After months of teasing on social media, Hailey Bieber’s Rhode lip liner—a.k.a. the Rhode Peptide Lip Shape—is finally here. Featuring the brand’s signature peptide ingredient, the Lip Shape marks Rhode’s second color cosmetics launch following the release of the Pocket Blush last year.
If you’re a beauty obsessive, you’ve probably seen some of your favorite influencers swiping on the Rhode lip liner and blending it out with its silicone smudging end. The formula, which features skin-care infused makeup, promises “soft-focus color and high-performance skin care” to give the lips a contoured effect.
As for the skin care in question? The brand says it uses a “short chain of three amino acids,” to soften and hydrate lips, as well as fenugreek extract, which derives from organic fenugreek sprouts, to enhance volume and give a firmer appearance.
The Lip Shape is available in 11 colors, all with different undertones: Lift (soft neutral pink), Press (warm pinky mauve), Bend (soft peachy beige), Lunge (rose beige), Twist (warm taupe), Balance (caramel brown), Lean (warm medium brown), Stretch (neutral mocha brown), Flex (rich neutral brown), Spin (rich plump brown), and Move (deep cool brown).
Described by the brand as “creamier and more effortless than a lip liner,” the Lip Shape can be used to line, overline, and fill in lips, and is meant to be paired with the Pocket Blush (another multiuse product) or the Peptide Lip Tint.
I was only able to receive three of the Rhode lip liners to test before launch (supply versus demand, people!) and chose my colors without swatches based on the descriptions. Since the colors seemed to be divided into three families—pink, beige, and brown—I decided to try one from each that I felt would best suit my skin tone.
I was especially excited to try a brown shade, which has become my go-to color for lip combos recently. And the shade Spin, a rich, plump brown, greatly resembled one of my current favorite lip liners, the Fenty Beauty Trace’d Out Pencil Lip Liner in Brown’d Out.
Spin: a rich plum brown
When I first applied Spin, I worried that I’d picked the completely wrong shade. But I decided to trust the process and see if Rhode’s claims about the formula being soft-focused and easily blendable were true after all.
