Lip gloss that isn't sticky

Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Jelly and NYX Professional Makeup Butter Gloss are the glosses reviewers most often call non-sticky: 38 of 40 and 35 of 38. Huda Beauty Faux Filler Lip Gloss and Lancôme Lip Idôle JuicyTreat Oil-in-Gloss follow. Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Universal Lip Luminizer misses our top 7 at 24 of 38.

  • 355 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Apr 2020 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Is it sticky? What buyers said
  1. Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Jelly 40 said either way
  2. NYX Professional Makeup Butter Gloss 38 said either way
  3. Huda Beauty Faux Filler Lip Gloss 20 said either way
  4. Lancôme Lip Idôle JuicyTreat Oil-in-Gloss 41 said either way
  5. Dior Addict Lip Maximizer 17 said either way
  6. Sephora Collection Ultra Shine Lip Gloss 40 said either way
  7. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Polish 62 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for stickiness. Ranked by the lower bound of a 90% confidence interval, so a product needs both a good share and enough reports to rank high.

The ranking, product by product

Praise and complaints are the points buyers repeat most, shown as a share of each product's counted store reviews.

1

Tower 28

ShineOn Lip Jelly

Best for hydration

38/40 say it isn't sticky

52% say it feels comfortable and hydrating, the most of any gloss here. The top complaint is that it wears off fast (15%).

What buyers praise

  • Flattering color 57%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 53%
  • Glossy shine 38%
  • Good value 10%
  • Lasts a while 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Wears off fast 15%
  • Unpleasant scent or taste 8%
  • Leaks or bad applicator 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 38 of 40
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination17 of 18
  • Dry6 of 6
2

NYX Professional Makeup

Butter Gloss

Best for a drugstore budget

35/38 say it isn't sticky

29% call it good value. The top complaint is that it wears off fast (18%).

What buyers praise

  • Flattering color 42%
  • Good value 29%
  • Glossy shine 21%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 16%
  • Lasts a while 11%

What buyers complain about

  • Wears off fast 18%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 35 of 38
3

Huda Beauty

Faux Filler Lip Gloss

Best for shine

19/20 say it isn't sticky

Ranked on 20 Sephora reviews. 40% praise the shine, the most of any gloss here.

What buyers praise

  • Glossy shine 40%
  • Flattering color 35%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 20%
  • Pleasant scent or taste 20%
  • Lasts a while 10%

What buyers complain about

No repeated complaints yet.

Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 19 of 20
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination8 of 8
  • Dry3 of 3
4

Lancôme

Lip Idôle JuicyTreat Oil-in-Gloss

Best for color

37/41 say it isn't sticky

59% like the color and 51% say it feels comfortable.

What buyers praise

  • Flattering color 59%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 51%
  • Glossy shine 29%
  • Plumps lips 24%
  • Pleasant scent or taste 22%

What buyers complain about

  • Wears off fast 7%
  • Unpleasant scent or taste 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 37 of 41
5

Dior

Addict Lip Maximizer

15/17 say it isn't sticky

Ranked on 17 Ulta reviews. On Dior's own site, 22 of 22 say it isn't sticky, which we show but don't count. 29% mention the price.

What buyers praise

  • Flattering color 47%
  • Lasts a while 35%
  • Glossy shine 35%
  • Plumps lips 29%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 24%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 29%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 15 of 17
  • Brand site 22 of 22 shown, not counted
6

Sephora Collection

Ultra Shine Lip Gloss

30/40 say it isn't sticky

30% praise the shine and 25% the price.

What buyers praise

  • Flattering color 38%
  • Glossy shine 30%
  • Good value 25%
  • Lasts a while 23%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 18%

What buyers complain about

  • Hair sticks to it 5%
  • Wears off fast 5%
  • Leaks or bad applicator 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 30 of 40
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination17 of 22
  • Dry8 of 8
  • Oily1 of 5
  • Normal3 of 4
See it at Sephora

Share of 40 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

7

Buxom

Full-On Plumping Lip Polish

Best for plumping

39/62 say it isn't sticky

41% say it plumps, the most of any gloss here, but 23 of 62 reviewers who mentioned stickiness found it sticky.

What buyers praise

  • Plumps lips 41%
  • Flattering color 41%
  • Lasts a while 19%
  • Pleasant scent or taste 16%
  • Comfortable, hydrating 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 9%
  • Thick or goopy 6%
  • Wears off fast 3%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 16 of 22
  • Sephora 23 of 40
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination13 of 22
  • Dry6 of 7
  • Normal1 of 6
  • Oily3 of 4

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 81,951 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for stickiness and read the newest matching reviews, up to 40 per product and store, posted between Apr 2020 and Oct 2026.

A review counts only when the reviewer used the product themselves. We drop reviews written in exchange for a free product or a sweepstakes entry (141 on this page), and products that are no longer sold.

Ulta also shows reviews first posted on brands' own websites. They run much more positive than store reviews of the same products (across 19 products with both, 76% of brand-site reviewers said the product solved the problem, against 55% of Ulta shoppers), so we show them on product cards but never count them.

Because we searched for the problem, people who had it are overrepresented. Compare products with each other rather than reading a share as your own odds.

An AI model labels each review against a fixed list of points, and we spot-check the labels before publishing. We publish counts and link to the product pages, never the reviews themselves.

Read the full method

Product pages we read

  1. Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Jelly Sephora (40 reviews counted)
  2. NYX Professional Makeup Butter Gloss Ulta (38 reviews counted)
  3. Huda Beauty Faux Filler Lip Gloss Sephora (20 reviews counted)
  4. Lancôme Lip Idôle JuicyTreat Oil-in-Gloss Ulta (41 reviews counted)
  5. Dior Addict Lip Maximizer Ulta (17 reviews counted)
  6. Sephora Collection Ultra Shine Lip Gloss Sephora (40 reviews counted)
  7. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Polish Ulta, Sephora (64 reviews counted)

Questions buyers ask

What lip gloss is least sticky?

In these reviews, Tower 28 ShineOn Lip Jelly (38 of 40) and NYX Professional Makeup Butter Gloss (35 of 38).

Is Fenty Gloss Bomb sticky?

For a good share of reviewers, yes: 14 of 38 who brought up stickiness said it's sticky on them, which keeps it out of our top 7.

Is NYX Butter Gloss sticky?

Rarely, by these reviews: 35 of 38 Ulta reviewers who mentioned stickiness said it isn't sticky. The more common complaint is that it wears off fast.

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