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Read my lips: How lip products saved makeup in 2025

By Emily Jensen

Dec 22, 2025

Despite being beauty's biggest category, makeup sales have remained largely stagnant in 2025. But, spurred on by innovative formulas and the category's overall affordability, lip products, like sculpting lip liners and glossy lip oils, emerged as the category’s saving grace.

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