Dry lips. Lots of us have ‘em, most of us go crazy on the
lip balm (no bad thing, mind) and yet, if you’re anything like me, you’ll still
end up with the odd flake. Grim. Even more grim when you absent-mindedly pull
at said flake with your teeth and end up with a bleeding lip. We’ve all been
there.
Enter the lip scrub. I am suspicious that largely these have
become a bit of a “thing” due to clever marketing, but nonetheless they are
really effective. (shhh…. Don’t tell… but you can make your own very easily –
see the end of this post if you are of a thriftier persuasion). You can pay
whatever you like for a lip scrub, and there’s nothing wrong with a lovely
luxury item now and again, but the most effective one I have found comes from
lovely Lush (and therefore is also vegan friendly and cruelty free. Hooray!)
My pot is a bit battered. Soz. I love it too much.
I have the Lush Lip Scrub in Mint Julips, and it is honestly
delicious. It has a strong, sweet, mint chocolate chip ice-cream scent. It is
essentially a sugar-based scrub, and as such dissolves after application –
unless you’re like me, and basically apply this ALL OVER YO FACE then it’s very
easy to remove. It’s quite granular, for want of a better word, so it’s pretty
heavy duty, but you can rest assured this will keep your lips crust free. It also leaves a brief, pleasant, pepperminty tingle - this may not be for everyone, but I love it. I tend
to apply a little lip balm over the top of this (at the moment I am all about
the Nuxe Reve de Miel lip balm) afterwards. It’s also a great pre-liquid
lipstick application choice – it soothes lips before applying a drying formula,
and gets rid of any unevenness that a matte lipstick of any kind may
exaggerate.
10/10 Lush. Dreamy.
(Like I said, if you aren’t keen to part with a fiver,
squish up a little coconut oil with some lip balm (I’ve just used a cheap Nivea one in the past) and mix this with a teaspoon of caster sugar. Boom!)
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ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing -Hanna Lei
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