Snow isn’t the only type of flakes that come out during winter.  That uncomfortable and unattractive dry, flaky skin and chapped lips appear every winter due to the cold, dry air (low relative humidity).  MDM’s Tip 1 for Beating the Winter Skin Flakes-Moisturize your lips!     Try looking for a product with a petroleum, beeswax, shea butter, vegetable or animal-oil base which will prevent the moisture (water) from your lips from evaporating.  Another plus is the addition of a sunscreen component (SPF).  The sun is often reflected off the snow and ice and onto your face.  Several lip balms now come tinted so you take care of two purposes for the price of one and avoid contaminating your regular lip balm with lipstick color.  MDM searched the Internet and found a good variety of Boutique Balms for the Diva:

Revlon Moon Drops Lip Conditioner SPF 6 $14.32 for 2pk at Amazon
Description: Moisturize lips with palmitate and castor seed oil; comes in 29 shades

Ballmania Premium Lip Balm SPF 20 Miss Kitty (or Safari) $4.99 at Amazon
Description: Keep lips moisturized with aloe vera, shea butter, and Vitamins A, C, and E; chic container makes it easy to find as well as stylish. 

Bobbi Brown Tinted Lip Balm $17.00 at Bobbi Brown Cosmetics
Description: This Allure Magazine Award Winning tinted lip
balm comes in baby pink, citrus brown, hazelnut,
champagne, pink popsicle, pink raspberry, and rose petal

Therapy Systems Tinted Lip Balm $22 for 6 from Therapy Systems
Description: Allure Magazine Award Winner; Therapy Systems provides ultra-moisturizing tinted lip balms in flush, blush, nude, natural, bare, and sunny

Lucy B Tinted Lip Balms $18 from Lucy B Cosmetics
Description: Australian flower essence and Vitamin E
infused lip moisturizer comes in Chocolate, nudie,
pink bikini, and ruby red

Clinique Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss $13.50 from Clinique
Description: Posh colors in rootbeer, ginger, apricot, mango, raspberry,
grapefruit, lilac, and current

Prescriptives Tint Balm $14.50 at Prescriptives
Description: These translucent balms come with a hint of color in vanilla,
caramel, sunburst, sunset, icy, smoothie, mulberry, and sunrise

Molten Brown Vitamin Lip Sheer Tinted Lip Balm $14 from Molten Brown-London
Description: Beeswax, castor oil, and Vitamin E enrich your lips in honeysuckle, ginger blossom, sweet pea, peach blossom, pink bell, snap dragon, and tamarind

L’Occitane Shea Butter Tinted Lip Balm $24 from Amazon
Description: Wild Rose color with moisturizing shea butter

Kiehl’s Tinted Lip Balm SPF 15 $8.50 from Neiman Marcus
Description: Featured in ELLE Magazine and INStyle Magazine; moisturizes lips with sweet almond oil in clear, black raspberry and golden raspberry

Wei East Sweet Lips Trio at HSN (Item Number 279-422) $19.99
Description: Glossy lip balm in Pink Peony, Pomegranate, and Blackberry

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