It’s been a very long time since we felt the necessity to sing Lil Mama’s, “My lip gloss is popping, my lip gloss is cool…” However with the quantity of ooey gooey lip merchandise at present overflowing from our make-up luggage, the music has by no means felt extra related. That decade-defining anthem, timed with the recognition of Lancôme Juicy Tubes, was lip gloss’ peak… till now. Twenty-some years after the aughts, we’re much more obsessive about glazed lips, largely as a result of at the moment’s formulation do extra than simply add shine, and so they aren’t in any respect sticky.

Because of shiny new launches from Topicals, Neutrogena, and Gucci, our lips are at present commanding an elevated stage of consideration. Summer time Fridays (Attract’s latest One to Watch honoree) and Fenty Pores and skin’s newest formulation each include a jumbo applicator that makes making use of them a breeze. Lip merchandise from Saltair, U Magnificence, Good Mild Cosmetics, and Too Confronted are additionally on the checklist of glosses which have just lately entered our private collections. Amidst all the novelty, we’re nonetheless clinging to some veteran lip merchandise like MAC Lip Glass and the Tatcha Kissu Lip Masks.

What makes these newer formulation so plush and collectible is how they really feel while you glide them throughout your lips — plus, the high-shine shiny look and gooey texture you get. “You sometimes discover a mixture of hydrocarbon elements in lip oil and gloss formulation as a result of they’re glorious gelling and thickening brokers for anhydrous purposes,” says beauty chemist Amanda Lam. The ingredient mix she’s referring to consists of hydrogenated polyisobutene, ethylene-propylene-styrene copolymer, and butylene-ethylene-styrene-copolymer — the mix of those elements offers our favourite lip merchandise their ooey gooey, yummy texture.

Nobody in our workplace is selecting only one favourite: Attract editors have loads of ooey-gooey choices on standby — on a latest Tuesday, we counted 19 totally different lip glosses between two editors’ desks alone. Forward, a few of the shiny balms, glosses, and oils that Attract editors like to have on their lips.

Kara McGrath, deputy digital director