Lip balm is just made for lips, right? Wrong! It turns out lip balm
can be used on many other body parts. Here are five surprising lip balm
uses.
Joints
No one likes dry, scaly skin, but surprisingly, lip blam can me a
miracle worker for more than your luscious lips. Lip balm can be used
for any type of chapping. Just ask Jamie Bushman, owner of
The Circle Salon in Chicago: "I rub it into my knuckles and elbows when they are dry," she says. Also try lip balm on your knees and feet.
Cuticles
Bushman and Patty Gatter of
Scottie Girl
cosmetics both vote for lip balm as a cuticle moisturizur. It's not
messy and is easy to apply. Bushman says, "It's easy to massage into dry
cuticles."
Felicia Alva, a licensed esthetician, educator and makeup artist in
Los Angeles points out, "If it can hydrate lips, why not your cuticles
too?"
Hair
Fingernails aren't the only things that dry out. "I will use lip balm
to smooth the ends of my hair, especially in the winter when my hair is
dry," says Bushman. "It is great for curly or very porous ends that
need a little extra attention. A little goes a long way."
Makeup
Just because you're using other products on your lips doesn't mean
you have to skip the body part lip balm was made for. "Lip balm should
be used even when you're using lipstick, if fills in cracks and makes a
even surface for the next product being placed on the lips!" says hair
and makeup artist
Heather C. Adessa.
Also try lip balm on other features. "Lip Balm can be used lightly on the eyelids with eyeshadow to give a shimmer,"says
April Meese, owner of Customized Beauty Ltd.
Anne Taintor's Strawberry Daiquiri lip balm is soft, offers SPF 15 and has a nice tint.
Noses
"I know a lot of people who get dry noses from having a cold during
the winter from those darn scratchy tissues!" says Adessa. "I tell
people to get a medicated chapstick and simply write "N" (for nose) on
the top, so you don't use it for your lips, and use that on your nose
when you're done blowing. It soothes the skin around the nose so that it
doesn't dry and get flaky, and since it's in a stick you don't have to
put your finger to apply it to your nose for sanitary reasons."
Eyebrows
Margot Grant, beauty director of
Elizabeth Grant Skincare Intl, suggests using lip balm to tame eye-brows gone a-stray.
Alva echoes this trick. "In a pinch I've used lip balm as a brow
tamer, along with a spoolie brush/wand." Simply apply a little to the
eyebrows and use your eyebrow brush for shaping.
