Lip Glosses, Balms and Oils You’ll Want on Repeat

Lip gloss is back, and it's brought friends. The shiny-lip wave that started with throwback glosses has evolved into something glossier, juicier, and far more skin-loving. From high-shine balms to hydrating lip oils and plumping glosses with serious payoff, this new generation of lip products is here to stay.

The trend’s gone brighter, slicker and bolder with psychedelic tones, glass-like finishes and plumper-than-ever textures. Rare Beauty’s new Positive Light Luminizing Lip Gloss brings shimmer and comfort in one swipe. YSL LOVESHINE Plumping Lip Oil Gloss launches the ultimate hi-shine formula, while Dior’s Lip Maximiser keeps its cult status with that signature plump. Huda Beauty’s Lip Blush and Haus Labs’ glossy pigments are made for high-impact shine, and Drunk Elephant’s Lippe Balm and Plump-C™ Lippe Mask tag-team hydration like pros. 

With so many to choose from, across textures, finishes and shine levels, we’ve rounded up the balmiest lip products worth your swipe. Here’s what deserves a spot in your rotation.

Rare Beauty Brings Weightless Shimmer in 6 Glossy Shades

Rare Beauty’s Positive Light Luminizing Lip Gloss is Selena Gomez’s latest addition to the Positive Light Collection, and it’s all about weightless shimmer with a skincare twist. This glassy gloss goes on smoothly with a non-sticky, cushiony texture that hydrates instantly while creating the look of fuller lips. Yes, without the tingle. 

Shimmer particles are customised by colour and size to suit each shade, giving lips a soft, multidimensional glow that catches the light just right. A subtle peach scent rounds things off, making each swipe a little more addictive.

Available in six glossy shades, including Dazzle(a sheer blue with multicoloured shimmer) and Glimmer(rose gold with champagne pearl), the formula wears beautifully on bare lips or layered over colour. It’s vegan, cruelty-free, paraben-free, non-comedogenic and suitable for sensitive skin. With comfort, glow and a generous hit of shine, this is a gloss that ticks all the boxes. 

Rare Beauty Positive Light Luminizing Lip Gloss($34) is available at Sephora stores and online.

Huda Beauty Just Made the Gloss-Stain Combo for Every Kind of Wear

Huda Beauty isn’t shy about drama, and this time, it hypes up your lips. The new Lip Contour Stain is a clever matte-stain hybrid that lines, defines and sets for up to 12 hours. It looks like a liner, feels like a tint, and wears like something you forgot you were even wearing. The felt-tip applicator makes precision ridiculously easy, whether you're going full overline or just adding soft definition. 

Argan is the hero here with the formula infused in its goodness, leaving your lips smooth and comfortable. Plus, they’ve got 8 shades to match any palette, including the best-selling Cinnamon, Rosewood and Toasty Brown.

Then comes Faux Filler Jelly Oil, which is equal parts gloss, oil and lip treat. This sheer tinted oil glides on with a plush doe foot and leaves behind a glassy finish that’s more dewy glow than sticky shine. Inside: peptides to smooth, shea butter to soften, and passionfruit oil for that next-level slick. It comes in three sheer, fruit-scented shades and is designed to be worn over the stain, creating lips that look juicy, flushed and just a little extra. Add to cart, pronto!

Huda Beauty’s Lip Contour Stain ($42) and Faux Filler Jelly Oil ($40) are available at Sephora.sg.

Drunk Elephant’s Plump-C Tripeptide Lippe Mask Is Serious Lip Service

Drunk Elephant just gave your favourite Lippe Balm a power-packed sibling. The Plump-C Tripeptide Lippe Mask is here, and it’s every bit as plush and multi-functional. This richer, more indulgent treatment is designed to restore lips with a cocktail of shea and marula butters, a collagen-boosting tripeptide, and a vitamin C derivative that works to even out tone while shielding against environmental stress. The texture? Thick, velvety and designed to stay put, day or night.

Created to address lip lines, uneven texture and chronic dryness, this formula is free from silicones, fragrance and essential oils, but full of the kind of ingredients lips need: 11 amino acids, 47% nourishing oils, and enough hydration to last through the longest day. Alternate it with the original Lippe Balm, a lighter, antioxidant-rich swipe that softens and strengthens the lip barrier. It’s not just for lips either. Try mixing a little Plump-C with O-Bloos or D-Bronzi for a sheer tint, or pat it onto brows at night as a conditioning overnight treatment.

The new Plump-C™ Tripeptide Lippe Mask launches on 31 July. It joins the Lippe Balm, already available at Sephora stores and online at sephora.sg.

Dior Beauty’s Riviera-Inspired Lip Line-Up Is Summer in a Swipe

This season, Dior Beauty turns up the heat with a Riviera-themed lip wardrobe that brings together shine, tint and shimmer in limited-edition shades made for sun-drenched days.

The show-stopping Dior Addict Lip Maximizer($62) is a high-shine gloss with real skincare benefits, thanks to its hyaluronic acid-infused formula. It hydrates, smooths and leaves lips looking visibly fuller with a cooling tingle. The summer drop includes three radiant shades: 094 Aqua Pop, a sheer turquoise with glitter that catches the light like seawater; 092 Garnet Fizz, a sparkling garnet red laced with gold; and 090 Sparkly Sienna, a brick-toned shimmer with a multicoloured twist. 

