The biggest body victim each winter is my lips -- I'm a lip licker, especially when I'm stressed. I constantly suck, bite, lick and chew on my own face, like a reaver, when I'm writing or drawing, or whatever. (I'm doing it right now.) Add this saliva overdose to the wintery weather, and you have a recipe for disaster.
Luckily, I am a lipbalm addict. I should go to Lipbalm Anonymous meetings and take the twelve-step plan. Except I'm assuming that one of those steps would be to give up the 'balm. That I cannot do. I was clearing out my handbag yesterday, since it had become so heavy, and discovered I was toting around no fewer than SIXTEEN lip balms, glosses, and sticks. Sixteen.
A quick rummage in my coat and jean pockets confirmed that the total about my person was an almost-too-embarrassing-to-confess twenty-one. You read that correctly: in addition to the sixteen in my bag, I had scattered some further five balms throughout my pockets, just in case.
Because the thing is, winter can have its great moments: drinking peppermint hot chocolate by the fireside, eating Lebkuchen whilst watching The Great Escape for the hundredth time, kissing your honey...and what fun is kissing with chapped, winter lips? To make your winter magical, dip a finger into one of these:
Burts Bees Beeswax Lipbalm Tin, $3.00, from Burts Bees; Rose & Co. Apothecary Sweet Violet Salve, £5.00, from Rose & Co; Carmex, $1.49, from CVS; Smith's Rosebud Salve, $6.00, from Sephora; Sheer Gold Lip Shimmer salve, £5.00 from Liz Earle; L'Occitane Honey Harvest Creamy Honey Lip Balm, $10.00, from Kiss Fix; Benetint Lipbalm, $20.00 from Benefit; Lip Service, £3.95, from Lush; Vaseline Lip Therapy with Aloe Vera, £0.96, from Boots; Kiehl's Moisturising Lipgloss in Black Raspberry, $11.50, from Kiehl's.
6 comments:
I have to say though, that Aloe Vera Vaseline smells like one of those magic tree car air fresheners. Not a great selling point.
Rosebud Salve is heaven on my lips! Mmmm!
Aw, boo! I love the aloe vera smell. But then again, I used to eat my peppermint Lipsyls.
The plain vaseline tins are good though -- and a bargainous 96 pee!
Although as an addict I don't bat an eyelid at spending upwards of a tenner on lipbalm...
I'll follow you to the Lipbalm Anonymous meetings! My favorite, can't live without lip product is the Fresh Sugar lip treatment. It's the best!
Actually, the very best lip balm I have ever happened to find is Aveda lip saver"
it makes your lips moisturized like nobody's business; and it isn't horrible and greasy like most lip balm I've found. It kind of reminds me of velvet. utterly lovely.
Omg Ithink I own almost every one of those lip balms and I buy doubles for my purse...Im addicted and I love Rosebud Salve, I just got some and I love it so much I have already ordered 3 more from Sephora.com, I use it on my lips always and sometimes on my nose cuz it gets dry n chapped too n its great on dry cuticles. Carmex is awesome too :)
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