Kiehl's Love Oil For Lips

 As the weather changes you mind find that your lips require a little more TLC.

One of the perfect ways to ensure that your pout is left looking full and feeling nourished is with the inclusion of a lip oil to your beauty regime.

My current go-to for beautiful lips (plus let's face it, a great Valentines Day gift!)  is Kiehl’s Love Oil For Lips (£18).

 

 

Inspired by the summer of love, this collection of beautiful lip oils contains a host of nourishing ingredients paired with a glow-infusing lip treatment to provide all the comfort and replenishment of an oil paired with the un-paralleled shine of a gloss.

Plus, they feature a subtle hint of colours to effortlessly bring your lips to life.

Housed within sleek, chic, slim tubes they are the perfect size for slipping into any handbag for on the go top ups while their transparency allows you to see the pop of colour captured within.

 

 

The applicator tip is a soft and curved allowing you to decide just how much product you want to use but also enables precise application.

In terms of texture, the oil is feather-light and silky smooth.

 

 

It glides onto your lips like silk, instantly softening and creating a fabulous shine without any stickiness commonly associated with traditional lip glosses.

They also posses a delicate, appealing fruity scent which is really pleasant to wear.

They don’t just look good though as the formula contains a host of lip-loving ingredients.

 

The oils have been formulated with Coconut oil and moringa oil which are rich in fatty acids and nutrients as well as a tropical fruit called acerola cherry which is high in Vitamin C.

Upon application, lips feel instantly quenched and soft and its as if the oil hugs your lips as this sensation, along with the shine lasts for hours.

 

 

Available in 4 subtle shades or untinted, they are perfect for popping on over the top of your lip for long-lasting nourishment and shine or worn alone as a natural pick-me-up enduring your lips are pout perfect this V-Day! 

Kiehl’s Love Oil for Lips are available now priced at £18 each and are available in Untinted or with a hint of colour in Botanical Blush, Neon Pink, Apothecary Cherry and Midnight Orchid.

Zelens Lip Treatment Oil

Thanks to suffering with lips prone to getting super dehydrated and chapped ALL the time, I’m really into my lip treatment oils right now and one that’s right up there is from Zelens.

Before I go any further, what is a lip treatment oil I head you ask?

Well in a nutshell it’s a lip oil that is jam packed full of fabulous skin and lip loving ingredients to repair, restore and nurture  and protect your lips.

The lip oil from Zelens actually goes one step further than just this and offers anti-ageing properties too thanks to its formula containing 9 plant oils infused with powerful botanicals, vitamins, peptides and other anti-aging ingredients. 

The oil is designed to deliver instant moisture, strengthens the lipid barrier and protects against environmental damage while helping to smooth and fill in fine lines and wrinkles while improving lip texture, plumpness and shape.

All this, from one product? Really?!

Well, lets take a quick look at some of its key ingredients. You’ve got the 9 different plant oils;

Argan oil: Rich in omega-3, this oil helps restore lip moisture while demonstrating anti-inflammatory, healing and regenerative properties.

Squalane: Derived from Mediterranean olive oil, this botanical lipid mimics human skin lipids in molecular structure to help replenish their natural levels. Squalane conditions and hydrates lips, improves elasticity and boosts the lips’ ability to naturally repair. Demonstrates strong antioxidant properties to protect from damaging free radicals.

Wild musk rose oil: This oil has been used for centuries for wound healing. Rich in Vitamin A, musk rose oil promotes lip repair and regeneration. Contains high amounts of omega-3 and omega-6.

 

Jojoba oil:  This oil, with potent bio-mimetic properties, improves lip moisture and forms a protective barrier for the lips.

Borage oil: Also known as starflower oil, this oil demonstrates strong anti-inflammatory properties. It soothes damaged and irritated lips and alleviates the inflammatory symptoms associated with skin disorders.

Cotton seed oil: This oil has strong emollient properties due to the high amount of unsaturated fatty acids.

