Eye masks, face masks, feet masks – these days, there’s a mask for just about every body part, including your lips. A Korean beauty staple that has fast gone mainstream, lip masks promise to do everything from soothing and smoothing your smile to diminishing dryness, loading up on anti-aging ingredients, and giving you a plumper pout.
They also help your lipstick go on smoother (dry lips = uneven, patchy color), making them the perfect way to prime your mouth before makeup application. It’s no wonder that celebs – Kim Kardashian, Jessica Alba, and Ashley Graham included – are constantly posting selfies with a lip mask plastered on to make their love well-known.
What’s even better is they couldn’t be easier to use. Most take under 20 minutes to work and involve popping a patch or sheet onto your lips to load them up with nourishment. Be sure to exfoliate your lips with a good but gentle lip scrub first (unless your mask incorporates that) as this ensures maximum absorption of the beneficial and beautifying ingredients. So put your money – literally – where your mouth is and invest in one of these:
KNC Beauty 'All Natural Collagen Infused Lip Mask'
This cult-favorite mask is full of anti-aging and pout-plumping collagen to leave lips looking and feeling fuller and smoother. It’s also packed full of Mother Nature’s best: rose oil, cherry extract, and nourishing vitamin E. Twenty minutes and a touch of tingling (that’s just the collagen working) later, you’ll be ready to pucker up.
Rodial ‘Dragon’s Blood Lip Mask’
Kim Kardashian has made no secret of her love for this mask, and it’s easy to see why. Its thin, gel-like texture feels like a ‘second skin’ and loads lips up with a whole host of ingredients, including hyaluronic acid for intense hydration, glycerin to maintain skin’s moisture reserve, and anti-inflammatory dragon’s blood extract to soothe, protect, and perfect.
Sephora ‘Shea Lip Mask’
This wallet-friendly lip lover is rich in humectant ingredients, including glycerin-sodium hyaluronate, to draw in moisture and lock it in. This makes it the perfect pick for dry, cracked pouts, especially thanks to nourishing shea butter that provides intense moisturization in minutes.
Kaplan MD 'Lip 20 Mask'
Boasting a seriously impressive celebrity following (Jennifer Lawrence, Eva Longoria, and Kate Beckinsale to name a few), Kaplan MD’s lip mask delivers an intense, nourishing boost to lips without a sheet in sight – and in five minutes, tops. This is all down to its decadent, creamy formula that contains papaya enzymes to gently exfoliate, safflower oleosomes to protect and soothe, and marine collagen to stimulate collagen production.
Starskin ‘Bio-Cellulose Second Skin Lip Mask’
Thanks to its bio-cellulose sheet-mask technology and nourishing ingredients, Starskin will give you the ultimate superstar smile. Not only is this mighty mask formulated with naturally fermented coconut juice, which adheres to lips and fits perfectly, but it’s also soaked in 5ml of serum to diminish fine lines as well as nourish and soften your pout.
Yes to Coconut ‘2-Step Lip Kit’
Go loco for coco(nuts) with this clever, two-step lip kit. Containing a tingly, fresh scrub to gently slough away dead skin and a hydrating mask infused with coconut and sugar to plump and soften, it’s your one-stop shop to luscious lips.
