COSMETIC CRAVING

LIP balms, like everything else in beauty, have been getting terribly complicated and costly of late, promising to volumise and reshape the mouth.

I’m wedded to Ultrasun Lip Protection SPF50 (£10, ultrasun.co.uk), which appears to both reshape and volumise without making any such boasts. Ultrasun was founded three decades ago by a Swiss chemist Tazio Tettamanti, who, after his brother died of skin cancer, was determined to prevent others doing the same.

This is a boosted version of the brand’s best-selling factor 30 balm, perfect for the SPF obsessive, or those poor blighters who get cold sores in the sun.

It makes for a fabulous lipstick base. Yet also looks extremely fetching on its own, being beautifully plumping and conditioning.