Beauty Bible Weekend Steal: Rimmel London Oh My Gloss! Butter Me Up

Oh, but there is a flurry of truly great lip products launching right now. Actually, standing at the Superdrug counter yesterday, shopping for cotton pads and having a mooch, it was almost overwhelming, wondering where to start.

Except we had the advantage of having tried this brilliant glossy balm at the CEW Product Demo evening last week (and this will not be the last ‘find’ we share with you from that evening of dipping, dabbing and trialling). On the strength of that brief encounter, we sought it out – and we need to share it with you now.

This really does have a delicious, balm-y texture that is delivering relief to lips that have really and truly suffered, this enduringly cold winter.

It’s glossy without being sticky, and we love the angled applicator – a dot squeezed from the tube is all you need to cover lips with a sheer veil of glossy, super-comfy colour.

Ah, colour. Our only issue with is that Rimmel London Oh My Gloss! Butter Me Up comes in a slender range of shades, from which we chose Mellow Mocha 003 (above) – looks brown in the tube, but it’s actually quite dark nude on the lips. (Rimmel London need to add some more neutral tones to this, to sit alongside Coral Breeze, Bubble Gum and Red Velvet, which are all a bit ker-pow, even as a sheer balm, for us.)

Other than that, it’s quite the affordable find.

£7.99 – buy here

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