I try roughly 60 lipsticks a year. This would be a lot for the average person, but for a beauty editor, it’s actually on the low end. I test about five lipsticks a month, sometimes more, mentally grading them for feel, durability, color, moisture, and, most important, the number of compliments I receive while wearing them. And right now, my teacher’s pet is Sunnies Face, a newish beauty brand from the Philippines that’s receiving really high marks.
I first learned about the brand from makeup artist friends who enthused about the formula on Instagram. Robin Black of Beauty Is Boring gushed, “This is my dream lipstick — light-as-air formula, nondrying, totally opaque with a single coat, and the finish is the perfect, powdery matte. It even fades away gracefully, leaving a pretty stain.” And makeup artist Meghan Nguy said, “The texture is unlike any other. It’s pillowy and soft and it’s something you want to apply and keep reapplying.”
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The brand’s Fluffmatte lipsticks are becoming a sensation (Christina Aguilera and Amandla Stenberg have worn them). The five founders — Martine Ho, Georgina Wilson, Jess Wilson, Bea Soriano-Dee, and Eric Dee — tirelessly tested over 22 formulas and 350 colors to come up with the final product, which feels sumptuously velvety. The colors are incredibly pigmented; you need just a single swipe to make your lips look fuller and more rich. They’re a great dupe for Chanel Beauty’s Rouge Allure Velvet.
My favorite is Hot Sauce, a eye-brightening tomato red that makes me forget about my dark circles and earned me two compliments from just walking down a hallway. Sunnies also has a new nude-based shade range which includes names like Milk Tea and Baby Spice. And each lipstick is priced at roughly $7.
The only terrible thing is that Sunnies Face lipsticks aren’t for sale in the U.S. I know, I’m sorry. You can use the PNYBeauty site to buy them, and with shipping, it comes out to about $20 dollars a lipstick — which is still worth it, in my opinion. Fingers crossed that Sunnies Face blesses us soon with free shipping.