Valentine's Day Prepping - Pucker Up, Part 1

Who doesn’t think about lips, kissing, and wanting it to all go smoothly on Valentine’s Day? Of course, I may be the only one obsessed with having the most kissable lips this side of the world year-round, but let me share with you a few product finds I’ve been playing around with for the past month.

Peter Thomas Roth’s Lips To Die For Lip Facial Trio ($60.00) gives you three products for three steps to make your lips their most kissable this lovin’ season. Use the lemony sugar scrub to exfoliate lips to give them a smooth finish. Next, apply the lip putty, which is clay-based, that goes on for a few minutes, rinsed off with lukewarm water, and gives your lips some hydration and moisturization. Finish with a cute pink balm that gives the slightest tint to natural lips while keeping them soft.

Bella Il Fiore Sweet Talk Spice Set ($15.00) is a cute trinket to keep stashed in your purse for last minute lips and breath. See, it’s a multi-tasking product! You get this cute mini gloss that’s a sheer shimmery grapefruit kind of color. The mints are underneath the lipgloss, and they’re quite tasty (cinnamon-y). The only downside to this is that minty dust can wind up on the lipgloss. It feels like every girl’s emergency kit for all those impromptu love connections, though!

Philosophy Candy Hearts Set ($25.00) is like a Valentine’s Day stocking stuffer (heart stuffer?). Three darling tubes that say “love you” (raspberry sorbet), “ask me” (vanilla birthday cake), and “be mine” (melon daiquiri). I love me some good lip balm/clear gloss for those lazy days, and if I’m going to go gloss, I want to go super glossy. This is why I have a good relationship with Philosophy’s lip shines–they give me that shiny result that I lust after with a subtle scent and no real stickiness.

theBalm’s Stainiac ($14.00) in Beauty Queen appears as a deep red color in the tube, but it goes on as a light reddish/berry stain (more pink-red than purple-red). I found this product a little tough to work with – I honestly could not seem to get the product to adhere to my upper lip (maybe mine is wonky, it wouldn’t surprise me!). It looked fab on my bottom lip, but unfortunately, without the top lip tinted, I look like a bee stung my bottom lip! Nevertheless, as a true blue beauty blogger, I made sure to wear it around the house to check out the wear time on it. It was great – it rubbed off minimally and the stain kept for hours.