Lip Balms And Gels With Color

So yeah, like you, I use a lot of lip balm to moisturize my lips. Me: Pretty much all year around! Nowadays customers can move beyond shadeless lip balm to next-level lip balms and gels created with lipstick-like color only it's still a moisturizing lip balm. Below are 3 fun and effective brands to know about, one with the superman ability to transform itself into a skin tone matching color after meeting the warmth of your lips. Let's call the folowing Lip Balm 2.0:

1) Pep! Balm - From Japan, a 2-in-1 multi-use lip paint + liquid blush. Highly pigmented with buildable color. The tints and their tins are inspired by artist's pigment paint. Shea butter is the main ingredient. 

2) Nooni Appleseed Lip Oil - This Korean beauty product contains cherry extract. Its lightweight formula hydrates, comforts, and leaves lips looking smooth and naturally glossy with a pop of lasting and flattering color. 

3) YouthForia - The gloss goes on as a green liquid and then exposed to your body's chemistry and temperature changes into a durable dewy, shiny, lip color or cheek tint. The formula is vegan, paragon, silicon, and fragrance-free, and the ingredients are so clean you can sleep without washing the tint off your face, as the makeup is created with ingredients that won't harm your skin. The most expensive of the 3 products, it may be worth the splurge if you regularly fall asleep without removing your makeup -- a real dermatologist no, no in promoting healthy skin!

Japan and Korea have a ton of innovative and winning beauty products! The Oriental beauty market is well worth exploring and trying as it's a top-notch industry!

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Peripera Velvet Lip Tint Is An Amazon Favorite

Peripera Velvet Lip Tint is exactly what we want, a high-pigmented natural lip stain that is soft, smooth, weightless, and lasts all day. Apply the liquid tint as a velvety lip color in the morning and by the end of the day, there's still a rosy natural hue, which doesn't smudge if you dab lip balm over it to moisturize your lips. It's also paraben-free.

The 31 shades go on your lips wet and after they dry, they are waterproof, kissproof, and foodproof. The colors are buildable. Apply a thin coat of tint with a spongy applicator and wait for it to dry before applying a 2nd thin layer if you wish. If you apply it too thick to start with, you'll need to blot it off, thereby wasting product.

There's a color to flatter every skin tone. Reviewers like the feel of the velvety formula.

The search for lip tint in natural colors with real staying power is over! Cost: Under $10.

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Powder Play Lip Color By Flower

Weeks ago Flower by Drew Barrymore lunched a new powder to cream lip color. Once applied to the lips with a wand, Powder Play -- the lightweight powder, transfers into a soft moisturizing cream. The new product softens and soothes lips while leaving them with a pop of natural color, as well as, a soft, powdery look that overwhelmingly customers like.

Customers approve of the smooth texture; and report it does, indeed, moisturize lips while the flattering pigments have real staying power. The Powder Play Lip Colors endure like matte lipstick without drying out lips as matte lipstick tends to do.

The retailer calls each powdery shade a perfectly imperfect soft focus of color.

I'm only now featuring Flower's new item launch because who is wearing lip color under their face masks nowadays? Before COVID I wore lipstick every single day, but haven't touched it much over the past year. Now that the COVID vaccines are rolling out under a new administration, perhaps we can get excited about makeup launches again! 

This newest formula from Flower -- an awesome and affordable beauty brand -- is highly rated with tons of 5 star reviews! (Watch out expensive luxe makeup, there's a new beauty sharif in town for less!!!) The cost is $10, and Ultra is now offering a $3.50 coupon here for spending $15.

