BEAUTY THERAPY Hot tips for festive lips - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty BEAUTY THERAPY Hot tips for festive lips By You Magazine - December 23, 2018 It’s one of those times of year when lipstick really comes into focus. All those jokes about shenanigans under the mistletoe, not to mention the excuse of party-time central to ramp up your look. It’s like Valentine’s Day, but on steroids. red As I am prone to chapped lips, lipsticks aren’t always my friend (I can find them too drying), so I’m often a lip pencil and balm kind of gal. (I am, by the way, trying out Sensai Cellular Performance Total Lip Treatment, harrods.co.uk, which so many people swear by. It’s expensive – £75 for 15ml. It isn’t a cure, but on days when I’ve used it at bedtime, in the morning my lips have been transformed.) But there are three lippies that I want to pay proper service to. First, Estée Lauder Pure Color Desire Rouge Excess Lipstick (£34, esteelauder.co.uk, pictured in Say Yes) – it’s a bonkersly long name and it irritates me that they don’t spell it ‘colour’, but that’s a side issue. Moisturising and lightweight, it comes with two options – creme and chrome. My preferred one is the creme, which gives a satin finish that’s a little bit glossy, but not too much so. Glossier has updated and reintroduced its Generation G Lipstick (£14, glossier.com, pictured in Zip). It’s a matt finish and intended to give the effect of a just-blotted lip colour – which it does. I think of it like a stain, when your lipstick has worn in to the ideal colour. I prefer to apply it with my finger and push it into my lips as this emphasises the toned-down quality. Then there’s Giorgio Armani Beauty’s festive collection. A creamy texture that gives lips gloss, the classic Ecstasy Shine Lipstick (£30, armanibeauty.co.uk, pictured in Red Excess) has been rebooted for December with four limited-edition shades of red and purple in a special case. Follow these stars No matter what your star sign is, I have a prediction for you – something important is coming into your life. I can see it: it begins with the letter C… and ends with ‘hristmas’. I can also see a few launches relating to astrology and the four elements: water, air, earth and fire. Spectrum Collections has charming sets of star-spangled brushes housed in an elemental bag (which can double as a clutch) with the corresponding star constellations printed on the side (£49.99, spectrumcollections.com). Natural beauty followers who read their horoscopes religiously will love the Pai Skincare In Your Element Gift Set (£22, paiskincare.com). And, whether you take it seriously or not, Slip Silk Sleep Masks (£45, selfridges.com) come in night-sky blue with each star sign constellation embroidered on the front. Feature by Edwina Ings-Chambers RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty People are seriously impressed with Primark’ s £8 skinny curling tongs December 16, 2019 Boots is giving away free lipsticks to celebrate the launch of January 23, 2020 This long-lasting eyebrow product is getting rave reviews and is just June 21, 2021 These Liz Earle gift sets are on sale just in time March 5, 2020 WIN A Kiehl’ s skincare heroes bundle worth £104 July 24, 2020 Cult skincare brand Sunday Riley is branching out into hair products April 24, 2020 Superdrug is holding a huge BOGOF sale on all cosmetics for May 28, 2020 Your salon could charge you extra for overgrown roots and bad June 25, 2020 Facial steamers Why searches for this beauty gadget were up 400 July 10, 2020 Lush subscription boxes have arrived and they contain exclusive new products August 3, 2020 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved