith and Cult though – I’m amazed that these aren’t more popular.
Since I only wear sheer lipgloss as toppers over lipstick, I need them to be a bit sticky so that they don’t make my lipstick slide around. Therefore, I really love MAC Dazzleglass and some of their regular Lipglasses. Nyx also has a few I love for that purpose within the Mega Gloss range. Love my UD Revolution in Vice over a purple lipstick, too!
I’ve been a fan of Chanel Glossimers since they were first introduced. They’re the only lip glosses I’ve ever considered HG. (I’ve never been a big fan of lip glosses, but there’s just something about the glossimer formula that is very special. )
I’m more a fan of Chanel’s Aqualumiere line, but they only release those every once in a blue moon.
Chanel!
My favorite sheer lip glosses are the Lancome Juicy Tubes and the Guerlain Gloss d’Enfer, although I don’t know that those are technically sheer. I really enjoy both formulas though.
Badly worded sentence: I don’t know if I would call the Guerlain Gloss d’Enfer lip glosses sheer. The Lancome Juicy Tubes that I’ve tried have been sheer.
I love the Laura Mercier Lip Glaces.
High end: Bobbi Brown High Shimmer and MAC Lipglass. Drugstore: e.l.f. EX-tra Lip Gloss and Wet n Wild Megaslicks.
Bobbi Brown’s high shimmer glosses, and also NARS seems sheer-ish and works well for me.
I really like the MAC Cremesheen Glass formula!
I like both UD Naked and Beso, but I normally wear them over a brighter lipstick.
I love the Bobbi Brown high shimmer glosses (thank you Christine for starting me down that rabbit hole) and the Laura Mercier glaces. Both give excellent shine, yummy smelling formulas, and last quite a while (BB seems to have more longevity than LM overall though).
I do not own a lot of glosses, but I agree Bobbi’s high shimmers are excellent and fun; good wearing time for me too. Shiseido makes exceptionally good lipglosses!
I had forgotten about my Shiseido ones – they are really nice.
it’s not so sheer bujt i love the nyx one , the butter gloss .
I don’t usually do totally sheer glosses (or totally opaque ones) but I find I can somewhat sheer out the Tanya Burr ones quite nicely (especially the shade Afternoon Tea).