The Best Winter Lip Remedy

Ok, so I told you that working with professional makeup artists had its perks.  Well I just learned one of the best beauty tips I have heard in a long time...maybe ever.  If you are anything like me then you get super dry lips in the winter.  I feel like I moisturize and moisturize and nothing is helping.  I love my MAC lipsticks, but they would always dry my lips out (especially the mattes) and after about 30min of wear time, my lips looked all cracked and dry and the color was all creased and nasty.  Even upon first application I found that my lipstick wasn't going on even because of all the dead skin.  I tried exfoliating with my Modern Friction (Origins), and it helped a little, but it didn't get everything and it tasted awful in my mouth.  So I asked around and found a couple awesome tips.

Tip #1: Exfoliate with a moisturizer and a mascara tester wand.  Yes, you read that right, a mascara tester wand.  The bristles are the perfect mixture of hard and flexible to really scrub that dead skin off, and using a like moisturizer (or eye cream) will re-hydrate your lips!  P.S. apply the moisturizer pretty heavily so that you don't tear up the good skin on your lips.

Mascara Tester Wand

Origins Lip Remedy

Ok, so now you're probably like, why the hell is this girl telling me to put eye cream on my lips.  Well, you have three different types of skin, the gentle, sensitive skin on your face and neck, the tough, durable skin covering your torso and limbs, and then the very fragile skin around your eyes.  Well the skin around your lips is the same as the skin around your eyes, so moisturizing your lips with an eye cream will be much more effective.

Tip #2: When in doubt, tap some powder on first.  If you are out in public, or in a rush and you don't have time to exfoliate your lips (even though it takes less than a minute) pat some powder on your lips to make your lipstick stick, and glide over your lips more evenly.  I am honestly not 100% sure why this works, but it does, and it's great in a pinch.  However, if you have the chance/time to exfoliate then that works 10 times better.

I hope this was helpful!  Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, and be safe shopping on Black Friday! I'll be working at my Origins counter at 5am.