New Year new lips please

Yes I have posted about Medela Purelan Lanolin Nipple Cream before here but this is more about application than product.

My lips are suddenly suffering, badly. A bit swollen, a bit thin, a bit bleeding and definitely sore and chapped. Now the Purelan is a good, effective lip balm, but my lips are still all of the above and more. So application. 

There are many views on how to rid oneself of cracked chapped lips, and they are well documented. Most involve rubbing lips with something abrasive to remove the itty bits of loose skin, using a flannel, toothbrush, cotton bud. However what I find is that all that happens is that the already thin skin on my lips, becomes thinner and more sore. So what I do is apply, and apply and apply - car journeys are good for this, applying a layer every 5 minutes and whilst my lips are not quite there yet, they are better.

Lip Fusion XXL - my lips but better

So this came in the recent SpaceNK gift with purchase bag. 

I was rather taken with this gwp - there were two options, luxury and deluxe (if I remember correctly), I ummmed and ahhhed for an age, so much so that the deluxe option ran out so I received the luxury option below.

I have never really been a fan of lip plumpers - I think partly because I find them a bit too tingly, and they favour either a cinnamon or peppermint flavour, neither of which appeal. And without blowing my own trumpet, I am pretty happy with my lips, a bit pointy but not too thin and anyway with awnings for eyelids, one has to make the most of what one is left with so for me the lips have it, the lips have it.

However what I do suffer from is a depletion of pigmentation, and a permanent fadedness which leads to continual "are you okay/ill?" if I do not wear colour on my lips.

This product gives me a smidge of colour and a tad of tingle. Enough to enable a bloom of colour, enough to make a bit of a difference.

I would consider buying this again - full size is £39.