Launching today is the newest member of the City Lips collection: Plumping Lip Oils in soft colors! Lip oils are having more than a moment in the beauty world. This new duo from City Beauty adds to its sister products, City Lips Night Oil and City Lips Plumping Gloss with a daytime glossy, plumping oil.
City Lips Plumping Lip Oils are a lightly tinted lip formula that deep hydration to lips resulting in a visibly plumper, younger look. In addition, rejuvenating ingredients help smooth the look of wrinkles and add volume. The shine also helps the lips look plumper.
If you have thin lips or chapped, dry lips, City Lips Plumping Oils are a fine addition to your lip-boosting regimen.
I was surprised to discover that the Plumping Oil lasts for several hours on my lips! It doesn’t just sink in and disappear. I can even drink from my water bottle throughout the day, and I can still feel that the nourishing, cushiony oil is still doing its thing!
The Plumping Oil comes in two shades:
- Sangria: a light reddish tone
- Pink Champagne: a pink-gold hue
Because my lips are already somewhat pinkish, I prefer Sangria because it adds a bit more color to my own natural lip shade. The more you apply, the deeper the shade gets. Sometimes I apply it under City Lips opaque Watermelon Lip Gloss for more color as well as more protection, hydration and glow, but that’s just me – more is more!
The oil has a very faint grapefruit flavor. To be honest, during application I could taste a little something, but I didn’t identify it as grapefruit 😉 Maybe it’s been so long since I’ve been able to eat grapefruit because of my cholesterol meds that I didn’t recognize it! At any rate, there is no chemical taste and the faint taste lasts 30 seconds at most, so I wouldn’t buy this for a long-lasting fruit flavor!
The oil itself feels great on my lips, especially in this frigid less than 20 degree temperatures this week! It feels cushiony, and it makes my lips look fuller, especially when I apply it onto my lipline.
The key ingredients in the new oil include:
- Portulaca Pilosa Extract: a rejuvenating ingredient that helps create a more youthful-looking lip shape
- Botanical Barrier Blend: helps strengthen the skin barrier by delivering long-lasting hydration that helps lips look fuller
- Hyaluronic Acid Spheres : HA is well-known as a super hydrator that keeps moisture in making lips looked plumped.
If you check out the complete ingredient list below, you will see why this is called Plumping OIL because there are lots of natural seed oils and extracts in the new product. What I truly appreciate about City Lips lip products is that they don’t contain plumping ingredients that burn or dry out my lips. Instead, their lip products’ benefits are based on ingredients that hydrate and lock in moisture. Much better IMHO!
Full Ingredient List: Hydrogenated Polyisobutene, Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer, Ethylhexyl Olivate, Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride, Oryza Sativa (Rice) Bran Extract, Meadowfoam Estolide, Ethylhexyl Palmitate, Flavor, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Limnanthes Alba (Meadowfoam) Seed Oil, Squalane, Cetearyl Ethylhexanoate, Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Linoleic Acid, Phospholipids, Phytosterols, Carica Papaya Seed Oil, Actinidia Chinensis Seed Oil, Citrus Aurantifolia Seed Oil, Passiflora Edulis Seed Oil, Helianthus Annuus (Sunflower) Extract, Stearyl Glycyrrhetinate, Sorbitan Isostearate, Glycerin, Tocopherol, Rosmarinus Ocinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Silica Dimethyl Silylate, Ananas Sativus Fruit Extract, Salix Alba Bark Extract, Plankton Extract, Pentaerythrityl Tetra-di-t-butyl Hydroxyhydrocinnamate, Butylene Glycol, Portulaca Pilosa Extract, Sodium Hyaluronate, Sucrose Cocoate, Palmitoyl Tripeptide-38. May Contain: Blue 1 Lake (CI 42090), Isopropyl Titanium Triisostearate, Red 7 Lake (CU 15850), Synthetic Wax, Ricinus Communis (Castor) Seed
Like all City Beauty products, what it doesn’t have are:
- Parabens
- Sulfates
- Mineral Oil
- Phthalates
- Alcohol
And it is Leaping Bunny Certified as cruelty-free.
City Lips Plumping Lip Oil comes in a glass bottle with a uniquely shaped applicator that is pointed at the end and easily follows my lipline.
Plus it’s wide enough to cover my lips completely with juicy lip oil. The bottle contains 0.23 fl oz /6.8ml and will be priced at $39. But today through February 23, 2025, you can receive 25% off on the website with the code PLUMPITUP.
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