Lipstick that doesn't transfer

Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink has the best record: 15 of 15 reviewers who mentioned transfer said it doesn't, all of them at Ulta. NYX Shine Loud Liquid Lipstick follows at 20 of 22. At the other end, Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick has the weakest record here at 35 of 53.

  • 257 store reviews counted
  • Ulta and Sephora shoppers
  • Apr 2018 to Sep 2026

Updated . How we count

Does it transfer? What buyers said
  1. Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink 15 said either way
  2. NYX Shine Loud Liquid Lipstick 22 said either way
  3. KVD Beauty Everlasting Liquid Lipstick 30 said either way
  4. Smashbox Always On Liquid Lipstick 30 said either way
  5. MAC Locked Kiss Ink Lipstick 12 said either way
  6. Anastasia Beverly Hills Smudge-Proof Liquid Lipstick 28 said either way
  7. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick 53 said either way

Share of reviewers who stated an outcome for transfer. 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 Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink 15 of 15 say it doesn't transfer Check price on Amazon
What stands out

Several of these don't fully hold up. 48% of Anastasia Beverly Hills Smudge-Proof Liquid Lipstick reviews and 38% of Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick reviews still mention transfer.

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

Maybelline

SuperStay Matte Ink

15/15 say it doesn't transfer

15 of 15 Ulta reviewers who weighed in said it doesn't transfer, a small but clean sample. 25% also call it comfortable, and 12% find it sticky.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 56%
  • Comfortable, not drying 25%
  • Strong color payoff 19%
  • Good shade range 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Sticky or heavy 13%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 15 of 15

How often it comes up: about 1 in 41 of this product's 18,891 store reviews mention transfer.

2

NYX

Shine Loud Liquid Lipstick

20/22 say it doesn't transfer

A high-shine formula rather than a matte, and 87% of its reviews say it doesn't transfer. 13% say it's hard to take off and 13% mention cracks, and it is ranked on Ulta reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 48%
  • Comfortable, not drying 22%
  • Good value 13%
  • Strong color payoff 13%

What buyers complain about

  • Hard to take off 13%
  • Cracks or flakes 13%
  • Fades patchy or leaves a ring 9%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 20 of 22

How often it comes up: about 1 in 12 of this product's 2,549 store reviews mention transfer.

3

KVD Beauty

Everlasting Liquid Lipstick

23/30 say it doesn't transfer

37% call it comfortable and 30% praise the color payoff, but 30% still say it transfers. Ranked on Sephora reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 43%
  • Comfortable, not drying 37%
  • Strong color payoff 30%
  • Good value 10%

What buyers complain about

  • Bleeds or feathers 7%
  • Doesn't last 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 23 of 30
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination9 of 12
  • Dry8 of 10
  • Oily4 of 5
  • Normal2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light16 of 21
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 5
  • Medium-tan to tan2 of 4

How often it comes up: about 1 in 18 of this product's 15,301 store reviews mention transfer.

See it at Sephora

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

4

Smashbox

Always On Liquid Lipstick

23/30 say it doesn't transfer

Results split by skin type. 11 of 13 with combination skin said it doesn't transfer, against 3 of 7 with dry skin, and 17% call it drying. Ranked on Sephora reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 37%
  • Comfortable, not drying 33%
  • Strong color payoff 27%
  • Doesn't bleed or feather 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out lips 17%
  • Doesn't last 13%
  • Too expensive 7%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 23 of 30
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination11 of 13
  • Dry3 of 7
  • Oily5 of 6
  • Normal4 of 4
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light13 of 17
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 6
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 12 of this product's 2,770 store reviews mention transfer.

5

MAC

Locked Kiss Ink Lipstick

10/12 say it doesn't transfer

10 of 12 said it doesn't transfer, but 42% of its reviews say it doesn't last and 25% say it's too expensive. On MAC's own site 7 of 8 say it doesn't transfer, which we show but don't count.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 33%
  • Comfortable, not drying 17%

What buyers complain about

  • Doesn't last 42%
  • Too expensive 25%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 10 of 12
  • Brand site 7 of 8 shown, not counted

How often it comes up: about 1 in 6 of this product's 887 store reviews mention transfer.

