Lips are demanding, delicate and sensitive. They need to be given the attention and pampering they deserve. They are often affected by sudden changes in temperature, whether due to the cold or now by exposure to the sun and intense heat, which causes them to crack and deteriorate easily. So a simple lip balm may not be enough and your lips are crying out for extra hydration.

If you need an emergency ‘cure’ and are looking for a good dose of nourishment, lip masks have become one of the best options to complete any beauty routine. These products formulated to care for and protect the skin of the lips, provide a high dose of nourishment, as they are more concentrated and offer greater hydration to the area.

Smile Patch

Lip patch or mask based on biocellulose, a nanofibre derived from coconut water, enriched with hyaluronic acid. It is ultra-moisturising and plumping, soothing and repairing. The main active ingredients in this mask include: Hyaluronic acid: moisturises and plumps; Ceramides, provitamin B5, allantoin, physalis extract: soothe, repair and protect; Amenarene extract: captures and stores lipids in the lips; Palmitoyl tripeptide-5: stimulates collagen synthesis. Shop here.

Kiehl’s ‘Buttermask For Lips’

With 100% naturally derived ingredients such as coconut oil and wild mango butter, this Kiehl’s mask repairs chapped, dehydrated or very dry lips overnight, providing intense hydration to leave them feeling soft and refreshed when you wake up in the morning. Shop here.

LANEIGE ‘Lip Sleeping Mask’

This night mask by LANEIGE completely envelops the lips to maximise moisture overnight. Its formula is composed of powerful antioxidants and ingredients such as hyaluronic acid and minerals, which nourish and regenerate dry lips during the sleeping hours, leaving them feeling soft and smooth. Buy here.

Yeauty ‘Lip pads’

Yeauty has its revolutionary lip pads: a hydrogel lip mask with hyaluronic acid that moisturises, nourishes, regenerates and provides elasticity, preventing lips from cracking or drying out. Thanks to its active ingredients, they will be much softer, renewed and completely prepared to look beautiful, juicy and with an irresistible kiss me effect. Shop here.

Fenty Skin ‘Plush Puddin’

This smoothing mask by Fenty Skin reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles and improves lip volume and elasticity, thanks to a formula with coconut and castor oils, pomegranate sterols, Barbados cherry extract and vitamin E, a powerful antioxidant that helps revive and regenerate lips. Shop here.

CurrentBody Skin LED Lip Perfector

Talk of LED face masks has long since ceased to be a novelty reserved only for dermatological centres and has become an at-home facial treatment option. Now this tool has been extended to the lips; this gadget increases blood circulation to make lips look plumper and fills in fine lines and wrinkles. Buy here.

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