Red lipstick is a classic look that can be worn by all for everyday makeup looks and glam looks alike. If you have olive skin, however, you may find that reds tend to be too bright, too dark, or generally wash you out. Here are our top picks for the best red lipstick for olive skin available on the market.
Size: 0.11 oz/ 3.4 g·ITEM: 2481919
Color: Elote - bright coral orange
$29.00
I’d agree with the color description but on my olive skin, it leans more pink. I think the packaging is unique and funky. ...It goes well with my medium olive skin tone.
What it is: A pigmented, longwear lipstick with a creamy vegan formula infused with aloe vera and avocado oil that leaves lips feeling nourished and hydrated.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
Benefits: Hydrating, Long-wearing
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: With a new look and vegan formula, this hydrating lipstick gives you high-impact, long-lasting color in a single swipe. The collection includes 35 Los Angeles-inspired shades from sheer pink and everyday nude to bold red in three moisturizing, vibrant finishes: cream, matte, and shine.
Size: 0.12 oz·ITEM: 2116820
Color: Red Carpet Red - ruby red
$47.50
Mrs. Kisses for olive skin tone...Mrs Kisses is the perfect color for my medium/tan olive skin tone. It looks so natural and the formula is just right. ...On my olive skin tone, this looks like a berry brown. It’s quite warm in tone.
What it is:
A matte lipstick that features a long-lasting, buildable, and hydrating formula
Size: 0.13 oz/ 3.9 mL·ITEM: 2362267
Color: Inspire - bright red (Selena's go-to shade)
$27.00
deep red...This is my second favorite color from the collection aside from heroic. Nice deep red and looks nice on olive skin...Beautiful packaging, amazing color and consistency. Very pretty on olive skin tones!
What it is: A weightless air-whipped lip cream that hugs lips with rich color and nourishing hydration that gives a soft velvety matte finish.
Formulation type: Liquid lipstick
Benefits: Hydrating
Ingredient Callouts: Free of sulfates SLS and SLES, parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, triclosan, and triclocarban, and contains less than one percent of synthetic fragrances. This product is also vegan and cruelty-free.
Size: 0.098 oz/ 2.8 g·ITEM: 2363083
Color: 03 Tang Thang - red orange
$35.50
A great moisturizing lipstick-balm...Many of these shades are great for olives and deeper skin tones. I love that about fenty products. ...Some of our skin tones love purple and not red!
What it is: An ultra-comfortable sheer lipstick with the perfect amount of nourishing color and shine that is available in a range of easy-to-wear shades for all.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens and phthalates. This product is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Slip Shine is a lightweight creamy lipstick that delivers sheer color and shine in a range of nudes to shimmer pops. The clinically-proven moisture-lock formula with pomegranate butter conditions your lips for instant poutier, fuller-looking lipsno mirror required.
Size: 0.03 oz/ 0.9g·ITEM: 2390284
Color: Red 0 - true red
$54.00
Vegan carmine red...I have a neutral light olive skin tone and this shows up as a medium retro red on me. ...This is THE most perfect red lipstick I’ve ever used. I bought it initially just to help support the vegan mission but ended up shoving aside all my other red lipsticks.
What it is: Hourglass introduces Red 0, a 100% vegan special edition shade featuring its namesake ingredient.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
Benefits: Long-wearing
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Red 0: A patent-pending vegan replacement for carmine.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, phthalates, mineral oil, sulfates SLS & SLES, and triclosan. It is also vegan, gluten-free, and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: Hourglass is proud to introduce Red 0, a patent-pending vegan replacement for carmine (the beauty industry’s go-to red pigment produced from crushed female insects). Red 0 gives this lipstick its brilliant red hue.
Size: 1 oz/ 3 g·ITEM: 2485464
Color: Thanks Its Mac! - taupey pink nude with silver pearl
$37.00
Best colour for pale skin...This is the best colour and texture of lipstick I have used. ...Everyone Needs a Mac Lipstick!...Love all Mac lipsticks. I purchased syrup and Thanks, it's Mac!
