When a lick of lip balm doesn’t cut it — welcome to your 30s peeps!

Pretty much me from 8–30s

Lipstick and liner seemed a little too much like work and if anyone remembers the Rimmel Black Cherry lipstick phase of the 90s chances were it was on your teeth more than anything else.

Me, I liked to rock a lip balm — sometimes tinted if I felt wild. I was no bother to put on, if it faded I didn’t look wasted and it made my lips feel nice. Nowadays if I have compromised with long lasting lipsticks but I’ve notice that a lot of lip balms just aren’t cutting it anymore.

I treated myself to two new ‘lets get sh*t done’ products after my exams.

Thin, dry lips look aging and more importantly dry lips can be sensitive and sore, but ain’t nobody got time to be foofing around with product — dry lips are something that just needs to be addressed and dealt with so you can get on with your day.

Bought this little bottle of magic through Victoriahealth for £38 — I know I know pricey!

It is supposed to use the latest technologies to enhance volume, texture, softness and contour while providing multiple age prevention and age correction technologies.

You put it on twice a day for 30 days and then one a day thereafter. It does give you red lips for the first few minutes but that dies away and I’m guessing that this bottle will last me oh at least 8 months maybe even a year — so that does affect the overall price in my mind.

I used it and I got another little magpie to test it out and here’s what we looked like:

Pretty lips before application on fellow magpie

One minute after the first application — see the red around the lips?

Lips after five minutes — pretty colour and look moisturised even thought the serum dries in very quickly. Little magpie felt that her lips felt firmer and that there was more there when she pressed them together. She noticed a slight difference the next morning.

My lips before.

My lips after a minute — notice the red around the lips again?

This is my lips after two days — there’s no sudden bee stung lips BUT my lips feel really firm and I find that when I put lippy on it sets really well. I wasn’t 100% sure but a client asked me for the name of my lipstick yesterday and I do think it looked really well because my lips were in good condition.

I’ll do an update after the 30 day trial is over but if this fights aging and makes my lips feel better then so far so good.