10 best lip oils to keep your lips glossy, moisturised and plump

Goodbye, fine lines and chapped lips

The recent global popularity of lip oils—with about 159.4 million views on TikTok and 4,42,000 posts on Instagram—can be attributed to their double-duty character, playing the roles of a lip balm and lip gloss together. Today, every brand is churning out lip oils; clear, tinted, shimmer—the choices are endless. If you’re looking to add one to your lip oil arsenal, here are some tried-and-tested picks. 

Addict Lip Glow Oil, DIOR Beauty

Used by the likes of Bella Hadid, this lip oil from Dior Beauty is a cult for a reason. Loaded with cherry oil, an emollient that seals moisture in your lips, this oil provides a high dose of nourishment along with a glazed finish. This lip oil photographs beautifully, but the texture can feel a bit goopy and thick for some. Opting for a tinted variant seems like a better investment, considering it would offer both nourishment and a wash of rosy hues.

Golden Hour Lip Oil, Simply Nam

Created by make-up artist Namrata Soni, Simply Nam’s lip oils tick all the right boxes. Despite a lightweight formulation that doesn’t feel greasy or sticky, the lip oils comprise hydrating ingredients like macadamia oil, jojoba oil, avocado oil, and sweet almond oil, offering relief from chapped lips. The high-shine finish and natural nude tint are bonuses.

Love Potion Lip Oil, Diam Beauty

Combining lip care and colour in an ultra-glossy formula, this lip oil cuts down the number of lip products you’d typically need. The doe-foot applicator makes application a breeze, while ingredients such as squalane, moringa, watermelon extract, bakuchiol, and calendula oil soften, repair, and plump up the lips. That these lip oils smell like vanilla cupcakes only elevates the experience.

Hydrating Lip Oil, Kay Beauty

If you’re a sucker for the viral glazed lip look, Kay Beauty’s Hydrating Lip Oil should be on your radar. The award-winning lip oil features a blend of nourishing ingredients like chamomile oil and Kakadu plum oil which offer lasting hydration. It leaves the lips feeling silky smooth, sans any stickiness.

Jelly Lip Oil Gloss, Too Faced

With jojoba seed oil and sunflower seed oil as the key ingredients, the newly launched lip oil-gloss hybrid from Too Faced makes moisturising lips fun and easy. The jelly-like texture of this product feels like nothing on the lips, allowing you to apply it copiously for a well-hydrated, juicy pout. Additionally, the product comes in six shades and finishes—from pink and coral to shimmer and clear.

Lip Oil Gloss, Ruby’s Organics

Available in a variety of shades that complement Indian skin tones, Ruby’s Organics makes some of the nicest lip oils. Free of any nasties like mineral oil or parabens, the lip oil’s formulation contains cocoa butter, shea butter, kokum butter, argan oil, almond oil, jojoba oil, and castor oil to heal dry and cracked skin, while covering your lips in an opaque film of colour. Thanks to its high colour pay-off, you can also use this on your cheeks, only if your skin isn’t prone to congestion.  

Lip Comfort Oil, Clarins

Launched in 2015, much before lip oils were all the rage, this product from Clarins has a formulation that features a cocktail of emollients like jojoba oil, hazelnut oil, and rosehip oil to render your lips with deep-level nourishment. The oil not only leaves your lips hydrated and uber-shiny but also fortifies the barrier to keep dryness at bay.

Lip Oil, Nooni

A rather underrated lip oil, this one from K-beauty brand Nooni can fix dehydrated lips within a few minutes of application. Oils like jojoba seed oil, sunflower seed oil, camellia seed oil, rosehip fruit oil, macadamia oil, and green tea seed oil are combined with fruit extracts from olive, apple, and raspberry to make this formulation a powerhouse of nourishment. The fruity scent, vibrant tints, and comfortable texture are pluses.

Dewy Lip Treatment, indē wild

This product poses as an effective substitute for your lip balm, lip salve, lip oil, and clear lip gloss all at once. The lip treatment glides like butter on your lips, courtesy of ghee—the ingredient headlining the product’s formulation. The balm also contains shea butter, squalane, rose flower oil, vitamin E, hyaluronic acid, and linoleic acid, making it full of emollients and humectants to retain moisture in your lips.  

Pomegranate Sheen SPF 15 PA ++ Lip Oil, 82°E

Lip care meets sun care in 82°E’s latest offering, the Pomegranate Sheen Lip Oil. With squalane, botanical extracts and oils and a chemical UV filter, this clear lip oil sits on the lips like a veil of moisture and sun protection. Due to an optimal dose of antioxidants in the formula, the lip oil also aids with mitigating pigmentation and texture on the lips. 

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