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Great Beauty: Summer's Hottest Lip Shades

Pucker up with this season's most luscious lip hues!
Sizzling Summer Lip Shades
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By Tia Williams · Updated October 28, 2020
If you’re a lip girl, you know who you are (you’re always puckering up in pics, your flirt M.O. involves coy lower-lip-biting…). There’s no better way to flaunt your kisser than to accentuate it with a bold, luscious lip color.

Here, we count down the top ten lip shades for summer, and offer up must-have lipstick, gloss and stain suggestions so you can rock the look at home. Kiss kiss!