There's a specific kind of beauty fatigue that sets in somewhere around 3pm: your lipstick has migrated to your coffee cup, your lip liner has gone AWOL, and reapplying feels like more admin than your actual to-do list. Enter the lip stain marker - the format that's quietly taken over beauty routines and group chats because it solves exactly that problem, and does it for less than the price of a meal deal.
Stains and tints have become one of the defining textures in beauty over the past couple of years, edging out even the best long-lasting lipsticks for their lighter and long-wearing formulas. The appeal is obvious - a stain sinks into the skin rather than sitting on top of it, so there's no ring left behind on glasses, no obvious top-up required, and no harsh line to blend when it starts to wear off, because it simply fades rather than flaking.
