As a dry skin
sufferer of many years, I find that I can (and do) usually do something about
the skin issue on my face, but my lips (although just as dry as the rest of my face) get a
bit neglected. I tend to buy whatever lip balm is on offer in Boots, and slick
a bit onto my lips whenever I remember (usually causing a chain reaction of
lip-balm application amongst the ladies in the office!). But I don’t exfoliate
them, and I even occasionally succumb to absent-mindedly peeling off the dry
skin whenever I am deep in thought (which admittedly, isn’t very often).
So, to summarise;
they are dry, cracked, chapped, and also sometimes (due to over enthusiastic
peeling) bleeding and scabby. Lovely.
Enter: Lanolips.
I jumped onto the
Lanolips bandwagon fairly recently; after having seen rave reviews of the 101
Ointment by several beauty bloggers that I follow religiously. I
less-than-enthusiastically hauled my sizeable corse down to my local Boots and,
amazingly, they had some of the ointment in stock. While I was there, I noticed
that they had some tinted versions too, and ever the sucker for shiny pretty
things, I picked up one of these in the colour Apples.
Wow. Just……….. wow.
After only one day of
application of the 101 ointment, my lips were smooth, plump and moisturised – a
feeling that lasts even after the ointment has long since worn off/soaked in.
It’s a bit of a weird application – there is no applicator attached to the tube
itself, just a little hole which dispenses this luscious gorgeousness, so it’s
a finger-application job. All to the good though, as it could do with a bit of
warming up before putting it onto your gob. This stuff is thick.
The tinted version is
not quite as plumping and smoothing, but only compared to the original 101
ointment – it still beats all other tinted lip balms hands down.
Me being me, I then
got more, with back-ups – including the colours Mulberry and Rose (Mulberry is a limited edition one
that I got free when I ordered from Zuneta.com). They are so good, I even felt inspired to send an email to them to thank
them, like the gushing, over-emotional basket case I am. I have added Rhubarb
and Dark Honey to my wishlist, too.
Lanolips 101 ointment
(15g) is currently available from Boots.com for £11.22 (yeah I know – weird
price), while the tinted versions (12.5g) are £8.16.
Onto the pics:
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| L-R: Mulberry, Apples, Rose |
My favourite by a country mile is Mulberry (damn you limited editions!) as the cooler tones turn my lips into slightly plummy-coloured kissable unctuousness.
Has anyone else been converted to the ways of the Lanolips ointment? I'd love to hear your opinions.
Jen
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