The latest lip implant

Neck muscle is the newest thing you can have injected into your lips to plump them up. Yup, three plastic surgeons in the U.S. have harvested muscle and connective tissue taken from the neck to create lip implants.

I’m particularly intrigued by the plastic surgeons quoted as saying that the procedure “has not resulted in any limitation in head movement” in the 25 people in the study. Let’s go with the assumption that it was a purely cosmetic, elective surgery for these people — they were willing to possibly risk limitation in head movement for fuller lips?

Wow.

Me, I’m going to stick to my new favourite lip gloss, FusionBeauty‘s LipFusion Infatuation Liquid Shine Multi-Action Lip Fattener.  The gloss features a technological called Amplifat, which promotes and stores your lips’ own natural fatty acids. In FusionBeauty’s clinical trials, four straight weeks of wearing Infatuation daily was proven to increase lip volume.

I’m only on week one of my personal “clinical trial” (aka wearing makeup as I do regularly) — so I can’t judge if my lips are more luscious just yet. What’s already earned Infatuation a spot in my cosmetics case is its intense pigment (giving me some colour — too-sheer glosses make me look washed out), great shine factor and decent staying power. Fave colours: First Crush (a beige-y nude) and Angelic (a coral-y pink — sometimes I layer it on top of First Crush to brighten up the beige).

FusionBeauty LipFusion Infatuation Liquid Shine Multi-Action Lip Fattener, $29 each, available at Sephora.

1 Comment March 18, 2010