I can’t tell you how many girls I know think that shiny, gooey, colourful lipgloss is moisturizing their lips.

Most lip products actually dry out your lips – with their chemicals, perfums, colours, and other additives. If you were to slick on some proper moisturizer under the layer of fabulous colour – that’s a different story. But many women consider the one layer of colour to be enough to prevent them from the flaky, dry, aging lips.

Yes, lips age!

Summer is coming up – and that means the monsterious (word?) DEHYDRATION is right up behind us. We all take extra precautions (you SHOULD if you don’t already) to drink more water, moisturize our skin, replenish our bodies, etc… but have you ever realized how often you lick your lips in the summertime? Wayyyyy more than wintertime! As we are eating more often and drinking more often throughout the day, our lips lose the moisturizer we previously put on, and start to dry out.

So make sure you’re applying those lip moisturizers – preferably with SPF! Sun=sun damage=wrinkles. On your lips too.

My favourite lip moisturizer!