What it is: A lightweight raspberry seed- and extra-virgin olive oil-infused lipstick that delivers sheer and shiny color with a long-wear finish.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
What Else You Need to Know: This lipstick provides immediate and long-term moisture to condition lips quickly and over time, so lips are left looking fuller and healthier while feeling softer, smoother, and more supple. It also provides up to eight hours of long-wearing color for the best lasting lipstick.
Size: 0.1 oz / 3.7 g·ITEM: 2694560
Color: Fawn - peachy nude
$38.00
My color applied smoothly and is a blue based red but I feel it looked nice on my olive skin. ...Very creamy! Great for olive skin tone...Its really hard for me to find a red lipstick that works well with my olive skin tone and this really hit the nail on the head!
What it is: A clean, hydrating, satin cream plumping lipstick enriched with MAXI-LIP™ for clinically proven plumping benefits.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
Benefits: Hydrating, Plumping
Highlighted Ingredients:
- MAXI-LIP™: Improves lip condition, softness, comfort, and hydration.
- Jojoba Oil: Hydrates.
- Olive Oil: Hydrates and nourishes.
Ingredient Callouts: This product is vegan and cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This formula is 94 percent natural with saturated pigments and fortified with nourishing jojoba and olive oils for comfort, glide, creaminess, and hydration. Infused with MAXI-LIP™, lips are nourished and softened. With consistent use, lipstick is s
$48.00
great natural lippy colour for medium olive complexions...One of the best liquid lipsticks...Asianskin skin skin tones
What it is: A kiss-proof, transfer-proof, and waterproof liquid lipstick with up to 24 hours of weightless wear and rich, matte color.
Formulation Type: Liquid Lipstick
Benefits: Hydrating, Long-wearing
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, and triclosan.
What Else You Need to Know: This good-for-lips formula comes packed with nutrients like passionfruit oil, coconut oil, and shea butter for a comfortable, next-to-naked feel. No bleeding, no feathering, and no touch-ups needed.
Size: 0.16 oz. / 5 mL·ITEM: 2761328
Color: 66 Skin Deep - matte deep nude
$22.00
The color is stunning in olive skin...Did I really find the perfect black lipstick?? It's absolutely gorgeous. Goes on smooth and pigmented.
What it is: A bestselling, creamy, weightless, liquid lipstick that coats your lips in flawless color to become a transfer-proof, full-coverage, last-all-day stain.
Formulation Type: Lipstick
Benefits: Hydrating, Long wearing
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens, formaldehydes, formaldehyde-releasing agents, phthalates, mineral oil, retinyl palmitate, oxybenzone, coal tar, hydroquinone, sulfates SLS & SLES, triclocarban, triclosan, and contains less than one percent synthetic fragrance. It is also vegan, gluten-free, cruelty-free, and comes in recyclable packaging.
What Else You Need to Know: This creamy formula is formulated with avocado oil and transforms into a veil of soft, comfortable, velvet pigment, with
Size: 0.10 oz/ 3 mL·ITEM: 2478832
Color: Filler Up - muted mauve pink
$39.00
The perfect red!...This is a great liquid lipstick, color is perfect and the best part is that it hardly transfers at all once it dries down. ...I repurchased this liquid lipstick since I like the way it applies. It doesn’t bleed, doesn’t feel dry on lips and is perfect color for my warm olive ski tone.
What it is: A liquid lipstick that gives you maximum coverage in a demi-matte cream formula.
Formulation Type: Liquid Lipstick, Lip Plumper
Benefits: Long-wearing, Plumping
Highlighted Ingredients:
- Rosehip Oil and Pomegranate Flower: Provide nourishing moisture.
Ingredient Callouts: Free of parabens. It is also cruelty-free.
What Else You Need to Know: This liquid lipstick gives lips a volumized look and drenches them in super-saturated, long-wearing color. It contains a lip-conditioning blend of rose hip oil and pomegranate flower for nourishing moisture and ultra-comfortable, all-day wear. The formula is also non-feathering/-bleeding and non-drying.