Lip plumper that actually plumps

Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme has the best record here: 36 of 45 reviewers who mentioned plumping said their lips looked fuller. Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm follows at 34 of 47. The other five sit a little above half, so with any of them you have a real chance of seeing little change.

  • 351 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Aug 2012 to Oct 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it plump? What buyers said
  1. Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Plumper 45 said either way
  2. Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm 47 said either way
  3. Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Heat 44 said either way
  4. NYX Duck Plump 27 said either way
  5. Too Faced Lip Injection Maximum Plump 47 said either way
  6. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Polish 17 said either way
  7. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream 15 said either way

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

Best record Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Plumper 36 of 45 say it plumps Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Too Faced shows up twice and the results differ a lot. Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme sits at 80% and the travel size Too Faced Lip Injection Maximum Plump at 51%.

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

Too Faced

Lip Injection Extreme Lip Plumper

Best for a visible plump

36/45 say it plumps

63% of its reviews mention visibly fuller lips, and 16% call the tingle tolerable. The trade-off is that 12% say it burns too much and 11% call it drying.

What buyers praise

  • Tingle is tolerable 16%
  • Nice tints 16%
  • Nice gloss 14%
  • Hydrating 7%
  • Effect lasts 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Burns too much 12%
  • Drying 11%
  • Effect fades fast 9%
  • Too expensive 9%
  • Scent or taste 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 12 of 18
  • Sephora 24 of 27
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light5 of 5
  • Light-medium to medium6 of 9
By age (reviewers who gave one)
  • Under 4012 of 14
  • 40 and over3 of 4
2

Charlotte Tilbury

Big Lip Plumpgasm

Best for tint and plump

34/47 say it plumps

A tinted plumper that reviewers like for color, with 42% praising the shades. Price comes up often, as 25% call it too expensive.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 42%
  • Tingle is tolerable 25%
  • Nice gloss 21%
  • Hydrating 8%
  • Good value 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 25%
  • Effect fades fast 6%
  • Burns too much 6%
  • Drying 4%
  • Sticky 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 13 of 21
  • Sephora 21 of 26
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Normal3 of 4
  • Oily3 of 4
  • Combination1 of 3
  • Dry3 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light5 of 8
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 6
By age (reviewers who gave one)
  • Under 405 of 5
  • 40 and over4 of 6
3

Fenty Beauty

Gloss Bomb Heat

Best for glossy color

25/44 say it plumps

Color is the draw, with 51% of reviews praising the shades. On plumping it is mixed, as 19 of 44 reviewers who mentioned it saw little of it.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 51%
  • Nice gloss 20%
  • Hydrating 15%
  • Tingle is tolerable 8%
  • Effect lasts 8%

What buyers complain about

  • Burns too much 15%
  • Scent or taste 7%
  • Too expensive 3%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 11 of 20
  • Sephora 14 of 24
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light1 of 3
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 5

Share of 59 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

4

NYX

Duck Plump

15/27 say it plumps

33% of its reviews say it burns too much and 40% say they saw little plumping. Ranked on Ulta reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 30%
  • Effect lasts 17%
  • Nice gloss 13%
  • Tingle is tolerable 7%
  • Good value 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Burns too much 33%
  • Drying 10%
  • Scent or taste 7%
  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 15 of 27

Share of 30 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

5

Too Faced

Lip Injection Maximum Plump

24/47 say it plumps

Reviewed here as the travel size. 23 of 47 reviewers who brought up plumping saw little of it, the weakest record here, and 14% say it burns too much.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 28%
  • Tingle is tolerable 11%
  • Nice gloss 7%
  • Effect lasts 7%
  • Hydrating 4%

What buyers complain about

  • Burns too much 14%
  • Effect fades fast 9%
  • Too expensive 7%
  • Scent or taste 4%
  • Drying 4%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 9 of 22
  • Sephora 15 of 25
  • Brand site 1 of 1 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Normal3 of 7
  • Dry3 of 4
  • Oily1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light6 of 10
  • Light-medium to medium2 of 5

Share of 57 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6

Buxom

Full-On Plumping Lip Polish

10/17 say it plumps

Ranked on Ulta reviews alone. 44% of its reviews praise the tints and 20% call the tingle tolerable.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 44%
  • Tingle is tolerable 20%
  • Nice gloss 12%
  • Effect lasts 8%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 8%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 10 of 17

Share of 25 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

7

Buxom

Full-On Plumping Lip Cream

9/15 say it plumps

A cream formula where 48% of reviews praise the tints, though 16% call it too expensive. Ranked on Ulta reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Nice tints 48%
  • Tingle is tolerable 24%
  • Nice gloss 12%
  • Effect lasts 12%
  • Good value 8%

What buyers complain about

  • Too expensive 16%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 9 of 15

Share of 25 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 19,885 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for plumping and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Aug 2012 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 (0 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.

Skin type, skin tone and age splits use what reviewers chose on Sephora's review form (and age on Ulta's when given). We only show a split when enough reviewers fall on each side.

Amazon buttons appear only on products that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else gets no buy link.

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. Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Plumper Ulta (57 reviews counted)
  2. Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm Ulta and Sephora (52 reviews counted)
  3. Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Heat Ulta and Sephora (59 reviews counted)
  4. NYX Duck Plump Ulta (30 reviews counted)
  5. Too Faced Lip Injection Maximum Plump Ulta and Sephora (57 reviews counted)
  6. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Polish Ulta (25 reviews counted)
  7. Buxom Full-On Plumping Lip Cream Ulta (25 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. Lip Plumpers That Work? I Don’t Need Filler, But Want Some Extra Oomph. How Is This One? r/Sephora, Feb 2023, 164 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which lip plumper actually plumps?

By these reviews, Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme (36 of 45) and Charlotte Tilbury Big Lip Plumpgasm (34 of 47). The rest sit lower, with Fenty Beauty Gloss Bomb Heat at 25 of 44.

Does Fenty Gloss Bomb Heat plump?

Sometimes. 25 of 44 reviewers who mentioned plumping said it does, and 15% of its reviews say it burns too much.

Is the Too Faced Maximum Plump travel size as good as the full-size Extreme?

Not by these reviews. The Maximum Plump travel size is at 24 of 47, while Lip Injection Extreme is at 36 of 45.

Do lip plumpers burn?

Many tingle and some sting. 33% of NYX Duck Plump reviews say it burns too much, and 12% say the same of Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme. Our page on plumpers that don't burn covers that side.

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