New dimensions in lip maintenance

[serinde]

I'm prone to dry and/or chapped lips much of the time, enough so that I have Chapsticks squirreled all over the house, car, and my various purses for repeated convenient application in the colder weather.

But if you're wearing lipstick...? Don't tell me you have to put on lip balm and then reapply the mouth paint.

(Also, if I don't balm them before applying the lipstick in the first place, bad clumping things happen. But that's a simple problem with a simple solution.)

Comments

[nancaurelia.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, chronically chapped lips may mean that we are dehydrated and should drink more water. I am similarly dependent on chapstick and I do wear it under lipstick or lip gloss.

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

I think there may exist a combination lip balm/lipstick, but not being a user of facial cosmetics in general I couldn't tell you for sure. Just something rattling around my brain from years of advertising exposure.

FWIW, only my lower lip chaps, but I wear a thing at night to prevent teeth-grinding, and it forces my lower lip out enough to dry out at night.