My High School Beauty Routine, Revisited

There was this phenomenon when I was in high school where allllll the cool girls wore Carmex. Was this a thing where you lived?! I feel like the cool girls all had a meeting in the locker room one day where they handed out those little yellow and red tubs of lip balm to each other and swore to only wear Carmex on their lips forever and always. I didn’t get it. Then one day I borrowed some from the resident cool girl in my math class (ughhhhh, math class) and I suddenly understood. That. Stuff. Was. Awesome. It was so smooth and shiny and tasted like minty vanilla and the next time my mom and I went to the drugstore I totally got some. I was in the Carmex club.

Fast forward to me now as a grownup (kind of…) and my beloved Carmex has made a comeback in my purse! Except now they’re stylish lip balms in slim little tubes, which I love because let’s be real, nobody has time to take a lid off a jar and get their fingers all messy when they’re putting on lip gloss. (That probably sounded sarcastic but I’m kind of serious. What do you do with the lip gloss that stays on your finger?! This is one of those weird things that I think about way too often.) Now you can just twist it up, swipe it on, and get transported back to your high school days in a haze of vanilla.

And best of all, the tubes are cute! They’re inspired by Pantone colors, would ya believe it?! It’s like my childhood and my adult life are colliding. Each new season there are different designs, inspired by Pantone’s color forecast and runway trends. It’s like my favorite high school beauty product graduated and got a new wardrobe and now she’s all grown up. And I’m not gonna lie, I started keeping a tube at my desk during work a couple of weeks ago and I can’t stop swiping it on. I’ve yet to find a lip balm that makes your lips feel so smooth (and it’s got SPF 15 for a little sun protection!).

So what was your go-to beauty product in high school?! Come on, I know you had one. Clear mascara? Fruity body spray? Mood changing nail polish? Please, please tell me yours so we can all laugh at how weird high school is. And then do yourself a favor and grab a pretty tube of this stuff so we can all be in the club. Buy Carmex Moisture Plus for a sweet $2.49 at Walgreens, Walmart, or Dollar General, and head over here for more lip and skin care tips! xoxo

This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Carmex for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine.