Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce kiss, and her no-smudge lipstick sends fans on a search
Fans wanted to know what red lipstick Taylor Swift wore that didn’t leave a smudge on Travis Kelce’s face when she kissed him after the Chiefs beat the Baltimore Ravens Sunday to get into the Super Bowl. [email protected]
The Kansas City Chiefs weren’t the only winners out of the AFC Championship Game on Sunday.
Taylor Swift’s red lipstick scored huge points, too.
After the singer hugged and kissed boyfriend Travis Kelce on the field during the post-game celebration, her fans went straight to social media to find out: What lipstick is she wearing?
“Okay, Ladies. Serious question about Taylor Swift’s lipstick AGAIN. She just enjoyed a long smooch with Travis Kelce on camera, and her lipstick did not smudge or show up on his lips. What gives?” tweeted X user @BobsFunGirl.
“That red lipstick on Taylor Swift is … perfect! It doesn’t come off,” tweeted a fellow fashionista, @Janean5.
Another Swift follower who calls herself the Speed of Wright was so impressed that she jumped online to shop.
“I’m sitting watching the footballs with Tom and ordering Taylor Swift’s red lipstick shade online,” she wrote. “This is my favorite part of sports so far.”
Okay, Ladies. Serious question about Taylor Swift’s lipstick AGAIN. She just enjoyed a long smooch with Travis Kelce on camera, and her lipstick did not smudge or show up on his lips. What gives?
— Becky Kevoian (@BobsFunGirl) January 28, 2024
The staying power of Taylor swifts lipstick should be studied by scientists
— Amanda Gordon (@manduh_show) January 29, 2024
That red lipstick on Taylor Swift is it’s perfect! It doesn’t come off
— EbonyBrown (@Janean5) January 28, 2024
This is hardly the first time Swift has awed fans with her ruby-stained lips. Google searches for her lip color climbed nearly 700% after the first time she attended a Chiefs game in September. Fans have begged her to release her own lipstick line.
Fashion websites helped out by noting that Swift lately has worn LiquiLust Legendary Wear Matte Lipstick in Elson ($34) from Pat McGrath Labs. The shade, which continually sells out, is hailed as smudge-proof.
In October, right before so many women dressed as Swift for Halloween, Good Housekeeping detailed some of the singer’s past go-to lip colors.
“It’s likely that Taylor rotates through a number of red lipsticks, but her long-time makeup artist Lorrie Turk has always kept a tight lip on the singer’s signature pout,” the magazine wrote.
Turk, though, has named a few of Swift’s previous favorites, including Patrick Ta Major Beauty Headlines Lipstick in That’s Why She’s Late ($32), and Lisa Eldridge True Velvet Lipstick in Velvet Ribbon ($36) that has a slight sheen.
Taylor Swift to Travis Kelce, maybe: “Hey, did you hear? Everyone wants to know what red lipstick I’m wearing.” Emily Curiel [email protected]
The magazine noted that the last time Swift herself name-checked her lipstick, to People magazine back in 2015, it was Ruby Woo by MAC ($23), a long-wearing, vivid blue-red with a “retro” matte finish, according to the MAC website.
She has also mentioned using Dragon Girl by Nars, a color she wore on the Met Gala red carpet in 2014. It is a non-drying lip pencil ($27) in “vivid siren red,” also with a matte finish, according to Nars.
Swift has also mentioned Fenty Beauty’s lip paint in the shade “Uncensored” as a personal favorite. The bright coral shade ($29) is currently unavailable on the Fenty website.
Clearly Swift prefers her lip colors matte. Nothing shiny and bright on those famous lips.
Though we can’t know for sure what exactly she wore on Sunday, she did share with Redbook magazine in 2012 that she knows the blotting trick that so many women have used for generations.
Blot, blot, blot.
“I swipe on my lipstick, place a tissue between my lips, and blot,” she said. “Then, if I really need the color to last, I hold the tissue against my mouth and brush translucent powder over it, which sets the color.”
What do you put on when you’re not wearing red lipstick, the magazine asked?
“I’m always wearing red lipstick!” she said.
Whatever color she wore in Baltimore on Sunday, it’s not likely fans will stop talking about it anytime soon.
“The staying power of Taylor Swift’s lipstick should be studied by scientists,” one fan tweeted Sunday.
