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These lip masks will give you the plush kisser of your dreams

Because sometimes lip balm just isn’t enough

By Briar Clark

BEAUTYcrew Beauty Editor / November 23 2021

We don’t care what anyone says, there’s nothing more youthful than a plushy, plump pout.

And while we’re always at it with the lip balm, sometimes our lips need a bit of a recoup.

That’s where lip masks come in.

Richly hydrating and deeply nourishing these masking formulas help to rehabilitate your lipgloss-addicted smackers while you sleep for refreshed, pillowy soft lips come morning.

Here are six lip mask offerings to treat that ol’ kisser of yours.

LANEIGE Lip Sleeping Mask in ‘Berry’

Laneige’s lip masks are notorious for reinvigorating pouts, quite literally, overnight. The K-Beauty brand infuses a blend of berry extracts, antioxidants and hyaluronic acid into the formula to help repair and hydrate lips while you sleep, but you can also wear it as a high-shine lip balm during the day.

Kendall Jenner revealed on VOGUE Germany’s YouTube that she always keeps a pot in her handbag for just that very reason: “It’s really shiny and pretty when you put it on. It also feels really nice so I love having this on me just to put a little shine on.”

$28 at Sephora

Morphe 2 Lippie Lullaby Lip Mask

If the tasty, sweet scent of watermelon and hibiscus flower extract isn’t enough to get you hooked on this stuff, then the replenishing formula will. We’re talking a heady nighttime cocktail of squalane, murumuru butter and shea butter ready to tackle stressed out, dry skin for ultra-kissable lips by breakfast.

$13 at MECCA

SEPHORA COLLECTION Shea Lip Mask

This bio-cellulose lip mask adheres to your kisser, delivering plump, soft lips in just 15 minutes. Packed full of nourishing shea butter and hydrating hyaluronic acid, this handy travel-size offering is a bonafide steal at just $4 a pop. Excuse us while we manically add several of these to our shopping cart...

$4 at Sephora

Kiehl's Buttermask

Coconut oil and wild mango butter are the powerhouse ingredients behind this lip healer. Distressed and dehydrated lips get the VIP treatment as this nourishing formula gets to work, resulting in lips soft as butt-ah baby, as well as, minimising the appearance of fine lines.

$38 at Adore Beauty

STARSKIN Dreamkiss™ Plumping & Hydrating Bio-Cellulose Second Skin Lip Masks

Lips are plumped, nourished, hydrated, softened and smoothed after being blessed by one of these bio cellulose lip masks. Sit back and relax for a cool 15 minutes as the plumping and hydrating formula gets to work. Too easy.

$17 at Sephora

DIOR Hydra Life Extra Plump Smooth Balm Mask

Plump, youthful and bouncy lips are promised with this balmy nighttime formula. Infused with white pine oil and natural plumping agents, skin is left intensely nourished for lasting hydration, so you can ease up on that lip balm application during the day.

$98 at Myer

Keep lips looking their best post-masking sesh with these 7 luxuriously-smooth lip primers that you seriously need in your life.

Main image credit: @yarashahidi

Briar Clark

Briar Clark got her start in the media industry in 2017, as an intern for Marie Claire and InStyle. Since then, her keen interest in fashion and beauty has landed her gigs as a Digital Content Producer and Beauty Editor with titles like Girlfriend, Refinery29, BEAUTYcrew and beautyheaven. She loves the way seemingly innocuous topics like skin care and style have the ability to put a smile on people’s faces or make them think about themselves a little differently. A big believer in self love and experimentation, Briar has made a point of becoming the Australian beauty industry’s unofficial guinea pig for unusual treatments and daring hair trends. When she’s not testing out the latest beauty launches, Briar is big on broadening her horizons, mostly in the form of food but she’s also partial to travelling to new destinations both near and far (and of course, allocating an extra bag to bring their best beauty offerings home with her).