Best Lipsticks for Medium Skin and Black Hair

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  • Warm Soft Orangey Brown
    $25
  • Neutral Medium Berry
    $25
  • Bronzey Plum Red
    $25

Why Are These Lipsticks Best For Medium Skin?

Medium skin tones have a wide range of undertones and depth. Susan, pictured here has neutral undertones and is on the lighter end of the medium skin tone spectrum. If your skin tone (and hair color) are similar to Susan’s, keep reading to learn the best lipsticks for your medium skin!

Medium neutral skin tones can easily look great in a variety of colors – congrats! So, to choose the best lipsticks to start with for your makeup bag, focus on your hair, eyes, and base lip color and maybe not as much about your skin…though it should still be considered. Start with buying a peachy-tan nude, a rosy shade, and a buildable berry. 

When choosing lipsticks for someone with a similar look as Susan, pictured here, we’re really focused on enhancing features.  Such as eyes, hair, base lip color, and skin color. The great thing about these lipstick shades is she’ll be able to wear them as her features change over time. Maybe with only slight adjustments to how bold the colors are worn.  As the lips fade, or the hair goes grey – wear these shades with more intensity.

Now, let’s talk base lip color, which is the color your lips are with nothing on them.  This is important because our lipsticks are designed to blend WITH your natural lip color not completely cover it up. So, these lipsticks will look different on someone who has a brown or pink base lip color, and may not be our first choices. 

Susan’s base lip color is a light purple so any lipstick she chooses may have a slight purple look to it. Knowing your base lip color allows you to find lipstick shades that are just a shade deeper for a “my-lips-but-better” look – the perfect everyday lipstick for looking pulled together without any effort.  That will be your timeless, classic, everyday shade. .


Checkout More Makeup For Medium Skin

You might be wondering what other makeup will look amazing on your medium skin. Below, you’ll find lip pencils that will pair perfectly with the best lipsticks for you, that we talked about above. We also included some glosses that would look AMAZING with those lipsticks but also beautiful worn alone. Blush is one of our favorite products, because it brings your face to life – and the shade M’Lady, is by far the best blush for medium skin! You could also get away with Gotta Glow (peachy pink universally flattering blush) or Tango (true matte peach – if you lean more toward an olive skin tone). Either way, your makeup bag will not be complete without blush – and we highly recommend a matte muted mauve blush shade, M’Lady.

  • Talc Free, Hypoallergenic & Buildable
    $25
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  • Enhance The Caramel Tones
    Original price was: $66.Current price is: $30.
  • Matte Neutral Quad
    Original price was: $66.Current price is: $30.
  • Matte Neutral Brown Quad
    Original price was: $66.Current price is: $30.
  • Neutral True Red
    $24
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    Warm Soft Tan
    $24
  • Semi-Sheer Cool Mid Pink
    $17
  • photo of Honey Badger lipgloss by red apple lipstick - a honey colored lip gloss
    Semi-Sheer Neutral Nude
    $17
  • photo of Berried Treasure Lip Gloss by Red Apple Lipstick - a berried color lip glossBerried Treasure Gluten Free Lip Gloss by Red Apple Lipstick
    Semi-Sheer Berry Shimmer
    $17

Why Should I Wear Red Apple Lipstick?

Because you’ve never worn a lipstick this good before. It glides on smooth and is ultra creamy and moisturizing – thousands of five star reviews, waiting for you to read. For 10 years, Red Apple has specialized in clean, vegan, cruelty free & gluten free makeup for lips, eyes, and cheeks. 

If you’re like us, you’ve been searching for makeup with just the right blend of high performance + quality ingredients + gluten free + cruelty free.  It can be tough to find (especially 10 years ago) so we created it. Then, we made sure it was free of animal bits for all our vegan friends.

So, if you’re new here – welcome! We love helping you find the perfect lipstick shades for your medium skin tone – and if you want more suggestions for lipsticks that are great for your skin tone – or makeup for your eyes & cheeks just email our beauty advisors, they’re standing by! 

You’ve found high performance, clean makeup formulated to minimize the risk of irritation to your skin.

We sourcequality ingredients for our makeup – and ensure that our suppliers do not test the raw ingredients on animals. We are Leaping Bunny certified, GMO free, Paraben Free & Gluten Free, to name a few.

You’ve found makeup that glides on smooth, nourishes your skin, lashes and lips – and is truly enjoyable to wear.  

You’ve found a company that cares about its customers.  We treat you, the way you would treat you! 

You’ve found Beauty You Can Believe In.  No more searching, no more guessing, no more buying products that you can’t return.

Start shopping with confidence! And if you need anything at all – contact our customer care team who is eager to help you!