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HotandFlashy's Lip Product Picks: What She Loves and Skips

Across more than 40 lip products, she approved most of them, named a handful of standout winners, and was refreshingly blunt about the ones that fell flat.

HotandFlashy · 46 products reviewed · 67 mentions analyzed · Last reviewed 29 September 2026
72%Approval rate
33 Yay7 Mixed6 Nay

HotandFlashy has put more than 40 lip products to the test, and her approval rate sits at 72%. Most things she tries she ends up liking, which makes her skips all the more telling. She covers everything from everyday lip liners to overnight treatments, and she is especially clear about what actually keeps lips comfortable versus what just promises to.

What does HotandFlashy recommend in lip?

When she loves a lip product, it tends to check a few consistent boxes. Hydration that lasts is the big one. She raves about the Lineage Lip Sleeping Mask for keeping her lips soft through the night, and she praised the Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige specifically because it does not settle into lip lines or dry things out. That last point comes up again and again. She also rated the Maybelline SuperStay Vinyl Ink Lipstick highly for staying put all day without that tight, cracked feeling a lot of long-wear formulas leave behind. Texture matters to her too. She was drawn to products with a creamy, smooth feel, like the MAC Glossy Lip Liner, which she called so creamy with a very fine point.

In her words

"For a lip liner, the best one that I tried over the last couple of months was this Glossy Lip Liner from MAC. It's [...] so creamy, with a very fine point. This shade is Velvet Teddy, it's just a beautiful neutral. I [...] really, really love this lip liner."
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"I actually bought three of them. I tried on the peachy one in my trying all new makeup video and it was perfect for the fall look that I was doing. I [...] was wearing like an orange sweater and this was perfect with it. This stays on all day and stays exactly where you put it. It doesn't migrate up into your lip lines. It doesn't dry down like a lot of these all-day lipsticks do where they dry down and make your lips feel and look so dry and cracked. This doesn't really set to a dry feeling."
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"I use every single night of my life and that is my Lineage Lip Sleeping Mask this is the best overnight lip moisturizer. I just butter up my lips with this at night and when I wake up in the morning it's still there. This really keeps my lips hydrated and feeling comfortable especially this time of year but I do use it all year round."
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"Then for the lipstick I'm going to put on the Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige. This is my favorite lipstick right now. I love this, I love the color, I love how creamy it is, I love how lux the bullet is, it's really beautiful. But look at that color, it's so pretty. And it doesn't dry out your lips and it doesn't settle into your lip crinkles, it doesn't settle into your upper lip lines. The lipstick has a lovely sheen to it."
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"I bought this one during Prime Day last year so exactly a year ago I'm not even finished yet I haven't even hit the bottom yet. It's about two-thirds of the way used so I still have like another third of the year to go with that."
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"I love this lip liner because this is a plumping lip liner from the drugstore. This is NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner in Pink Junction. And this is my favorite lip liner of the year. I love the shape of this lip liner. It's a rectangle, so it's wider in one way than it is the other. So it gives you the choice of doing a traditional lip liner or if you turn it the other way, you can fill in your lips really, really easily."
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How many lip products has HotandFlashy reviewed?

HotandFlashy has reviewed 46 lip products, for an approval rate of 72%. 33 approved, 7 mixed, and 6 skipped.

What has HotandFlashy skipped in lip?

The products she skipped tended to underdeliver on exactly what they promised. The NYX Lip Lingerie Lip Liner Stain was supposed to stain; she found it barely lasted five hours. The Ordinary Squalane + Amino Acids Lip Balm looked promising but she said it actually dried her lips out rather than hydrating them. The L'Oreal Plump Ambition Hyaluronic Lip Oil missed on staying power and hydration both. It is worth noting that most of what she tried earned her approval; these misses were genuinely the exception.

What should you take from HotandFlashy's picks?

If you are looking to shop her record on lip products, her named winners are a strong place to start. The NYX Duck Plump Plumping Lip Liner earned her top pick for liners, and the Anastasia Beverly Hills Satin Lipstick in Taupe Beige is the lipstick she calls her favourite right now. Her through-line is clear: she is after products that genuinely hydrate and hold their place, without drying the lips down or bleeding into fine lines.

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This guide reflects what HotandFlashy said across her videos about 46 products in lip, aggregated by The Guru Index. Sponsored takes are excluded. The approval rate is the share of these products she approved. It is general information, not medical advice.