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Official description
muted reddish taupe brown
Standardised colour
Brown · Medium · Neutral undertone · taupe Details
Matte finish · Opaque
SephoraWhere to buy Taupe (2 stores)
Sephora$25View at Sephora
Ulta Beautyfrom $25 · product priceView at Ulta BeautySimilar to MAC Cosmetics M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstick Taupe
The closest shade matches and closest overall alternatives in other lipsticks. Price is never part of the score.
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Shades from the other lip categories to wear with MAC Cosmetics M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstick Taupe, chosen on measured swatch colour, colour family, depth and undertone. “Colour match” means a close colour; “Combination” means a deliberate pairing. Price never changes the order.
Lip gloss or lip liner shades close to this lipstick's colour, family and depth.
Lip gloss
103 Toffee
Dior Lip Glow Butter Hydrating Gloss Balm, shade 103 Toffee
- Very close match
- Colour match · Nude · Medium · Neutral
$42
16 Almond Drip
Lancôme Juicy Tubes Original Lip Gloss, shade 16 Almond Drip
- Very close match
- Colour match · Brown · Medium · Warm
$25
Lip liner
Chocolate
Ulta Beauty Collection Automatic Retractable Lip Liner, shade Chocolate
- Very close match
- Colour match · Brown · Medium · Neutral
$9.50
Tea Time
DIBS Beauty No Pressure Lip Liner, shade Tea Time
- Very close match
- Colour match · Brown · Deep / dark · Neutral
$20
Lip liners slightly deeper than this lipstick, in the same or a neighbouring colour family, to define the edge.
Lip liner
Vermouth
Palladio Beauty Lip Liner Classic Pencil, shade Vermouth
- Slightly deeper for definition
- Combination · Brown · Deep / dark · Cool
$9.99
Malt
Anastasia Beverly Hills Velvety-Matte Precision Shaping Lip Liner, shade Malt
- Slightly deeper for definition
- Combination · Brown · Deep / dark · Neutral
$22
A noticeably different depth or a neighbouring colour family, on purpose, with a compatible undertone.
Lip gloss
Unavailable
Patrick Ta Major Volume Plumping Lip Gloss, shade Unavailable
- Contrast: plum with brown
- Combination · Plum · Deep / dark · Cool
$26
05 Getaway
Tom Ford Soleil Lip Balm for Glowing Hydration, shade 05 Getaway
- Contrast: nude with brown
- Combination · Nude · Medium · Cool
$45
Lip liner
Dangerous Dolly
Buxom Power Line Plumping Lip Liner, shade Dangerous Dolly
- Contrast: mauve with brown
- Combination · Mauve · Deep / dark · Cool
$24
Hot & Spicy
Too Faced Lip Injection Extreme Lip Shaper Plumping Lip Liner, shade Hot & Spicy
- Contrast: nude with brown
- Combination · Nude · Medium · Warm
$25
Glosses to wear over this lipstick. A sheer gloss changes the colour less than an opaque one; a clear gloss adds shine only.
Lip gloss
103 Toffee
Dior Lip Glow Butter Hydrating Gloss Balm, shade 103 Toffee
- Gloss: opacity not listed
- Combination · Nude · Medium · Neutral
$42
Zephyr
MAC Cosmetics Lipglass Air Non-Sticky Lipgloss, shade Zephyr
- Clear gloss: adds shine, no colour of its own
- Combination · Clear
$25
What this can and cannot tell you: each pairing compares two shades' colours as sampled from retailer swatch images, which are not calibrated and are not how a shade looks on lips. It does not predict the colour you get when you layer them. A sheer gloss lets more of the colour underneath show than an opaque one, and your natural lip colour shows through sheer products.
Shade details
- Swatch colour
- #9a4940
- L* 41.2 a* 33.0 b* 21.4
- Colour family
- Brown
- from the description (“brown”)
- Colour depth
- Medium
- from the swatch colour
- Undertone
- Neutral
- from the swatch colour
- Colour description
- Taupe
- from the description (“muted reddish taupe brown”)
- Finish
- Matte
- the product's attributes
- Opacity
- Opaque
- the product's attributes
- Shimmer
- Not listed
- not stated
Description from Ulta Beauty and Sephora, kept word for word; the standardised values are stored separately and never replace it. Swatch colours are read from retailer images, which are not colour-calibrated; images from the retailers named under each one.
All shades in this range (46)
MAC Cosmetics M·A·Cximal Silky Matte Lipstick- Acting Naturalwarm toned light nude beige
- Honeylovelight beige toned rose
- Antique Velvetintense brown
- Bare M·A·Cximaldeep rich chocolate brown
- Cafe Mochamauvey pinky nude
- Candy Yum Yumneon pink
- Captive Audiencepinkish plum
- Chiliwarm brick red
- Cool Teddycool deep tone beige
- D For Dangerbrick red
- Dare Medeep peachy coral
- Divaintense reddish burgundy
- Everybody's Heroinebright purple
- Flamingoclean yellow baby pink
- Foliogreyish nude
- Forever Curiouspinky red
- Get The Hintwarm rose
- Go Retromuted peachy pinky brown
- Honey Lovelight beige toned rose
- Hot Girl Pinkbright watermelon pink
- Iconic Photogolden brown
- Kinda Sexyneutral pinky rose
- Lady Dangervivid bright coral red
- Lipstick Snoblight neutral pink
- Marrakeshintense orange brown
- Mehrmidtone mauve pink
- Mull It To The Maxdirty peach
- Overstatementburnt orange with intensity
- VIVA GLAM x Chappell Roan: Unnatural Redheaddeep cherry
- Red Rockclassic clean red
- Ring The Alarmmilky pink red
- Ruby Woovivid blue red
- Russian Redintense bluish red
- Sindeep dark blue red
- Smoked Purpledeep eggplant purple
- Soarmidtone cool mauve
- Sweet Dealmidtone nudey pink
- Taupemuted reddish taupe brown(this shade)
- Twig Twistsoft muted brownish pink
- Unbotheredpeachy nude pink
- Velvet Teddydeep tone beige
- Verve Swervedeep mauve pink
- Warm Teddydirty warm nude
- Whirldirty rose
- Yashultra light neutral
- You Wouldn't Get Itmidtone pink