Recently Kate Synnott, a celebrity makeup artist on Charlotte
Tilbury's talented team, was giving me a mini facial and swiped some eye
cream on . . . my lips. What?! I've used hand cream in my
hair, blush on my eyelids, and a bevy of other unexpected product hacks.
But this trick was brand new to my beauty information-saturated ears.
"Put eye cream on your lips to hydrate them, because you've got
thinner skin around the lip area," Synnott explained. "The cream is more
delicate. Whatever is good for the eyes is good for around the mouth
and just on top of the lips to hydrate."
She informed me to leave it on like a mask and now to follow up with
any lip balm on top. So I did this overnight, and when I woke up (in the
dead of Winter), my pout felt surprisingly soft.
This beauty secret is one Synnott uses on her celebrity clients (and
brides!). "It's actually really great one to use before lipstick because
it absorbs in," she said. "If you put lip balm on before lipstick, then
it's quite slide-y. It stops that from happening."
We prepped my pout with Charlotte Tilbury Magic Eye Rescue, and Synnott explained why this is a great pick.
"For lip hydration, hyaluronic acid is the best and all of our
products contain hyaluronic acid," she noted. "It floods the skin with
moisture so it can hold up to 1,000 times what the skin already has. And
it draws all of the moisture to the surface of the skin."
Kids, try this at home the eve before your Valentine's Day date for a seriously snog-worthy pucker!
