The best thing about these beauty advent calendars is that you don’t know exactly what you’re going to get each day! There was actually a card with mine that tells you what’s inside but I chose not to look at that and ruin the surprise… Let me tell you, that was a challenge for me given delayed gratification is not my thing!

A couple of days ago I opened my advent day 7 gift and was slightly disappointed to find a Malin & Goetz product inside the little box… don’t get me wrong, I’m not ungrateful, but I was cajoled by an over-zealous beautician into buying a Malin & Goetz body lotion to cure my dry legs and not only was it expensive, it didn’t smell very nice and it didn’t even work! My legs were actually flaky dry and that lotion was totally useless, I may as well have been applying water to them! So when I found this lip moisturiser, I was beyond cynical and nearly popped it in my ‘to re-gift’ box….

Instead, I thought I’d try it out because my lips were so dry that day. Turns out I was wrong!

It has a silky texture and glides onto your lips beautifully, giving them a lovely shine, AND it delivers on its ‘moisturising’ claim – kept my lips hydrated for a good couple of hours (including drinking tea & repeatedly rubbing my lips together). I reapplied it over lip liner today too and that works well. I would actually buy this, and I take back my Malin & GOATS comments for good!!