BAZAAR Beauty Awards 2024: Best Eye and Lip Makeup

The final touches of a makeup look are often the most defining. Eyeliners frame the eyes, mascaras enhance lash length and curl, while lipsticks and tints add colour and vibrancy to complete your look. These small but impactful steps bring dimension and character to the face, accentuating features and allowing personal expression. Whether you prefer subtle enhancement or bold statements, these award-winning products are designed to elevate your beauty routine.

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Winner: Best Single Eyeshadow

Caviar Eye Stick Eye Shadow Matte, $56, Laura Mercier

Laura Mercier’s Caviar Eye Stick Eye Shadow Matte offers high-impact colour in a smooth, effortless formula. Designed for all-day wear, this eyeshadow glides onto lids without tugging, providing 24-hour waterproof, crease-proof, and transfer-proof coverage. Available in 12 shades—from versatile nudes to striking rusts—this dermatologist- and ophthalmologist-tested formula suits all skin tones and is ideal for contact lens wearers.

Winner: Best Eyeshadow Palette

Mothership XI Eye Shadow Palette, $202, Pat McGrath Labs

This palette from Pat McGrath Labs offers a spectrum of hues, from warm coral shimmers and nude mattes to sparkling plum and gleaming red metallics, allowing you to create looks ranging from soft and romantic to bold and dramatic. The richly pigmented, silky formulas blend seamlessly, ensuring multidimensional brilliance with every application.

Standout shades like Astral Pink Fetish and Blitz Crimson Ecstasy add striking intensity, while metallics like Hypnotic Bronze provide luminous depth. Whether sculpting, illuminating, or accentuating, this palette delivers radiant, high-impact colour for any occasion.

Winner: Best Eyeliner

Signature de Chanel, $57, Chanel

Chanel’s Signature de Chanel eyeliner pen delivers precise, long-lasting colour that effortlessly enhances any eye look. Its ultra-soft brush applicator glides along the lash line, allowing for smooth, continuous strokes that can be customised from delicate to bold. With a fluid formula rich in ultra-fine pigments, it offers intense, even colour payoff from the first stroke. The waterproof, film-forming polymers ensure up to eight hours of flawless wear and are tested by ophthalmologists and safe for contact lens wearers.

Winner: Best Brow Pencil

Brow Powertool, $25, Browhaus

Browhaus’s Brow Powertool simplifies brow grooming with a three-in-one design featuring a pencil, powder, and brush. This multitasking tool offers the versatility to create any brow look—from bold and defined to soft and natural. Its sweat-proof and smudge-resistant formula ensures long-lasting wear, perfect for all-day confidence. Whether you prefer a sharp, intense brow or a subtle gradient effect, the Brow Powertool adapts effortlessly to your style.

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Winner: Best Brow Mascara

Precisely, My Brow Wax, $47, Benefit Cosmetics

Achieve sculpted brows with a natural finish using Benefit Cosmetics’ Precisely, My Brow Wax. This lightweight, full-pigment wax shapes, sets, and defines brows effortlessly, delivering instant colour payoff. Thanks to conditioning ingredients like shea butter, jojoba seed oil, and argan oil, it keeps brow hairs soft while Carnauba wax ensures long-lasting hold. With a dual-sided brush designed for precise application, it lets you groom and position brows exactly the way you want, combining colour and control in one easy step.

Winner: Best Lengthening Mascara

Inspire Long Lash Curling Mascara, $29.90, MUDE

Designed for lasting curl and precision, MUDE’s Inspire Long Lash Curling Mascara ensures smudge-free, clump-free wear all day. Its soft wax and oil formula creates a waterproof, oil-proof barrier, locking lashes in place with just one coat. The mascara features dual fibres for lengthening and volumising, giving lashes a natural yet lifted look. A curved brush, specially crafted for Asian eyes, catches and extends each lash with precision. Infused with plant-based phytokeratin and biotin, it nourishes lashes while enhancing curl and length.

Winner: Best Volumising Mascara

L’Interdit Volumizing & Lengthening Mascara, $59, Givenchy Beauty

For bold, striking lashes, Givenchy’s L’Interdit Volumizing & Lengthening Mascara delivers instant volume and length with every coat. Its creamy, buildable formula boosts lash volume by up to 177 percent, offering 24-hour wear without clumping. Infused with black rose oil and a fortifying vitamin complex, it nourishes and strengthens lashes over time. The exclusive soft brush ensures even application, coating and separating each lash for a flawless, dramatic effect. 

