I like to think about lip oil as lip gloss’s more health-conscious twin: She goes mountaineering. She eats vegan. She practices self-care. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t prefer to dress up and party.

The lip oils of 2023 aren’t only a treatment you place on before bed or running to the food market. Many modern formulas create the effect of an attention grabbing lip gloss while giving your lips a pillowy softness. The web’s favorite right away is the Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil. The thrill is real on TikTok and Instagram — but so is the oil’s $38 price tag — so we asked, is it the game-changer the girlies say it’s?

In This Story

• Overview
• Ingredients and Formulation
• How I Tested It
• My Honest Thoughts
• Before and After
• Pricing and Value
• Where to Buy It

The Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil does all of it: It looks like a lip gloss and acts like a treatment. Its formula is slick, non-sticky, and is available in seven sheer hues to impart a your-lips-but-better tint. (There’s also a transparent version you’ll be able to try, if that is more your speed.) It has a delicious, vanilla-mint scent — one which makes me wish it was formulated to depart behind a slight tingle.

Dior Addict Lip Glow is swirled with cherry oil, which cosmetic chemist Ginger King says helps nourish dry lips. “[Cherry oil] is wealthy in essential fatty acids, vitamin E, and phytosterols,” she says. “It’s also an antioxidant and has anti-inflammatory properties.”

King goes on to say that the oil’s slick and thick consistency is due to a mix of hydrogenated polyisobutene, glutamate, and styrene polymers. Its color-changing magic is from D&C Red 27, which turns pink when it comes involved with moisture.

Latest York City-based makeup artist and creator Delina Medhin likes the formula since it’s “sheer and feels cozy.” She says its comfortable texture is a bonus for when she is applying it on her clients (and even using it on herself).

The important thing ingredient within the Dior Addict Lip Glow Oil is cherry oil (an emollient). This formula meets the Allure Clean Standard.

I tested the lip oil one of the simplest ways I knew how — by putting it on when my lips were feeling particularly parched. I swept it on before I began my work day and immediately saw its color payoff. (It was ever-so-slight, but flattering.) I kept it on to evaluate how well it hydrated my lips throughout the day.

Your complete experience of applying Dior Lip Glow is satisfying. Its doe-foot applicator has a chubby, rounded tip that comes out of the tube with a stunning squish. Gliding it on feels extra smooth and it leaves my lips looking juicy.