Finally, the Answer to What Red Lipstick Taylor Swift Is Always Wearing

There is however one lingering query that comes to thoughts post-Taylor Swift’s NFL appearances (moreover, um, “Anyone else also alarmingly invested in this Travis Kelce thing?”), and that’s about her red lipstick. Google searches for the actual hue she wears are reportedly up 669 % since she was first noticed at the Kansas City Chiefs sport at the begin of the season — and fan tweets are alive and effectively, from the “not me wearing red lipstick again” to the “TAYLOR IF YOU DON’T RELEASE A RED LIPSTICK LINE IN MY LIFETIME ILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU” — which might solely affirm one factor: the folks need solutions.

It’s a contented coincidence that the Chiefs’s signature coloration is purple, supplying Swift with ample alternatives to put on the daring shade whereas hanging in a field with Kelce’s mother, simply as she did for the Super Bowl on Feb. 11 in Las Vegas.

The extra difficult actuality is that Swift has been carrying purple lipstick since the moment she hit the music scene — the one fixed on this ever-changing world, if you’ll — that means she’s had various favorites on rotation over the years. There’s MAC Ruby Woo ($23), the traditional shade she confirmed she cherished to People in 2015. There’s additionally the Nars Matte Lip Pencil in Dragon Girl ($30), which has been a staple for the star for years.

These days, in accordance to her most up-to-date make-up artist, the one and solely Pat McGrath, the star has been carrying the LiquiLust Legendary Wear Matte Lipstick ($34) and the MatteTrance Lipstick ($39) from her eponymous model, Pat McGrath Labs. The shade, must you have an interest, is Elson. The formula is also editor-approved and guarantees to be smudgeproof, which, if you happen to’ve been watching video footage of that “Tayvis” kiss in Argentina on repeat (and let’s be actual: who is not?) you will know this truth is of the upmost significance.

Otherwise, in the previous Swift’s longtime make-up artist Lorrie Turk has additionally shared a handful of purple lipstick favorites that could possibly be a superb indicator of what she makes use of regularly, together with, however not restricted to: Patrick Ta Major Beauty Headlines Lipstick in That’s Why She’s Late ($32), Fenty Beauty Stunna Lip Paint Longwear Fluid Lip Color in Uncensored ($29), and Lisa Eldridge True Velvet Lipstick in Velvet Ribbon ($36).

As with most issues the singer touches, there’s additionally loads of on-line fodder and hypothesis from followers on whether or not her her lipstick of alternative offers a nod to her best friend Selena Gomez’s beauty line, Rare Beauty. The punchy, cool-toned purple and matte end of the Rare Beauty Lip Soufflé Matte Cream Lipstick in Inspire ($20) seems prefer it might be a spot-on match, so it is actually a contender.

Only time will inform which of the above lipstick(s) was used throughout her date nights with Sophie Turner and, ahem, others. In the meantime, we’ll be sipping our caramel nonfat latte from Starbucks in a black turtleneck, patiently ready.

Kelsey Castañon is a Brooklyn-based author, editor, and content material strategist with greater than 13 years of expertise in publishing. She is presently the senior content material director at PS, the place yow will discover her stockpiling (and reporting on) every little thing from skincare to wine. Previously, she’s labored with the good minds at Refinery29, Seventeen, Shape, Allure, and Teen Vogue, and has appeared on TV segments on The Dr. Oz Show, Cheddar News, and Good Morning America. She nonetheless would not know the place all the bobby pins go.