Linseed oil: This oil, also known as flax seed oil, is rich in omega-3 and omega-6. Helps to improve moisture and soothe the lips.

Red palm oil: This botanical oil has excellent moisturizing and soothing properties. Rich in vitamin A, palm oil promotes natural lip repair and regeneration. It also demonstrates antioxidant properties.

Shea butter: A natural lipid extracted from the seeds of Shea tree or Karite’. Demonstrates excellent moisturising, softening, smoothing and restructuring properties.

Also packed into this treatment you’ve got ingredients such as Vitamin A, the antioxidant Vitamin E, Hyaluronic acid to help improve lip moisture and to elevate the appearance of lip texture, shape, and volume and two potent peptides that stimulate natural collagen production and lip repair.

That’s to name just a few, the full list of ingredients can be found here, but you get the picture, there’s a LOT of good stuff expertly blended into this oil.

Now, despite its heavy oil content the product itself is actually surprisingly light in texture, which I both like and dislike at the same time.

I like it because it means that application is easy, it feels light and silky and just melts onto your lips perfectly, leaving a lovely non-greasy sheen.

I dislike it because it does wear off fairly quickly which means frequent re-application is on the cards, but that said, with its delicate vanilla scent and lovely nourishing properties, its not much of a hardship.

It also certainly does work, even when my lips are in a real state. Within a couple of days of frequent use my lips have been restored to their former glory and gone are the dry, sore, chapped patches.

In terms of application, they say to use it as needed throughout the day and before bed and this is exactly what I do.

At £40 a tube though it is expensive, so I would perhaps consider using it only when my lips are in a really dire state and in need of some serious TLC.

The Zelens Lip Treatment Oil has quickly found itself a home as one of my 10 must have beauty products and you can treat yourself to one from their website or from Cult Beauty now.

Lancome Juicy Shaker

 It’s been a while since I’ve been genuinely really excited about a new lip product launch and to say that I was looking forward to this one is a bit of an understatement.

Say hello to the brand new, unique and pretty fabulous Lancome Juicy Shaker.

These extremely cute little tubes contain a blend of pigment and lip loving oils which together create super soft, non-sticky, sheer colour with satin shine.

These Juicy Shakers don’t just resemble a cocktail shakers for fun, in fact, shaking them is all part of creating the luscious tinted lip oil.

A dispersant agent creates pigment diffusion when the bottle is shaken, helping to ensure perfect colour distribution on application.

Speaking of application, allow me to discuss the velvety soft applicator!

Lancome Juicy Shaker in Freedom of Peach

This is Lancome’s first ever cushion applicator for lips and they’ve got it spot on. The  super soft sponge is attached to the lid of the bottle and when the bottle is shaken, the product within is distributed across its conical shape, ready to be swept across your lips.

Its shape allows for easy and precision application and it feels so incredibly soft when you use it, it’s actually a real pleasure and because of the non gloopy formula the oil just glides from the sponge to your lips seamlessly.

Lancome Juicy Shaker in Berry Tale

There are 14 different shades available in the Juicy Shaker range and each is contain the same lip loving oils. You’ve got Peach kernel oil, Sweet almond oil, Cranberry oil, Omega 3 and 6 and Musk rose oil. 

You’ll also be treated to a sensory experience as each shade is infused with sweet and juicy fragrances, very reminiscent of their Juicy Tubes!

I was always a big fan of Juicy Tubes and delighted in collecting as many of them as I could but I have to be honest, I think I love these far more.

If you’re after a really pigmented product, these aren’t going to be for you. While you can build the colour to an extent, they are very sheer in appearance. 

That said, the formula is much more to my liking thanks to its super light, silky texture that doesn’t leave your lips feeling tacky or sticky. 

They remind me somewhat of a lip treatment oil and although they need frequent re-application, it’s a pleasure rather than a chore.

Lancome’s new Juicy Shaker’s are available In Selfridges and from Lancome.co.uk now and Nationwide on March 16^th where they cost £18 each.