Prep Your Lips for Fall and Winter! Our Top 5 Lip Treatment Picks for Fall 2009

Fall and win­ter are creep­ing up, and one thing that every­body hates about the dry weather is chapped lips. Our lips are some of the most sen­si­tive parts of our skin that react the most dra­mat­i­cally to weather changes, so ladies, time to stock up on good lip balm and lip gloss that could pro­tect your lips from dehy­dra­tion and UV rays while giv­ing you the per­fect pout!

1. Plump your lips with the Renew Lip Plumper
Talking about amaz­ing lips, you just have to men­tion our Angelina Jolie, who never fails to show up on the red car­pet with her sig­na­ture sexy lips. Jolie’s famous full, pink lips spare her from exces­sively bright lip­stick col­ors, and for us lowly mor­tals (*laugh*) who might not be gifted with the same sexy lips, there’s still a way out!

Applied as eas­ily as your favorite lip gloss, the Renew Lip Plumper invig­o­rates lips with a burst of tin­gling peppermint-like sen­sa­tions. Within sec­onds, lips plump up with irre­sistible vol­ume. Not only does Renew Lip Plumper leave lips with a silky shine it also restores lips with nec­es­sary mois­ture for a health­ier pout — for­get about lip injec­tions or plas­tic surgery, you can too get Angelina Jolie’s sexy full lips with the Renew Lip Plumper!

The only catch that both­ers me a lit­tle bit is the itchy tan­gling feel­ing on your lips that lingers on for 20–25 min­utes even after appli­ca­tion — I know it’s a sign of the lip plumper doing its job, but it takes a lit­tle bit of get­ting used to. My favorite part — it works SO quickly. My lips lit­er­ally swelled up in 30 sec­onds after appli­ca­tion, and in a minute of so you can observe the dif­fer­ence in my lip col­ors. So this makes reap­pli­ca­tion easy and smooth — take a short pow­der room break and in 2 min­utes, you are back with glossy red lips.

2. Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss for Shimmery, Natural Glossy Lips
Our South African beauty Charlize Theron never cease to show up at an event with­out look­ing sexy and full-lipped, and the Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss is one of the best lip gloss out there to repro­duce her glossy yet classy, lus­trous lips.

The Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss is non-sticky lip gloss that is for­ti­fied with skin-smoothing and mois­tur­iz­ing ingre­di­ents like sugar (yep, sweet, sweet lips, lit­er­ally), beeswax, Shea but­ter, jojoba oil, grape seed oil, and black cur­rant seed oil. It is also packed with Vitamin E and cit­rus extracts that keep your lips healthy and smooth. The Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss has a

fun, fruity smell that makes it a lit­tle flirtatious. Our favorite col­ors are Sugar Kiss (a girly light pink) and Sugar Pin-up (a shim­mery coral).

What we like the most about the Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss is how it basi­cally suits any skin tone — the shim­mery pig­ments in the Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss high­lights the light, soft col­ors of the gloss with­out mak­ing your lips look too dra­matic or unnat­ural. Any catch? The Fresh Sugar Lip Gloss is a tiny bit pricey ($18), but the mois­tur­iz­ing effects and the col­ors are sim­ply unmatched. Hint: Sephora gives out travel-size sam­ples occa­sion­ally — so go hit the clos­est store to try your luck!

3. Chic, organic, and easy to apply with EOS organic lip balm
Jessica Alba is known for her chic fash­ion choices and healthy lifestyles (look how she bounced right back to her best body right after hav­ing lit­tle Honor!), and this lip balm fits her style per­fectly. The EOS Smooth Sphere lip balm is a USDA cer­ti­fied organic lip balm, and you sim­ply have to applaud and admire their cre­ativ­ity — just as you and I com­plain about how gross and unhy­gienic it is to use our fin­gers to apply lip balm, the EOS Smooth Sphere lip balm has thought about it all for you.

The EOS Smooth Sphere lip balm is in a small Easter egg shell that is easy for you to hold onto and small enough to put into your pocket, and the hemisphere-shaped lip balm glides right onto your lip, so say ciao to dirty fin­gers. I love the smooth and easy appli­ca­tion that solves the prob­lem of hav­ing to make sure your fin­gers are clean when­ever you need to apply any lip balm. The for­mula is non-sticky and very mois­tur­iz­ing, and my favorite fla­vor out of the three is Honeysuckle Honeydew — fresh, fruity, and organic!

4. Stay safely sun-kissed with Hissyfit Lip Service SPF 50+
Do you know your lips need pro­tec­tion from UV rays too? As the weather gets colder, slowly the only part of your body that is expo­sured to sun­light will be your face, and while we always remem­ber to apply foun­da­tion with SPF or sun­screen before we head out, how many of us actu­ally remem­ber about pro­tect­ing our lips?

When you want to talk about sun pro­tec­tion, the Aussies know it best. Miranda Kerr, Australia’s prized super­model, has beau­ti­ful sun-kissed yet per­fectly smooth skin, and it is not hard to guess that she prob­a­bly takes very good care of her pout lips too. We reviewed the Hissyfit Saving Face SPF 50+ earlier, and we are delighted to review the lip balm of the same line — the Hissyfit Lip Service 50+. The Hissyfit Lip Service is a clear lip balm that deeply hydrates and help to dimin­ish the fine lines on your lips while offer­ing broad spec­trum SPF 50+ sun pro­tec­tion. I love the SPF 50+ pro­tec­tion — this is prob­a­bly the only lip balm out there that offers such sun pro­tec­tion. Simply apply 15–20 min­utes before you step out into the sun and reap­ply at reg­u­lar inter­vals for anti-aging and sun pro­tec­tion pur­poses, then you, too, can have healthy sun-kissed lips like Miranda Kerr.

The Eco Lips Sport Lip Balmis per­fect for sporty girls like Hayden Panetierre, who is known for going to great lengths out to the ocean to pro­tect whales. The Eco Lips Sport Lip Balm is organic and packed with nat­ural nutri­tious ingre­di­ents for com­plete pro­tec­tion for your lips, espe­cially for out­doors, when you are under expo­sure to the ele­ments and your lips get chapped fast.

The Eco Lips also have lip balm that are vegan (Eco Lips Bee Free that is made of plant wax instead of beeswax), and lip balms that come with clips and sleeves that will come in handy when you go on a hike or go camp­ing. It is the best choice for the environmental-friendly and green-conscious you, con­sid­er­ing the lim­ited choices out there that caters to our “green needs”. A side note worth men­tion­ing: Eco Lips ini­ti­ated the largest solar power project in Iowa in 2006, and is cur­rently work­ing on more sim­i­lar projects in mul­ti­ple loca­tions. So if you want to go green, you should start with pro­tect­ing your lips!