For colour that clings without transferring, Dior Addict Lip Tint lands in 671 Natural Raspberry, a bright, sunlit raspberry pink that melts into lips and stays there. The formula is weightless, barely-there, and builds to a juicy, saturated finish that looks fresh from the first sip of rosé to golden hour.

Completing the trio is Dior Addict lipstick in 535 Red D-Sire($64), a bold coral red housed in a refillable couture case. It’s glossy, comfortable, and made for evenings that stretch well past sunset. 

The Dioriviera – Summer 2025 Collection is available at all Dior Beauty Boutiques, Counters, and on the Dior Online Boutique.

YSL Beauty Does Shine and Spicy Plumping in One Beautiful Bottle

YSL Beauty’s LOVESHINE Plumping Lip Oil Gloss is the latest launch in its high-shine line-up, and it’s pulling no punches. Designed as an oil-gloss hybrid, this formula delivers a next-level slick finish with the kind of lip care you'd expect from a luxe balm. It’s infused with fig pulp sourced from the brand’s Ourika Gardens, along with spicy pepper and ginger oils to help smooth, plump and hydrate. The texture is ultra-thin and non-sticky, with a juicy mango scent that makes each swipe a little indulgent. It's everything you want in a gloss, glass-like shine, comfort and a just-bitten finish that lasts.

Of course, it wouldn’t be YSL without a strong dose of style. Fronted by Dua Lipa and designed to be seen, LOVESHINE comes in a range of shades that move from bold berry reds to sheer nudes. But Thunder Stealer is the one that’s got beauty insiders talking with its soft lilac shimmer that gives lips a subtle, stardust sheen. Housed in a statement silver-capped tube and paired with an oversized plush applicator, it’s built for impact. High-gloss, high-glam, and high-function, this is the gloss to beat this season.

LOVESHINE Plumping Lip Oil ($63) is available at YSL online and at Sephora.sg.

Banila Co’s New Hydrating Lip Oil Is a Glossy, Skin-Loving Treat for Your Lips

K-beauty favourite Banila Co just dropped a lip oil that does more than just sit pretty. The Hydrating Lip Oil blends skincare science with high-shine colour to create something that nourishes while it glows. Designed for lips that are thinner, more delicate and lacking in natural oil glands, the formula sinks in rather than sitting on top, delivering deep moisture that lasts up to 24 hours without feeling sticky or heavy.

Banila Co’s Hydro 3 Essential Complex is a mix of jojoba oil, sunflower seed oil, and squalene, backed by hyaluronic acid, panthenol and peach flower extract for an antioxidant boost. It is vegan, cruelty-free and clinically tested to be gentle, even on sensitive lips. Each tube delivers a juicy gloss with a whisper of colour in six wearable tints: Bare Pink, Pink Sorbet, Juicy Coral, Berry Coral, Red Apple and Plum Mauve. Wear it alone for a wash of shine or layer it over lipstick for a slick finish that doesn’t smudge. 

Now available on Lazada and Shopee.

Kylie Cosmetics Gives a Glossy Take on the Iconic Lip Kit

Kylie Cosmetics is marking its upcoming 10-year anniversary with a high-shine twist on the lip kit that changed everything. The Glossy Lip Kits are a glossy reboot of the original matte version that catapulted the brand to cult status, now updated with two new formulas designed to sculpt, define and gloss in one easy pairing.

Inside each kit: the Precision Pout Lip Liner, a waxy wooden pencil that hugs lips without tugging, and the Supple Kiss Lip Glaze, a lightweight gloss that delivers up to 12 hours of moisture and mirror-like shine. The brand has taken the guesswork out of colour matching, too, with pre-paired liner and gloss duos that give dimension and contrast in all the right places.

Hydrating, high-impact and fully vegan, the new Glossy Lip Kits are Kylie’s way of giving her fans more ways to wear the signature look. This time, with a juicy, sculpted finish that stays put.

Kyle Cosmetics Glossy Lip Kits ($55) are available at Sephora ION Orchard and Sephora Online.

NARS Defines, Sculpts and Shines with Latest Lip Edit

NARS is back with its latest drops that bring together shine, structure and serious pigment. This new line-up introduces five new shades of the cult-favourite Afterglow Lip Shine, alongside a full spectrum of Precision Lip Liner pencils designed to define, sculpt and stay put.

The updated Afterglow Lip Shine($43) shades include warm tones and dusty neutrals like Dolce Vita (dusty rose), Make a Move (tawny beige) and Smooth Talk (cocoa brown), all delivering a mirror-like sheen with a whisper of colour. The formula is goes beyond gloss as it hydrates lips for up to eight hours with the help of pomegranate flower complex, jojoba oil, raspberry seed oil and antioxidants that smooth and nourish while protecting from everyday stressors. The finish is glassy, not sticky, and wearable from morning to night.

Next, the Precision Lip Liner Pencil($38) is a wood pencil that glides on with creamy ease and locks down pigment without budging. Imagine rich, high-impact colour in shades like Mariachi(brick red), Cap-d’Ail (dusty mauve) and Jungle Red (vivid blue-red). Each liner is designed to pair effortlessly with your gloss or lipstick of choice, giving you the power to line, fill or contour your lips exactly how you like. 

Available now at NARS boutiques and Sephora.

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