Best Lip Color for Your Skin Tone and Color Palette 2025
The right lipstick can make you feel confident, sexy, and gorgeous, even without any other makeup on. In your most raggedy clothes or when wearing a top in your worst colors, lipstick can have your back.
I consider it the single most powerful tool in your palette tool belt, because it locks the focus in on you. As I’ve said many times as a color analyst: whatever color is closest to your face has the biggest impact on your skin tone and features. Well, it doesn’t get closer than your lips!
Love wearing a color that is the opposite of your palette? Throw on your best lipstick. Zoom call you forgot about? Lipstick. Want to be a knockout at the big event? Lipstick.
And you don’t have to guess which one will look best on you, because we’ve done all the work for you!
Something intentional about this lip color blog is that BIPOC-owned/founded brands are shown first in each season’s recs. These brands continue to lead the industry in inclusiveness with wide shade ranges, allowing EVERYONE to find makeup that complements their features, and celebrating the nuance in undertone, from the deepest skin tones to the fairest, and every shade in between. Browse our curated list, which includes Sacheu Beauty, Tower 28, LYS, Patrick Ta, Fenty, Kulfi, EM cosmetics, Pat McGrath, etc.
Sacheu Beauty lip liners for the win!
I can’t get over these long-lasting, peel-off lip liners. Make sure and prep with a lip scrub before for best results.
Enjoy feeling like the gorgeous person you are in these lip color finds:
Best lip colors for Spring palettes
For our Springs, look for colors like watermelon, poppy red, coral, peachy, and baby pink.
Best lip colors for Summer palettes
For our Summers, you can rock many floral and berry colors, like lilac, rose pink, mauve, faded cranberry, and faded raspberry to name a few. For a bolder look, try a toned-down cherry red or a Barbie pink!
Best lip colors for Autumn palettes
For our Autumns, you would look incredible in shades like brick red, spice-colors, muted tomato red, coral leaning pinks, and terra cotta lipsticks.
Best lip colors for Winter palettes
For our Winters, rich and deep shades like scarlet red, deep berry, raspberry, and plum would look divine on you. If you’re wanting a bolder look, try vibrant purples, cherry red, and hot pink!
Browse our picks for each season below.
Jump to: Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter .
Don’t know your season yet? We got you!
Take a screenshot of your faves first, so you know which colors work best for you!
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Lip Colors for Springs
Lip Colors for Summers
Lip Colors for Autumn:
Lip Colors for Winters
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