The 13 Best Matte Lipsticks Money Can Buy

  

 Our Top Picks 

 Best Overall:  Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick at Amazon Create a matte lip that won’t budge, smear, fade, or feel dry.

 Best Budget:  NYX Professional Makeup Soft Matte Lip Cream at Amazon The lip cream has intense pigmentation but feels gentle on lips. 

 Best Drugstore:  Maybelline New York SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick at Amazon This lipstick goes on like a liquid and dries down to a matte finish. 

 Best Long-Wearing:  Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix Eye, Cheek & Lip Cream Pigment in Alien at Sephora A matte lip that can be used on your eyes and cheeks—and stays for 24 hours. 

 Best Feeling:  Milk Makeup Lip Color at Sephora It's soft (thanks to shea butter), blendable, and stays put. 

 Best Shade Range:  Sephora Collection Cream Lip Stain Liquid Lipstick at Sephora With nearly 80 matte colors to choose from, you'll find the color right for you. 

 Best for Dark Skin:  Pat McGrath Labs MatteTrance Lipstick in Flesh 3 at Sephora Swipe it on for full, opaque color, or blend it out for a sheer look. 

 Best for Olive Skin:  Maybelline Liquid Lipstick in Heroine at Amazon This long-wearing formula is supersaturated with color. 

 Best for Medium Skin:  Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Lipstick in Lost Cherry at Charlottetilbury.com The bright tones of Lost Cherry really pop on medium skin tones. 

 Best for Fair Skin:  MAC Lipstick in Kinda Sexy at Nordstrom The neutral tones in this MAC lipstick will work for many fair skin tones. 

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 A swipe of good lipstick can be transformative. The right color lights up a face and is one of the quickest ways to elevate a look. Matte lipstick happens to be one of my favorite ways to wear a lip color—I love the way it can be blurred out at the edges or worn boldly. And depending on the formula, it can just as quickly be worn under a swipe of gloss for a shinier look. If you’re looking for new matte lipsticks, take a look at our list of favorites below, created with the help of Myiesha Sewell, Beauty Director at Sephora. 

 Best Overall: Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick 4.7 

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  Reviewed: This Stila Lipstick Will Give You High-Quality Hollywood Glamour Shade Range: 22 | Type: Doe-foot applicator | Cruelty-Free: Yes | Byrdie Clean: Yes For a matte lip that won’t budge, smear, fade, or feel dry, this lipstick is true to its name and stays all day. It starts as a liquid and quickly dries down to a soft finish that has absolutely zero transfer. Keep a good makeup remover on hand, you’ll need it to wipe this off. 

 Best Budget: NYX Professional Makeup Soft Matte Lip Cream VIEW ON AMAZONVIEW ON ULTAVIEW ON WALMART 

 Shade Range: 34 | Type: Doe-foot applicator | Cruelty-Free: Yes | Byrdie Clean: Yes For a similar look with slightly less staying power, the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream is a good option—and it’s way affordable, too. The lip cream has intense pigmentation but feels gentle on lips with its mousse-like texture. It dries down to a weightless finish that still looks bold. 

 Best Drugstore: Maybelline New York SuperStay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick VIEW ON AMAZONVIEW ON ULTA Shade Range: 41 | Type: Doe-foot applicator | Cruelty-Free: No | Byrdie Clean: No 

 This lipstick goes on like a liquid and dries down to a matte finish that can last up to 16 hours. The wide shade range offers light beige pinks to the darkest of reds (there’s a deep blue and total black shade, too!), so all skin tones and shades can find the best match. 

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 Best Long-Wearing: Danessa Myricks Beauty Colorfix Eye, Cheek & Lip Cream Pigment in Alien 

 VIEW ON SEPHORAVIEW ON DANESSAMYRICKSBEAUTY.COM Shade Range: 14 | Type: Squeeze tube | Cruelty-Free: Yes | Byrdie Clean: Yes For a matte lip that can also be used on your eyes and cheeks—and won’t budge for 24 hours—this cream pigment offers a long-wearing look. The range of matte colors is limited, but for deeper skin tones, Sewells likes the Chocolate shade.  

The 12 Best Long-Lasting Lipsticks That Actually Stay Put Best Feeling: Milk Makeup Lip Color VIEW ON SEPHORA Shade Range: 9 | Type: Bullet | Cruelty-Free: Yes | Byrdie Clean: Yes Sewell calls this Milk lip color the option for “matte lipstick haters.” “[It’s] softer to the touch, easily blendable lip color stays put but doesn’t fully set,” said Sewell. The formula has nourishing ingredients like shea butter, coconut oil, grapeseed oil, and mango seed butter to keep lips smooth and moisturized.