7 luxuriously-smooth lip primers you need in your life
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Lock colour in for the long haul
By Delaney Loane
Digital Beauty Editor / February 22 2021
Choosing your lip colour may seem like the tricky bit, but it's really only half the battle: if your pout isn't perfectly prepped, everything will go up in flames within an hour or two anyway.
We know what you're thinking, too: your balm tends to do a pretty bang-up job all by itself. Well, we hate to break it to you, but it won't work quite as effectively as a proper primer if it's true budge-proof colour you're after.
Unlike classic balms which work to condition and hydrate, primers will do all that while also creating a bit of a bleed-proof barrier for the colour and stopping it from sinking into your lips.
Sounds pretty grand, right? Right. Here, our edit of the best lip primers to try...
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Main image credit: @allanface
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