Lip Balm Addicts Anonymous.

In My Humble Opinion
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Hello.

My name is Shirley.

I have been using lip balm compulsively since 1981.

My friend introduced me to the world of lip balm and gave me my first tube of Chapstick for free. I’ve been hooked ever since and never more than inches away from its coating soothing goodness that I cannot live without.

I tossed the Chapstick aside as I never cared for its waxy coating and carried a little Vaseline container in my purse to the humor and dirty jibes of my teenage friends. Eventually, I moved up to Caramex and other assorted small finger applied vials before settling nicely into a tube fetish for at least the last twenty years.

If I realize that I have lost a tube, I will have to buy three more to compensate the loss, ensuring that one is in my car’s ash tray; in my coat pocket and one in the purse at all times.

Every coat I own has a tube in it.

Every purse I own has a tube in it.

There has always been a tube on my nightstand and I’m finding I need a tube near the bathroom vanity so I can moisturize my lips when I am on the toilet.

There must be at least three tubes under my bed as we speak but I am too lazy to reach under there and fight the cat and the dust bunnies for them.

I have never used a tube completely up. Ever.

When I hear a friend is in the hospital, I take lip balm as a gift.

I have sent gifts to soldiers of a box of SPF15 lip balm.

I have donated to our local charity a box of lip balm.

I have explained to my husband that if I am ever in a situation where I cannot routinely swab my lips with balm on regular intervals ( paralysis or coma) he must do it for me and instruct the nurses to do so for me when he is not there. If it is a chronic state for me, just pull the plug and cremate me with lush lips.
If the world supply to Lip Balm suddenly dried up, I would be up shits creek without a boat, paddle or life vest and my arms tied with chains.

I would be, to say the least, a bear to live with until I figured out how to moisturize my lips.
I don’t want to stop but I want to know that I am not alone.

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You’re not alone.

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I am also hopelessly addicted to lip balm.

I am NEVER intentionally without at least 1 tube.
If I suddenly remember that I don’t have one with me, my lips will feel chapped and dry within seconds.

I’ve tried to stop. But I can’t.

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Aha! I feel as if I’ve come home. I put lip balm in my sons’ Christmas stockings. Some people think I’m weird for doing so but I don’t they’ll be found in this thread.

My current favourite is Body Shop Hemp lip balm.

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I heart ChapStick Medicated lip balm.

I CANNOT survive October - March without it, but I also use it the rest of the year.

Recently I was at a concert, one I had been looking forward to and was really enjoying, but I forgot my Chapstick and that fact dominated my thoughts the whole night. I was also at the concert with a guy I am into, but all I wanted to do was go home and put on some Chapstick. Typing this made me put more on too.

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I put Chapstick on every five minutes.

:bows head ashamedly: I’m sorry.

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Than you for this post, I now know that I am not alone with this addiction.

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ThanK

:smack: I previewed and still missed that. Time to put on more lip balm.

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I have discovered MAC lip jelly. It’s in a tube like lip gloss only better. Lots better. Unfortunately, MAC is not to be found in the city I live in so every time I travel to a reasonably sized city, I look for a Bay store with a MAC counter in their cosmetics.

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It’s exactly the same for me.

Also, I need to use carmex, burt’s bees, or something that has that tingle. I must be able to feel it working.

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I’m putting on ChapStick like a motherfuck!

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That reminds me. Time to re-lubricate the lips.

And may I take this opportunity to thank Shirley Ujest for suggesting another lip balming occasion: I don’t have a lip balm on the vanity next to the loo but that’s a lack which I shall remedy immediately.

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I just stocked up on various lip balms from Avon. It’s the only thing I ever buy from there.

I keep:
[ul][li]one in my purse[/li][li]one on the nightstand[/li][li]one in the medicine cabinet, along with a couple of pots of the heavy duty medicated stuff.[/li][/ul]

My son keeps:
[ul][li]one in his room[/li][li]one in his desk at school[/li][li]one in his backpack[/ul][/li]
Remember the original Blistex that came in the little tube? My husband was hooked on that stuff when we were dating. I called him Peppermint Patty. And the only thing I would put on my lips was Vaseline.
Then I started selling Avon, and my lips were a different flavor every day!

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I’m a one tube guy. It’s like my wallet, it goes everywhere with me. And if i lose it, i go ape-shit, because i usually won’t have a spare. I only go buy another when the damn tube turner stops working.

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Labello is a life saver. I’m never without a tube…

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You know I realize I got my addiction from my aunt…who I idolized and who looked so cool, putting on Chapstick with one hand :eek: :). Sure, anybody can take up smoking.

Note the google ads…Buy Chapstick by the Case??? Bloody enablers.

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Ohhh… God… So wrong… And yet so right!

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Speaking as a male doper, I never understood this. My ex never went ANYWHERE without her LB (her favorite was Body Shop Cranberry, IIRC). Granted, her lips were sublimely kissable :wink: , but I think she was addicted to the damn thing. Ive never used lip balm or chapstick, or cold cream (despite being in arid winter climates during boarding school), and my lips seem fine to me.
She however, during the three years we dated, would frequently look at me, knit her brow, frown, fish into her Kipling bag, and in one swift expert motion, whip out said LB, open it and dab some on my unsuspecting lips. All this in 3 seconds or less, leaving me blinking stupidly and wondering what just happened.

Something about ubiquitous use of LB seemed strange to me - do women use their LB to prevent dry lips and chapping, or is it a cosmetic thing? Or both?

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I’ve just checked.

I own the following:

1 tub Carmex
1 tub Vaseline with aloe vera
1 Lipsyl with SPF 25
1 Blistex intensive Lip therapy
1 Blistex Lip conditioner
1 Maybelline jelly gloss in pink
1 Lush Whipstick
1 Rimmel clear gloss
1 Burt’s bees beeswax balm
1 Benefit Dr Feelgood lip therapy set (exfoliator and gloss)

I think I have a problem.

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Kiss My Face lip balm is the softest, smooshiest one I’ve tried, but I love it for the flavors! Mango Ginger… mmmm yummy.