Just a Kiss

With hints of color and a touch of shine, the season’s best lip shades say spring beauty, naturally.

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Spring is here, signaling a fresh selection of lip shades, glosses, and tints. Set down winter’s rich colors and flat finishes and get ready to lighten, brighten, and beautify with sheer, subtle, slightly glossy formulations. Buzzy brands aren’t must-buys anymore — this season’s chic centers solely on results, achieving a natural glow that brings out the best in every face. We say it’s ’pout time.

1. Giorgio Armani Beauty Matte

Nature Lip Maestro Liquid Lipstick 

With an extremely lightweight formation, this luminous lip color promises to hydrate for hours while remaining naturally beautiful all day long. It may be matte, but there’s nothing flat about this luminous formulation. $38, Sephora stores and sephora.com

2. Sephora Collection

Jelly Melt Glossy Lip Tint

As your day develops, your look will, too, with this two-in-one beauty tool. Sephora’s signature lip tint goes on glossy, and as the shine wears away — or melts into the lips, as the name suggests — the pigment shifts to a subtle yet long-lasting lip stain. $10, Sephora stores and sephora.com

3. Chantecaille Lip Chic Collection

This limited-edition palette of glossy, lightweight shades makes lips feel soft and look plump, thanks to an infusion of ultra-hydrating hyaluronic acid. Another reason these hues feel so good: They are doing good. Every sale supports the Amazon Conservation Team’s efforts to preserve the hummingbird’s rainforest habitat.

$48, Neiman Marcus Fort Worth and neimanmarcus.com

4. Milk Makeup Lip Color

This demi-matte lip color blends pigment with moisturizing shea butter and a bamboo-derived blurring powder to provide full color that lasts all day long. A recent reformulation makes this composition feel even creamier — appropriate considering the brand name. $24, milkmakeup.com

5. Milk Makeup Glow Oil Lip + Cheek

Makeup multitaskers love this petite plug that imparts a popsicle-stain-like tint to the lips and a dewy flush to the cheeks, all with a single swipe. It’s also a glow that’s good for you, thanks to antioxidant-packed ingredients like rice brain oil. $15, milkmakeup.com