When I was in high school, before I could drive, most weekends were spent sleeping over at my best friend's house, where we would watch old movies, eat Armenian food and bemoan our apparent lack of sex appeal. Either that, or bemoan the complete lameness of all the boys in our town. These weekends always, always included a trip to the nearby Sav-on Drugs, where we would buy Bonne Bell Lipsmackers and red vines. Since then, I've found it difficult to go to a drugstore and not buy some kind of lip balm. (The red vines I can forgo.) At any point in time, I may own between five and ten different lip balms -- I don't really think this is weird or unusual, though. Is it?
This weekend the addiction was soothed by the purchase of two new lip balms: on the left, a new version ("Platinum Lamé Pink") of the magical lip balm I sent to Mariko and on the right, a balm flavored like Earl Grey Tea. The tea one is so good, kind of sweet and milky and herbal. If it came in candy form, I would most definitely eat it.
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Comments (9)
I'm obsessive about lip balm too. I have it stashed all over the house; in my purse, on my night stand, in my desk drawer...
Posted by sarah | February 28, 2007 11:47 PM
i am sooooo not a lipstick person. i barely ever wear it. but i love me some lip balm!! my current favorites are tropical punch koolaid lipsmackers and dr pepper lipsmackers. god, i can't live without them!
Posted by gleek | March 1, 2007 12:07 AM
Egads! 10-15 is showing noble restraint!! I am also an addict. Mariko had a beauty roundtable about this recently...the C.O. Bigelow Mentha line cropped up quite a bit and I am utterly devoted now.
Posted by Cirilia | March 1, 2007 12:39 AM
That tea falvored lip balm looks awesome! The best lip balm I ever bought was in Japan, it was called "Soft Lips" and was beige with green writing and cap.
Posted by Sera | March 1, 2007 2:05 AM
mmmm tea-flavoured lip balm! would it be possible that the next prize-game-thing that you have, can you throw in one of those lipbalms too? =_=;;
and since this is the first time posting, i must say i thoroughly enjoy all of your posts =D
Posted by Denise | March 1, 2007 2:07 AM
10 to 15 IS showing restraint. I have always had a lipbalm addiction, but it's worse now that I have two daughters. Now I always have someone who "needs" a new one. We probably have 15-20 EACH! :)
Posted by April | March 1, 2007 2:39 AM
As you probably know, I, too, share the lip balm disease. When I was a kid (before you were born, probably), I sent off for this mini set of Bonne Bell Lip Smackers. I got six of them. They were the size of Chapsticks. I loved them, though I wasn't crazy about the Dr. Pepper one. THANK YOU again for getting the pinky balms for me. Also, I might kill someone for the Earl Grey Tea balm (but not you, don't worry).
Posted by Mariko | March 1, 2007 3:04 AM
I feel much better about the lip balm thing after reading the comments here. At least there are ten other people in the whole wide world who do the same thing I do. I might "accidentally" leave this up so my husband can see...
Those look so intriguing! I love the ones that have weird flavours; remember kiwi and mango lipsmackers? Believe me, in suburban Ontario in the 80's that was plenty exotic.
Posted by Valerie | March 1, 2007 6:58 AM
oh how i love lip balms. if only i weren't allergic to lipsmackers. it's truly tragic. especially because it's so hard to find yummy ones that achieve the fine balance between moisturizing and coloring that aren't lipsmackers.
Posted by sonya | March 2, 2007 4:07 PM