As girls, we try to be as soft and feminine as possible. That includes our lips. The way to ensure that your lips stay soft is to apply a good moisturizing lip balm every day.
Why do girls wear lip balm? Wearing lip balm moisturizes our lips, making them soft and smooth. Lip balm gives our lips a healthy pinkish look and is available in fabulously feminine fragrances.
Let’s go over the twelve key reasons why you want to wear lip balm. If you are not already using lip balm daily, you will clearly see why you should.
Lip Balm Moisturizes Your Lips
When your lips start getting dry they look tired. Dryness also makes your lips prone to getting chapped and even cracked.
If you were to smooth on some good, moisturizing lip balm as part of your nighttime beauty routine before bed, your lips will thank you in the morning.
Lip Balm Softens Your Lips
I don’t know any girl that doesn’t want to have soft lips. Soft lips are supple and healthy-looking. It is wonderful to have lips that are kissable and feel feminine.
Lip Balm Is A Unisex Option
The wonderful thing about lip balm is that since the advent of chap-stick it has become completely acceptable for men to wear lip balm. In fact, there are many women that insist that their husbands/partners wear lip balm.
This means that you can wear your lip balm with confidence even if you (or your guy) is trying to keep your girliness a secret. Healthy lips are not gender-specific.
Lip Balm Relieves Discomfort
There is a sad truth about dry lips and that is the discomfort that comes with it. A day in the cold air of the snow slopes for salty seawater or sunburn can be very painful.
Luckily applying lip balm can soothe away that pain and discomfort almost instantly.
Lip Balm Adds Healthy Color To Your Lips
Lip balm is perfect for just adding a hint of pretty color to your lips. This is great when you don’t want to commit to the hyper-pigmented tones of lipstick or lip gloss.
You can try a slightly tinted lip balm to feel prettier and still be subtle about what you show to the world.
Lip Balm Prevents Aging
Choose a lip balm that includes SPF for general everyday wear. This is vital if you spend a lot of time in the sun.
Sun exposure is a factor that causes those unsightly lip lines at a younger age. You can prevent them by taking precautions with SPF lip balm.
Lip Balm Is Not Sticky
When you use lip glosses and lipsticks, you need to be aware that if you keep adding more they build up thicker and thicker on your lips. This can make your lips feel gritty, gooey, or otherwise uncomfortable after a while.
Because lip balm absorbs into your skin you never get that same kind of build-up. You get the same smooth texture every time you apply your lip balm.
Lip Balm Comes In Fabulous Scents
Lip balms come in a huge variety of scents, though the packaging often refers to the scents as flavors.
By way of example, there is a song that springs to mind featuring cherry Chapstick.
I love the pretty feminine scents that many lip balms have and generally recommend those.
Some lip balms are scented with essential oils and you will get the benefit of that essence when using the lip balm. For example, peppermint helps you to concentrate.
Lip Balm Is Easy To Apply
Lip balm is much easier to apply than lipstick or lip gloss because you don’t need to look in the mirror to apply lip balm.
There is no chance of the color seeping over your lips and into any cracks that you may have surrounding your mouth. In fact, lip balm will help smooth those cracks too.
You just simply smooth lip balm on your lips and go.
At the same time, there is nothing wrong with using a mirror, large or compact, when you put on lip balm. In fact, it will make the process feel more feminine.
Lip Balm Feels Soothing
The moisturizing effect of lip balm feels soothing even if your lips aren’t chapped.
Depending on the lip balm that you choose, using your lip balm can feel like a mini lip massage.
Lip Balm Makes Your Lips Look Suppler
It is not just the moisturizers, but also that slight glossy sheen of your lip balm makes tired-looking lips more vibrant.
Dry, thin lips can be plumped up in seconds with no real effort on your part.
While there are plenty of lip glosses on the market that claim to plump your lips, moisturizing them daily is a great way to ensure you maintain a youthful, supple look without adding extra products.
Lip Balm Moisturized Lips Make Lipstick Glide On Easier
The basic fundamental of your skincare routine is never going to bed at night with your makeup on. Obviously, removing your makeup at night will include your lipstick too.
As young girls, we are taught to moisturize our faces after washing our faces before bed. The moisture will sink in overnight and give us a soft, smooth canvas for applying our makeup the next day. Healthy, moisturized skin helps your makeup appear more even and fresh when you put it on.
The same thing applies to your lips. Every night, follow your face-washing and moisturizing routine with a coat of lip balm, then head to bed.
Plus, you can even use lip balm under your lipstick for an all-day coat of moisture. Using lip balm does not mean that you need to skip on lipstick or lip gloss.
Recommended Lip Balms
I really love EOS lip balms (available on Amazon). The little sphere containers fit easily into my smallest purse and feel super girly when I use them.
When it comes to tinted lip balms I like the Clinique Chubby Stick (available on Amazon). Again, the girliness of the container will leave you in no doubt that you will be adding a hint of pretty color to your lips together with moisturized softness.
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