Realbeauty.com did a cool Ultimate Lipstick Challenge, were they put 137 shades of lipstick to challenge to find five colors that work for every skin tone and hair color.

Eight different real women tried 137 different shades and found the top five shades that worked beautifully on all of them.

The Lipstick Challengers:

Noelle McKenzie
Beauty stats: 23; long curly chestnut brown hair; brown eyes; combination skin; part African-American, part Irish and German. Keeps skin clear by exfoliating and moisturizing daily.

Coleen Noonan
Beauty stats: 34; brown-black hair; green eyes; fair skin; extremely low-maintenance beauty routine.

Judy Park
Beauty stats: 30; colored and highlighted hair that’s naturally black; combination skin; dark brown eyes. Always moisturizes at night and wears sunscreen during the day.

Erin Daly
Beauty stats: 40; medium-length, curly hair (sometimes flat-ironed when it’s not raining); bright red hair not showing any gray (yet); blue eyes; highly pale white skin with freckles; mostly Irish with some French-Canadian thrown in. Uses a heavy moisturizer at night and a lighter one during the day. Seriously cranky without eight hours of sleep every night.

Wendy Alfano
Beauty stats: 40-ish; naturally wavy highlighted hair with a mind of its own; blue/green eyes; dry skin with some visible laugh lines; dark circles not at all helped by a horrendous commute each day!

Elizabeth Calabrese
Elizabeth’s beauty stats: 24; very thick, wavy brown hair (never color-treated) either worn natural or flat-ironed, combination skin that can get very dry in the winter, dark brown eyes, part Italian/Syrian/German.

Nina Gonzales
Beauty stats: 32; Filipino-American; dark thick curly hair worn naturally; dark eyes; combination skin.

The Top Contenders:

Nude Lipstick: Smashbox Photo Finish Lipstick in Flawless

Pink Shade Lipstick: Lancome L’Absolu Rouge in Voile de Rose

Berry Lipstick: Clinique Almost Lipstick in Black Honey

Brown Lipstick: Maybelline Color Sensational Lipcolor in Crazy For Coffee

Red Lipstick: MAC Cosmetics Lipstick in Ruby Woo

Not sure if these colors will universally work on all of you? Try other colors out using the Realbeauty.com Makeover Tool to get a preview of what to expect.