I love the idea of wearing lip products. A bold red lipstick , a shimmery lip gloss , a coat of moisturizing tinted lip balm—they instantly make you look more put together without requiring much added time to your makeup routine. But I 1) sip a lot of water throughout the day (via my at-home Stanley cup and my office Owala, ofc), and 2) hate reapplying. The second my lip product starts to fade or smear, I just wipe it off and forget I even tried to be that kind of person for the day. I’m convinced, for this reason, that lip stains were made for me.

In lieu of carrying around a bunch of lip products all the time, a lip stain should, in theory, be the answer to all my prayers. To see if it really stood up to the test, I tried one of the most-hyped lip stains out there: Wonderskin's Wonder Blading All-Day Lip Stain .

Anyone with a TikTok account has probably seen influencers wiping away the affordable-yet-terrifying blue metallic stain to reveal flawlessly pink (or brown, or red, or berry, or neutral) lips.…