Nykaa Makeup and Skincare Prices August 2026: 18 Picks From Rs. 66

A three-rupee discount is the smallest on this page and it is exactly what you should expect from a category where the maximum retail price is printed on the packet by law. Rs. 66 buys a lip liner that 305,102 people have rated 4.4. That combination - a nominal discount and an enormous sample - is the shape of this entire shelf, and it is the opposite of almost every marketplace shelf this series reads.

• Price: Rs. 66 (stated MRP Rs. 69)
• Key detail: 5% off - a Rs. 3 discount, and the cheapest listing on the page
• Discount: 5% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 3
• Rating: 4.4 from 305,102 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Smallest badge in the read
• Buying logic: The best-evidenced thing here under a hundred rupees

Forty per cent is as deep as this shelf goes, and it goes there on a Rs. 325 product. Alpha arbutin is a tyrosinase inhibitor used for pigmentation and 2 per cent is a standard cosmetic concentration; it works slowly and needs sunscreen alongside it to do anything at all. Fifteen thousand two hundred and fifteen ratings at 4.1 is a solid sample for a young Indian brand.

• Price: Rs. 195 (stated MRP Rs. 325)
• Key detail: 2% alpha arbutin - a pigmentation active, at the deepest badge on the page
• Discount: 40% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 130
• Rating: 4.1 from 15,215 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Forty per cent, joint-deepest
• Buying logic: The cheapest way to try a pigmentation active

Four million two hundred and eighty-three thousand ratings is the largest number this series has ever printed, and it needs a caveat: Nykaa pools ratings across every shade of a listing, so this is the verdict on a formula rather than on a colour. Read that way it is still extremely strong evidence. It is also Nykaa's own label, which is why it carries one of only two 40 per cent badges here.

• Price: Rs. 197 (stated MRP Rs. 329)
• Key detail: 4,283,115 ratings - the largest count anywhere in this read
• Discount: 40% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 132
• Rating: 4.3 from 4,283,115 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Four million ratings
• Buying logic: The house lipstick, and the house discount

MARS is a domestic colour-cosmetics label that prices low and holds it, so there is nothing much for a discount to do. Twenty rupees off Rs. 249. Twenty-four thousand nine hundred and three ratings at 4.3 is a real sample. A gloss at this price is a pigmented shine rather than a lip colour, and it will need reapplying after anything you eat - which is true of every gloss and not a criticism of this one.

• Price: Rs. 229 (stated MRP Rs. 249)
• Key detail: A Rs. 20 discount - the second-smallest on the page
• Discount: 8% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 20
• Rating: 4.3 from 24,903 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Eight per cent
• Buying logic: Priced honestly, rated widely

Water-gel tints stain rather than coat, so they survive a meal in a way a gloss does not and they cannot be blotted off. Dear Darling has been ETUDE's volume product in India for years and 24,712 ratings at 4.3 reflects that. Twenty per cent off Rs. 450 is exactly the median badge on this page, which is worth stating plainly: on this shelf, twenty per cent is normal and forty is the ceiling.

• Price: Rs. 360 (stated MRP Rs. 450)
• Key detail: A water-gel tint usable on both lips and cheeks
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 90
• Rating: 4.3 from 24,712 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: The Korean lip-and-cheek
• Buying logic: The most useful single makeup item here

Plant pigments are less stable and less intense than synthetic lakes, which means softer colour and a shorter shelf life - a real trade rather than a marketing one, and worth knowing before buying. Earth Rhythm is an Indian brand built around that positioning and 55,759 ratings at 4.2 says the trade lands well enough for most buyers. Twenty-five per cent off Rs. 549.

• Price: Rs. 412 (stated MRP Rs. 549)
• Key detail: Pure plant pigments rather than synthetic colourants
• Discount: 25% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 137
• Rating: 4.2 from 55,759 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Plant-pigment tint
• Buying logic: If the ingredient list is the point

One hundred and thirty ratings clears our hundred-rating threshold by thirty, which makes this the most marginal rating pill on the page - and on a shelf where the median listing carries tens of thousands, it is worth naming as thin. The product is a gloss with glutathione and hyaluronic acid claimed; both are marketing-forward inclusions in a lip product. Twenty-five per cent off Rs. 599.

• Price: Rs. 449 (stated MRP Rs. 599)
• Key detail: 130 ratings - the second-smallest sample on this page
• Discount: 25% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 150
• Rating: 4.2 from 130 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Thinnest sample in the read
• Buying logic: A new listing, with the evidence to match

A 5.0 from ten ratings is the highest score on this page and the least informative number on it, which is why no rating pill appears on this card while a 4.3 from four million does. On a shelf this well documented, a listing with ten votes is a new product rather than a well-liked one. Twenty per cent off Rs. 599 from Nykaa's own skincare label.

• Price: Rs. 479 (stated MRP Rs. 599)
• Key detail: A perfect score from ten people - below our rating threshold
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 120
• Rating: 5.0 from only 10 ratings - too thin to rank on
• Role: Ten ratings
• Buying logic: Too new to judge - wait for the sample to build

Four million one hundred and nineteen thousand ratings at 4.4, pooled across every shade. Super Stay Matte Ink is the product that made long-wear liquid lipstick mainstream in India, and its weakness is the same as its strength: it does not move, and it dries the lip. Thirty-five per cent off Rs. 749 is the deepest discount any international brand takes on this page.

• Price: Rs. 487 (stated MRP Rs. 749)
• Key detail: 4,119,059 ratings at 4.4 - the highest score on any four-million listing here
• Discount: 35% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 262
• Rating: 4.4 from 4,119,059 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: The other four-million listing
• Buying logic: The most-proven lipstick formula on the shelf

The same category as the Super Stay above and the same parent company, at Rs. 312 more. What the money buys is a formula that stays matte without stripping the lip quite as hard, which is the main complaint about long-wear liquid lipsticks generally. Twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five ratings at 4.3 - a fraction of the Maybelline's sample, on a newer product.

