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Shizen specialise in lip care products. They keep their ingredients 100% natural and free from mineral oils, petroleum, sulphates, parabens and artificial fragrances and colourings.

Their Lip Treatment Pack includes a sugar scrub, hydrating serum and a lip gloss conditioner:

• Lip Sugar Scrub – removes any dry and flaky dead skin. Not for daily use, apply up to three times a week. Gently scrub on and around the lip area for 30 seconds, then wipe away excess with a tissue. Natural organic ingredients are sugar, castor seed oil, hydrogenated castor oil, beeswax, carnauba wax, vitamin E, lemon myrtle essential oil.
• Lip Hydrating Serum – 100% pure plant oils of almond, jojoba, apricot kernel, orange essential, lime essential and lemon myrtle essential. Place one drop on your lips before applying your lip gloss or lipstick.
• Lip Gloss Conditioner – this moisturises your lips with cocoa butter, lanolin and shea butter.

Available from www.qvcuk.com as item number 220699 at £31.

Clarins have been taking care of our skin since 1954 and love their plant-based extracts. Here they concentrate on the lips with a gentle exfoliator and a lip balm.

Extra-Firming Lip & Contour Gentle Exfoliator, priced £18, features
micro sugar crystals to smooth dry flaky cells. Massage gently on to the lips and lip line with small circular movements. Rinse off. Use twice a week.

Lip-smacking ingredients include: raspberry seed oil to soften, soothe and reduce the appearance of fine vertical lines on the lip contour area; liquorice root to hydrate and plump up the lips.

Their Extra Firming Lip & Contour Balm, priced £28.50, has:

• Raspberry Seed oil to nourish
• Shea Butter to sooth and protect
• Clarins maxi lip complex for collagen boosting and plumping of the lips

Both available in most department stores and online at www.clarins.co.uk

Ark Plumping Lip Balm contains peptides to help increase moisture in dry, cracked and sensitive lips whilst giving them a plumped up appearance. Also great as a colourless lip gloss.

Available from www.qvcuk.com item no: 222262 at £23.50.

DuWop Lip Venom was apparently the very first lip gloss plumper on the market.

It works by using the tingling blend of cinnamon, wintergreen and ginger essential oils which cause the blood to rush to the surface of the lips resulting in slight swelling and a flush of colour.

The gloss also includes jojoba and avocado to moisturise and give a shine.

Available from http://www.simplebeauty.co.uk at £15.

Shiseido's Benefiance Full Correction Lip Treatment is not an instant plumper, but it gradually leads to fuller lips over time. Also lightens and minimizes the appearance of fine lines.

Contains water-resistant Super-fix formula to help prevent lipstick from smudging.

Developed with Shiseido’s anti-photowrinkle system and formulated with Marine Collagen which helps moisture retention.

Available in most department stores. Price approx £31. More info on www.shiseido.co.uk

Really get those lips noticed with Violent Lips temporary lip tattoos. They are designed to fit all lip sizes and to stay put for four to eight hours. They are also vitamin enhanced to give a smooth feel and a glossy finish. One pack contains three applications.

Sprinkle a little Love Dust on to your lips with the Red Glitteratti design. Available from Boots stores and www.boots.com at £7.99.