Enjoyable reality: When Kosas launched in 2015, it did so with a set of 4 crimson lipsticks. Eight years and dozens of extra merchandise later, the model returned to its roots—this time, with two fully new strains of lipstick.
Final month, the model launched Moist Stick ($24), a tinted balm, and Weightless Lip Coloration ($26), a creamy lipstick. The concept behind them was to supply neutrals that labored on all pores and skin tones, and our editors have fallen in love with each formulation. Preserve scrolling to be taught extra about why.
Kosas, Moist Stick — $24.00
Moist Stick is a tinted balm that gives a sheer—but pigmented—wash of shade to the lips. It’s full of squalane and ceramides, leaving your skips delicate and conditioned. It’s out there in 12 beautiful shades. Most are impartial shades of pink and brown, however it additionally consists of Bikini Blaze, a cool magenta, as a pop of shade.
Kosas, Weightless Lip Coloration — $26.00
A revamp of Kosas’ earlier Weightless Lipstick, this lip shade goes on comfy and opaque and is formulated with antioxidant-rich rosehip oil, soothing cocoa butter, and smoothing mango butter to depart your lips delicate and glad. It is available in 10 shades of beige, pink, crimson, and brown.
Kosas Moist Stick
Gina Vaynshteyn, Commerce Director
Shade: Tropical Bliss
“This rosy mauve is a pleasant impartial that does not ‘pop’ however does not wash me out, both,” says Vaynshteyn. “It is a good on a regular basis shade for me! And the method is beautiful—so easy to glide on, and retains my lips hydrated (and tinted) for hours.”
Kara Jillian Brown, Magnificence Author
Shade: 100 Levels
For me, this shade is the final word my-lips-but-better shade. It camouflages the scars left behind from over-picking lifeless pores and skin on my lips whereas including a pleasant, mauve-y wash of shade. It feels actually good, and I am going to attain for it anytime I am in search of a impartial shade to drag my look collectively.
Shade: Cinnamon Spritz
I LOVE this sheer brown. It is superb to get such pigment in such a sheer, light-weight method. It provides a ton of shade with out overwhelming my face. Come fall and winter, I will be sporting this shade all. the. time.
Zoë Weiner, Senior Magnificence Editor
Shade: Child Rose
“I weirdly did not like this shade in any respect after I first tried it, however over the previous couple of months it is grow to be one in every of my favourite lip merchandise in my assortment of a whole lot,” says Weiner. “It is a kind of grown-up child pink that jogs my memory of the Bonnebell balms I used to like within the early 2000s, however leaves my lips feeling so rather more hydrated—and searching so a lot better—than these ever did.”
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Our ideas on Kosas Weightless Lip Coloration
Francesca Krempa, Affiliate Commerce Editor
Shade: Daydream
“I am probably not a lipstick gal—it often simply will get on my enamel or finally ends up smudging everywhere in the lid of my water bottle. However I like how buttery these things is,” says Krempa. “It goes on clean and creamy in a single swipe. Critically, all it’s a must to do is swipe it over your lips as soon as on prime and backside, smack ’em collectively to even it out, and also you’re accomplished. It is the definition of simple peasy and it feels so nourishing on lips, too. I attempted Daydream, which is a reasonably berry shade and does not actually look all that totally different from my regular lip shade.”
Shade: Fantasy Life
“If I am being candid, Fantasy Life appears very bizarre on my pores and skin tone,” says Krempa. “It is too mild for my tan proper now, and makes my lips unflatteringly fleshy. So if you happen to’ve bought heat, golden undertones, attain for one thing else.”
Weiner
Shade: Excessive Reduce
“These lipsticks I attain for after I know I must placed on precise lipstick—versus gloss or balm—to finish a glance, however do not wish to must assume an excessive amount of about it. In different phrases, they go together with every little thing,” says Weiner. “I like the entire shades I’ve tried (Fantasy Life and Turned On are different favorites), however Excessive Reduce is the one I attain for probably the most because of its ease of damage. It is the proper impartial pink, and matches my lips in a pure method that makes my face look completed, however not overdone.”
Brown
Shade: Deep Talks
I like love love this shade. It is a heat terracotta shade and it provides a lot depth to any look. Though it is a deep shade, it does not really feel darkish. I additionally love how nourishing the method feels and that it glides on effortlessly and does not want a lipliner. It is a lipstick that I do know I am going to really get pleasure from having on my lips.
Shade: Daydream
Like Francesca, I attempted Daydream and it isn’t my favourite. I do not assume it appears dangerous, however it reads extra mauve on my pores and skin tone than berry, and since it is so opaque I feel it appears a bit jarring. This simply is not a shade I would attain for once more.
Vaynshteyn
Shade: Turned On
“It is a actually wealthy, sultry impartial that veered into near-brick territory (Kosas says it is a ‘heat pinkish brown’ however it feels darker than that),” says Vaynshteyn. “It is actually fairly and has loads of dimension and appears good on my pores and skin tone. The method itself is sooo creamy! Like I used to be slathering physique butter on my lips. The fade was additionally very forgiving, which I respect, since I are inclined to overlook to reapply all through the day.”
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