See it at Ulta

Share of 12 store reviews that mention each point. A full bar is 50%.

6

Anastasia Beverly Hills

Smudge-Proof Liquid Lipstick

20/28 say it doesn't transfer

8 of 28 reviewers who mentioned transfer said it transfers, and 28% call it drying. Ranked on Sephora reviews alone.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 41%
  • Comfortable, not drying 21%
  • Strong color payoff 17%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out lips 28%
  • Cracks or flakes 17%
  • Doesn't last 14%
  • Sticky or heavy 10%
Where buyers said it
  • Sephora 20 of 28
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination12 of 16
  • Dry5 of 7
  • Oily2 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light8 of 13
  • Light-medium to medium4 of 6
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 3
  • Deep3 of 3

How often it comes up: about 1 in 16 of this product's 4,344 store reviews mention transfer.

7

Stila

Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick

35/53 say it doesn't transfer

The most reviewers weighed in on this one, 53 in all. It has the weakest record here, as 18 of them said it transfers, and 20% call it drying.

What buyers praise

  • Lasts through eating and drinking 45%
  • Comfortable, not drying 25%
  • Strong color payoff 24%
  • Doesn't bleed or feather 7%

What buyers complain about

  • Dries out lips 20%
  • Doesn't last 18%
  • Too expensive 7%
  • Sticky or heavy 7%
  • Cracks or flakes 5%
Where buyers said it
  • Ulta 13 of 23
  • Sephora 22 of 30
  • Brand site 1 of 1 shown, not counted
By skin type (Sephora reviewers)
  • Combination11 of 16
  • Dry6 of 7
  • Oily4 of 4
  • Normal1 of 3
By skin tone (Sephora reviewers)
  • Fair to light13 of 17
  • Light-medium to medium5 of 8
  • Medium-tan to tan3 of 4

How often it comes up: about 1 in 26 of this product's 8,954 store reviews mention transfer.

Where these numbers come from

The 7 products ranked here carry 53,696 reviews at Ulta and Sephora. We searched them for transfer and read the newest matching reviews, up to 30 per product and store, posted between Apr 2018 and Sep 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 Amazon sells from the brand and that most reviewers here say fix the problem (at least 60%, with enough reviews to trust it). Everything else links to the store page, unpaid.

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. Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink Ulta (16 reviews counted)
  2. NYX Shine Loud Liquid Lipstick Ulta (23 reviews counted)
  3. KVD Beauty Everlasting Liquid Lipstick Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  4. Smashbox Always On Liquid Lipstick Sephora (30 reviews counted)
  5. MAC Locked Kiss Ink Lipstick Ulta (12 reviews counted)
  6. Anastasia Beverly Hills Smudge-Proof Liquid Lipstick Sephora (29 reviews counted)
  7. Stila Stay All Day Liquid Lipstick Ulta (55 reviews counted)

People asking about it on Reddit

  1. Lipstick that doesn’t transfer/Kiss Proof r/Makeup, Dec 2022, 50 comments
  2. Transfer Proof Lipsticks? r/MakeupAddictionCanada, Apr 2023, 22 comments
  3. What is the most transfer proof and long wearing lipstick in you would recommend ? r/beauty, Mar 2022, 28 comments

Questions buyers ask

Which lipstick doesn't transfer?

Maybelline SuperStay Matte Ink has the best record (15 of 15), followed by NYX Shine Loud Liquid Lipstick (20 of 22). Both are ranked on Ulta reviews alone, so the sample is smaller than it looks.

Does Stila Stay All Day transfer?

For a lot of buyers, yes. 18 of 53 reviewers who mentioned transfer said it transfers, and 18% say it doesn't last.

Does MAC Locked Kiss Ink transfer?

Rarely, by these reviews. 10 of 12 said it doesn't, though 42% say it doesn't last.

Does Anastasia Beverly Hills Smudge-Proof really not transfer?

Often it does. 8 of 28 reviewers who mentioned transfer said it transfers, and 17% mention cracking.

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