my virtual memories

Ok, this is really not going to be some massive post on lipcare since I am definitely not the best person to dish out advice on lipcare, but I just wanted to rave about a product that I had tried and am still using.

I have tried some lip balms before, but am not a big fan of them because I don’t particularly suffer from dry and chapped lips and because most of the ones that I have tried are not that fantastic. Either they don’t work or they do for a while but leave a sticky residue on your lips that somehow seem to make my lips feel even drier after a few hours of usage. Maybe the trick is to reapply every few hours but I am lazy like that. Even when I was in the phase of using lipsticks or glosses (that are also somehow too sticky for me after a while and I have decided to give up wearing glosses on a daily basis), I don’t have the habit of reapplying after eating, or when the gloss or lipstick has disappeared.

In 2010 when I went to Seoul, my friend and I went crazy over the various Korean skincare brands that you see all over the place. The variety was pure madness and don’t even get me started on the prices! It’s easily half or less or what we are paying here. So you can imagine the orders that I got from some of my friends to bring these stuff back for them, but majority of the loot was mine anyhow. So, anyway when we were at Skinfood I thought I’d give this a try, on my friend’s recommendation – the Shea butter Lip Care Bar #1 Raspberry. There were other flavours too but this was the one my friend recommended so I got it.

I really love it, and I think it’s one of the best that I have tried so far, for myself at least. It is not as sticky as the others that I have tried, and there is a slight nice fragrance to it too, with a faint cherry tint on your lips after application and still looking very natural. On the local Skinfood website, it shows that this product costs S$15.50, but I distinctly remembered paying less than S$10 for it, maybe not even half of its SGD price. But then again, lip balms seem to last forever, especially when I am not a heavy user. I bought one in July 2010 and I am now only on my second stick that I got last year. And this is even when I don’t wait till I finish the lip balm to bin it. Somehow, these are one of those things that you don’t wait till it runs out to ditch them; after using it for a few months, it just seems appropriate to get a new one.

The website also shows that it comes in #3 Apricot and #4 Mint, but I believe there were other flavours that I saw when I was in Seoul, like maybe watermelon. But I’ve tried Raspberry and liked it, so I will probably stick to this, until perhaps I find and try something else better. When I was there I also bought other lip balms from the other brands, but this was the one that emerged as the winner!