This was an easy POTW to do. In fact, I made up my mind within 2 hours of
using the product that I had to share…
Um, I don’t normally buy a beauty
product because a celeb’s name is attached to it (with the exception of the
uber-talented tattoo artist, Kat von D; I genuinely like
and buy her make-up) but I do like Rimmel’s collaboration with Kate
Moss – the lipsticks are absolutely marvellous.
Good shades with intense colour, long-lasting and with a semi-glossy
finish, I admit to buying a standby just in case I lose the original, which I
have done in the past and I’ve felt bereft.
Bereft, I say. I have two reds
#01 and 2 nudes #03, with the complementing lip liners.
This Summer, another Kate collection has been
launched, this one being an assortment of Nudes which contains 6 lipsticks, one
of which is the Balm and five nail polishes.
I had a dabble with the testers recently and then walked away only
because I already have Kate’s #03 lipsticks, which is similar to one of the new nude
shades so I really didn’t need another one.
Ridiculously, I did the same thing three more times until I finally gave
in and on the fourth visit, I bought #45 (a nude pinkie shade rather than my
usual beige nude).
Anyway, this blog is about the balm and
not the lipsticks so let me carry on. When
I was shopping the other day, I thought I would make a fifth visit to the Rimmel
stand and if they did have the lip balm in stock then I would buy it as one
can’t have enough lip balms and I was intrigued to know if it was as
conditioning as it claims to be. Seeing
as it was buy one and get another half price, I bought the Balm and the dark
brown lipstick shade #48.
So the Lip Conditioning Balm…looks like
Elizabeth Arden’s 8-Hour Lip Balm (€23), with white and silver packaging, except
for the angled lid. As soon as I put it
on, my lips felt very comfortable. In
fact, I only re-applied it after having my evening meal, when I like to wipe my
lips clean of food and then pop balm back on.
Normally I would be re-applying lip balm after every beverage or every
hour or so but no, I didn’t feel the need. It
claims to give up to 8 hours of moisturisation, prevents dryness, chapping and boy,
do I believe them. Oh, added bonus, it
has an SPF15.
I won’t say ‘move over, Dr Hauschka’
just yet (Dr H being my ultimate lip balm) but this Rimmel Balm comes in a very
close second. Obviously, I will have to
buy some spares.
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