Is Maybelline Lifter Lip Liner worth it?

Yes. All 3 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 85%.

What is Maybelline Lifter Lip Liner's Guru Score?

Maybelline Lifter Lip Liner holds a Guru Score of 85%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 3 expert reviewers we have collected. At least one expert has named it a Top Pick in its category.

Maybelline

Lifter Lip Liner.

Lip

About this product

A smooth, creamy lip liner pencil available in multiple shades, designed to define and enhance the lips.

Full ingredients

Isododecane, Synthetic Wax, Polybutene, Trimethylsiloxysilicate, Sucrose Tetrastearate Triacetate, Isoamyl Laurate, Silica, Hydrogenated Jojoba Oil, Cetearyl Behenate, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-Di-T-Butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Kaolin, Trihydroxystearin, Sodium Hyaluronate, Colophonium/Rosin/Colophane

Guru Score

85%

Yay

3 experts · Moderate agreement

3Gurus

3Yay

0Mixed

0Nay

What they liked

Glides on smoothly and gently
Stays put after it sets
Creamy texture adds dimension to lips

What they flagged

Requires a light hand or will break

What the gurus are saying

The pencil glides on so smoothly and gently that it barely feels like anything on the lip, earning consistent praise for its effortless application. The shade range wins real fans too, with reviewers calling out specific colors and noting there is genuinely something for most people across roughly ten options. Both gurus who have tried them rate these among the best drugstore lip liners available.

Synthesized from 3 expert reviews · most recent take April 2025

Type

LipPencil

Key actives

Hyaluronic acid

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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What the gurus are saying.

Every take we've logged from this product's reviews across YouTube. Click any row to watch the moment they said it.

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Robert Welsh

1.11M subs

✓Yay

"That Glides smoothly like I hardly even felt that on my lip. That is a really beautiful pencil that Glides on so smoothly so gently. [...] I'm very very impressed. I have quite a few shades of these. Do I think this is overhyped? I do not. I actually think that's really beautiful. That's really nice."

AliceintheRabbitHole

59k subs

✓Yay

"This is the Maybelline Lifter Liner in the shade Line Leader. I actually thought I was going to hate it the first time I tried it because it is so absurdly creamy, so you have to have a light hand or it is going to break on you. I also thought there was no way it would stay on since it feels like a lipstick, but even though it goes on super creamy, once you wait a few minutes and let it set, it does not move. It floored me."

Allie Glines

829k subs

✓Yay

"The Maybelline Lifter Lip Liners are by far my favorite lip liners at the drugstore. These are so beautiful. The shade range is incredible. My personal favorites are On It and Big Lift, which are number seven. Big Lift has that beautiful kind of mauvey undertone, and then On It is also so pretty. I really really love both these colors so much, but you really can't go wrong with any of them. They come in I think 10 shades. They're so good though, I really love them."

Top Pick: drugstore lip liners

All 10 takes from Allie Glines

Easy Everyday Fall Makeup (Mostly Drugstore)

"I've got a couple lip liner options to choose from here. I'm kind of deciding between this Maybelline Lifter Liner which has a slightly more rosy tone to it or the Sephora liner in the shade Dressed to the '90s which is a little bit more brown. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to go with the first one. This is the Maybelline Lifter Liner in the shade Big Lift. I feel like fall makeup blends itself to great lip combos so I'm going to go a little heavier on the lip liner."

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"Diese sind so unglaublich. Die Formel ist fantastisch."

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"I'm really excited to try more of the Maybelline lip liners. I just feel like cool tone lip liners no matter what lipstick you're wearing, even if it's a bright one or a warmer one, I just like having a little bit of a sculpt to the lips anyway. I love how my look turned out."

The Makeup I'm Thankful For This Year 🥹

"I am so thankful for the Maybelline Lifter Liners, this is one that I fell in love with this year and I really really love the formula. These dry down very fast."

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"I have the Maybelline Lifter Lip Liner and this stuff is so, the color out of this world is so pretty. I just love a good cool tone lip liner because I feel like it just sculpts out the lips like nothing else."

My Exact Everyday Makeup Right Now 🥰

"I'll usually just take a lip liner. Today, I'm going to use this Maybelline Lifter Liner in the shade Line Leader. We'll just do a nice little line and partial fill with this."

My 5-Minute, Effortless Everyday Makeup

"This one is from Maybelline, it's called Lifter Lip Liner. I just barely got this and I just love how closely it matches my lip color. I feel like lip liner is something I prioritize in a 5 minute look. I just think it makes things look more polished."

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"I am so obsessed with these. I am a lip liner connoisseur. I tried every lip liner from Chanel all the way to Nyx. I love so many different formulas but these, this formula, these lip liners, these colors, I can't get enough of them. They come in 10 shades and they are absolutely insane. I love them so much. I bought three shades and I'm in love with all three. It's a PSA. You guys have to try these."

The BEST Makeup & Skincare from June 2024!! 😍

"I've been absolutely obsessed with the Maybelline Lifter Lip Liners. My top three shades are numbers five, six, and seven. To me I feel like you need all of them if you have a similar taste in lip liners. Shade five is what I have all over the lips today, I love that for more like a nude look. Then we have shade Line Leader, which I love for more of an everyday look because this just kind of enhances my natural lip color really beautifully. It's very soft and subtle. And then Big Lift is gorgeous for those cool-toned lip looks. These are by far my faves. The formula is insane, it's to die for."