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Here's one situation: Your favorite vampy-red lip gloss feels a touch too dramatic for the office and you wish there was a way to take it down a notch and make it go from day to night.

Here's another: You bought a lip color without trying it on and now that you have, you realize the shade is slightly off. Or maybe you did try it on, but it doesn't quite look the same in your bathroom as it did in Sephora. Either way, you dont feel like returning it, so it'll probably just sit in the bottom of your makeup bag for eternity, right?

Wrong—you just need lip toners. Let us explain: Surratt Beauty Lip Lustres are technically a line of lip glosses, but two of the shades—Teinte (a sheer white) and Ton (a sheer black)—act as tints, changing the color of any lip gloss you put on top. The white one makes colors lighter, softer and creamier; the black one gives them a cooler, deeper tone. The change isn't hugely dramatic, but sometimes a little tweak makes all the difference.

Surratt Beauty Lip Lustres in Teinte and Ton, $32 each, barneys.com.

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Alexandra Tunell
Senior Beauty Editor
Alexandra Tunell is the Senior Digital Beauty Editor at Harper's BAZAAR, where she writes beauty features and covers industry news, health, fitness and wellness trends. She began her career in the Lucky beauty closet, then went on to work at Allure. When she's not testing the latest skin care treatments, the Los Angeles native is searching the city for the best Mexican food, binge-watching Bravo and escaping to the beach as often as possible.