Winner: Best Lash Serum

Pro Lash Serum, $144.90. XLASH

For those seeking longer, fuller lashes, XLASH Pro Lash Serum offers a formula suited even for sensitive eyes and skin. Enriched with biotin to fortify brittle lashes, rosemary extract to stimulate follicle activity, and hyaluronic acid to provide essential hydration, this serum nurtures lashes from root to tip. Visible improvements are reported within 28 days, with consistent use promoting noticeable length and thickness over eight to 10 weeks. This dermatologically tested, vegan formula also supports the durability of lash extensions by reducing breakage and strengthening follicles, ensuring lashes remain healthy and strong.

Winner: Best Long-Wearing Lipstick

Rouge À Lèvres Liquide Mat, $65, Gucci Beauty

Gucci Beauty’s Rouge À Lèvres Liquide Mat offers rich pigment and a transfer-proof, soft matte finish, ensuring vibrant colour that stays put all day. This liquid lipstick transforms from a creamy formula into a powdery matte texture, delivering bold coverage without settling into lines, smudging, or feathering. Infused with black rose oil, hyaluronic acid, and vitamin E, it nourishes lips while providing a comfortable, weightless feel. 

Winner: Best Creamy Lipstick

31 Le Rouge, $230, Chanel

31 Le Rouge by Chanel elevates lipstick to an art form with a luxurious formula enriched with gardenia oil, a Chanel-exclusive ingredient, and maracuja oil. Designed to nourish while delivering vibrant, long-wearing colour, it enhances lip smoothness and definition with each use.

Housed in an elegant, faceted case inspired by Gabrielle Chanel’s rue Cambon apartment, the lipstick offers 12 striking shades—from garnet to fuchsia—crafted to express creativity and individuality. With 75 percent naturally-derived ingredients, this creamy formula ensures a seamless glide, pure pigment, and a satin finish that embodies both sophistication and comfort. Perfect for everyday elegance or special occasions, it transforms lip care into a sensory experience.

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Winner: Best Matte Lipstick

MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick, $40, MAC

MAC’s MACximal Silky Matte Lipstick delivers intense, full-coverage colour with a smooth, comfortable matte finish. Infused with coconut oil, organic shea butter, and cocoa butter, the formula conditions and nourishes lips, providing both immediate hydration and eight-hour moisture retention. With every application, lips appear visibly fuller and stay vibrant for up to 12 hours without fading. This lipstick offers the perfect balance of rich pigment and all-day wearability, ensuring a luxurious matte look that feels as good as it looks.

Winner: Best Tinted Lip Balm

Pillow Talk Big Lip Plumpgasm, $55, Charlotte Tilbury

For a hydrated, plumped pout, Charlotte Tilbury’s Pillow Talk Big Lip Plumpgasm combines high shine with advanced lip care. Infused with a unique trio of technologies—Plumpgasm Heat, Ice Technology, and Collageneer™—this tinted balm delivers an instant plumping effect alongside long-term smoothing benefits. Hyaluronic acid ensures lips stay hydrated while enhancing their natural fullness over time.

Available in universally flattering Pillow Talk shades, this balm glides on effortlessly, creating a juicy, glazed finish with each application. Designed for both comfort and impact, the formula’s cooling and warming actives stimulate circulation for a noticeable plumping effect, leaving lips soft, bouncy, and full.

Winner: Best Lip Treatment

Kiss Kiss Bee Glow Oil, $64, Guerlain

Guerlain’s Kiss Kiss Bee Glow Oil nourishes and enhances lips with a honey-infused formula crafted from 92 percent natural-origin ingredients. Combining the hydrating benefits of Corsican honey, propolis, and royal jelly, it smooths and plumps lips while boosting hyaluronic acid synthesis for long-lasting comfort and volume.

This luxurious lip oil offers a 24-hour care effect with a non-sticky, glassy shine. Its pH-reactive pigments subtly tint the lips, enhancing their natural colour for a radiant look. Available in six ultra-luscious shades, the formula also features vegetal oils that lock in moisture, leaving lips soft, moisturised, and beautifully defined with each use.

The selections made for the Harper’s BAZAAR Singapore Beauty Awards 2024 are the result of extensive and rigorous testing of over 500 entries. Over the course of six weeks, the BAZAAR team, alongside a panel of esteemed experts from the beauty industry, including makeup artist Larry Yeo, aesthetic doctor Dr Rachel Ho, and beauty insider Michelle Sielman, each brought their unique expertise to the judging process and have meticulously evaluated each product.