Out of all beauty categories that exist, I’m the greediest about lip products. Sure, innovative skin-boosting serums and body scrubs and mascaras and fragrances come across my desk on the regular, but it’s the lipstick, glosses, and balms that I’ll bring home to hoard every single time.

Some of my favorites are from Violette_FR , the French beauty brand from makeup artist Violette Serrat. Her formulas are the epitome of Parisian-chic: think cream blush sticks that deliver a romantic flush and luxe metallic eyeshadow paint that doubles as liner. Though she has a few great lip products (including the Bisou Jelly, a shiny pigmented balm, and Petal Bouche , a long-wear matte liquid lip), the Bisou Balm has been my number one go-to lipstick since it launched — the blurred finis

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