I tried the classic Chapstick, in mint, cherry and regular...nope, doesn't work. It'll soften it right away and a few minutes later, it will get chapped again...and more than before.
I tried Blistex, in regular and raspberry lemonade. They didn't make my lips soft at all, they just coated my chapped lips and made it...made my lip skin...harder? I guess I can describe it as that...but it gets harder, to where I pretty much have to peel it off (gross, I know, sorry).
I tried a couple of others that I don't remember what they're called.
What does work for me:
Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm
https://www.burtsbees.com/other/best-sellers/tinted-lip-balm.html?cm_vc=PRODZ1
Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer
https://www.burtsbees.com/other/gifts-her/lip-shimmer.html?cm_vc=PDPZ2
Maybelline Baby Lips
http://www.maybelline.com/Products/Lip-Makeup/Lip-Balm/Baby-Lips.aspx#shadedetails
Carmex
http://mycarmex.com/lip-care/original-tube
Softlips
http://www.softlips.com/product/classic/
The Burt's Bees chapstick is the best product for me. It outlasts the others that I've listed and I looove the color! Now, I..will be honest. I only bought Burt's Bees because they were cheap and it had color. Because I don't like wearing a lot of makeup (I only wear eyeliner) and I hate lipstick, I thought tinted chapstick would be the only way to go for me to add some color to my dull look. My local Ross had Burt's Bees chapstick bundle packages for only $7!! It had beautiful colors in the package. It had the Burt's Bees Tinted Lip Balm in Red Dahlia and Burt's Bees Lip Shimmer in Fig. Now, this is a huge leap for me. I'm spending money on tinted chapstick that I don't know if it will soften my lips or look good on my lips or with my skin tone. I was hoping that since it was a chapstick, that it wasn't going to be really pigmented and thick. To my surprise, it's perfect! The Tinted Lip Balm looks a bit diluted with more chapstick but actually came out a lot more red than I thought, but it was diluted enough to give my lips a nice color, with some gloss, without over doing it. The Lip Shimmer looked so dark, pigmented and thick in the tube but once you apply it, it's actually less pigmented than the Tinted Lip Balm! It still has great color and gloss and is not overly pigmented like lipstick. (One day, I will post pics of the results...or maybe not if I don't remember. If not, I'm sorry). And just to add...even though I've never tried these before, they were such a great deal and I've heard so many great things about this brand, that I bought three of these packages! And a job and steal well done! :)
They lasted me quite awhile, it's been..quite a few months, almost close to a year ago...I know that sounds weird...and that I shouldn't keep these that long? But it's because I don't use one tube at a time. I keep one next to my bed, one in the living room, one in my car, one in both of my backpacks (one is for work and the other is for school) and one at work.
The second brand that I love is Maybelline Baby Lips in Cherry Me. I've never used this brand before so the Cherry Me was the first Baby Lips I've used, along with the color. Again, I wanted color that's subtle and not overpowering like lipstick. This is a pretty amazing chapstick, has great color (more bright and pigmented than the Burt's Bees...so it's a bit more adventurous) but it's diluted enough to look gorgeous. It's glossy and makes my lips very soft. It will soften my chappest lips, although, sometimes my lips are so chapped that my skin is pretty much dead and needs to get peeled (again, sorry for being so gross lol but it's reality for me).
Here's a pic of me with Maybelline Baby Lips Cherry Me, although it's a bit more reddish.
The other choices are listed and those work well but not as great as the first three. I really love how these tinted lip balms have worked for me because I have weird lips. Dark ontop and light on bottom (pretty common) but I have this weird dark lipline look to my lips too, as you can see from the photo.
