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13 best lip colours for spring
Pack away your darker, wintry lip colours and invest in a season-appropriate shade
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Your support makes all the difference.From glossy corals to hot tomato reds and sheer neon pinks, this season's lip is bold and bright. And if that all sounds a little daunting, beautiful matte and glossy nudes are also in for spring summer 2015. Here's our edit.
1. Daniel Sandler Super Gloss in Super Pomegranate: £10 for 11.4g, danielsandler.com
You'd think finding the perfect gloss would be easy, but so many are too sticky, too fragranced or too highly coloured. This little gem landed on my desk recently and it out-performs most of the glosses I've tried recently. It glides on like a dream, is barely scented, not at all sticky (but still ultra-glossy and plumping), and stays put for a remarkably long time despite being a gloss.
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2. Urban Decay Sheer Revolution Lipstick in Sheer Anarchy, Sheer Slowburn and Sheer Liar: £15.50 for 2.8g, urbandecay.co.uk
Luxuriously creamy, with sheer pigmented colour, this high-shine lippie combines creamy and rich with high shine and delicate colour. Nourishing jojoba, olive and babassu oils and antioxidants vitamin C and E take care of lips, while the added bonus of 'Maxi-Lip' plumps up your pout and makes it look fuller. We were hard pressed to choose the best one out of the 10 new shades, so we settled on three. ‘Sheer Liar is the most perfect nude I've ever worn, ‘Sheer Anarchy’ is this season's hot fuchsia (but in an easy to wear sheer version), while ‘Sheer Slowburn’ is a tomato red that suits all skintones.
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3. Revlon Ultra HD Lipstick in Hydrangea: £7.99 for 3g, boots.com
A revolutionary wax-free gel technology – one swipe and the colour is on. Available in 20 shades, Hydrangea is a bold and full-on pinky red that suits this season's playful colour palette, and looks stunning with bronzed summer skin.
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4. Sisley Phyto Lip Twist in Candy: £29 for 2.5g, houseoffraser.co.uk
An easy to use, chunky twist-up pencil, this tinted balm contains the pigment of a lipstick with the shine of a gloss in a glide-on, ultra moisturising, plumping, smoothing formula.
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5. Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution in Lost Cherry: £23 for 3.5g, selfridges.com
A luminous modern matte lippie, 3D glowing pigments make lips look lit from within, and an optical matte trick makes lips appear fuller and wider. And unlike many matte lipsticks, this one is non-drying and has the feeling of a nourishing balm. With a super silky glide-on application, you can build up colour from a subtle stain to full block of pigment.
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6. Shiseido Veiled Rouge in Carnevale: £19.50 for 2.2g, feelunique.com
Unique to Shiseido, their 'veiling pearl' is a light oil that spreads over the lips on application, locking in pigment and leaving long-lasting colour and shine. I love the subtle and understated pop of colour you get with these 8 new shades, while the collagen and hyaluronic acid plump and hydrate throughout the day.
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7. Stila Color Balm Lipstick in Elyssa: £16 for 3.5g, stila.co.uk
With a cooling peppermint hit and exceptional nourishment, these Color Balms deliver the full pigment of a lipstick with all the moisture of a lip balm. Elyssa looks stunning on darker complexions and black skin.
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8. Clinique Pop Lip Colour + Primer in Poppy Pop: £16, boots.com
Perfectly purse-sized, these lippies blend a weightless but luxuriously creamy formula with bold saturated colour and a primer all in one - this pinky coral hits all the right notes this season. They glide on with ease, stay put for hours and are available in a whopping 16 shades.
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9. Bobbi Brown Creamy Matte Lip Color in Pale Beach: £19.50 for 3.6g, bobbibrown.co.uk
For a true Brigitte Bardot matte nude, this one from Bobbi Brown is the one to go for. A classic matte with modern creamy nourishing benefits. Team it with a smokey eye for a look that never dates, whatever the season.
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10. Dolce & Gabbana The Lipgloss in Bouganville: £23.50 for 5ml, harrods.com
A blaze of bold fuchsia in this intense ultra shiny gloss is not for the faint hearted. But for making a statement in one of this season's hottest colours, Bouganville should be your gloss of choice.
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11. Michael Kors Lip Luster in Fire Coral: £21.50 for 5ml, escentual.com
A pretty candy coral shade of pink with high shine gloss and a slight iridescence – the perfect pool-side or beachy summer gloss.
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12. By Terry Hyaluronic Sheer Nude Lipstick in Sheer Glow: £26 for 3g, feelunique.com
A pure concentration of hyaluronic acid fills in lines and wrinkles, boosts volume, smoothes and protects, leaving lips plumped up and glossy. Sheer Glow is a soft coral nude, that simply enhances the lips' own colour.
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13. NYX Mega Shine Lip Gloss in La-La: £4.50 for 11ml, nyxcosmetics.co.uk
Another superbly inexpensive offering from NYX, the high street brand, that holds its own against luxury beauty brands. Shine, moisture and softness delivered in one hit from this ultra glossy peony pink gloss.
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