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NARS & NUDESTIX For Everyday Wear

Nudes are popular for a reason. Wear them to look natural, yet polished ... like yourself only better. Most of my makeup falls into the nude camp. The attraction is intense! At times I buy a lipstick ... in what I think is a beautiful new shade ... get it home only to discover I own one that is nearly a dead ringer. A gorgeous nude has that kind of power over me: Sitting on a shelve in a shop looking so gorgeous, I'll buy it again! (However I'm watching this tendency and am committed to finishing what I have before bringing more home.:)

Nudes are for everyday wear, and what I like most: A nude color palette is low maintenance compared to bold, bright colors like reds or pinks. Nudes will still look great 8 hours later. You won't have to touch up your makeup as often. Enhance your features using nudes and forget about it.

The new Makeup Your Mind NARS palette is a collection of nudes with pizazz. There's sparkle and shimmer in the shades. The nude palette consists of: 3 blushes, 8 eye shadows and a simmering bronzing powder. All are blendable for high impact looks. At $49 (at NARS), it's a worthy splurge.

If looking for a handy, dandy lip color kit, it's here. NUDESTIX just dropped one that includes 3 highly pigmented lip+cheek pencil-crayons: one matte, one cream, and one gel. Containing a super moisturizing formula without stickiness, they come in a sleek mini tin with a mirror and a sharpener. When reasonably priced, I will buy a mini set of an otherwise pricey brand. If not overpriced, you appreciate how the minis fit conveniently into a purse. (But if a ripoff, make space to carry a full size, or find a knockoff brand). Cost of the lip/cheek kit: $25.

When it comes to makeup don't go naked, go nude!

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RevolutionPro Lip Kit

Revolution is a London based beauty company with 28 years of experience, who creates makeup, skincare and haircare of the highest quality for less. The products are 100% cruelty free and mostly vegan.

The cosmetics have top-notch formulas and rich pigments that stay put after application, and there's a wide range of colors. Nude continues to be a popular lip shade this season, so I'm featuring their much loved Naked Lip Palette, but it's only one of several, including reds and noir colors. A super affordable $14 splurge!

Revolution Pro Regeneration Eyeshadow Palette

Equally appealing is the eyeshadow palette with 18 highly pigmented and wearable shades. Some are neutrals while others have a tad of shimmer. The colors can be mixed and matched or blended. This palette is calling Angie Smith's name, a friend and reader of THE SAVVY SHOPPER!

What's more Revolution's makeup tools and accessories, needed to apply eyeshadow, lipstick, powder or blush are an excellent value too. Be sure to take a look!

Revolution Ultra Contour Palette

The contour palette has 8 creamy and blendable colors to flatter your skin tone while giving your face extra definition.

Revolution is a global-selling company, and shipping is free the world over. Savvy Shoppers are sure to find some too-good-to-be-true bargains featured under the "sale" and "outlet" tabs on its website, so take a browse.

What are your cosmetic temptations? Mine tend to be skin care and lip stick. With Revolution, treating ourselves won't break the bank!

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Sephora Collection: Cream Lip Stain

Recently I visited Sephora to find a long lasting lip color. My mission: Find lip color that stays on to reduce the need to reapply lipstick as often as I do. I'm tired of it fading! Luckily, a rich pigmented, full coverage lip color exists under the Sephora Collection line, which means get excellent quality for less moola. 

There are 40 colors in the collection, including an assortment of nudes, berries, pinks, reds and what I call Katy Perry bold hues. I bought a nude called pink tea, #40. It goes on wet and smooth and changes from a creamy texture into a silky, long lasting lip stain. Some shades are mattes, others are satin finishes. They are infused with avocado oil and don't dry out your lips like some lip stains do. The product I applied is comfortable and not sticky; and indeed, it does last for hours. 

For the best coverage, I like to apply the Sephora Lip Stain in the morning and touch it up later in the day with Maybelline Baby Lips (tinted lip balm) or even lipstick, but if I don't, I still have color on my lips when using only the cream stain, and thus accomplish my goal of less fuss.

So if you're looking for richly pigmented colors that last for hours, I recommend the Sephora Collection: Cream Lip Stain. It works as it claims, plus the many shades are beautiful! $14 each.

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