Lip balms for medical frontliners
ONE of the things I hate about wearing masks is that my lips have become drier than usual. In quarantine, I became very obsessed with lip balms. I imagined that if I, who would venture out only twice a month to buy food and needed to wear masks only during those times, had that experience, imagine the frontliners who need to wear masks for eight to 12 hours everyday.
Because of the face masks we need to wear when we go out, our lips are hidden, too, and they don’t get any air. The skin that covers the lips is also thin and very delicate. When we cover up with a mask, we mostly breathe through our mouths and that contributes to lip dryness.
Dry lips are uncomfortable. Sometimes, they bleed. This may be a minor discomfort that medical frontliners suffer compared to everything they go through everyday, but it still needs to be addressed.
Medical frontliners have been hailed as the heroes of this pandemic but this is not enough. I have relatives and friends who are doctors and nurses, and I’ve seen how they’ve struggled in this pandemic.
Thus, the announcement of Burt’s Bees Philippines that it is donating 1,000 lip balms to medical frontliners is something that made me so happy.
The lip balms are for frontliners in five hospitals around Metro Manila: The Medical City, St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City, Lung Center of the Philippines, National Children’s Hospital and Cardinal Santos Medical Center.
“We hope that by treating our frontliners with something as simple as Burt’s Bees lip balm, we can spark hope and lift their spirit,” said Burt’s Bees International Sales and Marketing Director for Southeast Asia Paulo Lao. “This is our little way of sharing joy, expressing our gratitude and paying our respects to their heroic efforts in helping protect the health of Filipinos.” Burt’s Bees lip balm has allnatural ingredients that maintain the lips’ moisture and prevent them from drying.
LIPSTICKS WITH A CLICK
STROKES Beauty Lab has released its line of premium click lipsticks, two months after the success of its The Brow Artist Collection.
The Velvet Click Stick Collection is Strokes Beauty Lab’s line of matte lipsticks that comes with a unique, nonretractable click stick feature to ensure little to no product waste. The full body cover protects the product’s creamy and buttery texture that allows for a moisturizing feel despite its matte finish.
The velvet matte lipsticks are lightweight, longwearing and highly blendable and buildable. They give a flawless, rich and pigmented pop of color with just the right amount of the product at hand.
The click lipsticks come in nine universal shades: Cameo, Teresa, Flamingo, Contessa, Copperhead, Viper, Lady Luck, Spice and Vittoria, which is Strokes Beauty Lab Founder and CEO Momoi Supe’s personal favorite. The beauty market’s newest lip beauty must-haves are infused with Vitamin E, plant-based squalane and sunflower seed oil to condition the lips for long-term skin smoothness and softness, staying true to the brand’s practice of combining beautification with treatment.
Designed in California and made in PRC from responsibly sourced global ingredients, the crueltyfree and high-grade quality products are being offered at a reasonable price of P398 each.
It also continues the brand’s signature inclusion of empowering statements on its packaging. “I am thriving,” “I am captivating” and “I am compelling” are just some of the assurances found on the lipstick tubes.
Supe, finding inspiration from his eye studio’s lip tattoo services, wanted to make readily available and reasonably priced counterparts of the level of artistry that his brand promises.
Strokes Eye Beauty Studio by Momoi Supe has been offering a variety of semi-permanent makeup services that cater to the brows, eyes and lips since its establishment in 2015 as the first and only eye beauty studio in the country. With the beauty enthusiasts who would opt for a more temporary lipstick fix in mind, Momoi created the Velvet Click Stick Collection.
“At the heart of the Strokes brand is the promise of everyday confidence, and so I wanted to create products that would be wearable any day and for any occasion. The Velvet Click Stick Collection is just one of the many results of wanting to fulfill this promise, and I’m so excited to have unveiled another one so soon after introducing The Brow Artist Collection,” said Supe.