• Price: Rs. 799 (stated MRP Rs. 999)
• Key detail: Transfer-resistant matte, at Rs. 312 above the Maybelline
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 200
• Rating: 4.3 from 12,365 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Twenty per cent, transfer-resistant
• Buying logic: For long wear without the dryness

Biphasic means two separated phases that you shake together, which lets a formulator combine oil-soluble and water-soluble actives that would not otherwise sit in one bottle. Hyphen is a young Indian brand and 1,366 ratings at 4.1 is a modest but usable sample. Ten per cent off - a Rs. 60 discount, which is what a category with a printed MRP looks like when the brand is not clearing stock.

• Price: Rs. 539 (stated MRP Rs. 599)
• Key detail: A biphasic formula - oil and water phases you shake before use
• Discount: 10% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 60
• Rating: 4.1 from 1,366 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Ten per cent
• Buying logic: A real formulation idea, on a thin sample

Five per cent niacinamide is the concentration with the most support behind it for oil control and barrier repair; the 10 and 12 per cent versions sold elsewhere are more likely to irritate than to work harder. Minimalist built its brand on printing the number on the front. Thirty-five thousand nine hundred and two ratings at 4.4 at exactly the same Rs. 539 as the Hyphen above makes this the easier of the two to recommend.

• Price: Rs. 539 (stated MRP Rs. 599)
• Key detail: 5% niacinamide - the concentration most dermatologists actually suggest
• Discount: 10% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 60
• Rating: 4.4 from 35,902 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Ten per cent, thirty-five thousand ratings
• Buying logic: The serum to buy at five hundred rupees

Three serums on this page sell at exactly Rs. 539 with badges of 10, 10 and 33 per cent, because their claims are Rs. 599, Rs. 599 and Rs. 799. Same money, three different-looking discounts. Vitamin C at 10 per cent is an effective antioxidant concentration and an unstable one - it oxidises with light and air, so a dark bottle and a six-month working life are part of the purchase.

• Price: Rs. 539 (stated MRP Rs. 799)
• Key detail: 10% vitamin C, at the same Rs. 539 as two other serums here
• Discount: 33% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 260
• Rating: 4.1 from 5,506 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Thirty-three per cent
• Buying logic: Buy small bottles of vitamin C and use them quickly

Garnier's distribution reaches places Nykaa's own brands do not, which is most of why 43,713 people have rated this 4.3. The formula pairs vitamin C with a low 2 per cent niacinamide, a combination that is gentler than a high-strength C alone and correspondingly slower. Fifteen per cent off Rs. 925, which is a Rs. 139 discount - the ordinary shape of this shelf.

• Price: Rs. 786 (stated MRP Rs. 925)
• Key detail: Vitamin C with 2% niacinamide, and 43,713 ratings behind it
• Discount: 15% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 139
• Rating: 4.3 from 43,713 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Fifteen per cent, mass-market
• Buying logic: The safe first vitamin C serum

Centella asiatica is the active behind most Korean 'cica' products and it is a soothing agent rather than a treatment - it helps a compromised barrier settle rather than changing pigment or texture. That makes it the sensible product for anyone whose skin has reacted to an acid or a retinoid. Seven thousand six hundred and forty-five ratings at 4.3. Twenty per cent off Rs. 999.

• Price: Rs. 799 (stated MRP Rs. 999)
• Key detail: Centella asiatica extract, the standard Korean soothing active
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 200
• Rating: 4.3 from 7,645 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Korean centella
• Buying logic: What to buy when something else has irritated your skin

Rs. 1,079 against Rs. 539 for the Minimalist niacinamide serum, and a sample eleven times smaller. What the extra money buys is an imported formulation with a more elaborate base; what it does not buy is a higher concentration of anything you can verify from the listing. Sixteen per cent off Rs. 1,285. Imported skincare carries a duty and a shipping cost that domestic brands do not.

• Price: Rs. 1,079 (stated MRP Rs. 1,285)
• Key detail: An imported Korean serum at Rs. 1,079, on a 3,152-rating sample
• Discount: 16% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 206
• Rating: 4.3 from 3,152 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Sixteen per cent
• Buying logic: Only if you specifically want the Korean formulation

Four and a half stars from 63,904 ratings is the strongest score-and-sample pairing in this read. Snail mucin is a humectant and film-former; the evidence for it is largely user-reported rather than clinical, and 96 per cent is the proportion of the formula it makes up. This is the single product most responsible for Korean skincare's spread in India, and the numbers on this page reflect that.

• Price: Rs. 1,118 (stated MRP Rs. 1,490)
• Key detail: 4.5 from 63,904 ratings - the highest score on any well-sampled listing here
• Discount: 25% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 372
• Rating: 4.5 from 63,904 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Best score on a big sample
• Buying logic: The best-evidenced skincare buy on the shelf

Rs. 1,520 is the ceiling of this read - twenty-three times the Rs. 66 lip liner at the top of the page - and it is a spray-applied serum, a format that suits layering and wastes more product than a dropper. White truffle extract is a luxury signifier rather than a demonstrated active. Four and a half stars from 5,560 ratings is genuinely good. Twenty per cent off, which on this shelf is simply normal.

• Price: Rs. 1,520 (stated MRP Rs. 1,900)
• Key detail: A spray-format serum at the top of the page, Rs. 1,520
• Discount: 20% off a stated MRP, which is Rs. 380
• Rating: 4.5 from 5,560 Nykaa ratings, pooled across shades
• Role: Most expensive listing here
• Buying logic: A luxury format, at a real score