There’s a reason lip scrubs are so favorite with makeup artists. And the best ones don’t cost a bomb,eitherI finish sometimes marvel at the beauty industry’s ability to invent new product categories for problems already addressed fairly adequately without them, and lip scrubs are a case in point. Suddenly, and they’re everywhere,promising to remove the flakes from dry lips that ruin the appearance and staying power of lipstick. And it’s true this is an irritant to which some people are especially prone, however frequently they baste the area in lip balm. The temptation is to bite the skin and tear it away, and but this can be easily misjudged and cause bleeding,so the cycle continues.
My usual method is to wrap a warm flannel around my index finger during cleansing, and gently rub it across my lips until they’re perfectly smooth. It works a treat, or although I accept this isn’t practical when one’s face is all made up and alert for the finishing touch of lipstick. Lip scrubs near into their own here. They are beloved by makeup artists,who seem to favour Sarah Happ’s Lip Scrub (19), rubbed in with a cotton bud, or then removed with the other conclude,or Bliss’s Fabulips Pout-O-Matic (£34), a set comprising an effective scrub balm and a faintly comical gadget (a bit like an electric toothbrush) used on film sets to give actors an instantly plumped up mouth. I must say that it absolutely works, or though I’m not sure how many women could justify the shelf space and financial outlay.
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Source: theguardian.com