ColourPop Ultra Satins, Sephora Ultra Shine Lip Gels. Jack Black Lip Balm… though I don’t know if that’s truly affordable when it comes to lip balm.
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The Revlon lip butters (I think they’re d/c’d but I stocked up on them), Harry’s lip balm (they no longer make it – figures I find something I really like AND with SPF and they pull it from their line).
Compared to Pat McGrath’s $38 balm, I’d say Jack Black is pretty affordable!
Worker B and Badger Balm unscented
Maybelline Creamy Mattes (I think I have every shade!);
NYX Butter Gloss and Intense Butter Gloss;
Maybelline Vivid Lip Lacquer – thanks to Christine’s recommendations; and,
Aquaphor Lip Therapy.
Colourpop lippie stix! Oh Snap and Contempo are always in my bag. Love they have matching lip pencils too. Their lip pencils are a personal fav; long wearing, matte.
Wendy – I forgot that one of my favorite lipsticks that I own is in reality a Lippie Stix: Faded. I need to order a bunch of backups of it, because it’s a go-to on days where I just want an easy, pretty, goes-with-anything color.
Colourpop lippie stix or satins, Wet N Wild Pout & Love are awesome for days other makeup doesn’t make it to my face and I enjoy some of the NYX glosses.
thank you for this post and your recommendations! personally, i love clinique’s long last glosswear, and i’d really like to buy fenty beauty’s gloss bomb universal lip luminizer. i also like e.l.f.’s lip tint.
NYX Sand Beige lip liner
Jack Black Lip Balms & Laneige Lip sleeping mask – they are expensive in terms of initial purchase, though, but I get a long of bang for my buck on these
Nyx Butter glosses, Colourpop Matte X, matte, cream lippiestix, and Ultra Satin lips.
I feel like MAC lipsticks are “affordable” at this point. I gravitate toward high end lip products and some of them are almost $40! I do enjoy some of the Revlon Super Lustrous Lipsticks, they are similar to MAC’s Satin formula, which is also a fave.
Revlon Super Lustrous Lipstick, Maybelline Vivids, Aquaphor Lip Repair
Revlon Lip Butters would be #1 BUT they’re discontinued ;( I still have some Peach Parfait & Pink Truffle though!
Rimmel Spice lip pencil
Wet n Wild Cherry Frost lipstick
ColourPop ultra satins, Colour Pop lippie stix, NYX liquid suede metallic mattes, Pretty Zombie Cosmetics liquid lipsticks, Burt’s Bees lip balm, Love & Toast lip balm.
Jack Black lip balm is a ‘must have’, as in must have a couple in my purse, one by my bed, one next to my door, one in the car, a couple back ups. Best thing to help me deal with super dry lips, ever.
Revlon HD lipgloss — especially Rose Quartz.
Maybelline lipstick — I tried Touch of Spice, it’s “almost” on my skin tone but I like the formula so am going to look into other shades.
I have a lot of Maybelline’s lipsticks and I can recommend Untainted Spice as a beautiful autumn/winter shade. The colour sensational range was really good.
Even though I don’t have them here yet, I have a really strong feeling that the ColourPop Lux Lipstick formula will definitely be on my list! Plus, of course CP’s Ultra Satin Lipsticks and lip gloss formula, too. Nyx Slim Lip Pencils are my hands down FAVORITE lip liner. They look and last on my lips just like MAC’s!
Nyx Intense Butter Gloss formula is still a favorite, but I don’t recall seeing them at Ulta yesterday? May have been just an oversight on my part, though.
Burt’s Bees tinted balm in Red Dahlia and Aquaphor.
ColourPop Blotted lipstick (in the tube), ColourPop Ultra Satin Lips, ColourPop lip liner. Lots of ColourPop!
NYX Slide On Glide On Lip Liner in Nude Suede Shoes
Maybelline Super Stay Matte Ink liquid lip
Loreal Infallible Matte and Metallic Lip paints
Smiths Rosebud Lip Salve
Revlon Superlustrous Lipstick
Revlon Ultra HD Lip gloss
Wet n Wild Catsuit Liquid Lip
Oh and Colourpop Ultra Satins
A lot of lipsticks I buy are in the ‘affordable’ range:
Milani colour statement lipsticks – Bronze Beauty, Candied Toffee and Cinnamon Spice
Maybelline Colour Sensational lipsticks in InStyle Sienna (a beautiful brick red/brown shade), Untainted Spice and a couple of coffee shades.
I also get my Elizabeth Arden Ceramide and those from past ranges onsale for about $11-13 from Buyinvite.
Her lipsticks are underrated and they have always worked well on me – favourite shades are Ginger, Cocoa Bronze, Flame (red shade), Goldmine, Cranberry etc.
I think $7.50 for lip balm is within the realm of affordability, so agreed on Jack Black! Absolutely need it.
NYX’s slim lip pencils, Liquid Suedes, coordinating Suede Matte liners, Liquid Suede Metallics, Cosmic Metals, and certain shades of the Macaron and Wicked lipsticks all make the cut! Love that brand, in case anyone doubted, lol.
Maybelline’s Color Sensational lipstick range, not even just for myself, but because they have a nude or MLBB shade for so many skintones in good formulas that they’re easy to recommend to my customers on budgets.
e.l.f.’s Matte Lip Color (the one in retractable crayon form), which isn’t perfect and has a kinda limited shade range, but well worth and hard to beat for $3!
I have quite a collection of MAC lipsticks that I love. I absolutely adored Revlon’s Colorburst lipsticks (in the all black tubes) as they were beautiful shades, felt light/non goopy, performed well and very reasonably priced. Of course they are discontinued! (while superlustrous still available? WTF?) Clinique used to have great lipsticks as well: I love Almost Lipstick of which only Black Honey still available and their “Different Lipstick” was amazing too but it seems to be discontinued. I tend to buy more MAC these days rather than get hooked on something that will be discontinued after I like it. Will not be buying any more Revlon lippies for sure as I also loved their old Moistureous line….sigh. I am a cranky old lady today…..had a cortisone injection and just a crankypants.
Any Nyx lipsticks and liquid lipsticks, Nyx Butter Glosses, Wet n Wild MegaLast Lip Color and Liquid Catsuits, e.l.f. Moisturizing Lipsticks, e.l.f. Matte Lip Colors, e.l.f. Lip Exfoliator, Blistex Medicated lip balm, and BH Cosmetics Waterproof Lip Liners.
NYX Intense Butter Glosses and (don’t laugh) Lip Smackers lip glosses. I use the Lip Smackers before bed at night and it’s a delightful childhood flashback.
Milani Matte Naked! It’s the only lipstick I’ve ever come close to panning. Wet n Wild MegaLast lipsticks are also great, but lately I’ve been favoring more hydrating lipstick formulas. I’ve also loved NYX Butter Glosses, but haven’t been into gloss in general lately.
Nyx Soft Matte Lip Creams, Maybelline lipsticks (bullet), Wet n Wild liquid lipsticks and Essence Sheer & Shine lipsticks.